Constructing the World: Art and Economy

Ten years after the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008, which profoundly shook the economic systems of America and Europe and had a lasting effect on present-day life, this topical exhibition is the first to illustrate the economy’s dramatic influence on art and to make global comparisons, demonstrating these in an analysis of two separate eras. Economic phenomena in the classical modernism of the 1920s and 30s are not only explored by focusing on art from the German Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, and the United States, but also juxtaposed with artists of the present day.

Curatorial team: Dr. Eckhart Gillen (Berlin), Dr. Ulrike Lorenz, Dr. Sebastian Baden
Project Lead: Dr. Inge Herold, Assistence: Lisa Valentina Riedel, M. A. mult., Elisabeth Bohnet, M.A.

Part 2 of "Construction of the World. Art and Economy - 2008-2018" is extended until 03.03.2019.

The exhibition is supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (main sponsor), BASF SE (main sponsor), H.W. & J. Hector Stiftung, Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, Stiftung Kunsthalle Mannheim, VR Bank Rhein-Neckar eG, City of Mannheim, Innovationsfonds Kunst des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg. Handelsblatt is media partner of the exhibition.