HAUPTEINGANG: Ongoing

Working in painting, photography, and installation, Spencer Finch is best known for making large-scale sculptural installations that filter or transform natural light or create synthetic light effects. In this site-specific installation, Finch attempts to recreate his impression of the sky at Derneburg at a specific moment, shifting the sunlight to the color of shade cast by a passing cloud. Passing Cloud (Over Derneburg) demonstrates Finch's mechanized attempt at capturing the ephemeral and temporal nature of the observed world.

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Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg is pleased to announce the installation of a permanent nearly four-meter-tall stained-glass window by acclaimed artist Markus Lüpertz in the Schloss' main entrance hall. Lüpertz's design honors the artistic legacy of Schloss Derneburg as the former home and studio of Lüpertz's friend Georg Baselitz, while embracing the building's historic legacy as a former monastery. Representing Lüpertz's first museum commission in glass, this unique, site-specific installation also pays homage to the landscape and historic monuments found within Gemeinde Holle.

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After graduating from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1965, John McCracken (1934 - 2011) transitioned from making abstract paintings and sculptural reliefs to building monochromatic, geometric sculptures. He strived to transport his three-dimensional forms to a "breathtaking level of beauty" that reflected his fascination with the universe, extraterrestrials and otherworldly matter. Inherently reductive in form, McCracken's blocks, slabs, columns, planks and neutral forms also incorporate the architecture in which they are exhibited and take into account the viewer's perspective. Highly polished, reflective surfaces enhance the pure, saturated color that permeates McCracken's architectonic forms. 

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Since A. R. Penck emigrated from East Germany in 1980, he was an occasional guest at Schloss Derneburg. Like his colleagues, Penck was drawn early to a combination of figuration and abstraction as a conceptual means of addressing Germany's national divide. On the occasion of our group exhibition, Konferenz, Penck's monumental wood totem Idol für Deutschland (1982) returns to Schloss Derneburg, where it was displayed in the building's entryway for many years during Baselitz's ownership.

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Considered to be a figurehead in the resurgence of painting in the late 1970's, Julian Schnabel continues to create gestural and highly charged work that appropriates ancient and modern literary and cultural references, while conflating the boundary between figuration and abstraction.

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Installed within Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg's historic Haupteingang and Rittersaal, this show explores the evolution of "hard edge" over the last six decades while contemporizing the castle's grand and decorative spaces in new and surprising ways.

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