You never know what will happen next…The collection from 1900-2010

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YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT... THE COLLECTION 1900-2010

From 12 February 2010

LENTOS offers visitors a large format opportunity for the most comprehensive view of the Collection since the opening of the museum, a chance to become acquainted with the abundance as well as the divergence of the holdings.

We are celebrating the new decade by taking stock, inciting current perspectives and daring a new presentation. Each of the eleven rooms is assigned to one decade. The chronological principle is perforated by surprising interventions by artists from the 19th century up to the present. The works enter into associative connections with one another, interfering - obviously, provocatively or even covertly.

The brackets for the unconventional presentation are thus 110 years, an overwhelming period full of upheavals, stylistic diversity and change. An exhibition enabling individual approaches to art works, sparking reflection, showing many new acquisitions and donations from the Friends Association. Unorthodox combinations stimulate new perspectives, offer the audience entirely new insights into the development of Modernism and the purchase policies of a museum.

110 years of art from the rich holdings delightfully interlinked: the course through the exhibition becomes an adventure. One encounters famous works, rarely show works, new faces, a few "trouble-makers" and many old friends.