--- title: "136 - Bits & Pieces, Beuys 11/18-12/23 1989" date: 2017-08-21T16:43:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/136-bits-pieces-beuys-11-18-12-23-1989" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ View With Images ](/artist_overview) Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A [ Arakawa ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) [ Conrad Atkinson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/conrad-atkinson) [ Eleanor Antin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [ Ida Applebroog ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/ida-applebroog-) [ Jim Anderson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jim-anderson-) B [ Alexander Brodsky ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) [ Brandon Ballengée ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [ Brodsky & Utkin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brodsky-utkin) [ Chris Burden ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/chris-burden-) [ Joseph Beuys ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) C [ Cassils ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [ Keith Cottingham ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/keith-cottingham) [ Nancy Chunn ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/nancy-chun) D [ Eric Dyer ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eric-dyer) [ Milena Dopitová ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/milena-dopitova) F [ Carl Fudge ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/carl-fudge) [ Terry Fox ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/terry-fox) G [ Leon Golub ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/leon-golub-) [ Rico Gatson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson) [ Yishay Garbasz ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/yishay-garbasz) H [ Cameron Hayes ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cameron-hayes) [ Christine Hill ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/christine-hill) [ Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [ Kelly Heaton ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kelly-heaton) [ Margaret Harrison ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/margaret-harrison) [ Shih Chieh Huang ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/shih-chieh-huang) J [ Simone Jones ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/simone-jones) K [ Brian Knep ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brian-knep) [ Komar & Melamid ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [ Peggy Jarrell Kaplan ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/peggy-jarrell-kaplan) [ Vitaly Komar ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) L [ Kim Levin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kim-levin-) M [ McCarren/Fine ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mccarren-fine) O [ Pepón Osorio ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/pep%C3%B3n-osorio) [ The Oakes Twins ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) P [ Bruce Pearson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) [ Panamarenko ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/panamarenko) R [ Fredric Riskin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Bits & Pieces [Joseph Beuys](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) Nov 17 – Dec 22, 1989 ![Beuys Butter Pots 1983 1](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/11465/Beuys-Butter-Pots-1983_1_180925_193737.jpg) Joseph Beuys Butter Pots, 1983 Description *Bits & Pieces* is the collection of works dating from 1957 –1986 assembled by Beuys for his friend and biographer, Caroline Tisdall. It consists of over 200 objects, drawings, and multiples intended to offer a microcosm of the artist's concerns, from nature and the evolutionary process, to the survival of the spirit, and the planet, in our own materialist times. Beuys' alchemy of materials is represented through fat, felt, iron, sulphur, hare's blood even stags, skulls. His struggles within the fields of education and politics are here, right through to his concern for the greening of our awareness and his own contribution of 7000 oaks to the reforestation of the planet. *Witches' Point* is a sequence of poems by Caroline Tisdall and photographs by another friend, and fellow conservationist. Paul van Vlissingen. Over a period of thirteen lunar months they paid tribute to the power and beauty of a small spit of constantly changing land in Loch Maree in the remotest northwest highlands of Scotland. As with Beuys, universal themes are constant – a shared sense of wonder at the vast time-scale of our planet, respect for its state of constant flux, and fear for its survival. "Nature's cycle spirals on and out," and the Celtic forms and legends loved by Beuys abound here too, along with the stag and the last remnants of the great oak forests. Caroline Tisdall, writer and filmmaker, worked with Beuys on many books, exhibitions, and the Free International University. It is exactly 10 years since the Beuys retrospective which she curated at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/exhbeu89_press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) ![Beuys Vitrine 1 Objects 102 Hat And Boots](/assets/exhibition_images/Beuys-Vitrine-1-Objects-102-Hat-and-boots_180925_193930.jpg) Joseph Beuys Vitrine #1, 1975-85 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Beuys Vitrine 1 Objects 102 Hat And Boots]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Joseph Beuys Vitrine #1, 1975-85 ![Beuys Vitrine 2 Objects 3 11 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Joseph Beuys Vitrine #2, 1957-85 ![Beuys Wood Vitrine 3 Objects 12 22]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Joseph Beuys Wood Vitrine #3 ![Beuys Wood Vitrine 16 Multiples 132 159 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Joseph Beuys Wood Vitrine #16, 1957-85 ![Beuys Wood Vitrine 17 Multiples 160 185 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Joseph Beuys Wood Vitrine #17, 1957 - 85 ![Beuys Wood Vitrine 18 Multimples 186 207 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Joseph Beuys Wood Vitrine #18, 1957-85 ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 1 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Beuys-Bits-Pieces-installation-view-1-1989_1.JPG) Bits & Pieces, 1989 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 1 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 2 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 3 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 4 1989 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 1 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Beuys-Bits-Pieces-installation-view-1-1989_1.JPG) ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 2 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Beuys-Bits-Pieces-installation-view-2-1989_1.JPG) ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 3 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Beuys-Bits-Pieces-installation-view-3-1989_1.JPG) ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 4 1989 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Beuys-Bits-Pieces-installation-view-4-1989_1.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 1 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 2 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 3 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view ![Beuys Bits Pieces Installation View 4 1989 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bits & Pieces, 1989 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture. Sign up to receive email updates [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Artists](/artist_overview) [Press & News](/news_overview) [Contact](/contact) [About](/about) [Privacy Policy](https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/41599251) [Cookie Policy](https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/41599251/cookie-policy) [ADA Compliance Statement](https://dashboard.accessibe.com/statement?license=619a6a548dbc2f0444ae1886) 31 Mercer Street New York, NY 10013 Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 6:00pm Exhibition Viewing Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, Saturday 1:00pm - 5:00pm phone [212-226-3232](tel:212-226-3232) [ ![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [ ![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [ ![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo_footer.svg) ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo_footer_phone.svg)Copyright © 2026 Ronald Feldman Gallery