Edvard Munch
In Dialogue

Until 19 June 2022

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The ALBERTINA Museum is dedicating a brilliant spring exhibition 2022 to Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The comprehensive show is unique in several respects: over 60 works by the Norwegian artist show the impressive oeuvre that is groundbreaking for modern and contemporary art. This is demonstrated by seven important contemporary artists - all greats of the 20th century - who enter into dialogue with Munch: Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas and Tracey Emin among them. The groups of works selected by the artists themselves impressively illustrate Munch's influence on art up to the present day. They are works that refer to Munch, were influenced by him and were created in the course of an encounter with him.

Munch's influence on posterity is not only related to his melancholic world view: Rather, the focus is on his experimental approach to painting and printing techniques, his unique world of colour, pigment and stroke, which has shaped - and continues to shape - the history of painting. This style makes Munch the most modern artist of the modern age, not to say a contemporary artist of the modern age.

The approaches to Munch are as diverse as the artists themselves: They include Georg Baselitz's forest landscapes and his sometimes indirect portraits of the Norwegian painter, while Andy Warhol once again recreates icons in his own way. Marlene Dumas deals intensively with fundamental questions of human experience, places themes such as love, identity, racism, but also death or mourning at the center of her work and thus directly follows Munch's thematic focus. Miriam Cahn also focuses on human emotion, from powerless despair and fear to unbridled aggression. For Peter Doig, the materiality in Munch's paintings as well as the iconology of humanity's alienation from itself is an essential point of reference in the works of the Norwegian. Tracey Emin's paintings and multimedia works are informed by traumatic personal experiences and tie in with the autobiographical nature of Munch's work.

The time period of the artists has also been chosen with care, as with the work of the 1980s by Georg Baselitz or that decade in Tracey Emin's oeuvre in which the artist dealt intensively with Munch and then finally also made her new development.

Munch. In Dialogue focuses primarily on Munch's later work. The show follows on from the ALBERTINA Museum's record-breaking exhibitions on Munch in 2003 and 2015 and is supported by the Munch Museet and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo), as well as numerous other international institutions and private collections.

The exhibition is on view until 19 June 2022. Some works in the Tietze Galleries are no longer on view due to loan agreements with the Munchmuseet Oslo. Among them are silkscreens by Edvard Munch and works by Jasper Johns and Tracey Emin. Andy Warhol's The Scream (After Munch) is still part of the exhibition.

Edvard Munch: Street in Aagsgaardstrand, 1901 — **Image Gallery** – 20 Images

Show Photos — **Image Gallery** – 20 Images

Video: Video | Virtual Opening of the Exhibition

**Exhibition views | Photos © Robert Bodnar** – 3 Images

Tracey Emin | Sometimes There Is No Reason, 2018 | Private Collection, Courtesy Sabsay © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2022 © Tracey Emin. All Rights Reserved / Bildrecht, Vienna 2022

Andy Warhol | The Scream (after Munch), 1984 | Mikkel Dobloug Photo: Kjell S Stenmarch, Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2021

Georg Baselitz | Ekely, 2004 | Private collection Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac, London - Paris - Salzburg - Seoul | Photo: Jochen Littkemann © Georg Baselitz

Edvard Munch | The Kiss, 1921 | Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

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Edvard Munch | Madonna, 1895-96 | Collection of Catherine Woodard and Nelson Blitz, Jr. | Photo: Bonnie H. Morrison

Edvard Munch. In Dialogue

The catalogue accompanies the brilliant spring exhibition “Edvard Munch. In Dialogue” at the Albertina Museum.

Edvard Munch. In Dialogue
Ed. Dieter Buchhart, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Prestel Verlag
2022
280 pages
28.5 x 24.5 cm, hardcover
German EUR 32,90
English EUR 34,90