Society for Art and Design
The Society for Art and Design (gkg) is a non-profit association of artists, architects, designers and citizens in Bonn .
Goal setting
The purpose of the association is to develop, carry out and promote activities in the field of art and design at local, national and international level. In keeping with the corresponding traditions since the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the association is dedicated to general cultural-political issues, but in particular issues relating to the shaping of the human environment through urban development , architecture , design and environmental protection . According to the founding statute of 1982, artistic and creative endeavors since 1945 with constructive, concrete and rational aspects are to be taken into account.
history
The origins of the Society for Art and Design lie in the activities of the gallery owner Hajo Schütze, who saw his Galerie Schütze in Bad Godesberg, founded in 1961, as a forum for artists, architects, psychologists and sociologists. This working group should discuss the penetration of all areas of life with art in the sense of constructivism and implement corresponding projects. Although Schützes death ended the initiative in 1967, other projects developed from the gallery area.
In 1971, artists joined forces in Bonn to form a national “Working Group for Constructive Design”. In the same year, the Bonn artist and art promoter Marianne Pitzen founded the Circulus gallery, which also showed concrete art . In 1982, some people interested in art founded the Society for Art and Design as an exhibition and discussion forum and documentation center for specific forms of art and design. At the same time, Marianne Pitzen handed over the rooms of the Circulus gallery, which had been managed from an economic point of view, to the newly founded "Society", which began its exhibition on September 15, 1983 with an exhibition on prints by Leo Breuer .
Since the beginning of 1987, the company has been based in rooms on August-Macke-Platz at Bonner Hochstadenring 22-24 in the immediate vicinity of the Bonner Kunstverein and the Artists' Forum.
Andreas Denk has been chairman of the association since 2015 .
Exhibitions
2015
- City of Spaces. Models and interdisciplinary considerations on the spaces of the city
- Lea Letzel and Nicola Schudy: raumspiel for two - space appropriation (one)
- Nancy Macko and Siegfried Cremer : System and Arbitrariness
- 88 keys - Conlon Nancarrow and the self-playing piano - room appropriation (two)
- Andreas Brandolini , Michael Growe , Isabel Hamm, Interface, Jan Kath, Aurélie Mathigot and Daniel Tschannen: furniture in mimicry
2016
- Sophie Diener, Svetlana Holz: Build them a home - a living concept for the integration of refugees
- Heinz Emigholz : rough cut dieste, architecture as autobiography - appropriation of space (three)
- The Parliament of Things - space appropriation (four)
- Oliver Kruse: work, work, work, work
- Rozbeh Asmani : Occupied colors
- Şakir Gökçebağ: Objectations
2017
- Circular. A magazine for art, design and the environment (1975–1983)
- Videonale 16 - Festival for video and time-based art forms
- Haus-Rucker-Co and O&O Baukunst : BONNERBODEN - 4 buildings for Bonn
- Annett Zinsmeister : Searching for Identity
- Gesine Grundmann: 0-0
- Uwe Schröder: Monolith. Collages and models
- Up-to-date: A calendar for 2016 in pictures, words and sounds
literature
- Society for Art and Design (Ed.): 30 years gkg. 1982-2012. Catalog, conception: Susannah Cremer-Bermbach and Dorothea Löchte, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-040906-6 .
- Andreas Denk, Uwe Schröder (Ed.): City of Spaces: Interdisciplinary Considerations on Spaces of the City. Wasmuth-Verlag, Tübingen / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8030-0915-9 .
- Society for Art and Design (Ed.): On the Spot: Nicola Schudy. Texts: Kay von Keitz, Renate Puvogel . Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-485-4 .