Art Forum International

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KUNSTFORUM International

description Current magazine for all areas of the visual arts
publishing company KUNSTFORUM International
Headquarters Cologne
First edition 1973
Frequency of publication avg. 6 volumes per year
Editor-in-chief Andrea Bechtloff (editor-in-chief)
editor Dieter Bechtloff
Web link www.kunstforum.de
ISSN (print) 0177-3674

KUNSTFORUM International is a German-language art magazine on contemporary art in book format, which has been published in six to seven issues a year since 1973.

The magazine

KUNSTFORUM is devoted to a broad spectrum of content, which includes not only classic media such as painting, sculpture or graphics but also all areas of visual culture, including photography, architecture, design, multimedia, etc. Special features include the focus documentation on current art movements, media and art regions, art in the contexts of society, literature, science, etc. In recent years, for example, themed volumes on feminism , nature and art, post-digitality and the new commissioned art have been published .

The print volumes are expanded by the KUNSTFORUM online archive. This includes all editions published since 1973 with over 25,000 texts and 200,000 images, as well as extensive personal, institutional and exhibition lexica on contemporary art and related areas.

In addition to the title documentation, the volumes contain monographs and interviews with artists, exhibition organizers, collectors, cultural politicians, etc. and correspondent reports from the international art centers. Image and news sections document exhibitions and catalogs, books and magazines, editions, market and trade fair events.

The magazine also regularly publishes special volumes for major exhibitions such as documenta or the Venice Biennale (e.g. documenta 14 and the 57th Venice Biennale). In them, the exhibits are systematically and almost completely documented as a tour in installation recordings and discussed in essays and interviews. It is a magazine in which the authors' stylistic peculiarities should be consciously preserved and consciously allow different perspectives. Each volume is usually a little over 300 pages.

history

The KUNSTFORUM magazine was launched at a time when decisive changes were emerging in the way contemporary art was handled. The founder was Dieter Bechtloff, previously an editor and partner in the leading magazine MagazinKUNST, which has been published in Mainz since 1964 . One of the first employees was the art critic Klaus Honnef , who advocated photography as an art form and was co-editor in 1985 and 1986. At the beginning of the 1970s, art from museums moved closer to life and no longer only occupied experts and specialists, but an ever larger audience. The first “art fairs” had been held regularly in Cologne since the late 1960s, and numerous galleries for contemporary art opened, which were also shown more and more often in museums. German-language magazines on contemporary art that were founded later include art - Das Kunstmagazin (founded in 1979) and Texts on Art (founded in 1990). In 2017, the magazine presented its new design in the Walther König bookstore in Cologne, designed by Mike Meiré .

Regular employees (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collectors Magazines . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1972 ( online - October 2, 1972 ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Schürmann: Klaus Honnef , Volume 9 of energies - Synergies, König, Cologne, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86560-723-2 , p. 100.
  3. ^ Mike Meiré on the German Designer Club website