Artists

Uwe Lausen

Press release

Parallel to Abstract Realism and Minimalism, Pop Art developed in the USA and Great Britain, becoming the dominant art movement in the 1960s and also spilling over into Germany. It found its motifs in the world of consumerism, brand culture and the mass media. Six decades later, we take a look back – and dedicate our exhibition to one particular representative: Uwe Lausen’s (1941-1970) work is among the strongest positions of figurative painting of the 1960s in Germany and brings with it a radical variant of Pop Art. On the target: the bourgeois spit and the German culture of repression.

As part of Berlin Art Week 2024, we are opening our exhibition Ohne Risiko ist das Leben langweilig with a selection of paintings and works on paper by Uwe Lausen. We are delighted to welcome art historian and curator Dr Selima Niggl from Munich for her lecture ‘Zentrum der