Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, 2024-6, is pleased to announce a group exhibition, The Inside Out. This cross-generational survey investigates privacy and intimacy through various lenses, including the domestic, the body, counterculture, family, community, and identity. Installed throughout the formerly domestic setting of the building's west wing, the show includes approximately fifty works by more than thirty artists from the 1950s to today, most of which have never been exhibited at Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg before.

The 18th Century German concept of Innerlichkeit (inwardness) characterized an intentional distancing from the external world. The French intimists of the 19th century, including Pierre Bonnard, similarly emphasized the everyday and the banal, enriched by decorative and embellished surroundings. The resulting subjects are often imbued with a sense of autonomy that suggests the viewer is an intruder from the outside, at times welcome or interrupting. Meanwhile, artists have considered the physical manifestation of internal conditions as well as performative ideals about the body, in which taboos are normalized when the personal is forced into the open. The Inside Out explores these ideas through various subjects, as well as through composition and technique, raising interesting questions about our occupation of space, and how we define internal and external environments with one another and with ourselves.

The Inside Out  includes works by Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown, Cristina Canale, Andrew Cranston, Lois Dodd, Nicole Eisenman, Tracey Emin, Natalie Frank, Ralph Gibson, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Nan Goldin, Philip Guston, Mary Heilmann, Jocelyn Hobbie, Horst P. Horst, Jörg Immendorff, Chantal Joffe, Simone Lucas, Danica Lundy, Marcin Maciejowski, Helmut Newton, A.R. Penck, Enoc Perez, Emily Pettigrew, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Larry Rivers, Norbert Schwontkowski, Joan Semmel, Jeanloup Sieff, Christoph Steinmeyer, Sophie von Hellermann, and Brett Weston.