Chinati Foundation

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The Chinati Foundation is an artist museum in Marfa , Texas, which is primarily dedicated to the work of its founder, the North American minimalist Donald Judd . Judd founded this in 1987 with the help of the New York Dia Art Foundation as a private foundation on the now publicly accessible site of a former military fort. It covers an area of ​​140 hectares with more than 30 barracks from the former ammunition depots and aircraft hangars.

The initiative goes back to a cooperation between Judd and the co-founder of the Dia Art Foundation, Philippa de Ménil, the daughter of John and Dominique de Ménil , who had to emigrate from Paris to Houston in 1940 after the occupation of France. In 1973, after Judd moved from New York to Marfa, he realized his ideas about architecture and art in a unique landscape, in the middle of the desert, surrounded by the Chinati Mountains. Following his intention, the museum permanently exhibits, in addition to the works of its founder, large-scale installations by a limited number of artists. These include: John Chamberlain , Dan Flavin , Richard Long , Claes Oldenburg ,David Rabinowitch and John Wesley .

The special Artists-in-Residence program gives artists from all over the world the opportunity to develop and exhibit their work in a spacious and stimulating environment.

After Judd's death between 1994 and 2010, the director of the museum was his German partner, Marianne Stockebrand . In 2011 the former director of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Thomas Kellein, took over the management. However, Kellein resigned in May 2012 after only 15 months in office. Jenny Moore has been head of the Chinati Foundation since 2014.

literature

  • Marianne Stockebrand (Ed.): Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd . Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut) 2010.
    • German: Marianne Stockebrand (Ed.): CHINATI. The Museum of Donald Judd , DuMont, Cologne 2010 ISBN 978-3-8321-9330-0

Web links

Commons : Chinati Foundation  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Agresta: Miracle in the Desert. Texas Monthly, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Anti-New York in the Texas Desert . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 29./30. January 2011, p. 14.
  3. ^ Bilbao in Texas.
  4. ↑ Thomas Kellein turns his back on Texas. nw-news.de of May 3, 2012. Retrieved on May 3, 2012.
  5. ^ Brian Boucher: Jenny Moore Named Executive Director Of The Chinati Foundation. In: Art in America. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .

Coordinates: 30 ° 17 '50 "  N , 104 ° 1' 40"  W.