Cabinet for Current Art

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The cabinet for current art is a space for contemporary art in Bremerhaven , in which changing exhibitions of the international avant-garde are shown.

Cabinet for Current Art

The Cabinet for Contemporary Art was founded in 1967 as a non-commercial, private exhibition platform for avant-garde art. It consists of a shop on the ground floor of the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven in downtown Bremerhaven with a shop window front and an entrance door and a 33 square meter rectangular room. With its white walls and uniform lighting from neon tubes, its purist architecture picks up on the idea of ​​the white cube , which since the 1920s introduced a change in the form of presentation to a neutral exhibition space.

Jürgen Wesseler

The founder and operator of the cabinet is the Bremerhaven surveying engineer Jürgen Wesseler (* 1938). He is considered a nose for contemporary art, showing many artists in his exhibition space who only later became known worldwide. Jürgen Wesseler has been a member of the board of the Kunstverein Bremerhaven since 1971 and has been its chairman since 1987. Since 2012 he is no longer chairman, but assessor of the art association. He played a key role in the construction and furnishing of the Bremerhaven Art Museum , which opened in 2007 and where the art association's collection is exhibited. In 2008 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his services .

Museum of Modern Art

In 2001 Gregor Schneider showed the performative exhibition N. Schmidt in the Kabinett für Gegenwart Kunst in Bremerhaven, which was staged again in 2003, including the almost unchanged replica of the shop, in the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main . The version of the cabinet , permanently installed at the MMK, formed the framework for the Double exhibition series , which opened in 2009 and recreates previous exhibitions of the cabinet for current art . The first exhibition was dedicated to the artist Reiner Ruthenbeck and his installation Umgekippte Möbel , 1971.

Exhibitions

Since 1967 exhibitions with the following artists have taken place in the Cabinet for Current Art:

Marina Abramović / Ulay (1982), Bas Jan Ader (1972, 1974), Carl Andre (1976), Giovanni Anselmo (1975, 1977), Silvia Bächli (1993, 2000), Stephan Balkenhol (1993, 2007), Robert Barry ( 1973), Bodo Baumgarten (1970, 1971, 1972), Lothar Baumgarten (1976), Bernd & Hilla Becher (1971, 1974), Guillaume Bijl (2001), Martin Boyce (2005), Stanley Brouwn (1974, 1976, 1978) , Daniel Buren (1981), Michael Buthe (1970), Clegg & Guttmann (1989), Hanne Darboven (1972, 1974, 1975, 1979), Jan Dibbets (1973), Braco Dimitrijević (1977), Cecilia Edefalk (1997, 2006 ), Robert Filliou (1970), Ceal Floyer (2013), Hamish Fulton (1973), Heinz Gappmayr (1972), Isa Genzken (1978), Raimund Girke (1970, 1974, 1979, 1985), Jack Goldstein (1976), Dietrich Helms (1970, 1972), Gerard Hemsworth (1981, 1983), Bethan Huws (2009), Reimer Jochims (1969, 1971), On Kawara (1977, 1980), Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes (1968), Imi Knoebel (1969 , 1970, 1972), Joseph Kosuth (1988), Wolfgang Laib (1979, 1981, 1984, 1990), Sol LeWitt (1975), Urs Lüthi (1969), Francesco Mariotti (1968), Gerhard Merz (1977, 1979), Meuser (1985), Reinhard Mucha (1983), Werner Nöfer (1969), Blinky Palermo (1969, 1970, 1971), Jürgen Partenheimer ( 1990), Giuseppe Penone (1980), Manfred Pernice (1997, 2003, 2011), Hermann Pitz (1982), Sigmar Polke (1970), Norbert Radermacher (1991), Gerhard Richter (1971, 1973, 1975), Ulrich Rückriem ( 1971, 1973, 1976, 1979), Allen Ruppersberg (1974), Reiner Ruthenbeck (1971, 1974, 1976), Anri Sala (2008), Barbara and Gabriele Schmidt-Heins (1976, 1978, 1982, 1985), Gregor Schneider ( 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2010), Norbert Schwontkowski (2007), Konrad Schulz (1968, 1970), Thomas Schütte (2006), Andreas Slominski (1988, 1991, 1999, 2006), Richard Tuttle (1990), Luc Tuymans (1993, 2007), Günther Uecker (1970), Timm Ulrichs (1970), Oswald Mathias Ungers (1986), Henk Visch (1990, 1995, 2005, 2010, 2015), Franz Erhard Walther (1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1984), Lawrence Weiner (1973, 1975, 1978, 1981), Paloma Varga Weisz (2001, 2013), Christopher Williams (2012), Cathy Wilkes (2003), Ger van Elk (1972, 1975), Dorothee von Windheim (1971) and Jerry Zeniuk (1977, 1990).

Literature (selection)

  • Vanguard from the hinterland. Artists from 25 years Cabinet for Current Art Bremerhaven. Catalog, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen 1992.
  • Lawrence Weiner. Bremerhaven , with: Within Forward Motion (1973), Towards a Reasonable End (1975), and With a Touch of Pink / With a Touch of Pink (1978). Artist book, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8977-0936-2
  • Gregor Schneider - N. Schmidt . Artist book, ed. by Moritz Wesseler , Bremerhaven and Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Andreas Slominski and Gregor Schneider - wedding . Artist book, ed. by Mario Kramer and Moritz Wesseler, Bremerhaven and Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Luc Tuymans - the end . Catalog, ed. by Moritz Wesseler (with contributions by Udo Kittelmann, Anri Sala, Luc Tuymans and Moritz Wesseler), Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3897703032
  • Cabinet pieces. The Cabinet for Contemporary Art Bremerhaven 1993–2011 in the Weserburg, Museum for Modern Art, Bremen , Bramsche 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Motor of the art scene in Bremerhaven: Jürgen Wesseler receives the Cross of Merit https://www.bremerhaven.de/de/aktuelles/motor-der-kunstszene-in-bremerhaven-juergen-wesseler-erhaelt-verdienstkreuz.11882.html
  2. ↑ Website Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mmk-frankfurt.de  

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '25.5 "  N , 8 ° 34' 57.4"  E