Art & Music: Fostering Creativity

Challenging the status quo, seeking new perspectives, taking a different view and starting afresh are qualities of many well-known artists: Their inspirations are fueled by enormous creative energy.

We support this energy with our commitment to the visual arts and music. A cornerstone of our art commitment is the Deutsche Bank Collection, which – through the continuous acquisition of artworks from young artists over the past 30 years – has evolved into one of the world’s largest and most important corporate art collections. In addition to further developing the collection, we show our commitment to art and music through longstanding partnerships with partners such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin and the Berliner Philharmoniker.

For decades, Deutsche Bank has promoted promising young artists and, at the same time, has given a broad audience access to experience art and music. In this way, we encourage people to try something new and broaden their horizon.

Highlights Art
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    Cai Guo-Qiang (*1957), Head On, Installation View Singapore 2010

    (c) Cai Guo Qiang

    Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On

    July 2 – August 30, 2010 | Singapore

    Head On, a major work by chinese-born contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qian, which had his debut at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin in 2006, will be exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore from July 2. The show includes the eponymous installation, where replicas of 99 life-sized wolves, run fearlessly and collide one after another into a glass wall. more

  • Deutsche Bank presents Wangechi Mutu, Artist of the Year 2010, at WIELS, Brussels

    June 25 to September 12, 2010 │ Artspace WIELS | Brussels

    Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2010 Wangechi Mutu created a spectacular installation with My Dirty Little Heaven. After its premiere at the Deutsche Guggenheim, her exhibit now travels to Brussels, where it will be presented from June 25 to September 12 at WIELS. In addition to the installation, around 40 paintings, collages and videos will provide insight into Wangechi Mutu’s fascinating oeuvre. The artist was born in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya and now lives in New York. more

  • Vergrößern

    Amar Kanwar (b. 1964), The Face (from The Torn First Pages), 2005 Digital color video with sound, 4 min., 40 sec.

    © Amar Kanwar and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/ Paris

    Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India

    June 26 - October 10, 2010 | Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

    The 52nd exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim presents video and film art from India. more

  • Main sponsor of Create 10 festival

    June 19 - August 2010 | London

    Deutsche Bank supports CREATE10, an international multi-arts festival in the five host boroughs for the 2012 Olympic Games. more

  • Vergrößern

    Cai Guo-Qiang, Inopportune: Stage One (2004)

    Copyright: Ben Symons

    Deutsche Bank is the Education partner of the 17th Art Biennale

    May 12 - August 1, 2010 | Sydney

    This new partnership allows us to bring together two pillars of our CSR-program. more

Highlights Music
  • Vergrößern

    Amazonas Music Theater in three Pieces, World-Premiere Munich Biennale, May 2010

    Copyright: Regine Körner

    „Amazonas Music Theater in three Pieces“

    May - October 2010 | Munich, Rotterdam, São Paulo, Lisbon. World premiere on May 8, 2010 at the 12 Munich Biennale

    A bird’s cry echoes through the room, trees rustle in the wind and water splashes. These could be dream sequences of a shaman. The enthusiastic audience attending the premiere at the "Müncher Reithalle" feels moved into the fascinating world of the Amazon. more

Selected Art Events

July 02, 2010 - August 30, 2010 | National Museum Singapore

Cai Guo-Qiang: Head on

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June 26, 2010 - October 10, 2010 | Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin

Being Singular Plural - Moving Images from India.

May 15, 2010 - October 06, 2010 | Guggenheim Museum, New York

Julie Mehretu - Grey Area

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June 25, 2010 - September 12, 2010 | WIELS - Brussels

Wangechi Mutu - My Dirty Little Heaven

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August 22, 2010 - November 03, 2010 | Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

Beuys and Beyond - Teaching as art

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Selected Music Events

May 08, 2010 | Munich Biennale

Premiere of Amazonas – Music Theatre in three parts. Further performances: South America première on July 21, 2010 in Sao Paulo. Portugal première on 04 October 2010 in Lisbon

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July 10, 2010 - July 18, 2010 | Passau

Festival European Weeks Passau

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July 13, 2010 - July 25, 2010 | Herrenchiemsee, Chiemsee

Festival Herrenchiemsee

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At a glance

  • 130,000 visitors came to Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin last year. The highlight was the “ Grey Area” exhibition by Ethiopian-born artist Julie Mehretu.
  • 4,000 listeners tuned into the live broadcast of the Berliner Philharmoniker opening concert 2009 on the Deutsche Bank website.
  • 80 years since Deutsche Bank initiatiated the Villa Romana fellowship in 1929 - by far our longest-standing commitment to art.
Last Update: 12.7.2010
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