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Fruit promises all kinds of delights: Their fragrance, the richness of their colours - from lemon yellow to cherry red to apple green - their shapes and textures, but above all their delicious taste develop an irresistible potential for seduction!

No wonder that fruit has played an important role in art and art history for centuries - as thoroughly challenging models in still lifes, but also as symbols of sensuality and the fall from grace, of prosperity and transience, of bacchanalian festivals and Christian passion.

In an opulent show with around 100 exhibits from the private collection of Prof. Dr Rainer Wild, the Kunstmuseum Ahlen is showing paintings, drawings, sculptures and videos by great artists of the 20th and 21st centuries who approach the aesthetics and metaphorical quality of fruit in very different ways.

Welcome:
Dr Martina Padberg
Director, Kunstmuseum Ahlen

Greeting:
Dr Hans-Joachim Arnold
Chairman of the Board of the Rainer Wild Art Foundation

Introduction:
Annika Kouris
Curator, Rainer Wild Art Foundation

Music:
The St Bartholomäus choir under the direction of Andreas Blechmann sings songs for summer
 

The museum will remain open until 7 pm.

Admission is free!

(Due to the new town hall building, there are only a few parking spaces available directly at the museum. There are other car parks approx. 5 minutes' walk away at the Stadthalle, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 2 or Am Stadtpark 4).

Whether still life, sculpture or video art - the exhibition "A delight. Fruit in Art from Renoir to Ai Weiwei" invites you to discover the diversity of artistic depictions of fruit. Around 100 works show how important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have staged fruit as a symbol, model or pure joy of colour and form.

During a guided tour of the exhibition, we will focus on selected works, talk about artistic styles, content and perspectives and exchange impressions. Afterwards, the afternoon will end in a convivial atmosphere with coffee and cake at Café Chagall.

Admission incl. guided tour, coffee & cake 16 euro

Fruit evokes memories - of familiar scents, colours and flavours. In this specially designed tour through the exhibition "A Delight. Fruits in Art from Renoir to Ai Weiwei", participants encounter familiar motifs in a peaceful atmosphere. The art invites discovery, opens up new impressions and creates space for personal memories and conversations. Accompanying persons are welcome.

Admission: incl. guided tour 5 euros, accompanying person free!

Dr Dalia Klippenstein invites you to a literary tour through the exhibition "A Delight. Fruit in Art from Renoir to Ai Weiwei". 
With finely selected texts, she makes the works speak and opens up new perspectives on the representation of fruit in art. 
A poetic dialogue between visual and linguistic expressiveness.

Admission: 12 euros

Supported by the Förderkreis Kunstmuseum Ahlen e.V.

Old apple varieties are not only a piece of cultural heritage, but also a sensory experience. The pomologist and author Hans-Joachim Bannier (Obst-Arboretum Bielefeld) will take you on a fascinating journey into the world of traditional fruit varieties - informative, entertaining and full of flavour. In his lecture, he will shed light on the cultural, ecological and flavourful significance of these special fruits and will also bring along real samples.

Admission: 12 Euro

Supported by the Förderkreis Kunstmuseum Ahlen e.V.