Space determines our position, movement and perception. As viewers, we never experience art detached from space, but always within space. Under the title Between & Beyond, the Collection of Modern Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne presents works from its own holdings that engage with the aesthetic as well as social perception of space. On display are paintings, objects and installation-based works from the 1960s to the present, which articulate the relationship between work, space and viewer.
From the 1960s onward, artists of Minimal Art began to understand the surrounding space as an integral part of their works. Space is regarded as an intermediate space ("between") that arises between the work and the viewers, or as an imaginary and transcendent space ("beyond") that becomes experienceable through light, shadow and movement.