Exhibition Archive - Thomas Michel Contemporary Art

Peter Paul Rubens, The Judgement of Paris, 1636, Museo del Prado Madrid

Rubens. The Power of Transformation

May 5, 2018thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsBarock, Städel Museum

Creating masterpieces through copyright infringement – Rubens’ art of emulation. Peter Paul Rubens is considered as the epitome of European Baroque painting. As no other artist he has influenced this era through his monumental oeuvre, with voluptuous female and athletic...

Back to Paradise - Meisterwerke des Expressionismus, Otto Mueller, Badende, 1920

Expressionism in Germany – Back to Paradise

March 18, 2018thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsDer Blaue Reiter, Expressionism, Schweinfurt

Expressionism between Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter. Expressionism is in the center of the exhibition Back to Paradise at the Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt. The juxtaposition of the collections of the Osthaus Museum Hagen and the collection Häuptli...

Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic

January 12, 2018thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsBerlin, Frankfurt, New Objectivity

The Weimar Republic as reflected in arts. The Weimar Republic was the snapshot of a short period when playing with fire soon turned into a blaze, the flamboyant 1920s were only a façade that covered the misery. The Schirn Kunsthalle...

Rudolf Belling

August 25, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsBerlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Rudolf Belling, sculpture

Rudolf Belling. Sculptures and Architectures. Rudolf Belling was celebrated, ostracized and finally forgotten. In the Weimar Republic Rudolf Belling, born in Berlin in 1886, ranked among the most outstanding German sculptors of classical modernism alongside Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Ernst Barlach....

documenta 14

August 15, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo Commentsdocumenta, kassel

documenta 14 – carrying owls to Athens. The world exhibition of contemporary art 2017 unfortunately has been cancelled and hopefully will make good for it in five years. No documenta ever has raised such high expectations in the preparatory stage...

The Art of Banksy

July 4, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsBanksy, Berlin, Street Art

Banksy in Berlin. “The Art of Banksy” is the title of the exhibition on the art of the most famous street art artist of our time, which has been opened on June 16th in Berlin. The circumstances of the show...

Skulptur Projekte Muenster 2017

June 18, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsMünster, sculpture, Skulptur Projekte

Skulptur Projekte Muenster 2017. For the fifth time since 1977 the Skulptur Projekte Muenster take place. The exhibition has evolved into the most important big event of contemporary art in Germany next to documenta and takes place every ten years...

Giacometti – Tate Modern

May 25, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsGiacometti, London, sculpture, Tate Modern

Alberto Giacometti – collapse of space. The elongated emaciated sculptures by Alberto Giacometti are icons of modern art. The first retrospective on Alberto Giacometti's work in Great Britain since 20 years is an attempt to depict the development of his...

Salvador Dalí, A Couple With Their Heads Full of Clouds, 1936, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (formerly collection E. James)

Mad About Surrealism

April 21, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsMax Ernst, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, rotterdam, Salvador Dalí, Surrealism, Surrealismus

Mad About Surrealism. From February 11th to May 28th the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Mad about Surrealism, a comprehensive show on the Surrealist movement with top-class masterpieces from four famous European private collections some of which have never left...

Thomas Michel – DOUBLETHINK

April 1, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsBamberg, Doublethink, Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Thomas Michel, Villa Dessauer

DOUBLETHINK - Inverted Truths. Within the scope of the anniversary exhibition FAVORITE THINGS on the occasion of the foundation of the BBK Oberfranken 70 years ago Thomas Michel presents his exhibition concept DOUBLETHINK at the Stadtgalerie Bamberg Villa Dessauer. Thomas...

René Magritte – The Treachery of Images

March 11, 2017thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsFrankfurt, René Magritte, Schirn, Surrealism

René Magritte - the philosopher, who swapped the pen for the brush. The Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the first retrospective of Belgian Surrealist René Magritte in Germany since twenty years. The show curated by Didier Ottinger which could be visited at...

Francis Bacon. Invisible Rooms

November 19, 2016thomasmichelExhibitionNo CommentsFrancis Bacon, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Francis Bacon in the space-time continuum. Simultaneous and multiple pain. Francis Bacon was obsessed with tortured bodies and carcasses his entire life which he sought to capture on canvas in horror images. The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart pays tribute to one of...