Kirchner Woodcuts Benjamin Badock, Gabriela Jolowicz and Thomas Kilpper   09.11.2024 – 09.03.2025

The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen shows around 180 high-calibre woodcut works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and provides an in-depth look into all his creative periods. On display are impressive prints, some large format, including many complicated colour woodcuts. Kirchner’s nudes, portraits, townscapes and landscapes reflect existential states of human existence ranging from desire, agonizing solitude and the need for community, to fear and violence and the longing for peace and quiet.

In their motifs and expressive energy, Kirchner’s woodcuts are the inspiration for contemporary artists. Consequently, the exhibition also examines the current state of woodcut.
Benjamin Badock (*1974, Chemnitz), Gabriela Jolowicz (*1978, Salzgitter) and Thomas Kilpper (*1956, Stuttgart) work exclusively in the medium of woodcuts. In a critical and enjoyable exploration of Kirchner’s art, they developed expansive installations which are in turn receptive to Kirchner’s works.

In the open studio Cutting Edge, visitors can look over the shoulders of students making woodcuts and also try out woodcutting for themselves.
For adults: fortnightly on Tuesdays, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
For families: fortnightly on Saturdays, 2 to 5 p.m.

With the Dreibunteck app (iOS and Android) by artist Benjamin Badock, you can create your own works of art!
Please use a maximum of eight colors. Send us your artwork no later than 12 January 2025 to: deine@kunsthalle- bremen.de
From all entries, one design will be realised by the artist as an original, large-format woodcut. The winner will receive a print of this exclusive work of art.

Exhibition Catalogue
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with around 220 illustrations, original woodcuts by the three artists and texts by Florian Illies (author and curator), Katharina Beisiegel (Director of the Kirchner Museum Davos) and Dr Annett Reckert (curator of the Bremen exhibition) as well as an interview between Dr Eva Fischer-Hausdorf (Curator Kunsthalle Bremen) with the academic, author, activist and artist Prof. Dr Natascha A. Kelly, who critically examined Kirchner's painting Sleeping Milly (1911) at the Kunsthalle back in 2022. The catalogue comprises ca 316 pages and is published by Lubok Verlag, designed by Shortnotice Studio, Berlin.
€ 35 during the exhibition period (afterwards € 49) | ISBN 978-3-910704-07-7

Audioguide/Art Surfer – Your free Guide
Would you like to find out more about the works in the exhibition or get in the mood before your visit? Use the Art Surfer multimedia platform on your smartphone. It offers an audio tour for adults in English and in German. For more listening pleasure, we recommend you bring your own headphones.
Discover our educational offers and apps included in the Art Surfer at: www.artsurfer.de

Public Tours:
(in German only) Fri 3 pm, Sun 3 pm
Tickets are available at kunsthalle-bremen.de/tickets or one hour before start of the tour at the museum desk | € 6,- (plus admission fee)

Public Tours Online:
(in German) every first Fri of the month 5 pm
Tickets are available at kunsthalle-bremen.de/tickets | € 6,- per person

Guided Tours and Online Tours for groups:
(available in German, Dutch, English, French and Russian)
€ 80,- (plus admission fee / except for online tours)
€ 90,- on weekends and public holidays (plus admission fee / except for online tours)
from € 50,- for school classes
Information and registration: T +49 (0)421 - 32 908 220 or right here

Exclusive exhibition visit
Enjoy with your guests the exhibition exclusively beyond the opening hours!
Please call us – we will be happy to advise you: T +49 (0)421 - 32 908 190