“Confrontations. Pairings from the Collection” brings together pairs of works from the Brandhorst Collection that have no art-historical or formal relationship to each other.
These pairings unfold a special tension precisely in their contrasts: they open up new spaces for thought, address our intuition and evoke emotions. Sometimes touching, sometimes subtle, sometimes funny and always ambiguous, they create a conversation about and between art. The exhibition invites us to see confrontation in a productive way, to discover new connections, to question familiar interpretations and to link personal experiences with overarching questions of the present.

With works by
Nairy Baghramian, Monika Baer, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Alexandra Bircken, James Lee Byars, André Cadere, Jim Dine, Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Peter Fend, Louis Fratino, Lee Friedlander, Robert Gober, Richard Hamilton, Keith Haring, Rachel Harrison, Damien Hirst, Arthur Jafa, Louise Lawler, Mike Kelley, Tarrah Krajnak, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Philippe Parreno, Pope.L, Richard Prince, Raymond Saunders, Jim Shaw, Amy Sillman, Rosemarie Trockel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Shin Yanagisawa and many more.