Yael Bartana and Monica Bonvicini are part of the exhibition ‘Dix and the Present’, on view at Deichtorhallen Hamburg through April 1, 2024.
Presented in the Deichtorhallen's Hall for Contemporary Art, the show examines Dix's oeuvre from the 1930s for the first time in the context of a comprehensive exhibition. Accordingly, the artistic impact of political censorship, conformity and political iconography with reference to contemporary art takes center stage.
The exhibition reveals the shifting cultural and social parameters in the reception of Dix's oeuvre, while at the same time showing how his work continues to hold great fascination for about fifty of the most renowned artists of our day - as challenge or stimulus, by means of appropriation and reinterpretation.
