Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim

The Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim is a non-profit institution under civil law, founded by the city of Rüsselsheim in 2001. Its tasks include preserving the buildings in accordance with historical monuments, organizing cultural projects in the form of exhibitions, education and mediation as well as funding of art.

history

"Opelvillen" refers to the villa complex in the city of Rüsselsheim am Main , which is located directly on the Main meadows between Verna Park and the fortress . The villas were built by Friedrich Opel in 1931/32 . Today the villas are used by the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim.

The namesake of the art and culture foundation is Fritz Opel . The son of the founder of the Opel works , Adam Opel , bought a "Villa Wenske" built in 1916 for the director of the Opel works Wilhelm Wenske in 1920 and built the second villa in 1931/32, the so-called "mansion" today used as an exhibition house, which is surrounded by a winter garden was connected to the smaller "Villa Wenske". Until his death in 1938, Fritz Opel lived with his wife Martha in what he called the "Schloss am Main" villa complex. Changing uses from the hospital (until 1956) to the district court, which moved out in 1995, took place after the villas had become the property of the city of Rüsselsheim in 1955, and up to 17 different users were counted.

The question of use was finally decided in favor of cultural concerns after the vacancy in 1996 at the instigation of regional artists. In 1998, the city of Rüsselsheim took the decision to expand the Opel villas into a cultural location with a restaurant and wedding room. The establishment of the foundation made it possible to create an art center in Rüsselsheim, supported by exhibitions, events, concerts, lectures and readings.

Duties of the foundation

Receipt

The ensemble of Opel villas on the foothills of the Main includes the Villa Wenske , the manor house and the newly designed intermediate building. In 1916, the engineer and works director Wilhelm Wenske had the smaller villa built, which Fritz Opel acquired in 1920 and expanded to include a winter garden ten years later . The present exhibition house, the so-called manor house, was built by Adam Opel's son in 1931/32. In 2002 the construction of the intermediate building "Third Villa" began by the Kassel architects Schultze + Schulze. In 2012 the garden of Villa Wenske was returned to its original state, taking into account the straight lines of the newer architecture. The declared task of the foundation is to look after and maintain the Opel villas as a representative building on the Rüsselsheim bank of the Main.

exhibition

The architecture of the Opel villas determines the time frame for the exhibitions. Based on the buildings, exhibitions are designed by the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, which illuminate the development of art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The focus of the exhibition "From Modernism to the Present" is based on and closely related to the period of construction.

education

The educational programs "Language Promotion for Kindergarten Children" and "Guided Tours for People with Dementia" testify to the range and concern of the Opel villas to allow all age groups to participate and to encourage them.

Promotion of young talent

The Schleuse is an exhibition space of the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim to promote art students. Budding artists from Hessian art schools can present their works to a broad audience for the first time in the lock of the Opel villas. The lock was opened in 2005 with Andrei Koschmieder. Lock artists like Lena Henke and Anne Imhof are now taking part in the international art scene.

In addition to the lock, the support program of the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim includes a guest studio, the laboratory, in the basement of the house. Young artists have the opportunity to work there and invite the public to the presentation of their works that were created in Rüsselsheim. This experimental art platform was opened in 2009 with the Städel student Max Brand.

Exhibitions

2004: direct and unadulterated - drawings, watercolors, prints from the Brücke-Museum Berlin

2004: What painting is today

2004: Made in Hungary. 20th century photography

2005: exile and modernity. HW Janson and the Washington University Collection in St. Louis

2005: Paradise Lost - The Landscape in Contemporary Photography

2005: ROBOTS - Is artificial intelligence becoming an artificial strategy?

2006: Another GDR. Modern graphics from the Rudolf and Ilse Franke collection

2006: Money doesn't score goals! Current art on the phenomenon of football

2006: Georg Baselitz .

2006: Paul Almasy - The early work

2007: Klang im Bild - the phenomenon of music in the visual arts of modern times and the present

2007: Reality Bites - Art after the Fall of the Wall

2007: Henry Moore and the Landscape.

2008: TEMPO, TEMPO! The phenomenon of speed in film

2008: The memory is often the most beautiful - photographic portraits by Romy Schneider .

2009: The pain runs deep

2009: Art at Work

2009: Natalja Goncharova - Between Russian tradition and European modernity

2010: Very close by a distance - photography from Leipzig

2010: the future of the car? Mobility beyond current sustainability debates

2010: American Pop Posters .

2011: Road Atlas. Street photography from the DZ BANK art collection

2011: Line and sculpture in dialogue - Rodin , Giacometti , Modigliani ...

2011: Elizabeth Peyton . Ghost.

2012: A forest of sculptures - Simon Spierer Collection.

2012: Andy Goldsworthy : Working with time.

2012: Goya's heirs.

2013: Toni Schneiders - photographs 1946–1990.

2013: Knut Henrik Henriksen / Georges Rousse

2013: Noa Eshkol - Wall Carpets.

2014: Landscape in the cleavage - window as an element and metaphor

2014: Arno Fischer - The Garden.

2014: Christiane Löhr - permeabile

2014: »We have to tear the veil from our eyes« Photography and drawing of the Russian avant-garde from the collection of the Sepherot Foundation .

2015: Sandra Kranich - Dynamic Memory / Jörn Vanhöfen - Loop

2015: Pietro Donzelli (1915-1998) Luce. Photographs.

2015: Marilyn and other divas. Remembering Sam Shaw . 60 years of photography.

2016: Ekrem Yalcindag / Pia Linz .

2016: Billy Childish - incomprehensible but certain.

2016: Niki de Saint Phalle and the Theater - At Last I Found the Treasure.

2017: Tamara Grcic - have you been here before?

2017: Sibylle - The Photographers .

2017: the self-portrait. Works on paper from the Frerich Collection.

2018: The pure passion - amateur photography by Peter Dammann, Eugen Gerbert, Axel Herrmann and Vasilii Lefter

2018: The scent of pictures - works of the colección olorVISUAL Barcelona

2019: Antanas Sutkus . Photographs

2019: Christiane Feser - Relative Variants

2019: Bethan Huws . Film Zone & Film Script

2019: Geraldo de Barros - University Laboratory. Furniture and photographs

2019: Concrete poetry / poesie concreta - Eugen Gomringer , Augusto de Campos and friends

2020: Greetings from Havana - Contemporary Cuban art in an international context

Publications

Ekrem Yalcindag. About Color, Nature, Ornaments, and Other Things . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2016, 103 pages, German / English.
GHOST. Elizabeth Peyton . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, 168 pages, German / English.
Henry Moore and the Landscape / Henry Moore: Imaginary Landscapes . DuMont Buchverlag, 2007, 127 pages, German / English.
Max Liebermann. Stations of a painter's life . Verlag Jürgen Häusser, 1999, 71 pages, German.
Niki de Saint Phalle and the Theater / Niki de Saint Phalle and the Theater . Kehrer Verlag, 2016, 240 pages, German / English.
REALITY BITES. Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany. Art after the fall of the wall . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, 320 pages, German / English.
ROAD ATLAS. Street Photography from Helen Levitt to Pieter Hugo / Street Photography from Helen Levitt to Pieter Hugo . Hirmer Verlag, 2011, 168 pages, German / English.
Rodin, Giacometti, Modigliani… line and sculpture in dialogue. Works from the Kasser Collection / Mochary Family Foundation, USA . Hirmer Verlag, 2011, 127 pages, German.
SIBYLLE. Magazine for fashion and culture. 1956-1995 . Hartmann Books, 2017, 336 pp., German.
Opelvillen Foundation. History of the Villas - Beginning of the Center for Art / Opelvillen Foundation. History of the Villas - * The Beginning of the Art Center . Univers GmbH, 2007, 96 pages, German / English.
We must tear the veil from our eyes. Photography and drawing of the Russian avant-garde from the collection of the Sepherot Foundation . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, 164 pages, German.

literature

Beate Kemfert (Ed.): Opelvillen Foundation. History of the Villas - Beginning of the Center for Art / Opelvillen Foundation. History of the Villas - The Beginning of the Art Center. Opelvillen Foundation, Univers, 2007, 96 pages, German / English.

Web links

Opel villas Rüsselsheim. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
Opelvillen Rüsselsheim - Center for Art. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ Quoted here and in the following from: In: Website of the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
↑ Beate Kemfert: Foreword. In: Foundation Opel Villas. History of the Villas - Beginning of the Center for Art / Opelvillen Foundation. History of the Villas - The Beginning of the Art Center. Ed .: Beate Kemfert, Opelvillen Foundation. Univers GmbH, Rüsselsheim 2007, p. 5 f .

[1] Quoted here and in the following from: In: Website of the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .

[2] Beate Kemfert: Foreword. In: Foundation Opel Villas. History of the Villas - Beginning of the Center for Art / Opelvillen Foundation. History of the Villas - The Beginning of the Art Center. Ed .: Beate Kemfert, Opelvillen Foundation. Univers GmbH, Rüsselsheim 2007, p. 5 f .