Timekeeper for Press Baden Baden Pierre Huyghe: "Timekeeper", 1999, architectural intervention, successive exhibition layers, 20 cm diameter, Wiener Secession.

For the Time Being

20.7.2013 – 27.10.2013

In two simultaneous exhibitions in the summer of 2013 the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld will feature murals dating from the 1960s onward. Artists’ interest in the space outside of the classic artistic framework—the "exit from the painting," as Laszlo Glozer observed about twentieth-century art—indicates the explosive power of this pioneering art form. This exhibition, titled "For the Time

Power of the Powerless

16.11.2013 – 16.2.2014

    How can art operate as a medium for social change? What is the relationship between art and civil society? Could art be understood as a practice that acts as a model for broader society? The group exhibition "Power of the Powerless" at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden will explore such issues through the display of contemporary artistic positions, seeking to take a broader perspective on social transformation. It will