Future exhibition

Marianne Aue. A ZERO artist

01.03.2026 – 24.05.2026

Marianne Aue (born in Freudenthal in 1932, died in Leverkusen in 2016), trained at the School of Applied Arts in Krefeld, was active in European avant-garde movements such as ZERO and the New Tendencies from the early 1960s onward. Her often monochromatic structural reliefs are particularly striking, combining serial principles with musical compositional structures, such as the deliberately calculated interplay of light and shadow.

The artist ended her artistic career after only ten years for family reasons. After her oeuvre had long been overlooked, her estate was recovered and preserved a few years ago. In addition to the scholarly analysis of this unique contribution to the European post-war avant-garde, Aue’s innovative spirit and experimental approach are particularly evident here. F

ollowing the major exhibitions on the work of Karel Malich (2014), Milan Grygar and John Cage (2017), and Prague Power Boost (2019), this new presentation is dedicated to the work of the Czech artist Marianne Aue, whose work has been virtually undiscovered in Germany until now. Aue worked in the immediate circle of the important ZERO artists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker. After the presentation at the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen in 2024, this is the second museum exhibition to showcase her complete surviving oeuvre as well as numerous previously unknown drawings.

The exhibition is supported by the Zdenek Sklenar Foundation, Prague.

Marianne Aue „Nr. 153“, 1964. © Nachlass Marianne Aue, Foto: Galerie Panarte, Wien