Between 1937 and 1944, Willi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer and the architect and artist Franz Krause worked for the Wuppertal-based paint manufacturer Dr. Kurt Herberts & Co. on research into painting techniques. As part of the so-called 'Wuppertaler Arbeitskreis' (Wuppertal Working Group), the artists explored the possibilities for surface design using lacquers, producing hundreds of test panels in the process, not all of which have survived. Around 160 of these panels now form the centrepiece of the exhibition at Waldfrieden Sculpture Park. On the grounds of the former villa of the paint manufacturer Kurt Herberts, the works thus return to the Wuppertal setting in which they were created, at the intersection of art, research and experimentation.

Mit New Works präsentiert Tony Cragg eine Auswahl aktueller Skulpturen aus Holz und Stein und gibt einen Einblick in die neuesten Entwicklungen seines bildhauerischen Schaffens.