Contemporary Art Gallery
The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) is an exhibition house for contemporary art and a museum for art after 1945 in Leipzig .
history
The support group of the GfZK was founded at the end of 1990 on the initiative of the art historian Klaus Werner with the support of the culture group of the German economy in the Federation of German Industry (BDI) and aims to promote national and international contemporary art .
Initially, from 1991 exhibitions were held in other rooms. The gallery was given its own exhibition space in 1998.
On May 16 of that year, the gallery opened its own house in Leipzig's music district not far from the Academy of Graphics and Book Art (HGB). The exhibition rooms are located in the former Herfurt villa of newspaper publisher Edgar Herfurth , which was redesigned by Peter Kulka from 1996 to 1998 and expanded with a cube-shaped extension , built in 1894. In addition to the exhibition rooms, the villa also houses a publicly accessible library with literature on relevant topics (around 30,000 volumes ). The former coach house belonging to the villa was supplemented with the addition of a studio house designed by Peter Kulka.
On November 28, 2004 a new exhibition hall (GfZK-2) designed by as-if berlinwien was opened, which considerably expands the exhibition area. The functional low-rise building, which also houses the museum café, is designed to be flexible thanks to a novel spatial concept with movable partition walls. The inexpensive construction attracted as much attention in the German architecture scene as the renovation project of the Herfurth'schen Villa, which was awarded the 1999 architecture prize of the city of Leipzig. The GfZK-2 also received this award in 2005.
Today the museum is supported by a foundation consisting of the Free State of Saxony , the City of Leipzig and the GfZK sponsorship group. One of the museum's most important donors is the entrepreneur (including Schwartauer Werke ) and art patron Arend Oetker , who finances a substantial part of the operation of the house.
Collection and exhibitions
The spectrum of works shown in the GfZK ranges from paintings , graphics , photographs , collages and sculptures to installations as well as video and media art . The core of the museum's own collection consists of a part of the collection of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI and was supplemented by private donations , purchases by the GfZK support group and permanent loans. Numerous temporary exhibitions and other cross-exhibition projects deal, among other things, with the social role of art and aesthetics , the legacy of the GDR and art from Eastern and Southeastern Europe in an international context.
- 2013: Hands on Urbanism 1850-2012. The right to green . Catalog.
literature
- Elke Krasny (Ed.): Hands on Urbanism 1850-2012. From the right to green , Turia + Kant publishing house, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85132-677-2 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 2 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 55" E