The artist collective Chicks on Speed (CoS), founded in Munich in the mid-1990s by Alex Murray-Leslie, Kiki Moorse, and Melissa Logan, is known for its transgressive, interdisciplinary work in which performance, music, and fashion merge into a form of Gesamtkunstwerk.

Contemporary art interferes: The works and actions in the exhibition Beat the System! Provocation in Art feature socio-critical, social, and political elements. 

Today, music produces social relationships that no longer require any proprietorship. However, it still cannot operate independently of the system without itself being part of a powerful logic of commercialism.

Christoph Schlingensief investigated political and social conditions in his work, on the basis of a wide variety of media, and thus followed the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk: Music, film, performance, theater, stage design – everything was artistically intertwined, complemented each other and was mutually dependent.

Cornelia Schleime joined a subversive art scene that opposed the doctrine of socialist realism in the GDR already during her studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1975-1980).

Hardcore, punk, and subculture are terms that are associated with the person, but also with the art of Raymond Pettibon. He has been active in the context of the Californian underground scene since the 1980s, and has designed self-published booklets, concert flyers, and record covers.

Large black and white photographs are mounted behind metal plates. Who are these women and what is the title of the series about?

The work Lehrauftrag from 2000 is the result of a cooperation between the artist Christian Jankowski, RWTH Aachen University and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.