The Zentrum Paul Klee keeps shells, seaweed and stones in its depot. Why? Paul Klee’s engagement with nature formed the basis of his artistic work.

The Polish sculptor Monika Sosnowska is regarded as one of the most significant contemporary artists today. Her often massive sculptures and architectural installations in steel, concrete or other building materials engage, from an Eastern European point of view, with the legacy of modernism and its promises of progress – and what remains of it.

Joan Miró is known for his colourful surrealist dream worlds. Particularly after his long-awaited move into his own large studio in Palma de Mallorca in 1956, however, the Catalan artist extended his concept of painting in a hitherto unfamiliar direction. He questioned the whole of his previous œuvre, reworked early pieces or returned to works that had been left incomplete. This moment of self-criticism and a new beginning forms the starting point for the exhibition