BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Kunstkammer, an abundant exhibition of works on paper -- including drawings, prints, and photographs -- illustrating the richness and depth of the museum's collection. The exhibition, which is on view in the museum's Theater Gallery, runs through October 14, 2007.

Kunstkammer is based on the idea behind some of the earliest museums, which originated in Europe during the Renaissance. Typically, a Kunstkammer contained a varied assortment of scientific, natural, and manmade curiosities. Among the most famous Kunstkammern were those established in Denmark and Russia, known for the size and uniqueness of their collections.

The exhibition Kunstkammer is an opportunity for visitors to sample the wide variety of works on paper in BAM/PFA's collection. The works included in the exhibition span four hundred years and many countries, and illustrate a range of different printing styles, including lithograph, etching, engraving, silkscreen, woodcut, and linoleum cut, as well as black and white and color photography, drawing, and watercolor painting. The works are hung "salon" style -- one above the other on the wall, in thematic arrangements that blend styles and periods.

Eighty-nine artists are represented in the exhibition, including many important international names, such as Albrecht Dürer, Paul Gauguin, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, André Derain, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Pablo Picasso, Eva Hesse, and Paul Klee. American artists include Tom Marioni, Louise Bourgeois, Jay DeFeo, Brice Marden, Joe Brainard, Jim Dine, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Constance Chang.