Art and culture center Monschau

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Art and culture center of the Aachen city region
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KuK (art and culture center)
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place 52156 Monschau Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 39.3 ″  EWorld icon
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Art and culture center, museum of photography
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CityRegion Aachen
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The Art and Culture Center (KuK) of the Aachen City Region is a museum location in Monschau with a focus on photography . The building is open to all interested parties on six days a week as an exhibition and cultural meeting place with free admission.

history

The KuK was founded in 2002 and is located in the old town of Monschau , only two minutes' walk from the market and directly opposite the Aukloster. The building at Austraße 9, which is more than 150 years old, used to serve a. a. as a tax office. The building was refurbished in accordance with listed buildings and today offers exhibition rooms divided up like a cabinet on three floors. Part of the concept from the start was that the KuK should also be a meeting place that invites creative exchange between artists and those interested in art.

In February 2007 the facility was recognized by the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative for its “innovative concept and lively implementation”. Since 2011 photography has increasingly developed into a focus, which gives the KuK a unique selling point in the region as a museum location.

Exhibitions

Works by important artists are regularly exhibited in the KuK. According to the organizers, up to 35,000 people visit the four to five exhibitions each year. While in its early years the KuK mainly presented regional artists and young talents from various genres of fine arts, the focus on photography has emerged over the past decade. High-quality photography exhibitions with works by international greats in this genre shape the program today. Many of the exhibitions can only be seen in Germany in the KuK or even curated in their composition exclusively for the KuK.

The exhibitions that have contributed significantly to the reputation of the KuK in recent years include those with works by Anton Corbijn (2011), Jürgen Klauke (2012 & 2015), Jim Rakete (2012), Dana Gluckstein (2013), Roger Ballen (2014), Elliott Erwitt (2014), Ara Güler (2015), Vivian Maier (2015), Ken Heyman (2016), Berenice Abbott (2016), Will McBride (2016), Sandro Miller / John Malkovich (2017) , Richard Kalvar (2017), Jessica Lange (2018), Henri Cartier-Bresson (2018), Max Scheler (2018) and Bruce Davidson (2019).

Furthermore, exhibitions by World Press Photo (2014 & 2015) and "Magnum's First" (2016), the legendary first exhibition by the Magnum Photos agency , stopped at the KuK, and the program also provided insights into collections such as that of Lola Garrido (2017 ) and Howard Greenberg (2019).

For the current exhibition year 2020, four main exhibitions - all premieres, some national, some international - were planned. Of the Germany-wide and ultimately even worldwide measures that were decided in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic , the KuK was of course also taken. Starting on Saturday, March 14, 2020, it had to be temporarily closed while the exhibition "Photographs by Lotte and Ruth Jacobi " was still hanging (since February 16, 2020). The KuK was reopened to the public under certain conditions on May 6, 2020. The Jacobi exhibition, which had been interrupted by the closure, was extended to May 24, 2020. As a result of the temporary closure, other exhibition dates have changed; The KuK website provides current information. The exhibition "Portraits of People and Countries" by Robert Lebeck has already been scheduled for the period May 30th to September 13th, 2020. The dates for the exhibition with color works by Jacques-Henri Lartigue and a group exhibition curated exclusively for the KuK are still open on the subject of identity and u. a. with works by Claude Cahun , Philippe Halsman and Martin Liebscher . In addition, until further notice, a special exhibition on the second floor, which opened in October 2019, revisits the wrapping project by the artist Christo in Monschau in 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Description of the KuK accessed on August 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Visitor information accessed on August 9, 2019
  3. ↑ About the KuK Monschau. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Information from the Cultural Office of the Aachen City Region, accessed on August 9, 2019
  5. ↑ Program for 2020 accessed on January 27, 2020
  6. ↑ KuK Monschau. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ruth and Lotte Jacobi: Photographs (February 16-22, 2020). Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The KuK opens again. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ruth and Lotte Jacobi: Photographs (February 16-22, 2020). Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  10. ^ Robert Lebeck: Portraits of People and Countries (March 29-14, 2020). Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Life is colorful (June 21-13, 2020). Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Cahun, Halsman, Klauke, Liebscher, Morath: That's me! For sure? (20.09.-13.12.2020). Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ If that is art, I'm crazy! Christo veils Monschau 1971. Retrieved on May 6, 2020 .

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