VERNISSAGE: In Motion. Harry Kramer, Kassel and documenta
Harry Kramer, documenta archiv / photo: Floris M. Neusüss; Renate Heyne; Wolfgang Pfaffe; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Harry Kramer would have been 100 years old on January 25, 2025. The Kassel art professor, documenta participant and initiator of the artists' necropolis in the Habichtswald is undoubtedly one of the city's most dazzling artistic personalities. To mark the occasion, the documenta archiv, Hessen Kassel Heritage and the Museum for Sepulchral Culture are presenting kinetic sculptures, films, photographs and graphics from all phases of this artistic universalist's career.
The exhibition In Motion. Harry Kramer, Kassel and the documenta invites visitors to experience Kramer's artistic work and his impact on the city anew - as an individualist between disciplines, as a pioneer of kinetics, as an initiator of socially relevant art projects. Almost three decades after his death, it is time to rediscover the complexity of his work.
Curatorial team:
Birgitta Coers and Martin Groh, documenta archiv; Gerold Eppler, Museum for Sepulchral Culture
Vernissage on October 30, 2025, 7 pm
