Exhibition

Ausstellungsflügel

The exhibition celebrates the South African artist, Marlene Dumas, who has been living in Amsterdam since the 1970s and, in 2007, was accorded the City of Düsseldorf Art Award. For this show, Dumas is creating new works drawing inspiration not least from the title of this museum’s exhibition, Diana and Actaeon. The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body
which is to take place at the same time and form a fascinating counterpart.

In Dumas’s works pride of place goes to the figure, mostly as a single portrait. With her individual expressive style, she creates pictures of suggestive power, in which, as she says, all manner of stories are hinted at, without telling the viewer the exact nature of the action. Sexuality and the relationship between the sexes are constantly recurring themes in these images.
The show, mainly of works on paper, will also feature a number of oil paintings.