Deichtorhallen

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View of the Hall for Current Art (2005)
View of the south hall with the House of Photography (1999)
View of the south hall (2011)
View of the north and west side of the Deichtorhallen (2013)

The Deichtorhallen Hamburg in Hamburg's old town are one of the largest exhibition halls for contemporary art and photography in Europe. The two historic halls with their open steel-glass architecture were built between 1911 and 1913. The Hall for Current Art and the House of Photography are supplemented by a branch in Hamburg-Harburg with the Falckenberg Collection . The director of the Deichtorhallen is the art historian Dirk Luckow .

history

Between 1911 and 1914, the Deichtorhallen were built as market halls on the site of the former Berlin train station , the Hamburg counterpart to the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin . They represent one of the few surviving examples of industrial architecture from the transition period from Art Nouveau to the expressions of the 20th century. The two halls are open steel constructions: the northern hall is a three-aisled long building with 3800 m², the southern hall (1800 m²) has a central structure Lantern .

The Deichtorhallen were restored by the Körber Foundation and are owned by the City of Hamburg. In 1989 they were handed over to Deichtorhallen-Ausstellung GmbH. On November 9, 1989 with the exhibition opened obviousness of Harald Szeemann , the international art exhibition program of the halls.

Dirk Luckow has been director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg since 2009 , which he runs together with the commercial director Bert Antonius Kaufmann.

Hall for current art

In the northern Deichtorhalle, contemporary artistic positions are presented in major projects. Solo exhibitions by painters, sculptors and designers with an international reputation are in the foreground. The projects are mostly developed site-specifically in close cooperation with the artists.

Since 1989, more than 160 large exhibitions have been shown. In addition to extensive monographic exhibitions by well-known artists such as Andy Warhol , Martin Kippenberger or Louise Bourgeois , younger artists are also presented in large exhibitions, such as Andreas Gursky , Jason Rhoades (1999) or Jonathan Meese (2006). In addition, themed and group exhibitions as well as large international art collections such as the Julia Stoschek Collection (2010) are shown.

There are also regular exhibitions with a programmatic proximity of culture and everyday life as well as cultural-historical topics that are consciously aimed at a broad audience. The director of the Deichtorhallen Dirk Luckow is responsible for the program of the hall for contemporary art .

House of Photography

With the House of Photography in the southern building of the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg received an exhibition center with two large photographic collections in 2005: the FC Gundlach Collection . The Haus der Photographie shows international temporary exhibitions on photography, from works from the 19th and 20th centuries to contemporary young photographers and aspects of the digital revolution.

The House of Photography was largely designed by FC Gundlach , the founding director and artistic director of the House of Photography from 2003 to 2005. He also curated the opening exhibition Martin Munkácsi : Think While You Shoot! (2005). Gundlach has not been the company's program director since 2006, but is still a member of the supervisory board. The conversion of the southern Deichtorhalle to the House of Photography was carried out from 2004 to 2005 by the Hamburg architect Jan Störmer .

Gundlach Collection

The core pieces of the House of Photography are the FC Gundlach Collection - a collection in the fields of fashion photography and artistic photography - and the image archive of the news magazine Der Spiegel. Both collections were created in Hamburg and thanks to the investment in the exhibition technology, the architecture and the conservation conditions of the Haus der Photographie, they could be kept in Hamburg as long-term permanent loans.

In his function as founding director of the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Gundlach made his private collection available to the house in 2003 as a permanent loan for a period of 20 years. The aim of the house is to present the collection and the thematic complexes inherent in it to a broad audience. In addition to photographic work, since the mid-1980s Gundlach has also been interested in numerous works by visual artists who dealt with the medium of photography in their work. Since 2003 numerous exhibitions have been put together from the collection, including "A Clear Vision" (2003), "The Heartbeat of Fashion" (2006), "American Beauties" (2007) and " Nobuyoshi Araki . Silent Wishes" (2010) .

Falckenberg Collection

The Falckenberg Collection has been in the Phoenix Halls in Hamburg-Harburg since 2001. In 2007 the lawyer and entrepreneur Harald Falckenberg bought one of the buildings and had it converted into an exhibition house for his collection by the Berlin architect Roger Bundschuh.

Since the opening in May 2008, 28 exhibitions with artists such as Paul Thek , Jon Kessler and Robert Wilson have been shown there, as well as themed exhibitions and presentations from the collection. The rooms make it possible to show larger installations and multimedia projects by artists such as John Bock , General Idea , Thomas Hirschhorn , Mike Kelley , Jon Kessler, Jonathan Meese and Gregor Schneider .

Since January 2011, the Falckenberg Collection has been part of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg GmbH and is operated by the latter under the name "Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Falckenberg Collection". The exhibition concept of the Falckenberg Collection is to be continued and supplemented with new aspects.

The collection includes around 2000 works of contemporary art. Her focus is on German and American contemporary art from the past 30 years. It offers an overview of this development of contemporary art, which is committed to the model of “counter culture”, a counter and youth culture. Important artists are represented with groups of works.

Important exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Deichtorhallen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodore Roszak: The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-52020122-4

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 47 "  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 23"  E