Flower pots and crosses, fries and diamonds - in his large-format paintings Dieter Krieg (1937-2005) never differentiated between the significant things in life and the everyday ones. In over-sized enlargement, Krieg also uses painterly media to wrest the emotion of experienced life from the banal, leaving room for tragedy and comedy, for bodily pleasure and aesthetic sharpness - even for fries and diamonds. Beginning in the sixties, the Lindau-native was one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called New Figuration. In 1978, he exhibited with Ulrich Rückriem in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart dedicates this first retrospective of Krieg's oeuvre to the recently deceased painter and professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. to catalogue
	With hula hoop or karaoke in the museum, teleshopping at an art fair, or a cooking show at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Christian Jankowski finds a satiric haven in the entertainment world and art scene. Using popular mass media formats he inves-tigates the roles of art, entertainment, and global marketing strategies in our society: Transformed into a child, a museum director presents his institution. In an opening at the Kunstverein the audience mutates into a herd of sheep and ambles through the exhibition space. The artist seeks the help of a fortune-teller appearing on Italian television to forecast his success in the coming Venice Biennale. The interplay of the comic and serious runs like a thread through all of his videos. Even though Christian Jankowski is an internationally acclaimed artist and has had numerous exhibitions all over the world, this presentation in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work in Germany. The focal point of the solo exhibition and surprise for visitors is a work created by the artist especially for the event. Sponsored by to catalogue