A co-operation project on the Lower Rhine
Museum Schloss Moyland, 23 March – 18 August 2024
Museum Goch, 14 April – 9 June 2024
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 26 April – 8 September 2024
The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of art from the 1960s to the present day and brings together numerous prominent artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is also a tribute to the international gallery owner, publisher and curator René Block from the Lower Rhine region. In his galleries in Berlin and New York, as museum director and curator of numerous biennials, he has organised world-class exhibitions and thus written art history. In doing so, he has often paid particular attention to little-explored cultural landscapes, for example in the Nordic countries, the Balkans or Turkey.
With his edition, René Block created an instrument for the "democratisation and socialisation of the art market" in Berlin in 1966. The 122 editions include Der Denker (1976/78) by Korean media artist Nam June Paik, multiples by Joseph Beuys such as Schlitten (1969) and Filzanzug (1970), the expansive object Hubwagen (2012/13) by Alicja Kwade as well as prints and objects by artists such as Gerhard Richter, Robert Filliou, Sigmar Polke, Marina Abramovic, Nevin Aladag, Mehtap Baydu, Rosa Barba, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow and many more.
The exhibition is spread across the three art museums Moyland, Goch and Kurhaus Kleve. The respective durations are staggered. This is the first Lower Rhine-wide co-operation between these three museums. A combined ticket will be introduced at the start of the exhibition.
Press preview on Thursday, 21 March 2024, 11:00 am at Museum Schloss Moyland
Prof Harald Kunde (Museum Kurhaus Kleve), Dr Stephan Mann (Museum Goch), Dr Antje-Britt Mählmann (Museum Schloss Moyland), Dr Alexander Grönert (Museum Schloss Moyland) and René Block will explain the contents of the exhibition and report on the genesis of the project. This will be followed by a tour of the presentation at Museum Schloss Moyland.
Museum Schloss Moyland
23 March–18 August 2024
The exhibition provides an overview of the entire scope of René Block's work as a publisher of editions from 1966 to the present day. The exhibition focuses on the Multiples by Joseph Beuys as well as music and video editions, which also include Nam June Paik's famous sculpture "Der Denker".
Artists (among others): Marina Abramović, Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Bazon Brock, Marcel Broedthaers, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Erwin Heerich, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Alicja Kwade, Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Wolf Vostell
OPENING, Fri, 22 March 2024, 6:00 pm
Antje-Britt Mählmann in conversation with René Block and the artists present
Admission free
Kontakt
Museum Schloss Moyland
Am Schloss 4
47551 Bedburg-Hau
Phone +49 2824 9510 60
Mail: info@moyland.de
web: moyland.de
Museum opening hours
Tue–Fri, 11:00 am–6:00 pm, Sat/Sun, 10:00am–6:00 pm
Mon closed
Museum Goch
14 April–9 June 2024
At the centre of the exhibition are the print portfolios that René Block published for the art biennials in Sydney in 1990, Istanbul in 1995, and Cetinje (Montenegro) in 2005. They comprise almost 70 large-format prints in various techniques by just as many international artists, including Marina Abramovic, Tony Cragg, Rebecca Horn, Rosemarie Trockel, Lawrence Weiner.
MIDISSAGE, Sat, 27 April 2024, 6:00 pm
Stephan Mann in conversation with René Block
Admission free
Contact
Museum Goch
Kastellstr. 9
47574 Goch
Phone +49 2823 97 08 11
Mail: museum@goch.de
web: museum-goch.de
Museum opening hours
Tue–Fri, 10:00 am–5:00 pm, Sat/Sun, 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Mon closed
Museum Kurhaus Kleve
26 April–8 September 2024
The presentation contains selected items from the entire spectrum of Edition Block, from the 1960s to the present day, with international artists from Bosnia, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, The Netherlands and Turkey, among others. Joseph Beuys and Dieter Roth are represented several times in the selection, as well as large-format works from the Edition Block programme.
DIRECTORS' TALK, Thu, 23 May 2024, 7:30 pm
with Antje-Britt Mählmann, Stephan Mann and Harald Kunde
Admission free
Contact
Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Tiergartenstr. 41
47533 Kleve
Phone +49 2821 750 10
Mail: info@mkk.art
web: mkk.art
Museum opening hours
Tue–Sun 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Mon closed
Combined ticket
for all three exhibitions €16, reduced €9
The admission ticket can be used once throughout the entire exhibition period (23 March – 8 September 2024) in all houses and is not limited to a visit to the "Three pallet trucks" exhibition.
It is still possible to purchase individual tickets.
Exhibition catalogue
Three pallet trucks and a sheet of paper. The Edition Block 1966–2022 complete catalogue
The exhibition catalogue contains contributions by Hubertus Butin, Michael Glasmeier, Birgit Eusterschulte, Eva Scharrer and Katrin Seemann, among others.
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2023
The bound catalogue with 352 pages, 676 mostly colour illustrations, some of which are full or double-page, is available in the museum shop at a price of €44.