To mark the 50th anniversary of the museum New Gallery, the special exhibition presents significant acquisitions from recent years. At its centre are large-scale installations, films and objects of a significant spatial presence. The connecting elements include an engagement with history and histories, with memory and archiving, as well as with collective and individual spaces of experience.

The New Gallery opened in 1976 as a shared venue for the municipal and state collections of modern and contemporary art. Over the past 50 years, the collection has increasingly embraced global artistic positions, strengthened by its association with documenta, and expanded its holdings to include new media.

The exhibition unfolds a multifaceted web of threads of memory and historical narratives. In her film Aşît (Avalanche) Pınar Öğrenci sets in motion processes of collective memory; Jürgen O. Olbrich archives discarded photographic material; Michal Heiman interrogates the mechanisms of psychological testing in her work; and Ute Lindner visualises the passage of time through the hanging durations of paintings with Belichtungszeiten (Exposure Times).