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Landmark Exhibition: Irma Stern: A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town

3 Jul 2025

Brücke Museum, Berlin, 13 July – 2 November 2025

The life and work of Irma Stern will be celebrated in Irma Stern: A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town, a landmark exhibition at the Brücke Museum in Berlin (13 July – 2 November 2025). Click here for more information.

Featuring over 40 paintings, watercolours and drawings – primarily from South African collections –the exhibition places Stern’s work in dialogue with artists from the Brücke (Bridge) group of German expressionists. Curated by Lisa Hörstmann and Lisa Marei Schmidt, it marks the first museum show devoted to Stern by a Berlin institution.

To mark the occasion, a programme of social and educational events will be held on the opening weekend. On Saturday 12 July at 1.30pm, Alastair Meredith (Head of Art Department, Strauss & Co) will join a panel discussion with Gcotyelwa Mashiqa (Curator, Johannesburg Art Gallery) and Kathy Wheeler (Curator, Irma Stern Museum), moderated by Hörstmann. Click here to view the program.

Strauss & Co will also host a Berlin edition of ART Club at the Brücke Museum on Sunday 13 July at 11am. It will include an exhibition walkabout led by Hörstmann, whose doctoral thesis and book (Trans)Nationalism and “indigenisation” (2024) focused on early South African modernism. Click here to book your space.

Irma Stern: A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town

We are pleased to share that, Dr. Alastair Meredith, Senior Art Specialist at Strauss & Co and Head of Department , will share his insights on Stern’s enduring impact and market significance at the Brücke Museum’s upcoming exhibition Irma Stern: A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town – the first major museum survey of her work in Berlin, the city where her artistic journey began on Saturday, 12 July 2025, from 1 to 5 pm.

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The events for the opening weekend of the exhibition are as follows:

VIP opening: Friday 11 July at 7pm

Official opening day: Saturday 12 July from 1pm-5pm

Strauss & Co ART CLUB

Walkabout with Lisa Horstmann, Co-Curator, 11am
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