Exhibition Ecstasy

In spring 2019, the Zentrum Paul Klee dwells on the ecstasy – one of the oldest and most astonishing cultural phenomena. This exhibition highlights the intensity and ambivalence of ecstatic experiences and showcases exceptional work by modern and contemporary artists like Auguste Rodin, Marlene Dumas, Meret Oppenheim, Henri Michaux, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol and Paul Klee in surprising juxtapositions. The works of these artists explore ecstasy as a bodily and physical state of exception, situated at the threshold between pleasure and pain, creativity and madness, spiritual transcendence and physical self-destruction, liberation and dependency, life and death.

Maria-Teresa Cano 
Head of Communication and Public Relations Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee
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