What makes an image an honest image? What is beauty when it does not come from the subject, but from the language of painting itself?
Vom Alltagszauber shows new works by Berlin-based painter Amnon David Ar in dialogue with works by Kurt Mühlenhaupt. Ar directs the gaze toward what is overlooked. He finds beauty where others walk past: childhood objects, toys, portraits, people in wheelchairs, directly, without distance, looking at the everyday.
Mühlenhaupt painted the Berlin of the 20th century with the same honest attitude. At the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, his work forms the historical resonance space: two artists, different eras, one shared question – what does it mean to simply be here?