A selection of 73 seminal works (among which 49 are loaned from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark) by 31 prominent artists come into dialogue throughout the museum with 24 rarely or never seen paintings, woodcuts, and aquarelles by Franz Gertsch (1930-2022), helping to show how his work reflected in the art of his time. These paintings, works on paper, prints, and photographs illustrate the way Gertsch positioned himself towards movements such as Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Hard-Edge Painting, Shaped Canvas and Color Field Painting, as well as other artists in contemporary painting and photography. Selected artists include: Josef Albers, Mamma Andersson, Per Bak Jensen, Ross Bleckner, Chuck Close, Rineke Dijkstra, Peter Doig, Sam Francis, Andreas Gursky, Auguste Herbin, Shara Hughes, Asger Jorn, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ellsworth Kelly, Per Kirkeby, Konrad Klapheck, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Gerold Miller, Sigmar Polke, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, Qiu Shihua, Frank Stella, Thomas Struth, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, Troels Wörsel. | 
