Visitors looking for the web address of the Hamburg Art Association will note that it has claimed for itself the domain “Kunstverein.de”; arriving at the web site, they will read the description “The Art Association since 1817”.More ...
Before the rise of the middle class, the possession of art was the domain of the aristocracy and the Church; art was commissioned art and served the purposes of magnifying prestige.More ...
Since their inception, art associations have had an interest in contemporary art, though “contemporary” here in no way always means that the art is thoroughly new and current.More ...
In three decades, the Grässlin family in St. Georgen has amassed contemporary artworks. To exhibit their work-blocks, a concept has been devised that involves the entire local community.More ...
Many private art collectors like to display their holdings in their own buildings. But recent examples show that their interest in cooperation with public museums is growing.More ...
Never before have there been so many private collectors making extensive acquisitions of contemporary art. Are they the real key figures of a global art business?More ...
In the Ritter Collection everything is about the square. The works are on display in a museum in Swabian Waldenbuch – a museum with, of course, a quadratic layout.More ...
With a sure instinct for new, largely undiscovered talent, Wilhelm Schürmann and his wife Gaby have been collecting contemporary art for nearly thirty years.More ...
Julia Stoschek started collecting videos only as recently as 2004. In the meantime her collection has grown to about 400 videos. In Düsseldorf she has remodeled a closed-down building of a picture-frame company into an exhibition space.More ...
In just fifteen years of intense collecting, art collector, jurist and businessman Harald Falckenberg has gathered together approximately 2,000 works of international contemporary art.More ...
The Pinakothek der Moderne (i.e. museum of modern art) located in Munich’s museum area, is now intelligently supplemented with contemporary art.More ...
It is more than twenty years since photo giant Agfa handed over its history of photography collection to the city of Cologne on permanent loan. The collections represent one of the most important collections of photographs in Germany.More ...
The “collector that buys works which personally jar and engage him creates, through his collection, a new total work of art”, says Ingvild Goetz, collector, curator, and former gallerist.More ...
New York architect Richard Meier has created a private museum for the entrepreneur and patron Frieder Burda that conveys the harmony of spacious villa architecture.More ...
Since mid-2012, Kunstverein St. Pauli has been on tour – its motto being “anyone who stays behind will get left behind”. This is how the association intends to avoid its own institutionalization.More ...
The Edith Ruß House for Media Art in Oldenburg enjoys a special reputation internationally as well as locally. It is no ordinary success story.More ...
The Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig Cotton Mill) has become a legendary arts centre. But it is not a new phenomenon for abandoned industrial buildings to be re-used for commercial art – be it in New York, London, Moscow or Beijing. Is Leipzig a unique recipe for success?More ...
“Kunst und Öffentlichkeit” (Art and Publicity: 40 Years of the n.b.k.) – the anniversary exhibition of the Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k) has a vivid history to tell.More ...
Berlin is regarded as a Mecca for contemporary artists. While it serves as an excellent “atelier” for individual artists, however, the scope for institutional exhibitions is comparatively limited. This is a gap which the Berlin Temporary Art Gallery intends to help fill by taking up residence for the next two years on Berlin’s Schlossplatz and presenting contemporary art.More ...
Art is often to be seen in public places in Germany as well as in museums. But there is only one place in this country near Düsseldorf, where art and nature are in almost perfect harmony.More ...
At the open call for the 7th Berlin Biennale, artists were asked for their political views, curator Artur Żmijewski explains why. And we start an open call for the open call and ask you for your opinions!
