CoBrA Museum
June 2, 2023 – October 8, 2023
2023 marks 75 years since inception of the international CoBrA-movement.
To celebrate the anniversary of the avant-garde movement to which the museum is dedicated they have fittingly organized a year-long celebration filled with events. This celebratory year ends with its highlight: a large-scale exhibition which showcases CoBrA’s unique character and its lasting legacy and influence.
With over a 120 works, the exhibitions not only gives insight in the work of the movement’s artist itself but also situates their revolutionary group in an art-historical context by including renowned predecessors, peers and present-day artists. Apart from masterpieces of Appel, Jorn, Dotremont, Alechinsky, Constant, Corneille and other CoBrA artists, there are works by predecessors such as Van Gogh, Munch, Schwitters, Ferlov, Miró, Picasso, Klee, Beckmann. Works by peers such as Pollock, De Kooning. Dubuffet, Shiraga. And it features works by contemporary and present-day artists of the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, Martha Jungwitrth, Tal R, Cecily Brown and Eva Räder.
Despite the fact that CoBrA disintegrated only three years after it was founded this exhibition indicates a strong sense of lasting timelessness of the work of this unusual group of artists. One the one hand because most, like Karel Appel, would go on to have long-lasting individual careers after the dissolvement of the group. On the other hand because its spirit of creative energy and anti-establishment freedom became deeply rooted in the trajectory of art-history and still inspires audiences and artists today.
Gallery Delaive has loaned out an early work by Sam Francis for the exhibition.
The exhibition will be on view from June 2, 2023 – October 8, 2023
