Guided Tours: Katharina Sieverding & Joseph Beuys

In this exhibition, Katharina Sieverding engages in a dialogue with her former professor, Joseph Beuys. The focus is on her time at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and examines aspects of Beuys’s teaching, such as participatory processes, and values such as freedom, equality and democracy. One example of this is the 243-part film work Eigenbewegung from 1969. Eigenbewegung features many protagonists of those years, including Joseph Beuys, Johannes Stüttgen, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Chris Reinecke and Jörg Immendorff. 

A separate section of the exhibition will also explore the fashion designs created by both artists. Beuys and Sieverding each achieved a high degree of recognisability through a small number of coordinated garments and accessories. Before her time at the Academy of Fine Arts, Sieverding designed costumes as an assistant to Fritz Kortner at the Burgtheater in Vienna, placing them within scenic and thematic contexts. The aim of this juxtaposition is to explore the political themes of both artists and to examine the extent to which they utilise their image to convey these themes whilst simultaneously achieving iconic status as artists.

Cost: €4 per person, concessions €3, plus museum Admission

Availability note:
For our guided tours, only a limited number of tickets are offered here in the online shop to allow for spontaneous participation on-site, even without a reservation. If a tour is no longer available here in the shop, participation may still be possible if you arrive at the ticket office well in advance of the scheduled date.