In May and June, the museum will be showing an installation of blossoming beauty. Munich artist Daniel Bräg transforms the exhibition space into a landscape of branches with apple, pear and fruit blossoms, which are presented in large preserving jars and backlit in glass fridges.
The fruit tree has two highlights: the blossom and the fruit. But while the fruit is the result, the goal and the end point of the annual cycle, the blossom is still a promise, a stage in transition. But a special one: the blossoming tree is probably the most beautiful sight of the year. The blossoms are delicate, delicately coloured and fragrant. They attract not only our eyes, but above all buzzing insects. As beautiful as the flowers are, they are also fragile. Not all flowers end up as edible fruit. The artist has taken Faust's exclamation ‘Wait a moment, linger, you are so beautiful’ to heart and tried to preserve the blossoming branches. He cools them. In vain, the glasses change over the weeks, decomposition begins, but this process is also aesthetic.
The blossom symbolises spring, the reawakening of nature, the hope of a rich harvest. In the best case, the apple blossom becomes an apple. The apple, however, is associated with the fruit of knowledge, which led to the expulsion from paradise. In the Anthropocene, this fruit appears particularly bitter.
At the time of spring blossom, everything is still up in the air, everything is still possible.
Daniel Bräg's installation allows and entices us to marvel at the variety of blossoms, something we rarely do in everyday life.

Vita Daniel Bräg:
1964: born in Pfullendorf
1980-1983: Apprenticeship as a stonemason
1984-1992: Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, master student of Prof. Olaf Metzel
1989-1990: Guest studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt with Prof. Ulrich Rückriem
1992: Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
Since 1998: Member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund
2009-2012: Member of the Commission for Art in Buildings and Art in Public Space Quivid, Munich
2012: Theodore Randall International Chair (one semester professorship) at Alfred University, NY, USA
2022-2024: Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich