Liquid Reflections Works from the Anne-Marie and Victor Loeb-Foundation
Liquid Reflections is a presentation of highlights from the collection of the Anne-Marie and Victor Loeb-Foundation. Anne-Marie Loeb-Haymann (1916 –1999) and Victor Loeb (1910–1974) belonged to the league of Bern’s more noteworthy collectors. With the exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern as incentives and in close consultation with Harald Szeemann, the couple accrued a collection that consisted largely of art from the 1960s and 70s.
Since 1980, this exceptional collection has its home at the Kunstmuseum Bern as a permanent loan and boasts more than 350 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. These works reveal the experimental departures and the diversity typical for the art of the time. We have adopted the name of the light sculpture Liquid Reflections (1967) by US artist Liliane Lijn (*1939) for the title of the exhibition. It paraphrases the specific and unique character of the Loeb collection: fluidity and the dissolution of boundaries.
Curator: Marianne Wackernagel
