Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

Current

Café

Viron Erol Vert

Garden of Ornaments

08.03.2024–08.03.2026

Installation in the foyer and Café Kunsthalle

The artistic design of the foyer of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Café Kunsthalle follows a long tradition. In 2024, the artist Viron Erol Vert (*1975) takes over the redesign and redesign of the rooms. For the redesign of the Café Kunsthalle, entitled Garden of Ornaments, Vert explored the history of Baden-Baden, in particular its spa culture.

Exhibition

Sea and Fog

08.11.2024–26.01.2025

"Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubts loom over the mind. Absence is harder to accept than death."

(Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog)

The group exhibition Sea and Fog, which takes its title from a book by the artist and poet Etel Adnan (1925–2021), aims to create a space for the multi-layered perceptions of the existential challenges of our past, present and future by engaging with the history of the world wars and their impact on the present.

So how are time and place reflected – then and now? And how do the artificial territorial borders drawn by the colonial powers and the subsequent world wars connect with the crises of the present? The ideological and political disillusionment of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which laid the groundwork for fascism, communism, and countless conflicts, continues to reverberate. The exhibition Sea and Fog follows these entanglements and searches for answers, shelter and solace in the works of the artists presented and in the language of Etel Adnan.