Alexandre Diop features in The Beauty of Diversity
Curated by Angela Stief, the exhibition presents the ALBERTINA Museum’s post-1945 holdings including recent new acquisitions in order to present the diversity of its collections.
The Beauty of Diversity underlines how essential it is to lend visibility to other perspectives and thus to women, LGBTQIA+ artists, people of color, indigenous artistic stances, autodidacts, and outsiders who stand out against the contrasting foil of the Old Masters. This exhibition manifests an aesthetic of the diverse that upends the ideality of classicist stylistic and formal strivings: it pursues the beauty to be found in the grotesque, impure, and repressed, shining a light on that which exists on the fringes and diverges from the norm.
Featuring artists include Alexandre Diop, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eva Beresin, Amoako Boafo, Cecily Brown, Jean Dubuffet, George Rouy, Iris Sageder, and Kennedy Yanko, among others.
