Experimental
The Experimental is an international art exhibition . In 2018, the 20th Experimental will take place in four countries at six locations: Ulmerfeld Castle (Lower Austria), Randegg Castle (Konstanz district), Ruhestetten (Sigmaringen district), Bad Schussenried (Biberach district), Thayngen (Canton Schaffhausen), Strasbourg ( Alsace). A catalog book will be published in French and German.
history
The history of the experimental goes back to 1988 when, on the initiative of the gallery owner and art collector Titus Koch, among others, the first exhibition with international artists was shown in the municipality of Randegg on Lake Constance. The widespread approval among the artists and the great success with the public quickly made the decision to allow an annual experiment to take place from now on. In the following years the exhibition was presented in Randegg Castle. Initially this was done in eight rooms and the castle courtyard of the property, today there are eleven rooms, the chapel and the castle park.
Randegg Castle, inhabited by the Koch family since the 1920s, served Otto Dix as a place of refuge after he was banned from working. The doctor and art dealer Hans Koch, Titus Koch's grandfather, had already opened the “Graphische Kabinett von Bergh & Co.” in Düsseldorf in 1918 and exhibited artists such as Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger , Emil Nolde and Erich Heckel there .
Since 1998, the Experimental has taken place every two years. This biennale , established in the southwest German art scene, was and is appreciated by well-known artists. Thus involved Dieter Krieg and Felix Droese both with their works on the - Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale represented - on a regular basis at the Experimental. Time and again, among the meanwhile 70 participating artists are discoveries from all over the world such as Abderrazak Sahli from Tunis, Hideaki Yamanobe from Japan, Spencer Whittle from South Africa, Jacqui Colley from New Zealand or Joseph Shields from the USA. Rainer Braxmaier has been participating in the exhibition since 1994 .
Since 2002, the Swiss community of Thayngen and since 2006 the partner community of Randegg in Lower Austria have been added as additional exhibition locations for the experimental. What is special about this now four-country cooperation is that the exhibition does not move around, but takes place in parallel at all locations. This means that only those who travel to the named places can see the works of all artists.
In 2010, the Markdorf City Gallery was added as a further exhibition space at the same time .
A subsequent comprehensive exhibition in the large art hall of the Marburger Kunstverein showed works by the artists involved in 2010 and at the same time gave an overview of the entire development of the experimental.
In 2012, in addition to the four exhibition locations mentioned above, the experimental was also shown in the Neues Museum in Schussenried Abbey , a branch museum of the Württemberg State Museum . The patron in 2012 was District President Julian Würtenberger . In 2014, a French cultural institution was added in Erstein for the first time - as the sixth exhibition location . The patron in 2014 and again in 2016 was Peter Friedrich , Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg for European Affairs.
The Experimental is the only series of exhibitions held in 4 European countries. It is becoming increasingly important: at the opening of the exhibition in Austria in 2016, Dr. Josef Ostermayer, Federal Minister for Art and Culture, Constitution and Media. At the opening in Strasbourg, Minister a. D. Philippe Richert, President of the Regional Council Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine.
Web links
- Experimental on the website of Galerie Titus Koch
- [1] Text by Dr. Stefan Borchardt on the essence of the experimental
Individual evidence
- ↑ Funding Group for Culture and Local History Gottmadingen eV (Ed.), EXPERIMENTELLE 16 2010 , 2010. ISBN 9783981269222 (Introduction)