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2025-09-27 - 2026-02-08 | RAUM SCHROTH im Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Thomästraße 1, Soest, NRW, 59494, Deutschland
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Constructions between System and Divergence

Charles Bézie | Daniel Buren | Jean-François Dubreuil | Vera Molnar | François Morellet | Aurélie Nemours | Yves Popet | Victor Vasarely

The exhibition showcases French artists from the heart of the Schroth Collection and explores the possibilities of artistic conception. From clearly defined formal elements and systematic structures to free experimentation and chance, these artists use methods that range from a planned approach to openness towards the unforeseen, enabling discoveries that are more than just the result of a search.

They have given their work a framework of consistent rules of formal conception or have declared systems themselves to be the subject of their work. Subjective, intuitive composition is replaced by construction based on simple or elaborate systems. They systematically explore the visual consequences of repetition, progression, rotation or superposition, for example. In their methodical approach, however, some of them also welcome deviation and chance. François Morellet, for example, integrated chance as a principle in order to override the idea of artistic composition itself and at the same time create new and autonomous elements of reality that had not even existed in his imagination before. The works of Vera Molnar, a pioneer of computer-generated art, thrive on 99% order – and 1% chaos.

Sensual pleasure, surprising humour and rational understanding combine in this exhibition at RAUM SCHROTH to create a comprehensive experience.

Exhibition period
28 September 2025 – 8 February 2026

Opening reception
27 September 2025, 5 pm

RAUM SCHROTH im Museum Wilhelm Morgner
Thomästraße 1, 59494 Soest
Arrival | Opening hours | Admission

Weihnachten bis Neujahr | Öffnungszeiten des Museums 2025/2026
2025-12-23 - 2026-01-04 | NRW
Zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr ist das Museum Wilhelm Morgner mit RAUM SCHROTH wie folgt geöffnet:
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2025, von 13 bis 17 Uhr,
sowie am 27. und 28. Dezember 2025 von 11 bis 17 Uhr geöffnet.
Ab Samstag, 3. Januar 2026, ist es wieder wie gewohnt zugänglich.
Des Weiteren wird es am 26. Dezember 2025, 16 Uhr eine Sonderführung mit Michael Stockhausen geben.
Dazu bitte um kurz vor 16 Uhr am Museum einfinden.
