Once Upon a TimeJuly 8 until October 9, 2011Fables, myths, and fairy tales have long allowed cultures to explore wondrous aspects of their world. As times and contexts shift, so do these stories grow and evolve in the imaginations of their audiences. These traditions have been embraced by artists who use the mediums of film and video to conceive new folklore or adapt older tales to reveal often overlooked elements of more recent history. Once Upon a Time features a selection of video installatio… more

Deutsche Bank presents the Artist of the Year 2011Yto Barrada: Riffs
The work of Yto Barrada reflects the particular situation of her hometown, Tangier, Morocco, at the intersection of Arab, African and European cultures. The representations she builds through her meditative photographs, films and installations, heighten awareness of the shifting cultural, economic and political boundaries - including the urban and botanical - that map this territory. Extending her concern for the status … more

Being Singular Plural is the first exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim to focus exclusively on artistic production in India and is oriented toward coproducing new work, facilitating research, and assembling a community of practitioners. It unites a selection of recent films and videos that investigate the individual nature of life and the moving image and that are produced by some of the most innovative and rigorous media practitioners today: Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia, Sonal Jain and Mriga… more

Artists are often the best judges of which works by young emerging talents are the most interesting. Their tastes shaped independently of the art market, they are attracted to different aesthetic approaches and positions. With Freeway Balconies, the Deutsche Guggenheim follows the precedent set the exhibition The Vanity of Allegory, curated by the artist Douglas Gordon together with Nancy Spector in 2005.

Acclaimed American artist Collier Schorr, whose multimedia practice explores appropr… more

For the first time, the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin will introduce the recipients of the Villa Romana Fellowship. The exhibition will feature new paintings, installations, and videos by Dani Gal, Julia Schmidt, Aslı Sungu, and Clemens von Wedemeyer. The Villa Romana Fellowship, awarded to exceptional young talent since 1905, includes a stipend and a residency program, allowing fellows to live and work for ten months in the artists' house in Florence. This art prize is not just the oldest … more

True North features the work of seven contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based projects evoke the tradition of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Romantic antecedents, the works in this exhibition are historically and politically self-reflexive and call into question the notion of a pure, unchangeable North. Melancholic in tone, many of these photographs and video projections point instead to a certai… more

Jeff Wall: Exposure, a special exhibition commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, presents, for the first time, four new, large-scale, black-and-white photographs by artist Jeff Wall. This remarkable body of new work is shown in conjunction with five earlier pieces—gelatin-silver prints as well as transparencies mounted in lightboxes—creating an ensemble that resonates both formally and thematically.

Wall has summarized the formative influences on his work as the history of painting and c… more

American artist John Baldessari rose to prominence in the late 1960s combining Pop Art’s use of imagery from the mass media with Conceptual Art’s use of language to create a unique body of work that has become a hallmark of postmodern art. Early in his career, Baldessari began incorporating images and texts in his photo-based art. He appropriated pictures from advertising and movie stills, juxtaposing, editing, and cropping them in conjunction with written texts. His resulting montages of ph… more

Miwa Yanagi - Deutsche Bank Collection

Wherein lies the joy of being a grandmother? In racing across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco with a young man on a motorcycle. In competing with Walt Disney as the president of an amusement park. In posing on graves. In proceeding through a snowy landscape with a throng of children. In fooling around with a girlfriend after a house party. In recounting to one’s grandchildren that prostitution was once forbidden. They look old and behave like you… more