16 February 2008 – 13 April 2008

The Message - The Medium as Artist

Supernatural beings dictate entire texts, voices from the beyond give commands to paint, spirits draw attention to themselves with knocking sounds and make mediums speak unknown languages. It was not only in the fine arts that occult practices, voices of supernatural beings and magic moments were often felt to be suspicious. For the first time, the exhibition The Message – The Medium as Artist presents the astonishing history of the impact of a largely unknown phenomenon in art from 1850 until the present day: the exhibition, curated by Claudia Dichter, Michael Krajewski and Susanne Zander, brings together paintings, drawings and automatic etchings by more than 25 artists. Moreover, with films, photographs and audio recordings, it traces a line from the earliest mediumistic works from the second half of the 19th century to the present.

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Museum Bochum - Kunstsammlung
Kortumstrasse 147
44777 Bochum
phone +49 234 516 00 30
http://www.bochum.de/museum

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

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