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* More than 121,000 visitors in three months

* Daimler Educational Program with 6,000 children from kindergartens and schools

* Exhibition of 130 works by artists from Albers to Warhol

Stuttgart, Germany, Feb 27, 2009 - In the past three months, more than 121,000 visitors have seen the exhibition “Is it tomorrow yet? – Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection (1926 – 2006)” at the Singapore Art Museum. This exhibition in the context of the world tour by the Daimler Art Collection was the first large overview of Western abstract art in dialogue with international contemporary art to be seen in Singapore.


An important element of the world tour is the Daimler Educational Program for children of kindergarten and school age. In advance of each exhibition, art historians, teachers and museum staff are trained by the Daimler Art Collection team in the preparation of museum tours suitable for children. With this training and the workbook “The ABC of the Daimler Art Collection,” which is provided to the children free of charge, Daimler AG is making a contribution to cultural education in the countries of the tour. In this way, 6,000 children were encouraged to take an interest in art in Singapore alone.

The exhibition included important works from various art movements ranging from modern art from southwest Germany to concrete art and constructivism. There were also works of art on the subject of the automobile as well as areas dedicated to readymade art and international media art. The most important artists included in the show were Josef Albers, Michael Heizer, Nam June Paik, Sylvie Fleury and Andy Warhol.

The worldwide tour of the Art Collection started in 2003 with 130 works in the Museum für Neue Kunst (Museum for New Art) in Karlsruhe, and since then has exhibited in Detroit, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Tokyo, São Paulo, Mallorca and Madrid.

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