Art Forum Baden-Baden Insurance
The Baden ‐ Baden Art Forum in St. Ingbert , Saarland, was a privately owned gallery for contemporary art. During business hours, the exhibits could be viewed in the premises of the local representative of Baden-Badener Versicherung AG , a subsidiary of the Zurich Insurance Group at the time.
The art forum
The Baden ‐ Baden Art Forum offered artists from the greater Saar-Lor-Lux region the opportunity to present their work in exhibitions. The selection of the artists was based on the requirement to alternately exhibit both well-known and less established artists as well as young talents. They were able to present their works to an interested audience in the extensive corridors of the building. The exhibition concept of the art forum was designed in such a way that ambitious artists were given the opportunity to show and sell their art without also having to bear the financial expense of the organizational side. 10% of the sales proceeds were donated to the Baden-Baden Children's and Youth Foundation established in 2009.
history
The Kunstforum was founded in 1992 under the name Kunstforum Leismann . The integration of a professionally equipped art gallery was included in the conception of the then new administrative building for the Leismann Group (insurance companies, etc.). The corridors are overdimensioned, hanging fixtures matched to the structure and an elaborate lighting fixture, combined with Japanese garden cultures, created an ambience rarely found in galleries. About five to six exhibitions were shown annually on two light-flooded gallery floors. In 2008 the Baden-Badener Versicherung AG took over the house and the name was changed to "Baden-Badener Kunstforum".
Until 1998, Elmar Peiffer, then head of the St. Ingbert cultural office, was responsible for selecting the artists and curating the exhibitions. Then his successor Ingrid Roberts was responsible for it. The art agency art conexxion later took over the artistic direction. With the exhibition "Passagen im Licht" (Passages in the Light), the gallery ended its exhibition activities in 2016, as the dwindling number of visitors prevented the gallery from continuing.
The artists presented included Albert Haberer (1993), Gaetano Gross , Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Albert Münch .
Exhibitions
2016
- Passages in the light - Dieter Trost and Sigrid Deppe
- Color rush - Winfried Rausch
- Submerge - emerge - Ros Klär
- Insights - Barbara Kirsch
2015
- Shift change - Parsha Mirghawameddin
- Different Paths - Painting Group 82 (Hermann Geckeis, Werner Folb and Siegfried Meyer)
- All sorts of colorful things, a cross-section of my work - Joachim Hell
- Two-dimensional - Claudia Lewitzka-Wirsching
2014
- My Cuba - photographs by Michael Horbach
- Looking back - years of design in graphics and painting by Dieter Trost
- Latest disgrace - Air, Equs, Fonk, Funky, Iros and Pels
- Magic of colors - Marianne Pflug
2013
- Artasexperience - Art as Experience - Dorothee Wendel
- Just me! Lust for color - color is life - Gerda Scherz-Herber
- French fries, pumps and furs - Jutta Mohr
- Moments : A life with bright colors - Marlene Reucher
- Perspectives on diversity - Jörg Boeffel
2012
- A matter of opinion (s) - Christiane Lohrig
- Going it alone: Acrylic, watercolor, Object Art from 1992–2012 - Jürgen Klein
- Gladys - Georg Gartz
- Short Stories by Dorlie Fuchs and The Goddesses and their Shoes by Petra Thoss
- Layers and condense - Elisabeth Schael
2011
- Forever - Axl Klein, Matthias Wittekindt
- In dialogue - light and color - Sigrid Ulrich-Deppe
- Unknown tribes - Urban Art by Cone, Nyles, Raks and Retro
- Focus - the forest in view ... - Bernhard Kölsch
- 3 positions - Brunhilde Gierend, Sigrid Haag, Raingard Tausch
- Kaleidoscope - artist group Pittoresco (Gisela Heintz, Ursula E. Kessler, Reinhild Löw, Hiltrud Schmidt-Paßmann, Ingrid Schneider, Sigrid Lambrecht, Lore Schneider, Gabi Schneider, Swanhild Mozgovoy, Else Lang)
2010
- Quote unquote - Brigitte Martin
- Ambivalences - Ruth Bellon, Martin Steinert
- Memorial exhibition in honor of Hans Schröder
- Spaces, color, spaces - Günter Swiderski
- 20 years later - Marcus Weibel
2009
- Positions - Benedikt Steinmetz, Mark Vogelgesang
- Delicatessen in oil - Heike Puderbach
- Chappla & Ollik - Chappla alias Stefan Reiher-Zucker, Ollik
- Dincher & Laforsch - Eva Dincher, Markus Laforsch
- Short-term - artist group ConFrontal (Karin Domanowsky, Isabell Gawron, Edith Harner, Gisela Heintz, Sabine Kennerknecht, Hille Neumann, Johannes Schorr, Nataly Weitz)
swell
- ^ Exhibition "Perspectives of Diversity" in the Baden-Baden Art Forum at igb.info
- ↑ After 22 years the St. Ingberter Kunstforum gives up on pfaelzischer-merkur.de on October 12, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '40.6 " N , 7 ° 5' 59.33" O