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Gathering works by Edgar Leciejewski and Oskar Rink, the exhibition turns the spotlight on the atelier as a site of creative production and on how artists work in their studios. The show’s title – Den ganzen Tag am Strand (transl.: All day at the beach) – alludes to the notion that to be an artist is to be unproductive. With pictures from Rink’s and Leciejewski’s studios, the exhibition prompts a discussion of the myth of the atelier.

In the 1960s, Guy Debord and the artists of the Situationist International circle praised idleness as a source of creative energy. Since then, the studio has …