It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for the first time-from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand-tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer's oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a 'freewheeling artist'. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musee Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer's life's work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Therese Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.

Two things resonate in Tom Nagy's photographic portraits of icebergs and Antarctic landscapes: the untameable, irrepressible energies of nature and the fragility of its jagged shapes, which are minimalistic and narrative, static and mobile, majestic and delicate all at the same time. Nagy's photographs enable us to experience this ephemeral nature becoming a picture and thus prevent them from vanishing for good. In his portraits of icebergs, they become ephemeral sculptures, which drift in the solitary silence of the Antarctic waters like artworks, to then ultimately dissolve completely. From the perspective of the photographer, the Antarctic landscape encourages us to contemplate the cycle of life and to sense our own impermanence. Text in English and German.

From 1963 onwards, Mel Ramos (1935-2018), one of the first Pop Art artists, developed his focus on provocative and seductive imagery. Echoing the aesthetic of magazines and advertisements, he positioned female bodies atop consumer goods in various erotic - at times almost vulgar - poses. By referencing and showcasing them in this way, Ramos exposed the marketing strategies employed in the advertising industry. This new catalogue presents around 70 works on paper dating from every phase and series of his oeuvre and conveys the artist’s graphic conquest of the picture surface, as well as his meticulous composition. The preliminary sketches are shown alongside the final large-scale oil paintings with their typical Pop Art colour palette. Text in English and German. 

"Beauty and the Beast" offers a provocative juxtaposition of California-based Pop artist Mel Ramos (born 1935) and German graphic artist Richard Muller (1874-1954). Ramos famously juxtaposes immaculate, self-assured women with consumer goods, while Muller portrays unreserved, naturalistic nudes.

German artist Sabine Mohr (born 1956) creates installations, objects and works for public spaces and the theater on the theme of metamorphosis. "Alchemical Explorations" is Mohr's first monograph, presenting a cross-section of her work alongside texts by art historians.

Jazz clubs, cocktail bars, circuses and magic shows pervade the erotically charged paintings of British Pop artist Allen Jones (born 1937). Jones developed an aesthetic centered on the eroticism of glossy magazines, advertisements and cartoons. These latest paintings continue Jones' pursuit of eroticism, and feature images of entwined dancers and lovers, surging with palpable energy and seductive color, caught up in the dance of eros that is Jones' Nietzschean vision of human vitality.