Local Histories: Works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof, the Nationalgalerie Collection and loans: Werke aus der … Sammlung der Nationalgalerie und Leihgaben

Things can only be diverse and should be diverse, wrote Donald Judd in 1964 about the art scene in New York, and hence rejected a one-dimensional ordering of art history in favor of an open encounter with works of art. In this sense, the works in this experimental collection presentation are also set in relation to one another along with their specific local context: situational snapshots from the 1960s in New York and Düsseldorf, to the 1980s in Cologne, and up to the 1990s in Berlin and Los Angeles, which are deepened and thought further in the accompanying essays of this exhibition catalogue