13. December 2009 – 31. January 2010
Damien Deroubaix – Die Nacht / The Night

The exhibition by Damien Deroubaix (*1972 in Lille, lives in Berlin) offers a comprehensive overview of his most recent large-format works on paper. Also on display are woodcuts and sculptures, as well as installations created specially for the exhibition. The exhibition tour was conceived in collaboration with the Saarland Museum and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Esslingen is its second port of call.

The iconography of Damien Deroubaix’s works draws on the cosmos of subcultures, particularly that of punk and hardcore music. Damien Deroubaix reshapes this repertoire marked by graphic symbols – death’s heads, swastikas, violence and sexualised images – and relocates all its provocation and mockery into a dreamlike, disconnected context.

Responding to this work demands brutal directness rather than sensitivity, and this is how his work is orchestrated. The pictorial language is clear and hard-edged – as with all successful caricatures.
The artist is sponsored by Cultures France and la force de l'art (Délégation aux Arts Plastiques; DAP). The Esslingen exhibition is also sponsored by the Institut Français, Stuttgart.

7. February – 7. March 2010
KUNST: »DAS INTEGRALE SPIEL«
KURT LEONHARD ZUM 100. GEBURTSTAG


7. February – 7. March 2010
"Tobias Rosenberger:
The Grand Defender -
Theatermaschinen und -modelle"


28. March – 6. June 2010
„Man Son 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation“

Villa Merkel and Bahnwärterhaus

With works from:
Mario Asef, Achim Bitter, Günter Brus, Joe Colemann, Dellbrügge & de Moll, Peter Friedl, Till Gerhard, Gerhard Halbritter, Elmar Hess, Laura Honse, Stephan Huber, Stefan Hunstein, Susann Klein, Elena Kovylina, Thomas Kunzmann, Sigalit Landau, Almut Linde, Stefan Micheel, Aurelia Mihai, Ronald Nameth, Bruce Nauman, Karin Missy Paule, Susi Pop, Astrid Proll, Chris Reinecke, Annamaria und Marzio Sala, Andreas Seltzer, Cindy Sherman, Die Tödliche Doris, Susanne Weirich und aus der Graphischen Sammlung Max Beckmann, Charles Gaines, Martin Kippenberger