Edvard Munch in Dialogue, Exhibition, Albertina Museum, Vienna: 18 February-19 June 2022

The exhibition Munch and Beyond presents 60 masterpieces by Edvard Munch (1863-1944), as well as works by 20th century great names such as Andy Warhol and Georg Baselitz, and modern artists such as Marlene Dumas, Peter Doig, Miriam Cahn and Tracey Emin.

Munch's deeply pessimistic and melancholic worldview, characterised by the ultimate isolation of the human being, continues to shape our understanding of his work. However, his experiments with printing techniques and colour, which helped shape the history of painting and are still reflected in contemporary art practices, have proved as influential as such iconic works such as The Scream and Madonna.

Munch and Beyond focuses primarily on Munch's later production and its relevance. Apart from direct variations on individual works, as in Andy Warhol's After Munch series, the focus is also on artists who have taken up Munch's expanded, experimental and modernist notion of painting or who have transformed his themes and motifs.

This exhibition follows on from the 2003 and 2015 Munch record exhibitions at the ALBERTINA Museum and is supported by the Munch Museet and the National Museum Of Art, Architecture, and Design (Oslo) as well as many other international institutions and private collections.