In this exhibition, Katharina Sieverding enters into dialogue with her former professor Joseph Beuys. The focus is on her time at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and addresses aspects of Beuys' teaching such as participatory processes and values such as freedom, equality and democracy. This is exemplified by, among other things, the 243-part film work Eigenbewegung (Self-Movement) from 1969. Eigenbewegung features many protagonists of those years, including Joseph Beuys, Johannes Stüttgen, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Chris Reinecke and Jörg Immendorff. 

A separate exhibition area will also focus on the fashionable self-designs of both artists. Beuys and Sieverding each created a high degree of recognition value by means of a few coordinated items of clothing and accessories. Before her time at the art academy, Sieverding designed costumes as an employee of Fritz Kortner at the Burgtheater in Vienna and placed them in scenic and contextual settings. The aim of the juxtaposition is to explore the political themes of the two artists and to investigate the extent to which they use their image to convey these themes and at the same time achieve iconic status as artists.

Curated by Alexander Grönert, Antje-Britt Mählmann, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding & Diana Weis