La Chola Poblete, has been named Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” for 2023. The Argentinian critically examines the consequences of colonialism and white supremacy in her home country. In watercolors, sculptures, installations, and performances, she reflects on her indigenous and queer roots and opposes the stereotyping and exoticization of indigenous peoples. With Guaymallén, the PalaisPopulaire is showing La Chola Poblete’s first solo exhibition in Germany.

The exhibition traces the various stages of the gallery owner’s life as reflected in art. Works from different periods of origin are juxtaposed to create exciting dialogues, enabling conclusions to be drawn about existential themes of humankind. Since 1956, all aspects of Rudolf Zwirner’s life have been closely linked with art, the development of which he decisively shaped in the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day.

Erwin Wurm turns the rules of sculpture on their head. In his most recent sculptures from the series Skins (2021), one of which is now being presented in front of the PalaisPopulaire, Wurm radically reduces the volume. His work, which is almost four meters high, look like suit bags or skins from which the bodies have been sucked out. The filigree, fragile-looking sculptures consist of partial casts of living models, like from the actor and artist Lars Eidinger.

In 2013, five years after the world was convulsed by a global financial crisis, Isaac Julien premiered his film Playtime to address an important question: can capital be rendered visible? The PalaisPopulaire and the Wemhöner Collection have joined forces to shed new light on Playtime from today’s perspective and to testify to the work’s continued relevance.

Kapwani Kiwanga uses the formal vocabulary of minimal and conceptual art to develop new spatial and visual experiences. 

Britta Färber, Chief Curator of the Deutsche Bank Collection, talks with Kapwani Kiwanga about color, architecture, and power, about Sun Rae and Afrofuturism—and much more.

This event will take place online. You can register for the Zoom Webinar or watch the event live on YouTube.

Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” award has been promoting young artists working with paper or photography since 2010. To mark the tenth anniversary of the award, three artists are now being honored for the first time: Maxwell Alexandre, Conny Maier und Zhang Xu Zhan. They reflect elementary themes such as community, myths, and environmental destruction. Three statements on the human condition that call for radical rethinking.

Marc Brandenburg’s pencil drawings, reversed into negatives, capture everyday, ephemeral motifs, including costumed demonstrators, a bank in Berlin's Tiergarten, garbage, graffiti, advertising, sleeping places of homeless people. The artist, who was born in 1965, strolls through cities such as Berlin, London, and Barcelona, photographing his impressions and then drawing them “like a human photocopier.”

Aspects of contemporary abstract art, coupled with historical reminiscences, are the focus of the third exhibition showcasing works from the Deutsche Bank Collection at the PalaisPopulaire. The selection includes some 180 works from 1959 to 2021. In keeping with the collection as a whole, the works on view are globally oriented, created by 51 artists from fourteen countries. 

The retrospective K.H. Hödicke, which after its premiere at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München is now on view in Berlin presents the artist’s core creative phases from the early 1960s on.

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