Gallery Stihl Waiblingen

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Gallery Stihl Waiblingen

The municipal gallery Stihl Waiblingen is an exhibition house that opened in May 2008 and specializes in works on or made of paper. There are three changing exhibitions per year. Together with the Unteres Remstal art school in the immediate vicinity, the gallery forms a cultural center in Waiblingen between the historic city wall and the banks of the Rems . The gallery u. a. through a 425-strong group of friends called “Freunde Galerie Stihl Waiblingen”.

architecture

The city gallery opened in 2008. The name of the gallery honors a generous donation from the Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation, which made the construction of the gallery possible, and at the same time refers to the sponsor of the institution, the city of Waiblingen. The Stuttgart architect Hartwig N. Schneider designed the two new buildings directly on the Rems and was awarded the Galvanizing Prize 2011 and the Hugo-Häring State Prize 2012. A homogeneous skin made of translucent industrial glass surrounds the two buildings, which enter into a spatial dialogue with one another. In terms of urban planning, they are positioned in such a way that they are only separated from one another by an alley. The Lower Remstal art school is housed in the smaller building, while the larger building houses the exhibits from the Stihl Waiblingen municipal gallery. When it is dark, light from the gallery penetrates outside through its walls. The workshop character, the proximity to an industrial suitability for everyday use and their robustness are emphasized in both buildings. Inside you walk over gray magnesite screed and look at walls and ceilings made of exposed concrete.

Another new building completes the ensemble of buildings in the immediate vicinity, where the old chopper mill used to stand. The gallery café disegno , which opened in August 2009, and the administration of the gallery are located under a large gable roof corresponding to the roofs of the old town . The architecture is also from the Stuttgart office Hartwig N. Schneider.

Pavilion for Waiblingen

Olafur Eliasson: Pavilion for Waiblingen, 2009

Since July 2009 the art ensemble on the Rems has been supplemented by a sculpture by the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson thanks to a donation from the Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation . The pavilion for Waiblingen picks up on the theme of water (Rems) and the industrial-looking architecture of the art school and gallery and thus meets the artist's main theme: "The dialogue between nature and art" - the search for the physical laws in nature and theirs hidden relationships with the artificial, man-made environment.

Exhibition concept

The municipal gallery Stihl Waiblingen focuses on exhibiting works on paper. There are three changing exhibitions annually.

The exhibition spectrum is divided into the following three areas:

  • Classic works on paper from the past to the present. These are works on paper that are viewed as an autonomous work of art. These can be elaborate drawings , prints , watercolors or collages , such as Turner's mezzotin inks or Rembrandt's etchings, which were shown in the gallery in the opening year.
  • Working on paper as a means of mass communication. This is understood to mean works that are reproduced using mass production techniques, such as caricatures , picture stories, comics , picture sheets and posters . Popular cultural, subcultural and commercial aspects also play an important role here.
  • Applied drawing from architecture, design and technology. These can be construction drawings , drafts by the industrial designer , fashion drawings or construction drawings. Above all, the aesthetic value and the creative process of this medium should be emphasized.

Exhibitions

  • La bohème. Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre . January 26th to April 22nd, 2019.
  • Graphic novels . Current German comic novels . September 28, 2018 to January 6, 2019
  • Dior , Lacroix , Gaultier . Haute couture on paper . May 19 to August 12, 2018
  • Sharp cut. From paper cutting to paper cutting . January 27 to April 22, 2018
  • Christoph Niemann . Modern Times . September 23, 2017 to January 7, 2018
  • The line is thought - the fascination of drawing. June 3 to August 27, 2017.
  • Lyonel Feininger . Between the worlds. February 17 to May 14, 2017.
  • Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely . Furious posters. November 5, 2016 to January 22, 2017.
  • Siegrun Appelt . Remembered light. September 17 to October 7, 2016.
  • COLLAGE! DÉCOLLAGE !!. June 4th to August 28th, 2016.
  • GOYA . Grotesque and Carnival. January 30th to May 1st, 2016.
  • sifted through and looked at it! The Domberger Collection from Baumeister to Polke . October 3, 2015 to January 6, 2016.
  • Mirror of the soul. Romantic landscape drawings . May 14th to August 23rd, 2015.
  • Picasso - The Artistic Process. January 31 to April 26, 2015.
  • Paper "Art" - In the field of tension between body and space. September 13, 2014 to January 6, 2015.
  • Peasants, dancers, lovers - images of people from the Dürer era. May 3, 2014 to July 27, 2014.
  • Loriot : Late harvest. January 25, 2014 to April 21, 2014.
  • Beyond the postcard. The Alps in photography. October 12, 2013 to January 6, 2014.
  • Georg Baselitz . Broken romantic. May 17, 2013 to August 25, 2013.
  • Pap (i) er fashion - pop. Avant-garde. Asiatic. January 26, 2013 to April 21, 2013.
  • Emil Nolde - Painter Graphics. September 29, 2012 to January 6, 2013.
  • Samurai , stage stars and beautiful women. Japanese woodblock prints by Kunisada and Kuniyoshi . June 23 to September 9, 2012.
  • New realities - photo graphics from Warhol to Havekost . February 18 to May 17, 2012.
  • Albrecht Dürer - genius brand role model. October 22, 2011 to January 22, 2012.
  • Imagination to power. Political artist posters from Kollwitz to Rauschenberg . July 8th to September 25th 2011.
  • Stone print art. From the beginnings of lithography to Baumeister and Sonderborg until today. March 25 to June 19, 2011.
  • Set up. Life in cardboard. November 25, 2010 to February 27, 2011.
  • FK guard . Satirical art. July 2nd to October 3rd, 2010.
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Experience the Mountains. March 26 to June 13, 2010.
  • The fascination of architectural drawing - rooms and dreams. November 13, 2009 to February 7, 2010.
  • John Cage . Art = life. June 14th to September 20th, 2009.
  • Picture stories. From Wilhelm Busch to Robert Gernhardt . January 30th to May 3rd, 2009.
  • Impressed by Rembrandt . Rembrandt and the 19th century English painter's erasers. September 30, 2008 to January 11, 2009.
  • Travel with William Turner . JM William Turner: The Liber Studiorum. May 30th to September 7th, 2008.

Picture gallery

  • Gallery Stihl Waiblingen

  • Eliasson: Pavilion for Waiblingen

  • Lower Remstal Art School

  • Café disegno

literature

  • ten years. The book for the anniversary . Ed .: Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Waiblingen 2018.
  • Philip Jodidio: Architecture Today! Museums. Cologne 2010, pp. 328–335.
  • Paul Andreas: Galerie Stihl Waiblingen and Art School Unteres Remstal. In: German Architecture Yearbook 2009/10, Munich 2009, pp. 92–95.
  • Museums in Baden-Württemberg. Ed .: State Office for Museum Care Baden-Württemberg and Museum Association Baden-Württemberg e. V., Stuttgart 2009, p. 478 f.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 2.2 ″  E