Beckers Böll artist museum

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Kunsthaus Rhenania in the Rheinauhafen Cologne

The KünstlerMuseum Beckers ° Böll is a museum in Cologne and Aachen . In Cologne it is currently in Cologne without public spaces and was therefore set up in René Böll's studio. The artists' museum in Aachen is housed in a listed building at Ludwigsallee 79, diagonally opposite the Aachen Marienturm .

history

Günther Beckers and René Böll founded their artists' museum in Cologne and Aachen in 2006. These were supplemented by a virtual presentation area on the Internet and an art magazine for aesthetics .

The KünstlerMuseum in Cologne has its headquarters in the Kunsthaus Rhenania . An artists' cabinet was connected in 2008 and 2009 for guests and colleagues. In the immediate vicinity was the information pavilion of the Rheinauhafen, which was opened in 2008 by the Federal Minister of Health Ulla Schmidt for further presentation purposes and which could be used in cooperation with the port company during this time. A planned new building at this point was not realized. After that, with the south cellar and the showroom of the Kunsthaus Rhenania, more than 600 square meters of exhibition space were available to the KünstlerMuseum in 2009 and 2010. All considerations to set it up internationally in cooperation with the port company and the city of Cologne failed. A last exhibition of museum furniture by Eero Aarnio took place in October 2010.

Beckers ° Böll art museum in Aachen

The artists' museum in Aachen is part of the Free Art House project , which Günther Beckers has been running since 1979 and has been using as an exhibition forum since 1992. From 2003 to 2005 he headed the Kunsthaus as an artist museum, which René Böll joined as a partner from 2005 to 2010. After his departure, Beckers initially cooperated with a newly formed museum society and an affiliated association. This included the director of the Danish National Museum Karsten Ohrt, Christine M. Merkel from the UNESCO Commission in Bonn , Gabriele Uelsberg from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and Annette Lagler from the Ludwig Forum for International Art as founding members. The integrated studio now serves as a studio and recording studio and is built into the conception of the respective presentations.

Since 2011, there has also been a dialogue with the genre of the masterpiece in art, for example with the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald , Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez and the picture The Origin of the World, both thematically and in terms of content and with regard to the FarbFlügelBilder by Günther Beckers by Gustave Courbet .

cooperation

Both houses are run in a cooperating artist friendship with a voluntary museum society in order to deal with the renewal and preservation of artistic disciplines, with artistic attitude and with art-philosophical questions and their adequate communication from the artist's point of view. In addition to the exhibition of a single work, another focus is on the presentation of a total art space, in particular the combination of several artistic disciplines, such as painting, music or poetry. In addition, there is cooperation with internationally important artists and also with younger artists.

In 2008, an Academy of Artists was proclaimed as an independent academy for art, aesthetics and transcultural communication at the Artists' Museum and an attempt was made to establish it. In the artistic sector, the disciplines renewed by the two artists form the core theme of the material to be conveyed. In the art-philosophical sector, René Böll's close relationship to Asian aesthetics and the document on human aesthetics, as a treatise on the dignity of man as a being of beauty, of meaningful, sensual perception, form the core area of ​​Günther Beckers. Cooperations with Tongjie University in Shanghai and the Jinan Art Academy are being established.

Exhibitions

The first years of the exhibition ran under the title Fanum - Profanum . This was the attempt at a transcultural approach to various art-historical topics from different epochs and cultures in order to consciously integrate the art-historical comparison in connection with tradition. One of the main exhibitions in the various exhibition hideaways was the Cologne Manifestos , which artists around the world were able to add to the state of art and culture from their point of view.

Other presentations in the form of solo and group exhibitions included Nine9 / 11Eleven - The 4 Plains by Günther Beckers 2008, Aquila with Irish artists from Achill Island, who were closely associated with Böll Cottage , Understanding with the Heart - wordlessly , with eleven Chinese Artists, including Gu Gan and with a special show of joint works by René Böll and Gu Gan zu Hölderlin 2009. Furthermore, Tribute to Bacon , Günther Beckers and the exhibition Ein Bild, a Stuhl with works by Beckers, Böll and Eero Aarnio 2010. In 2011, the exhibition From the Aachen Archive: Eugen Schönebeck took place in Aachen and another one with works on paper and oil paintings by the late painter Werner Manke, a companion of Georg Baselitz and Schönebeck.

Collegial cooperation supplements the exhibition program, such as with the Berlin painter Schönebeck, the painter Jacobo Borges, who lives in New York , or the Chinese painter Gu Gan. Numerous colleagues from other disciplines are integrated into the work, such as the American guitarist Alex de Grassi , the organist, harpsichordist and pianist Stefan Palm or the Chinese Guzheng player Xu Fengxia and many others.

Presenting works of art from the artist's point of view and making a contribution with regard to a selection of works of art is one of the main concerns of the KünstlerMuseum.

collaboration

There is cooperation with:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.kuenstlermuseum-guentherbeckers.eu/über-uns/