{"id":15290,"title":"gegen den Himmel. against the sky","date_begin":"2024-09-15T00:00:00.000+02:00","date_end":"2025-02-23T00:00:00.000+01:00","location":{"readable":"Leverkusen","latitude":null,"longitude":null},"assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/093/498/large/Dauphin_LeVide.jpg?1726475037","poster_credits":"(c)Jef Verheyen, 'Le Vide' - ca. 1965, Foto: Gerald Dauphin - FOMU Collection, Antwerp"},"translations":[{"locale":"en","name":"gegen den Himmel. against the sky","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy fundamental or ‘essential’ I mean everything that is absolutely necessary—everything that cannot be left out—to define the color structure: the energy that prevails in the colors.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/i\u003e (Jef Verheyen)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003eThe exhibition \u003ci\u003egegen den Himmel. against the sky \u003c/i\u003eis dedicated to supposedly simple and obvious: light, color, space, and their perception. For the first time, it brings together the monochrome paintings of Belgian artist Jef Verheyen (1932–1984) with the multimedia works of contemporary\u0026nbsp; artist Johanna von Monkiewitsch (b. 1979 in Rome, lives in Cologne). The work of Jef Verheyen is closely linked to the Museum Morsbroich’s exhibition activities in the early 1960s as well as the international ZERO movement that originated in the Rhineland. This dialogue with Johanna von Monkiewitsch’s site-specific light works, which are often based on ordinary, everyday situations, places Verheyen’s oeuvre in a contemporary context.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003eDespite their different backgrounds and approaches, both artists explore questions about the ephemeral, the immaterial, energy and space—and, in their consistent reduction to the essential, undermine our . widespread striving for more. What is necessary and what can be left out? How can we reveal the essential using as little means as possible? Is it possible to give form to the ephemeral and intangible? And how can emptiness be depicted through painting?\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003eThe exhibition \u003ci\u003egegen den Himmel. against the sky\u003c/i\u003e is realized in collaborative exchange with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA). It follows as a “spin-off” of the exhibition \u003ci\u003eJef Verheyen: Window on Infinity\u003c/i\u003e (23/03/24–18/08/24, curated by Annelien De Troij and Adriaan Gonnissen) at the KMSKA with the M HKA in cooperation with the Jef Verheyen Archive.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","name":"gegen den Himmel. contre le ciel","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","name":"gegen den Himmel. contre le ciel","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","name":null,"short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDabei verstehe ich unter dem Wesentlichen oder ‘Essentiellen’ alles absolut Notwendige − das, was man nicht weglassen kann −, was die Farbstruktur bestimmt: die Energie, welche in den Farben herrscht.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/i\u003e(Jef Verheyen)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026nbsp;Die Ausstellung »gegen den Himmel. contre le ciel« widmet sich dem vermeintlich Einfachen und Selbstverständlichen wie Licht, Farbe, Raum und ihrer Wahrnehmung. Sie bringt erstmals die monochromen Malereien des belgischen Künstlers Jef Verheyen (1932−1984) mit den medienübergreifenden Arbeiten der zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Johanna von Monkiewitsch (*1979 in Rom, lebt in Köln) zusammen. Das Werk von Jef Verheyen ist eng mit der Ausstellungs- und Sammlungsgeschichte des Museum Morsbroich in den frühen 1960er-Jahren und der vom Rheinland ausgehenden internationalen ZERO-Bewegung verbunden. Der Dialog mit den ortsbezogenen und häufig aus beiläufigen Alltagsituationen abgeleiteten (Licht)arbeiten von Johanna von Monkiewitsch stellt das Werk von Verheyen in den zeitgenössischen Kontext.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003eAus unterschiedlichen Hintergründen und Herangehensweisen beschäftigen sich beide künstlerischen Ansätze mit Fragen nach Flüchtigkeit, Immaterialität, Energie und Raum und unterlaufen in ihrer konsequenten Reduktion auf das Wesentliche unser verbreitete Tendenz zu mehr. Was braucht es und was kann weggelassen werden? Wie bringt man mit möglichst wenigen Mitteln, das Wesentliche („Essentielle“) zum Vorschein? Kann man dem Flüchtigen und Ungreifbaren eine Form verleihen? Und wie lässt sich die Leere malerisch darstellen?\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003eDie Ausstellung »gegen den Himmel. contre le ciel« entsteht in kooperativem Austausch mit dem Königlichen Museum für Schöne Künste Antwerpen (KMSKA) und dem Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA). Sie folgt als »Spin-Off«-Show auf die Ausstellung \u003ci\u003eJef Verheyen. Window on Infinity\u003c/i\u003e (23.03.−18.08.2024, kuratiert von Annelien De Troij und Adriaan Gonnissen) im KMSKA zusammen mit dem M HKA und in Kooperation mit dem Jef Verheyen Archiv.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"es","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":40,"name":"Paul De Vree","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/012/836/large/PDV_foto_1975_ICC_DT_03.jpg?1349281501","poster_credits":null}},{"id":483,"name":"Lucio Fontana","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/005/849/large/lucio%20fontana.jpg?1326805661","poster_credits":"(c)image: Lothar Wolleh"}},{"id":1232,"name":"Jef Verheyen","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/173/large/JV_04_05_01.jpg?1653914870","poster_credits":"(c) Scan: CKV - Photo: Lothar Wolleh / Lothar Wolleh Estate, Berlijn - Jef Verheyen Archive"}},{"id":3804,"name":"Claire \u0026 Paul Bataille - Ibens","assets":{"poster":null,"poster_credits":null}}],"items":[{"id":34012,"title":"• 0814 • Licht op Woensdag - September","date_begin":"1959-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/089/167/large/814_1.jpg?1675672879","poster_credits":"(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Courtesy Museum Morsbroich - Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Jef Verheyen"},{"id":21175,"title":"• 0063 • Zwarte Ruimte - Espace Noir","date_begin":"1959-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/077/685/large/63_16.jpg?1647269382","poster_credits":"(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Jan Liégeois - Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Jef Verheyen"},{"id":24716,"title":"• 0544 • Begrenzing van het Niets (Boundary of Nothingness)","date_begin":"1960-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/052/610/large/544_1.jpg?1585124137","poster_credits":"(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Jan Liégeois - Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Jef Verheyen"},{"id":22830,"title":"• 0390 • Rêve de Möbius","date_begin":"1962-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/092/829/large/390_14.jpg?1720789788","poster_credits":"© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois on behalf of the Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen"},{"id":21234,"title":"• 0102 • Le Vide (ed. 20)","date_begin":"1963-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/092/586/large/21234.jpg?1717084093","poster_credits":"© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois / Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Jef Verheyen"},{"id":35815,"title":"Essentieel","date_begin":"1964-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/092/320/large/Verheyen_De_Vree__filmstill_3_Essentiel.jpg?1711357112","poster_credits":"(c)Paul De Vree, Jef Verheyen","actors":"Paul De Vree, Jef Verheyen"},{"id":26350,"title":"• 0682 • Blauwe Lichtstroom","date_begin":"1970-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/059/010/large/682_1.jpg?1593698777","poster_credits":"(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: CKV, 2020 - Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Jef Verheyen"},{"id":23187,"title":"• 0478 • Urbino – Espace Idéal (Urbino – Ideal Space)","date_begin":"1978-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/092/717/large/478_11.jpg?1718632252","poster_credits":"SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois on behalf of Axel Vervoordt Gallery","actors":"Jef Verheyen, Claire \u0026 Paul Bataille - Ibens"},{"id":24645,"title":"• 0531 • Le Matin des Magiciens - La Soirée des Mages","date_begin":"1979-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/092/828/large/531_7.jpg?1720789159","poster_credits":"© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois on behalf of the Jef Verheyen Archive","actors":"Jef Verheyen"}]}