Large-scale Paul Klee Exhibition to Be Held at the National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2027: Exploring the Allure of the "World In Between" Hidden in His Works
A major Paul Klee exhibition, "World In Between," will be held at the National Museum of Art, Osaka from September 11 to December 26, 2027.Summary
The exhibition "Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Paul Klee – World In Between" will be held at the National Museum of Art, Osaka from September 11 to December 26, 2027. Paul Klee (1879–1940), a German painter representing the 20th century, was born in Bern, Switzerland, grew up in a musical family, and created poetic and fantastical worlds by freely combining lines, colors, and symbols. He absorbed Expressionism, Cubism, and abstract art, and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s. This exhibition is a joint project with the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20/K21) in Düsseldorf, Germany. Although Klee was labeled a "degenerate artist" under the Nazi regime and lost his position, he was reevaluated after the war; the state government purchased 88 works in 1960 and founded the museum, which now holds 129 works and is internationally acclaimed. Titled "World In Between," the exhibition presents about 120 works, all by Klee, mainly from the museum's collection, exploring the charm hidden "in between" two different worlds—figurative and abstract, painting and music, line and color—and also focusing on the changing reception of Klee's work during and after the war. The exhibition aims to view the "world in between" revealed by Klee's works as a premonition full of the possibility that "something is about to begin." The exhibition will travel to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum from January 19 to April 9, 2028.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)