Marianne Aue (born in Freudenthal in 1932, died in Leverkusen in 2016), trained at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld, was active in European avant-garde movements such as ZERO and Neue Tendenzen from the early 1960s onwards. Particularly striking are her often monochrome structural reliefs, in which she combines serial principles with musical compositional structures, such as the deliberately calculated interplay of light and shadow. The artist ended her artistic career after only ten years for family reasons.
After her oeuvre had long been out of the spotlight, her estate was recovered and secured a few years ago. In addition to the scholarly exploration of this unique contribution to the European postwar avant-garde, Aue's innovative spirit and enthusiasm for experimentation are particularly evident here.
Following the significant exhibitions on the work of Karel Malich(2014), Milan Grygar, and John Cage (2017) andPraguePowerBoost(2019), the new presentation is dedicated to the work of artist Marianne Aue, who has been virtually unknown in Germany until now and who worked in the immediate vicinity of the important ZERO artists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker. Following the presentation at the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen in 2024, this is the second museum exhibition to show the entire surviving oeuvre as well as numerous previously unknown drawings.
March 1 to May 24, 2026
