Consortium (artist group)

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Konsortium is a German artist group consisting of Lars Breuer , Sebastian Freytag and Guido Münch .

Consortium has become known for operating the project room of the same name in Düsseldorf. The exhibition space was founded in 2004 by Lars Breuer, Sebastian Freytag, Jan Kämmerling and Guido Münch in Düsseldorf .

As a group of artists, Konsortium realized a joint work for the first time in 2010. These were two wall paintings for the new building of the Folkwang Museum .

Project room

The showroom consortium was operated from 2004 to 2010. During this time 94 artists exhibited here, who came from the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and the USA and some of them had their first solo exhibition in these rooms.

Curated exhibitions

The consortium curated various group exhibitions, for example Secondary Structures in 2007 at KIT in Düsseldorf or the Dystotal exhibition in the Pori Art Museum and the Ludwig Forum Aachen in 2014 and 2016 .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008: Fusion / Confusion , Museum Folkwang , Essen
  • 2008: Familiar Terrain , Museum of New Art (Karlsruhe) , Karlsruhe
  • 2010: The New Rhineland , Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen
  • 2011: Recollection , Plato Sanat, Istanbul
  • 2015: 10th Kaunas Biennial , Kaunas
  • 2016: Infinite Loop , Engine House, Wellington
  • 2016: Infinite Loop , Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
  • 2018: Explosive dreams , Marta Herford , Herford

literature

  • Rheinhard Spieler (Ed.): Mastercopy . Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86678-338-6 .
  • Consortium (Ed.): Consortium 2004–2010 . Extra Verlag, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-938370-46-9 .
  • Andreas Beitin, Esther Boehle & Esko Nummelin (eds.): Dystotal . Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Pori Art Museum. Verlag Walther König, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86335-806-8 .
  • Christoph Kohl (Ed.): Triumvirate . Märkisches Museum Witten. Distance Verlag, Berlin, 2020. ISBN 978-3-95476-309-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Three painters . In: biograph , issue No. 4, Düsseldorf 2019, accessed on September 29, 2019.
  2. Tim Ackermann: Minimal art in Düsseldorf. Plain and simple consortium . In: Taz , November 23, 2007, accessed September 29, 2019.
  3. Sabine Maria Schmidt: What we do is secret! Consortium at Museum Folkwang. In: Underground / Overground , Museum Folkwang Essen, 2012, accessed on January 3, 2020.
  4. Konsortium (Ed.): Konsortium, 2004-2010 . Extra Verlag, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-938370-46-9
  5. Website Konsortium curated shows , accessed on January 3, 2020
  6. ^ Website Kunst im Tunnel , accessed on January 3, 2020
  7. Thomas W. Kuhn: Secondary Structures "or: Modernism is not yet finished" In: Kunstforum International Volume 189, 2008, accessed on March 6, 2020.
  8. ^ Website Ludwig Forum Aachen , accessed on March 2, 2020
  9. Kerber Verlag , accessed on January 3, 2020
  10. Extra Verlag , accessed on January 3, 2020