Exhibition "The shadow of words"

Inks and Watercolours

Gao Xingjian, Prix nobel de Littérature 2000

Günter Grass, Prix nobel de Littérature 1999

The Shadow of Words is an exhibition that sets up a dialogue between two artists whose work takes in poetry, novels, painting and theatre. They are known for their literary endeavours but each of them also asserts his status as a painter. Bringing these multi-disciplinary artists together gives us the opportunity to draw two remarkable portraits of figures who have been marked by the history of the 20th century.

Exhibition Love at first sight

Selected works from the Würth Collection

Ever since the Würth Collection was first started in the 1960s by the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth, its development has been dynamic, a feature that is especially visible in Love at First Sight. In this exhibition, the art historian Werner Spies, who is president of the Würth group’s art advisory committee, offers a selection of works from the collection’s recent acquisitions. The collector’s personal approach to art is reflected in the title of the show. Like a journey through art history, the exhibition presents diverse groupings of works, providing an overview of the artistic developments of the last 150 years through their multiplicity of styles and forms. Although it does not represent the collection as a whole, the exhibition does offer an insight into its defining features and perspectives.

Exhibition François Morellet

reason and derision

François Morellet - Reason and Derision - is an exhibition that has been put together in close collaboration with the artist, based on works selected from the Würth Collection and from the artist’s own studio, in addition to loans from other collections. The title in itself, with its opposition of these two terms to form an “unnatural couple”, as Morellet puts it, sums up the spirit that has guided the artist’s work for almost fifty years: the serious faculty of “Reason” in constant competition with “Derision”, his glib, frivolous and sometimes insolent side.