H2 - Center for Contemporary Art
The H2 - Center for Contemporary Art is Augsburg's municipal museum for contemporary art . It was opened on May 23, 2006 in the Glaspalast Augsburg .
The H2 is both a temporary exhibition hall and an experimental space. The exhibition rooms with 2000 m² of exhibition space are shaped by the character of the industrial building, a former spinning and weaving mill . The museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the State Gallery of Modern Art , the Augsburg branch of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich .
In addition to exhibitions, temporary installations , guided tours, concerts and film screenings, the center offers a public library on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, an art library operated by the Society for Contemporary Art , and educational museum offers. There is also the New Art Collection of the Augsburg Art Collections and Museums , which is regularly made accessible with temporary exhibitions.
The H2 - Center for Contemporary Art is run by Dr. Thomas Elsen - deputy head of the art collections and museums Augsburg, curator and also head of the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus , curated and directed.
The museum opened in 2006 with a presentation of the contemporary collection of the Augsburg museums with works by Tony Cragg , Rupprecht Geiger , Christian Hörl , Christopher Koch, reception hall , Maik and Dirk Löbbert , Leta Peer , Tobias Rehberger , Felix Weinold, Klaus Zöttl and others.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Art collections and museums Augsburg: The New Art Collection IX. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 10 ° 55 ′ 10.7 ″ E