Grace Weaver • BED AND CLOCK, MOON AND BEACH: Edvard Munch • Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin • 12.06.–01.08.2020

Georg Baselitz, André Butzer, Peter Doig, Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Adrian Ghenie, Mark Grotjahn, Sophie von Hellermann, Asger Jorn, Sanya Kantarovsky, Adam Saks, and Grace Weaver

curated by Christian Malycha

In the face of the world’s constant upheavals throughout the 20th century, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is the painter of life’s fundamental tale of birth, love, fear, and death. Beyond that he is, together with Henri Matisse, one of the greatest colourists of the past 100 years.

Spanning five generations, the group exhibition BED AND CLOCK, MOON AND BEACH picks up the invisible thread, which connects Munch’s oeuvre with our present.

Time and again, Munch is able to spark “vital controversies” and, according to Georg Baselitz, he incorporates “the risk” every new generation has to take in order “to put itself onto its own feet”. Munch’s liberty and his freshness are unbroken and unparalleled.