Anna OppermannA Retroperspective13.12.2023 - 01.04.2024
Bundeskunsthalle

As a key figure in German conceptual art from the 1960s onwards, Oppermann was in an active exchange with artists of her time. Her participation in documenta 6 and 8 in Kassel, among others, made her internationally known early on. The term „ensemble“, which she coined in the early 1970s for her process-based arrangements, encompasses both the installed work and the underlying method. The ensembles of notes, drawings, photographs, printed matter and objects demonstrate her radical understanding of a work: it is open and dialogical, and the process is part of the work. Language is an essential component of the ensembles alongside the pictorial parts of the work.

Exuberant, complex, but also smaller assemblages, rhizome-like constellations allow an immersion in Anna Oppermann’s search for and securing of traces.