Color is sensual. It can sound like music, it expresses opposites, embodies order and encourages contemplation. It triggers emotions and memories. Artists are constantly questioning, researching and rediscovering colour as the language of painting.

The exhibition "Lust auf Farbe" literally brings colour into these gloomy times. Regardless of motif, content and medium, works in the collection are arranged in colour. This gives each room its own sound: yellow, red, blue, green, grey, black and white. Light and lively, visitors move through the colour worlds and discover new and unexpected things. A wide variety of art movements such as Surrealism and concrete art enter into a relationship as well as painting and sculpture.

"Lust auf Farbe" awakens the joy of seeing and designing oneself. And lets us rediscover the subtleties and nuances of color. Because our everyday life is becoming more and more colorful. Colours are often hardly noticed in their inexhaustible richness: colourful motifs vie for attention from advertising posters, tomatoes have to shine flawlessly red, the sky has to shine steel blue. This was not always the case. In art, color did not return to brown-gray painting until the end of the 19th century.

Color is only created at the moment of seeing. The brain receives and processes light and brightness pulses, which it then translates into colors. In the exhibition's "color laboratory", art education offers practical exercises on color theory and perception, allowing visitors to experience color directly from different perspectives. The exhibition "Lust auf Farbe" is a journey of discovery.

Curated by Matthias Haldemann