Art exhibition

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Poster for an art exhibition at the Munich Secession

An art exhibition is the temporary presentation of paintings , graphics , photographs or sculptures by individual artists, artist groups or entire art epochs in public museums , art halls , art associations or private galleries , sometimes on special occasions (birthdays, anniversaries). A distinction is made between retrospectives , solo and group exhibitions as well as themed and overview shows. An art exhibition usually opens with a vernissage and in individual cases ends with a finissage.

history

France (17th / 18th century)

Art exhibitions in the modern sense arose at art academies, with the Paris Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture playing a pioneering role. Under pressure from Minister Colbert , who is responsible for absolutist representation , the members of the Académie first organized irregular art presentations (paintings, sculptures, prints) in the Louvre in April 1667 . From the 1730s onwards, the exhibitions were held regularly every two years in the Salon carré in the Louvre, attracting a large number of visitors. (The term salons for the exhibitions is derived from this, as can also be found in Denis Diderot's art criticism .) Admission was free and the public was made up of large parts of the Parisian urban population. In addition to these academic exhibitions, traditional public art presentations were important in the context of religious festivals and processions , particularly the exhibitions on Place Dauphine on Corpus Christi day . Due to the growing importance of institutionalized art exhibitions, they were increasingly used by professional artists from the late 17th century onwards. While only members were allowed to exhibit at the Académie, there were no restrictions on participation at Place Dauphine, so they were important for female artists.

20th century

In addition to the Venice Biennale , the most important exhibition of contemporary art is the " documenta ", founded by Arnold Bode in 1955 and held every five years in Kassel , where the world's outstanding artists and art trends are presented. The Venice Biennale , which takes place every two years and where art is presented in pavilions in individual countries, has a similar significance . Pioneering exhibitions on contemporary art were also the shows “A New Spirit in Painting” ( London , Royal Academy of Arts , 1981), “Zeitgeist” ( Berlin , Martin Gropius Bau , 1982) and “Metropolis” (Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau , 1991) ). Art exhibitions are mostly accompanied by extensive catalogs in which the works presented are listed, illustrated and - in the case of museum exhibitions - explained by scientifically developed texts.

See also

literature

  • Aurelia Bertron / Ulrich Schwarz / Claudia Frey: designs / Designing Exhibitions - Compendium for Architects, Designers and Museologists / A Compendium for Architects, Designers and Museum Professionals , (German / English), Birkhäuser, Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3 -7643-7207-1
  • Thomas E. Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris. Yale University Press, New Haven 1985
  • Francis Haskell: The Ephemeral Museum. Old Masters Paintings and the Rise of the Arts Exhibition . Yale University Press, New Haven 2000
  • Eva Kernbauer: The audience's place. Models for the art public in the 18th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2011 - ISBN 978-3412205553
  • Georg Friedrich Koch: The art exhibition. Your story from the beginning to the end of the 18th century. De Gruyter, Berlin 1967
  • Harald Kimpel: documenta, Myth and Reality , Cologne 1997
  • Harald Kimpel: Documenta. The overview. Five decades of world art exhibition in keywords . Dumont, Cologne 2002 - ISBN 3-8321-5948-7
  • Bernd Klüser / Katharina Hegewisch: The art of the exhibition. A documentation of thirty exemplary art exhibitions of this century . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Ingo Maas / Astrid Kehsler: Organizing art exhibitions - The great guide from AZ , GKS-Verlag, Bad Honnef 2009, ISBN 978-3-9808298-5-4
  • Wolfger Pöhlmann: Handbook on exhibition practice from A to Z. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-1692-9 .
  • Ulrich Schwarz / Philipp Teufel (ed.): Museography and exhibition design , handbook , avedition, Ludwigsburg 2001, ISBN 3-929638-43-6
  • Martin Schieder: Expansion / Integration. The art exhibitions of the French occupation in post-war Germany , Munich 2003, ISBN 3422064141

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the chronology of the exhibitions, cf. Eva Kernbauer: The audience's place. Models for the art public in the 18th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, pp. 39–51.
  2. ↑ See Thomas E. Crow: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris. Yale University Press, New Haven 1985.
  3. ^ Georg Friedrich Koch: The art exhibition. Your story from the beginning to the end of the 18th century. De Gruyter, Berlin 1967, pp. 169-171. More detailed: Kernbauer (see above), pp. 113–121 and pp. 255–267.

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