Stillleben: Helene Appel, Anders Clausen, Rodney Graham, Thomas Helbig, Lorena Herrera Rashid, Candida Höfer, Ma Ke, Karin Kneffel, Goshka Macuga, Thomas Ruff, Elif Saydam, Thomas Struth, Florian Süssmayr, Jeff Wall, Chen Wei, Susan Weil

The final exhibition in the gallery’s fiftieth-anniversary year, bringing together various works of artists it represents, is dedicated to the still life. Unmoving or inanimate objects have been the subject of art since the genesis of painting, long before nature morte was elevated to its own painterly discipline in the seventeenth century. But how does the still life fare today in contemporary art? Is transience still a significant issue?