KANDINSKY

No other artist epitomizes the character of the Guggenheim quite like Vasily Kandinsky—his history is closely entwined with the history of the museum and his work has been collected in-depth for the museum’s permanent collection since its founding. This presentation of more than 100 paintings brings together works from the three partner institutions that own the greatest concentration of the artist’s work in the world: the Guggenheim, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich—as well as significant loans from private and public holdings.

Kandinsky offers a chronological survey of the artist’s work through a selection of his most important canvases, including examples from his series of Improvisations, Impressions and Compositions, and presents a reexamination of the geographically and time-based periods traditionally applied to his work. The unprecedented collaborative efforts of the Guggenheim, Pompidou, and Lenbachhaus have brought together works that rarely travel and offer new contexts and comparisons for those works that have been apart.

The exhibition is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.