Berlinische Galerie

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Berlinische Galerie
State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Foundation under public law
Berlinische Galerie on Alte Jakobstrasse, January 2005

Berlinische Galerie on Alte Jakobstrasse , January 2005

Data
place Berlin-Kreuzberg
Construction year 1965
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '12.2 "  N , 13 ° 23' 54.4"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '12.2 "  N , 13 ° 23' 54.4"  E

The Berlinische Galerie (State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Foundation under Public Law) is an exhibition building on Alte Jakobstrasse in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin . The museum has been collecting art in Berlin since 1870 with a regional and international focus. The collection consists of fine arts, photography, architecture, graphics and artist archives. The director of the museum has been the art historian Thomas Köhler , until then deputy director, as the successor to Jörn Merkert , since September 2010 .

history

The gallery was founded in 1975 as an association to present art created in Berlin. In the first few years she resided in an office in Charlottenburg , and exhibitions were shown in the Academy of Arts and the New National Gallery , among others . In 1978 the gallery moved to the Landwehr casino in Jebensstrasse at the Zoo station and in 1986 to the Martin-Gropius-Bau .

After the reunification of Berlin in 1990, the collection became a foundation under public law in 1994 and used rooms in the Martin-Gropius-Bau . The sponsoring association later became the Förderverein Berlinische Galerie e. V. In 1998 the collection had to move due to renovation and renovation work on the house in Niederkirchnerstrasse.

After years without a domicile, the company opened its own house on October 22, 2004 in a converted industrial hall with 4600 m² of exhibition space on Alte Jakobstrasse. The renovation of the hall, built in 1965, took a year; originally there was a glass warehouse there. In the neighboring building which is still glazier trade taught.

In front of the museum building there is a metal sculpture by the sculptor couple Matschinsky-Denninghoff . In addition, for reasons of space, there is a public sculpture park in the streets around the museum called Art - City - Space .

Due to building security problems on the roof, the Berlinische Galerie had to temporarily close to the public for a few weeks in May 2019, announced the responsible state-owned Berlin Immobilienmanagement GmbH (BIM) on April 30, 2019. The investigations and necessary construction work should be completed by May 14th, so that it can reopen on May 15th, 2019.

Exhibitions

The permanent exhibition and special exhibitions are shown on two levels. In addition, there is a lecture hall, an archive, a library, a study room, a café, a museum shop and an art school for children and adults.

On the upper floor, the gallery presents a selection of the masterpieces from its collection in chronological order, updated through discoveries and new acquisitions. The focus is on Dada Berlin , the New Objectivity and Eastern European avant-garde . The gallery also shows the art of divided and reunited Berlin.

The special exhibition program on the ground floor ranges from classic modern art to contemporary art in Berlin. It is supplemented by a series of events with films, concerts, artist talks, curator tours and lectures.

The oldest works in the holdings date from 1870. In the visual arts , the museum's collection includes works from the Berlin Secession ( Max Liebermann , Lovis Corinth , Franz Skarbina , Hans Baluschek ), New Objectivity and Expressionism ( Otto Dix , George Grosz , Hannah Höch ) and paintings by Georg Baselitz , works by Wolf Vostell , Ursula Sax and the Junge Wilden , as well as contemporary installations . There is also the large graphic collection (around 15,000 works), photographs and architectural models .

Special exhibitions

  • 2010/2011: Nan Goldin : Berlin Work. Photographs 1984–2009
  • 2010/2011: Susanne Kriemann : GASAG Art Prize 2010
  • 2010/2011: Arno Fischer : Photographs 1953–2006 . Hannah Höch Prize 2010
  • 2011/2012: Eva Besnyö : photographer 1910–2003. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam
  • 2011/2012: J. Mayer H .: RAPPORT. Experimental spatial structure
  • 2011/2012: 12 × 12. The IBB video lounge in the Berlinische Galerie
  • 2011/2012: Friedrich Seidenstücker : Photographs 1925–1958
  • 2012: Boris Mikhailov : Time is out of joint. Photographs 1966–2011
  • 2012: From the collection: Streets and Faces 1918–1933
  • 2012: Michael Sailstorfer : Forst. Vattenfall Contemporary 2012
  • 2012: Manifesto Collage . The About Change, Collection visits the Berlinische Galerie
  • 2012/2013: Closed Society - Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949–1989
  • 2012/2013: Tue Greenfort : GASAG Art Prize 2012
  • 2013: Vattenfall Contemporary: Katja Strunz - Torque (A lot of time, little space) , April 26 to September 2, 2013
  • 2013: Tobias Zielony : Jenny Jenny , June 21 to September 30, 2013
  • 2013/2014: 12 × 12 The IBB video lounge in the Berlinische Galerie , June 5, 2013 to May 5, 2014
  • 2013/2014: Ari Benjamin Meyers: Chamber Music (Vestibule)
  • 2014: Dorothy Iannone : This Sweetness Outside of Time. Paintings, objects, books 1959–2014
  • 2014/2015: Nik Nowak: GASAG Art Prize 2014
  • since May 29, 2015: Collection presentation : Art in Berlin 1880–1980
  • 2015: Bernhard Martin : Fred Thieler Prize 2015
  • 2015: Björn Dahlem : Mare Lunaris
  • 2015: Radically modern. Planning and building in Berlin in the 1960s
  • 2015/2016: Brandlhuber + Hertweck, Mayfried: The dialogic City: Berlin becomes Berlin
  • 2015/2016: I don't know a weekend. From Rene Block's archive and collection
  • 2016: DADA Africa. Dialogue with the foreign (a cooperation with the Museum Rietberg in Zurich), catalog.
  • 2016: Heidi Specker - In Front of Photographs 2005/2015
  • 2016: Erwin Wurm
  • 2017: John Bock . In the Moloch of the essential presence
  • 2017: Christine Streuli . Fred Thieler Prize 2017
  • 2017: The photographed distance. Traveling Photographers (1880–2015)
  • 2017: Monica Bonvicini 3612.54 M³ VS 0.05 M³
  • 2017: Cyrill Lachauer . What Do You Want Here
  • 2017/2018: Jeanne Mammen (curator Annelie Lütgens)
  • 2019: Lotte Laserstein (curator Annelie Lütges)
  • 2019: realities: united - conclusion
  • 2019: André Kirchner. Outskirts of Berlin

Art awards

GASAG art award

The GASAG Art Prize has been awarded in cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie since 2010 . Every two years the award recognizes an "artistic position at the interface of art, science and technology". The GASAG Art Prize is endowed with around 10,000 euros and includes an art purchase of 5000 euros (as of 2018).

Award winners

Vattenfall Contemporary

The Vattenfall Contemporary Prize is the successor to the Vattenfall Energy Art Prize , which has been awarded annually since 1992. In 2009 Vattenfall Europe realigned the art award together with the Berlinische Galerie. In addition to painting and drawing, it has since been awarded for media art, performance and sculpture to internationally renowned artists who live and work in Berlin. The price includes an exhibition in the Berlinische Galerie, the production of a catalog and the purchase of a work for the Vattenfall Collection . The previous winners are Julian Rosefeldt (2010) and Angela Bulloch (2011). In 2012 the award went to Michael Sailstorfer . In 2013 the price was discontinued. The last winner was Katja Strunz (2013).

Hannah Höch Prize

Since 1996, the cultural administration of the Berlin Senate has awarded the Hannah Höch Prize for outstanding artistic life's work. The target group of the award are visual artists who have reached their 60th year of life and whose life and work focus is shaped by Berlin. The decisive factor for the selection is a continuously high-quality artistic achievement that has not yet been publicly recognized. The award winners are selected by the Fine Arts Funding Committee of the Berlin Senate's cultural administration, although it is not possible to apply for the award.

The prize money is 15,000 euros. The award is linked to an artistic project or an exhibition as well as a catalog. If possible, these are carried out by the Berlinische Galerie Foundation, the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation , the Kupferstichkabinett or the Neue Berliner Kunstverein . The award ceremony takes place based on Hannah Höch's birthday in November of the respective year.

Fred Thieler Prize for Painting

The Fred Thieler Prize is awarded to artists who, according to their own statement, have their life and creative focus in Germany and whose work sets standards in the development of contemporary art apart from current events. The award has been held since 1992 on March 17th, Fred Thieler's birthday, and has been awarded every two years since 2007, endowed with 10,000 euros.

literature

Web links

Commons : Berlinische Galerie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Köhler gives everything for the Berlinische Galerie. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 1, 2010.
  2. ↑ Berlinische Galerie website
  3. ↑ Static problems on the roof: Berlinische Galerie has to close for the time being , FAZ online, published and accessed May 1, 2019
  4. ^ Static problems of the Berlinsche Galerie unclear . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 10, 2019, p. 21.
  5. ↑ Passion for noise orgies . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 5, 2016, p. 13
  6. ↑ GASAG Art Prize. In: berlinischegalerie.de. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Do Greenfort. In: berlinischegalerie.de. Berlinische Galerie, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Nik Nowak. In: berlinischegalerie.de. Berlinische Galerie, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
  9. ^ Andreas Greiner, Agency of the Exponent. In: berlinischegalerie.de. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  10. ^ Julian Charrière, As We Used to Float. In: berlinischegalerie.de. Berlinische Galerie, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Press release: Marc Bauer receives the GASAG Art Prize 2020. October 23, 2019, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  12. ^ Exhibition preview Vattenfall Contemporary 2013 ( memento of April 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the Berlinische Galerie website, accessed on April 15, 2013.
  13. ^ Fred Thieler Prize. In: berlinischegalerie.de. Berlinische Galerie, accessed on October 6, 2019 .