Capital2016

The banking, financial and euro crises that shook the European and international markets in recent years have made it more necessary than ever to address the relationship between humans and capital. A special exhibition on this theme has been staged by the contemporary arts museum Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof -- Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin under the title "Capital. Debt -- Territory -- Utopia", for which we provide a comprehensive catalogue. Displaying works by some 40 contemporary international artists in addition to selected artworks and artefacts from antiquity to the present, the show explores people's ideas of value throughout the ages. Joseph Beuys' key work Das Kapital Raum 1970--1977, created in 1980 for the Venice Biennale, occupies a central place in the exhibition as...