ExhibitionJune 20, 2025
Lygia Clark: Retrospective
The Neue Nationalgalerie presents the first retrospective of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920–1988) in Germany. With around 120 artworks, the comprehensive show in the upper hall will present her oeuvre from the late 1940s to the 1980s, ranging from geometric-abstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performances. The interactive approach in Clark’s work will be a central aspect of the exhibition. Visitors can interact with a large number of replicas created especially for the show.
Lygia Clark is regarded as a radical innovator, as she fundamentally redefined the relationship between the artist and the viewer, as well as the artwork and its space. As a leading figure of Neoconcretismo (the Neo-Concrete movement), initiated in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she understood art as an organic phenomenon. She demanded a subjective, body-related, and sensorial art experience, which included the viewer’s active participation.
The retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie brings together around 120 loans from international private collections and museums, including the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cisneros Collection in New York.
The exhibition, curated by Irina Hiebert Grun and Maike Steinkamp, is accompanied by a bilingual exhibition catalog in German and English, published by E. A. Seemann Verlag.
For more information, visit: https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/neue-nationalgalerie/home/
Lygia Clark is regarded as a radical innovator, as she fundamentally redefined the relationship between the artist and the viewer, as well as the artwork and its space. As a leading figure of Neoconcretismo (the Neo-Concrete movement), initiated in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she understood art as an organic phenomenon. She demanded a subjective, body-related, and sensorial art experience, which included the viewer’s active participation.
The retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie brings together around 120 loans from international private collections and museums, including the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cisneros Collection in New York.
The exhibition, curated by Irina Hiebert Grun and Maike Steinkamp, is accompanied by a bilingual exhibition catalog in German and English, published by E. A. Seemann Verlag.
For more information, visit: https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/neue-nationalgalerie/home/
