With the large-scale exhibition Der montierte Mensch (The Assembled Man), the Museum Folkwang is focusing on the relationship between man and technology over the last 120 years: How have artists united man and machine in their visual worlds? The show spans a wide range of time and media: it shows art as a mirror of industrialization, mechanization and digitalization. Important works of painting, sculpture and graphics, early photographic experiments, installations, films and works by the post-internet generation come together to provide a cultural-historical overview.

The exhibition features more than 200 works by over 100 artists who have explored the effects of industrialization, mechanization, cybernetics, robotics and artificial intelligence on people and society since the beginning of the machine age up to the present day. From the painters of Futurism, Fortunato Depero and Giacomo Balla, to masterpieces from Cubism, Constructivism and New Objectivity, including works by Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, El Lissitzky and Otto Dix, the show presents some of the most important artistic positions of the early 20th century. With key representatives of post-war art, including Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein and Konrad Klapheck, and feminist positions that emerged in the 1960s with works by Maria Lassnig, Helen Chadwick and Lynn Hershman Leeson, it spans the art history of the past century up to the present day: to the digitally influenced works of the younger generation of artists, such as Ed Atkins and Avery Singer. The international loans range from image documents of industrialization and state propaganda to classical modern art and contemporary art. In addition to painting, sculpture, graphics and photography, they also include video and performance art.

Artists:
Walter Heinz Allner, Bettina von Arnim, Gerd Arntz, Ed Atkins, Giacomo Balla, Joachim Bandau, Lenora de Barros, Willi Baumeister, Thomas Bayrle, Rudolf Belling, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Renato Bertelli, Alexandra Bircken, Umberto Boccioni, Wilhelm Braune, John Cage, Helen Chadwick, Computer Technique Group (CTG), Charles A. Csuri, Mariechen Danz, Fortunato Depero, Walter Dexel, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Charles & Ray Eames, Max Ernst, Alexandra Exter, Öyvind Fahlström, Harun Farocki, William Allan Fetter, Otto Fischer, Herbert W. Franke, Carl Grossberg, George Grosz, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hammer, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eva Hesse, Heinrich Hoerle, Rebecca Horn, Vilmos Huszár, Boris Ignatowitsch, Fritz Kahn, Wassily Kandinsky, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Friedrich Kiesler, Konrad Klapheck, Jürgen Klauke, Heinrich Kley, Josh Kline, Iwan Kljun, Alexander Kluge, Kiki Kogelnik, Germaine Krull, Boris Kudojarow, Helmuth Kurth, Jürgen van Kranenbrock, Maria Lassnig, Fernand Léger, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Roy Lichtenstein, Lissitzky, Hilary Lloyd, Goshka Macuga, René Magritte, Kasimir Malewitsch, Man Ray, Étienne-Jules Marey, Rémy Markowitsch, Caroline Mesquita, László Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Alexei Morgunow, Martin Munkácsi, Eadweard Muybridge, Otto Neurath, Katja Novitskova, ORLAN, Tony Oursler, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Edward Paolozzi, Georgi Petrusow, Antoine Pevsner, Walter Pichler, Jon Rafman, Robert Rauschenberg, Timm Rautert, Alexander Rodchenko, Thomas Ruff, Walter Ruttmann, James Shaffer, Arkadi Schaichet, Xanti Schawinsky, Helmut Schenk, Oskar Schlemmer, Nicolas Schöffer, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Avery Singer, Stelarc, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Thayaht, Paul Thek, Jean Tinguely, Patrick Tresset, Anna Uddenberg, Erwin Wendt, Hugo von Werden, George Widener

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