New room by Ralph Fleck with cityscapes from Essen, Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig

In addition to the current exhibition “Art and Coal – Homage to Jannis Kounellis”, the Ströher Collection awaits visitors as usual with top-class German art from Anselm Kiefer to Gerhard Richter. There are also some new additions to the presentation of the collection, first and foremost an entire room with large-format cityscapes by Ralph Fleck: “Essen”, “Berlin”, “Hamburg” and “Leipzig” challenge the eye of the beholder in an interplay between proximity and distance.

In addition, the rooms were redesigned by Markus Lüpertz and Gerhard Richter. The Lüpertz presentation focuses on works from the 1980s and 1990s with the triptych “Self-Portrait as a Smoker”, the “Prometheus” sculpture and other sculptural works and woodcuts. Abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter from various creative decades are on display, including “Alps I – III” and the six-part work “Abstraktes Bild”. Another work by Gerhard Hoehme also complements the Informel room at the MKM.

Artist spaces at a glance

1st floor – Georg Baselitz // Peter Brüning // Ralph Fleck // Candida Höfer // Anselm Kiefer // Norbert Kricke + Hans Uhlmann // ZERO room: Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker // Hans-Christian Schink

2nd floor – Joseph Beuys // INFORMEL room: K.O. Götz, Gerhard Hoehme, Norbert Kricke, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Fred Thieler // Anselm Kiefer // Markus Lüpertz // Markus Lüpertz + A.R. Penck // Gerhard Richter // Bernard Schultze

The closure of the museum from February 2018 had become necessary in order to connect the new building to the existing museum building as part of the construction work on the MKM extension. The extension is scheduled for completion in fall 2019.