Germany

Sculptures by Painters

17 July / 26 October

The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas and Pippilotti Rist who examine, deconstruct and redefine the female image with the aid of photography and video art. At the same time, the exhibition looks back to the 19th and early 20th century when women such as Countess Castiglione, Lady Hawarden, Claude Cahun and Florence Henri discovered photography as a means of (self–) projection and enquiry.

Facets of Modernity. The Changing Image of Man

Around 1880 Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas developed a new form of emotional expression with their sculpture. The examples selected for this exhibition demonstrate the many facets of their legacy with sculpture by Lehmbruck, Lohse, Blumenthal, Seitz, Wotruba, and Förster, cumulating inКrecent works by contemporary sculptors Birgit Dieker and Martin Honert.

A contemporary record of Photography

Using around 600 documentary photographs taken by 250 Chinese photographers, this exhibition reflects the daily life of people in China against the background of the country’s modernisation over the past five decades.

Unter den Linden 13, Berlin
www.deutsche-guggenheim-berlin.de

Freeway Balconies. Contemporary American Art

5 July / 21 September

American artist Collier Schorr, whose practice explores appropriated identities and performance, will work with a selection of younger American artists to create an exhibition that is at once a self-portrait and a riveting display of some of the most vital trends in contemporary US-based art today. The show will include works by established artists such as Richard Prince and Francesca Woodman as well as recognized emerging artists.

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Glockengießerwall, Hamburg
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de

Through 24 August

The exhibition comprises more than 60 paintings and more than 40 large-scale works on paper from all phases of Rothko’s career. This unique chance to experience the genuinely mysterious aura of the one of the 20th century’s great masters, which no reproduction is able to capture, is also an opportunity to as view many works from US collections which are being shown in Germany for the first time.