In the visual arts, it is omnipresent: the line. Navigating between constructive precision and subjective gesture, it performs endless tasks. It defines form and organizes the surface; it shapes contours and structures, and creates separation and connection. It traces space and time, generates illusion, and captures the imaginary.

Taking Paul Klee’s poetic metaphor of a line embarking on an “impressive journey” across the page as a point of departure, the exhibition explores how the line breaks free from its support, enters three-dimensional space, and transforms in both expression and materiality.

Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Kader Attia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Angela Bulloch, Rosemarie Castoro, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Carola Dertnig, Marcel Duchamp, Fred Eerdekens, Amy Feldman, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Lucian Freud, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Antony Gormley, Keith Haring, Alexej Jawlensky, Donald Judd, Birgit Jürgenssen, Reena Saini Kallat, Wassily Kandinsky, Žilvinas Kempinas, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Knoop, Joseph Kosuth, Brigitte Kowanz, Edward Krasiński, Alfred Kubin, Roy Lichtenstein, Constantin Luser, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Vera Molnár, François Morellet, Nick Oberthaler, Helga Philipp, Pablo Picasso, Giulia Piscitelli, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Sigmar Polke, Fred Sandback, Sonia Sanoja, Egon Schiele, Chiharu Shiota, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Franz West