ARTIST ROOMS – Joseph Beuys
Oct 22 2011–Jan 8 2012 (Nb. Open Tuesday–Sunday and bank holiday Mondays)
National Museum Cardiff

This exhibition brings together a range of work in different media from the extensive holdings of Joseph Beuys in the ARTIST ROOMS collection.

Installed in a dedicated space in the National Museum of Art’s newly opened galleries for modern and contemporary art, the exhibition makes powerful connections with adjacent displays from Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ own outstanding collection of post-1950 art.

In particular, it reveals Beuys’ longstanding interest in the survival of the Celtic spirit in northern Europe.

Reference is made to Beuys’ contribution to the exhibition, 'How the Past Perishes – How the Future Becomes', organised by Caroline Tisdall for the Wrexham Eisteddfod in 1977.

The artist saw the Wrexham event as an extension of his seminal installation Honeypump at Documenta 6. Beuys’ interest in the Celtic, and its particular relevance to audiences in Wales, is explored in accompanying event and schools programme.

The ARTIST ROOMS collection is an important collection of international contemporary art that explores the most influential artists of the twentieth century.