In the Online Art Lectures series the Museum Barberini offers digital lectures on the topic Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century. Museum curators, conservators, and guides speak about their various disciplines and areas of work, offering a glimpse behind the scenes and opening up new perspectives on the works.

Costs
€ 5

Runtime
50 minutes

Booking
Online

Venue
Online lecture (in German) via Zoom

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Mar 26, & May 14, 2025, 6.30 p.m.
Wassily Kandinsky’s Abstraction
Isabelle Runde, Art Historian

The lecture highlights Wassily Kandinsky in the environment that inspired him. His painting Composition V of 1912—still unimaginable in 1910—triggered the revolutionary art movement of abstraction, which from the very beginning broke new ground in Europe and the United States.

Apr 9, 2025, 6.30 p.m.
Making off. How does an exhibition come about?
Dr. Sterre Barentsen, Curator Kosmos Kandinsky, Museum Barberini

The curator of the exhibition Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century talks about the genesis and realization of the concept. She describes the development of the exhibition from the selection of loans to the completion of the catalog to the installation and hanging in the museum—a look behind the scenes at the Barberini.