Institute for contemporary art in Saarland

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Institute for current art in Saarland at the Saar College of Fine Arts
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founding 1993
place Saarlouis
state Saarland
country Germany
director Jo Enzweiler
Website www.institut-aktuelle-kunst.de

The Institute for Current Art in Saarland at the Saar College of Fine Arts was founded in 1993 on the initiative of Jo Enzweiler . It is supported by a support association . The purpose of the institute is to promote artists as well as to convey art. To this end, the institute collects and archives data on artists and the art scene in Saarland . The prepared information material is made available by the institute via various media. In addition to publishing in print media , this is done through exhibitions, lectures, discussions, art education projects, interdisciplinary workshops and symposia . In addition, the institute conceives, supervises and documents artistic competitions. The institute places particular emphasis on the preparation of catalog raisonnés of artists and the inventory of works of art in public space that were created in Saarland after 1945. Information is made available to the public via two internet dictionaries on art and artists in Saarland and the Greater Region.

laboratory

Drawing about the enlargement of the workrooms of the Peace Laboratory in Ravelin I in Saarlouis, colored hand drawing from 1872 (Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin)
Reduit by Ravelin 1 or laboratory built in 1821, colored hand drawing from 1827 (Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin)
Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, laboratory building, exterior until 2014
Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, laboratory building after the trees were felled and extensive residential and commercial buildings were built on the site of the former Yildiz factory

The Institute for Contemporary Art is based in a former laboratory, the oldest still preserved fortress in Saarlouis from the royal Prussian era. The building, which was originally used to manufacture gunpowder for the artillery , is being made available to the institute free of charge by the district town of Saarlouis. The laboratory building was erected in 1821 as a low, massive reduit building in the triangular Ravelin 1. Here were detonators , ammunition , signal fire and artillery fireworks manufactured. In the event of war, the vault building could also be used as an independent defense structure and was covered with an earth roof. While the building on the field side was originally protected against enemy fire by earthen walls, on the fortress side crenellated walls with rifle loopholes secured a retreat between the building and the main moat for the fortress defense. The reduit building had storage sheds for wood and other required materials for the manufacture of gunpowder, as well as its own latrines for the military personnel working there. An underground powder store was located in the Ravelinwall. In 1833 the grassy Erddach was a verschiefertes gable roof replaced. The area was connected to the fortress city of Saarlouis by a moat bridge with an inlet lock (batardeau). In the direction of the old river bed of the Saar, the garrison laundry facilities were located in the immediate vicinity . After the fortress was abandoned in 1889 as a result of the annexation of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , the laboratory was used as a storage room. The plans for the redesign of the former fortress area were provided by the Cologne building officer and town planner Josef Stübben . In the 1890s, the trench between the laboratory and downtown Saarlouis was filled in and the ramparts removed.

In 1929 the company "Jyldis, Turkish tobacco and cigarette factory Hugo Sternheimer, owner John Sternheimer" settled on the area surrounding the laboratory. The laboratory building was converted for residential purposes and was used as a residential building for four families until the 1950s. When the National Socialists came to power in Saarland in 1935 , the Sternheimer family had to emigrate and their Saarlouis company was "Aryanised" . It was not until 1947 that the Sternheimer family was able to take over production in Saarlouis again. To manufacture the packs for their cigarettes , the Sternheimer family founded the Astra factory in Saarlouis in 1922. The tobacco production was stopped in 1985. The Astra-Werke continued to work as a cardboard box manufacturer for other customers. The laboratory building was acquired by the Astra-Werke in 1954. During the construction of a workshop, the laboratory lost its northern yokes . Thus the building was only approx. 20 m long and approx. 11 m wide. The eaves height is approx. 4 m. In 1986, the district town of Saarlouis acquired the run-down building from the owners of the Astra-Werke for a symbolic price of one DM and then had it renovated with the help of the urban development program of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Saarland. The renovation measures had to be carried out without knowledge of the architectural drawings of the building, which at that time were still undeveloped in the Central State Archives of the GDR in Merseburg .

After the factory halls of the former Astra factory were demolished in 2014, residential and commercial buildings were built on the site in 2015 and an additional, larger new building for the Institute for Contemporary Art is currently under construction. On March 5, 2017, the additional institute rooms were officially inaugurated. The new building houses a Schaulager for artists' bequests, a study room with library , an art library and exhibition rooms.

  • Library

  • Work rooms in the laboratory

  • Schaulager

  • Schaulager

  • Exhibition hall

  • Art library

Support association

On the initiative of Jo Enzweiler and Richard Nospers , the then mayor of the district town of Saarlouis, a society to promote the Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland was founded as a registered association in 1992 by representatives of various institutions in Saarlouis Town Hall .

Art Lexicon Saar

The Saar Art Lexicon is a research project of the Institute for Current Art in Saarland at the Saar College of Fine Arts, which has been available on the Internet since November 2006 . The articles bring together scientific research results on the various areas of the visual arts in Saarland. The lexicon is to be expanded further in the future and thus document the development of the art history of the Saarland and enable further research. In the initial phase, the focus of the lexicon was on the subject area covered by the work of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland. Both work results that are already available in book form are digitized and previously unpublished or new results are added. In addition to contemporary art, which has emerged since the end of the Second World War, art that was created before 1945 is increasingly to be researched and presented scientifically. The larger cultural areas of their origin should also be included in the analysis and the interactions with the neighboring regions of the Saarland should be taken into account. The Saar Art Lexicon takes into account the special nature of the historical, political and cultural development of the Saarland. The development of the Saarland as an independent political and cultural unit began after the First World War , when the economic region around the central reaches of the Saar was separated from the political unity of the German Empire and administered by the League of Nations . In the area of ​​tension between the neighboring states of France and Germany , an independent art and culture management developed in the territorial borders of the Saar area (1920-1935), which was continued through the renewed separation of the Saarland from the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War (1945 / 47–1957 / 59) was promoted within the framework of the semi-autonomous Saar state. In today's federal state of Saarland , this political and cultural development remains visible and is one of the essential features that characterize the state in the public perception within the Federal Republic of Germany as well as within that of the European greater region Saar-Lor-Lux - Rhineland-Palatinate - Wallonia - French and German-speaking Community of Belgium .

Artist Lexicon Saar

The Institute for Contemporary Art provides information on biography , selection of works and the artistic classification of visual artists, architects and designers through the "Saar Artists' Dictionary" . Literature for further topic research is also given. So far, around 350 people have been selected from the large number of Saarland artists for the lexicon , who have shaped and continue to shape the Saar landscape in their work and teaching. Like the Saar Art Dictionary, the Saar Artists' Dictionary takes account of the special nature of the cultural development of the Saarland.

Library

Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, laboratory building, interior, catalog library and archive

The Institute for Current Art in Saarland has a collection of 3,000 art volumes from the library of church historian Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach on the subjects of art theory , architecture , painting , sculpture and handicrafts from antiquity to the present day and a collection of 4,000 exhibition catalogs and There are publications on art in Saarland. Until the opening of the new library building behind the laboratory in March 2017, large parts of the library holdings were provisionally in the premises of the Saarlouis art museum Haus Ludwig .

archive

The archive of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland contains information on more than 3500 artists, 3200 works of art in public spaces and over 4000 exhibitions. The archive material is available for research purposes. The information is summarized in dossiers that contain catalogs, texts, photos , compact discs , videos , press reports, invitations and posters . The institute's photo collection includes more than 8,000 black and white and color photographs , slides and digital photographs , mainly of art in public spaces. Since 1993, more than 20,000 newspaper reports on artists and the art scene in Saarland have been archived.

Art yards

  • Art courtyard in the entrance area

  • Wall lettering in the Kunsthof

  • Corten steel plastic

  • Stainless steel plastic

  • Wooden sculptures

  • engraved stone stele

The side courtyards and the forecourt of the laboratory are used as exhibition space for current art. Since May 2010 there is a permanent exhibition with works by Eugen Gomringer , Leo Kornbrust , Sigurd Rompza , Ewerdt Hilgemann , Horst Linn , Paul Schneider , Thomas Wojciechowicz, Wolfgang Nestler , Nina Jäger, Jan Meyer-Rogge and Jo Enzweiler under the title "Kunsthöfe im Ravelin I "see.

Awards

On October 25, 2016, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland was awarded the Saarland Monument Preservation Prize from the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Saarland and the Saarland Chamber of Crafts for its journalistic contributions, in particular for its paper about the Saarbrücken Pingusson- Construction. Every three years, the prize is awarded to exemplary measures for the protection and maintenance of monuments in the Saarland.

Publications (selection)

  • Art in public space Saarland, Saarlouis district, Saarbrücken 2009.
  • György Lehoczky, 1901–1979, architecture, painting, art in public space, art in sacred space, book illustration, Saarbrücken 2010.
  • Saarlouis - City and Star / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, Saarbrücken 2011.
  • Art site Saardom Dillingen / Saar, Saarbrücken 2012.
  • Art in the State Parliament of Saarland, Saarbrücken 2013.
  • The catholic parish church St. Michael in Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2013.
  • The former French embassy in Saarbrücken by Georges-Henri Pingusson, Saarbrücken 2014.
  • City Hall Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2015.

literature

  • Oranna Dimmig and Michael Jähne: Laboratory, Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, Kunsthöfe im Ravelin I, Saarlouis, Saarbrücken 2011.
  • Oranna Dimmig: Saarlouis Stadt und Stern / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, ed. from. Roland Henz u. Jo Enzweiler, Saarbrücken 2011.
  • Open network, 20 years of laboratory, Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed. v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013.

Web links

Commons : Institute for contemporary art in Saarland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Jähne: 20 Years Institute for Current Art, in: Open Network, 20 Years Laboratory, Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed. v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013, pp. 20–25.
  2. ↑ Open network, 20 years laboratory, Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed. v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.institut-aktuelle-kunst.de/ , accessed on September 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ Oranna Dimmig: Saarlouis City and Star / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, ed. by Roland Henz u. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2011, pp. 88–95, pp. 126–129.
  5. ↑ Oranna Dimmig: The laboratory in Saarlouis - seat of the Institute for Contemporary Art, in: Open Network, 20 Years Laboratory, Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed . v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013, pp. 34–55.
  6. ↑ http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Tabakfabriken.htm , accessed on September 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ Oranna Dimmig: The laboratory in Saarlouis - seat of the Institute for Contemporary Art, in: Open Network, 20 Years Laboratory, Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed . v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 51.
  8. ↑ Johannes Werres: Article "The region's art heritage remains alive", "You can borrow art in the center", "Foundation of the Federal Association of Artists' Estates", Saarbrücker Zeitung, Dillinger Zeitung, March 6, 2017, p. C 1.
  9. ↑ Roland Henz: Society of Sponsors of the Institute for Current Art in Saarland, in: Open Network, 20 Years Laboratory, Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed. v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013, pp. 26–27.
  10. ↑ http://www.kunstlexikonsaar.de/nc/ , accessed on September 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ http://www.kuenstlerlexikonsaar.de/nc/ , accessed on September 24, 2015.
  12. ↑ Library ( Memento from November 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 24, 2015 at www.institut-aktuelle-kunst.de.
  13. ↑ Archive ( Memento from November 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 24, 2015 at www.institut-aktuelle-kunst.de.
  14. ↑ Oranna Dimmig: The laboratory in Saarlouis - seat of the Institute for Contemporary Art, in: Open Network, 20 Years Laboratory, Institute for Current Art in Saarland, Réseau ouvert, les 20 ans du Laboratorium, Institut d´art contemporain en Sarre, ed . v. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French by Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 51.
  15. ↑ Oranna Dimmig and Michael Jähne: Laboratory, Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, Kunsthöfe im Ravelin I, Saarlouis, Saarbrücken 2011.
  16. ↑ http://www.saarland.de/SID-136F06A3-57D9F967/217172.htm , accessed on December 2, 2016.