Taking its name from the main work on display, Backrest for a fine-limbed person (hare-type) of the 20th Century AD, the exhibition will present a selection of 40 works by Joseph Beuys, focusing on two major themes in his work. The first is linked to the body and the human figure, whilst the second is centred around the important symbolic role of animals in his visual and conceptual world. The exhibition will feature seminal works from the late 1940s and early 1950s, alongside a selection of important works on paper.