Art Gallery Giessen
The Kunsthalle Gießen is an exhibition space for contemporary art in the cultural town hall of Gießen in Central Hesse .
Conception
As a place for temporary exhibitions without its own collection, the Kunsthalle Gießen presents current trends and international positions in contemporary art on 400 square meters. She sees it as her task to stimulate the examination of the art of today, to convey it in a variety of ways and to take up social discourses.
history
From the opening in June 2009 to June 2015, Ute Riese was the curator of the Kunsthalle Gießen. From July 2015 to April 2018, the management took over the head of the Giessen cultural office, Simone Maiwald. Various curators were commissioned to organize exhibitions under Maiwald's direction. Since May 2017 the art historian Dr. Nadia Ismail curator of the Kunsthalle, which she has also directed since May 2018.
In 2019 the Kunsthalle celebrated its 10th anniversary with numerous collaborations in order to bundle synergies in culture and to strengthen the interdisciplinary, discursive approach.
Exhibitions
- 2020 Hélène Delprat. "WITH MY VOICE I'M CALLING YOU" , March - July 2020 (first institutional solo exhibition of the artist in Germany)
- 2019 FORT. Undercover , December 2019 - February 2020 (Kunsthalle in cooperation with the Hessische Kulturstiftung)
- 2019 Matthew Cowan. The Scream of the Strawbear , September - November 2019 (Kunsthalle in cooperation with the Oberhessisches Museum)
- 2019 IN / BETWEEN . Performance Festival, August 2019 (Kunsthalle Gießen in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Theater Studies of the Justus Liebig University Gießen and the New Art Association Gießen)
- 2019 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Sequence as a Dialogue , June - August 2019
- 2019 Uwe Henneken. Always Returning , March - May 2019
- 2018 Tobias Hantmann. Staying with the Pictures , December 2018 - February 2019
- 2018 Thomas Zipp. A PRIMER OF HIGHER SPACE (The Family of Man revisited) , September - November 2018
- 2018 Heiner Goebbels. Landscape Plays , June - August 2018
- 2018 Anna Gaskell. Hide and Seek , January - April 2018 (first institutional solo exhibition of the artist in Germany)
- 2017 Now we come back to the carpet , September - November 2017
- 2017 Sandra Mann. Gun light, May - July 2017
- 2017 Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer. Threshold Stories , November 2016 – February 2017
- 2016 Stefan Müller . The most beautiful consequences of inadequacy , July – October
- 2016 Knut Eckstein. ontheway , March – May
- 2015 Jörg Sasse . Relations , October 2015 – January 2016
- 2015 Dieter Krieg . poor pig . Images, July – October
- 2015 Katharina Sieverding . April June
- 2015 Henriette Grahnert , Nadin Maria Rüfenacht . Surreal collages and ironic abstraction , February – March
- 2014 Juul Kraijer. November – February 2015
- 2014 Hiroyuki Masuyama . Storm , September – October
- 2014 Per Kirkeby . May-August
- 2014 Philipp Hennevogl, Frank Lippold, Annette Schröter . Linocut, woodcut, paper cut , February – March
- 2013 Detlef Beer . Untitled , September 2013 – January 2014
- 2013 Anna Viebrock . In space and out of time - stage design as architecture , April – July
- 2013 Jan Albers . Up & Down , February – March
- 2012 Lori Hersberger. Heroic Nihilism , October 2012 – January 2013
- 2012 Jan Schüler and Saskia Schüler . Home game , May – August
- 2012 Mariella Mosler . Semiglot , January – April
- 2011 Johannes Spehr . Wind impact / settling in the air , October – December
- 2011 Hiroyuki Masuyama . 1000 flowers , July – September
- 2011 Rosa Loy . Manna , March – June
- 2010 Gerhard Merz . Granite , November 2010 – March 2011
- 2010 Gunilla Jähnichen . Don´t touch my pet , September – November
- 2010 Trevor Paglen . A Compendium of Secrets , May – August
- 2010 Tim Berresheim and Markus Oehlen . Radish and Peanut (a joint statement) , March – May
- 2009 Anke Doberauer . Painting , October 2009 – January 2010
Publications
- 2020 Uwe Henneken. Always Returning (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2019 Katja Stuke + Oliver Sieber. Sequence as a Dialogue (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2019 Tobias Hantmann. Staying with the Pictures (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2018 Anna Gaskell. Hide and Seek (catalog for the exhibition of the same name)
- 2017 Knut Eckstein. too common (catalog for the exhibition)
- 2017 Mirja Kuitenbrouwer. Threshold stories (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2016 Stefan Müller. The most beautiful consequence of inadequacy (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2015 Katharina Sieverding (catalog for the exhibition)
- 2014 Per Kirkeby (exhibition catalog)
- 2013 Jan Albers "Up and Down" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2012 Mariella Mosler "Semiglot" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2011 Johannes Spehr "Siedeln in den Lüften" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2011 Hiroyuki Masuyama "1000 Flowers" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2011 Rosa Loy "Manna" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2010 Gerhard Merz (exhibition catalog)
- 2010 Trevor Paglen "A Compendium of Secrets" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2010 Tim Berresheim, Markus Oehlen "Radieschen und Ernuss" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
- 2009 Anke Doberauer "Painting" (catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
Web links
- Website of the Kunsthalle Giessen. Retrieved May 5, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Place for art and discourse. January 4, 2019, accessed April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Management of the Kunsthalle is saved . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , on December 16, 2013 (accessed on July 21, 2015)
- ^ "In the meantime" in the Kunsthalle . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , on July 11, 2015 (accessed on July 21, 2015)
- ↑ Synergies are bundled. February 6, 2019, accessed April 20, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 46.2 ″ E