Show Time initially awakens thoughts of glittering entertainment, shiny surfaces, and fancy stunts - a world that does not really belong in a museum. But here the title is associated with something more literal: time being shown to us. In Sabine Gross's (*1961) exhibition at the Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte Saarbrucken, archaeological finds meet contemporary art for the first time. As a professor of sculpture, Gross has specialised for many years in this type of confrontation, practising a kind of "archaeology of the future" in which she presents recent significant works of art as potential archaeological objects. Published to accompany an exhibition Sabine Gross. Show Time - Eine Archaologie der Zukunft, which runs from 11 December 2020-7 November 2021 at Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte, Saarbrucken, Germany. Text in English and German.

Quite apart from her position as the wife and model of Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967) shone as an artist and was, like Käthe Kollwitz, one of the few women members of the Berlin Secession. This bibliophile monograph is dedicated to the highly gifted, successful and unfairly neglected artist and presents an impressive synopsis of her oeuvre. Berend-Corinth pursued a remarkable career with ultra-modern, radical subjects in the Berlin of the 1910s and 1920s until her Jewish descent compelled her to leave Germany and to emigrate to the United States. Her early work, in which she captured the permissive mood of the Berlin art and theatre scene during the 1910s and 1920s, represents one main area of focus, as do the later portraits of famous personalities of her time and some of her remarkable self-portraits, still lifes and landscape pictures.

Claire Morgan’s (*1980) sculptures shake up our notion of a world neatly separated into nature and culture. She allows nature to break into the context of art by creating minimalist arrangements of plastic bits, seeds, and corpses. The artist uses taxidermy animals to fracture this supposed geometrical clarity, intermingling the artificial and the constructed with life and death. With her spaces and eco-poetic sculptures, Morgan creates a refuge for nature as still life, deftly bringing us closer to the endangered beauty and fragility of her fauna. Text in English and German.