Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich 2026, PNG, 1080 x 1920 px, 2 x 46’’
WE
ARE
THE
PAINTERS
OF
THE
FUTURE!
VOL. 2
Stiftung
van
de
Loo
Collective Art in Munich since 1957 and contemporary collective projects in China – An Insight
SPUR
WIR
RADAMA
GEFLECHT
KINDERFORUM VAN DE LOO
KOLLEKTIV HERZOGSTRASSE
WEIBSbILDER
KING KONG KUNSTKABINETT
THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE
XI SAN CHORUS
BOXES GROUP
Curated by
Dr. Selima Niggl
On view Oct 13, 2026 through February 2027
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich 2026
Last year, the Songshan Lake Boxes Art Museum in southern China presented an exhibition curated by Selima Niggl that, for the first time, traced the genealogy of Munich-based artist groups from SPUR (founded in 1957) to the still-active King Kong Kunstkabinett in this form, bringing it into dialogue with another contemporary Munich collectives as well as with Chinese projects. On the occasion of the catalogue being published following the exhibition, Stiftung van de Loo is now presenting an excerpt from this project.
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich 2026, PNG, 1080 x 1920 px, 2 x 46’’
The exhibition traces a continuous Munich tradition of collective painting dating back to 1957 – from SPUR through RADAMA, WIR, GEFLECHT, the Kollektiv Herzogstraße, and the WeibsBilder to the King Kong Kunstkabinett. These groups combine socio-political engagement with a commitment to free, expressive painting, repeatedly moving beyond the classical form of painting and reaching out into the surrounding space. An important link within this genealogy is the Kinderforum van de Loo, which has existed since 1970.
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich 2026, PNG, 1080 x 1920 px, 2 x 46’’
As a contemporary counterpart, the Beautiful Formula Collective (BFC), founded in 2012, not only practices collective painting itself, but has also been inviting people from outside the group to paint together through its format “The Beautiful Formula Syndicate” since 2014. The exhibition is complemented by contributions from the Boxes Group, based at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and the XI SAN Chorus, an artists’ group from Guangdong Province active since 2017. Under similarly challenging conditions to those faced by SPUR in its time, the group seeks exchange within the social sphere through collective practice rather than pursuing the idea of the individual artist as an autonomous figure.
Dr. Selima Niggl
Stiftung van de Loo
Winthirstrasse 35
80639 München
www.stiftung-vandeloo.de
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Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich 2026. Photo: Selima Niggl
