Bucerius Art Forum
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an international exhibition house in Hamburg supported by the Zeit Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius . It was opened in 2002 and shows four exhibitions a year with works of art on subjects from antiquity to the present.
Location and architecture
The Bucerius Kunst Forum was opened in 2002 in a former bank building on Hamburg's Rathausmarkt on the corner of Alten Wall . Initially located on the ground floor and basement, the rooms were expanded to include the first floor in 2008. The representative, listed building was constructed from 1914 for the Reichsbank headquarters in Hamburg. The building is part of a large complex that stretches along the town hall and the Hamburg Stock Exchange ( Chamber of Commerce ) on one side and the Alsterfleet with town hall lock on the other from the town hall market to the Adolphsbrücke . With the major renovation of this building complex on Alten Wall, which began in 2016, the opportunity arose for the Bucerius Kunst Forum to move into new rooms within the wing of the building. Because of the large number of visitors, which has risen sharply over the years, with around 200,000 visitors a year and three to four events per week, the spatial capacities at the previous location had reached a limit.
The Bucerius Kunst Forum has been located at Alten Wall 12 since June 2019 - just a few meters from the old location and directly opposite the inner courtyard of the town hall. Behind a historical facade , four completely redesigned floors for the arts have been created according to plans by the architects Gerkan, Marg and Partner . The cash register and information desk as well as the Bucerius Book Shop are located on the ground floor. The exhibition hall of the new Bucerius Kunst Forum extends over one level on the first floor and can be used as a whole or divided into small cabinets. For events such as concerts, readings, discussions, lectures or poetry slams, an auditorium and atrium have been created on the second floor. A glass atelier at Fleethhöhe offers space for creative work. The new building can be accessed in three ways: over the old wall, over a new canal bridge, which connects the new wall through the Bucerius Passage to the old wall for pedestrians, and over the underground car park under the building with direct access to the Bucerius Passage .
Exhibitions
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an international exhibition house that shows four exhibitions a year with works of art on topics from antiquity to the present day. The house has committed itself to alternating between monographic, thematic and cross-epoch exhibitions. The focused exhibition concepts form artistic connections and relationships between epochs and disciplines and build bridges between old and new art. Known content is systematically questioned and examined for its current relevance. The works on display come on loan from museums such as MoMA , the Louvre , Tate , the Städel Museum and the Prado . They are questioned with a new thesis and viewed from a specific point of view - an exhibition on the work of Henri Matisse, for example, brought together his portraits for the first time, the exhibition on Frida Kahlo was for the first time dedicated to the connections between Mexican and European art Pablo Picasso first illuminated the window as a central motif in all of the artist's creative periods.
So far, u. a. Artists like Max Beckmann , Marc Chagall , Lucas Cranach , Otto Dix , Alberto Giacometti , Frida Kahlo , Oskar Kokoschka , Henri Matisse , Joan Miró , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Max Pechstein , Pablo Picasso , Gerhard Richter , Auguste Rodin and the artist community Die Brücke honored in monographic exhibitions. Thematic exhibitions were devoted to French painting, New York photography, Pompeian wall paintings, Venice as the city of artists, and the element of water in painting and photography.
The exhibition concepts are created by the scientific department of the Bucerius Art Forum and in collaboration with internationally renowned art historians as guest curators.
All exhibitions are accompanied by an extensive catalog with scientific articles and illustrations of the exhibited works. Most of the catalogs are published by Hirmer Verlag .
The exhibition house attracts an average of around 200,000 visitors a year. The most successful shows were Frida Kahlo (2006) with 190,000 and Marc Chagall . Lebenslinien (2010) with 130,000, as well as Picasso . Window to the World (2016) with 115,000 visitors, William Turner . Painter of Modernism (2011) with around 110,000 visitors and Modern Life. Edward Hopper and his time (2009) with over 100,000 visitors. The one millionth visitor to the house was welcomed in spring 2008.
Events
In addition to exhibitions, the Bucerius Kunst Forum offers an interdisciplinary and extensive program of events. An auditorium with an adjoining atrium is located on a separate floor for events on the second floor. Discussions, lectures, concerts, readings, conversations or poetry slams shed light on the subject of the respective exhibition from the perspective of the various arts.
In addition to the exhibition-related events, the house is also a forum for topics from the art and culture funding area of the ZEIT Foundation and for cooperation partners.
Bucerius Art Club
The Bucerius Kunst Club, founded at the end of 2002, is the non-profit association of the Bucerius Kunst Forum. The club supports the work of the Bucerius Art Forum through membership fees, donations and voluntary work. The club sponsors a selected exhibition at the Bucerius Kunst Forum at regular intervals. It also finances the position of the research assistant and the program for children, adolescents and their families. The friends' association also enables the lecture program for the exhibitions through financial support. The approximately 4,000 members of the association receive free entry to the exhibitions, exhibition catalogs as well as invitations to the openings and previews and can take part in a wide range of exclusive events.
The Young Members of the Bucerius Kunst Club have existed since 2018. This membership is aimed at young people up to 36 years of age.
Sponsorship, legal form and financing
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an institution of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH. The foundation is the sole shareholder and finances the Bucerius Kunst Forum from the proceeds of its foundation assets to around 60 percent. The rest is made up of tickets, catalog and postcard sales and rentals. The Bucerius Kunst Forum does not claim any state funds.
management
From 2007 to May 2019 Andreas Hoffmann was managing director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, and since June 2019 he has been the sole managing director of the exhibition house. Kathrin Baumstark took over artistic direction in June 2019 from her predecessor Franz Wilhelm Kaiser , who was director from June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2019. Ortrud Westheider was director from 2005 to 2016 , taking over the office from founding director Heinz Spielmann , who managed the house until 2005.
Web links
- Website
- Bucerius Art Club
- Literature on the Bucerius Kunst Forum in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Bucerius Kunst Forum: High-level exhibitions on Alten Wall , Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on January 2, 2019
- ↑ New building behind a historical facade: Bucerius Kunst Forum by gmp in Hamburg Baunetz, June 7, 2019
- ↑ Annette Stiekele: The Bucerius Kunst Forum has a new boss , Hamburger Abendblatt , June 7, 2019
Coordinates: 53 ° 33'2.5 " N , 9 ° 59'27.7" E