Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg
The Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg was founded in 1967 as an information and documentation center for contemporary art in Germany. The main task is to maintain an archive for German and international contemporary art. In addition, the institute is dedicated to evaluating and communicating the collected materials through the conception and realization of exhibitions and the issuing of publications.
Archive / library
The reference library of the institute is located in the building of the Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg and thus also functions as a museum library. The library of the Institute for Modern Art was the first German art and museum library to be certified in January 2008 by the Humboldt University in Berlin according to the standards of the AKMB . The archive of the Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg contains around 550,000 archive items. The focus is on around 15,000 information dossiers on representatives of German and international contemporary art; these artist dossiers are supplemented and updated. In addition, the institute has a journal archive as well as a subject and topic library.
In addition to exhibition catalogs , monographs , non-fiction books and magazines, the archive also includes DVDs, videos , CDs , CD-ROMs and a photo archive with around 46,000 work photos of artists from the 1960s to the 80s. The focus is on the collection of " gray literature " (for example brochures , invitation cards , leaflets ) and the press archive, which is based on the evaluation of the daily, weekly and specialist press. The exchange of documents takes place with around 500 national and international exhibition institutions. The Institute for Modern Art is a member of the » Working Group of Art and Museum Libraries « (AKMB) and forms the » Working Group on Documentation with the documenta archive in Kassel and the ZADIK - Central Archive of the International Art Trade in Cologne and the German Art Archive in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg of art after 1945 «.
Duration
Artist dossiers: 15,000, publications: 70,000 (annual growth: 3,000), printed matter: 210,000 (annual growth: 10,000), press cuttings: 220,000 (annual growth: 15,000), work photographs: 46,000, around 50 art magazines by subscription
Exhibitions
The Institute for Modern Art conceives exhibitions that are documented in the institute archive. In addition to larger thematic projects that are developed in cooperation with other institutions, the institute shows temporary exhibitions of current art in the Nuremberg art and culture house zumikon and from July 2010 in the studio and gallery house Defet .
Publications
The institute's publications serve to convey positions in contemporary art and are created in collaboration with the Nuremberg publishing house for modern art . Since it was founded, the institute has published around 400 monographs, overviews of works as well as theoretical and thematic volumes, often in collaboration with other institutions.