Kunsthalle Münster

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The Kunsthalle Münster (2008)

The Kunsthalle Münster is an exhibition space for contemporary art . Since moving in 2004, the art gallery has been located on the fifth floor of Speicher II, a historic industrial building in Münster's city harbor .

The Kunsthalle Münster presents national and international contemporary art in changing solo and group exhibitions. As a city institution without its own collection, the Kunsthalle reacts flexibly to current trends in the art world and takes socially relevant issues into consideration. For this purpose, individual exhibition formats are developed on a project area of ​​around 800 m², which are always accompanied by a comprehensive communication program. The Kunsthalle explicitly promotes new artistic productions as well as interdisciplinary exchange and thus sees itself as both a laboratory and a discussion platform. Once a year, the sponsorship award exhibition of the Friends of the Münster Art Academy also takes place in the Kunsthalle.

As part of the cultural office, the Kunsthalle Münster is not only responsible for the program in the rooms on Hafenweg, but also looks after the works in the public collection of the city of Münster.

Since 2020, the Kunsthalle Münster with Residence NRW⁺ has also been affiliated with a scholarship program for artists and curators.

On September 19, 1991, the municipal exhibition hall at Am Hawerkamp was opened under the direction of Gail B. Kirkpatrick . In 2004 the institution, now known as AZKM (Exhibition Hall Contemporary Art Münster), moved to Speicher II, a former granary in the Münster city harbor on the Dortmund-Ems Canal , which was extensively renovated in the early 2000s for cultural and cultural-economic use. In 2012 the name was finally changed to Kunsthalle Münster.

On July 1, 2018, Merle Radtke took over the management of the Kunsthalle Münster. She opened her program on December 14, 2018 with a solo exhibition by the American artist Mary Beth Edelson.

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Color Me Blind! Painting in the age of computer games and comics
  • 2001: Night on Earth - photography and video art
  • 2004: Here today, there tomorrow ... - A model survey of urban identity in Münster
  • 2004: Firewall
  • 2007: Phil Collins: Gercegin geri donusu. The return of the real
  • 2011: Times are us: 11 positions on video art (exhibition as part of the Münster Film Festival)
  • 2013: One of us cannot be wrong - Positions on video and media art
  • 2016: Solid Liquids - International Sculpture Trends in Contemporary Art
  • 2018: Irony and Idealism
  • 2019: Christiane Blattmann. Un-Break My Walls.
  • 2020: Tobias Euler, Veit Sprenger, Thies Mynther: Moon Machine, Landing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunsthalle Münster - About. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Residence NRW⁺ Residence Scholarships | Awards and grants. In: Association of German Art Historians. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Latest news. Personal details. In: www.kunstforum.de. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ City of Münster. Art Gallery. Archive. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Here today, there tomorrow ... "- A model survey of urban identity in Münster. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Firewall. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Phil Collins: Gercegin geri donusu. The return of the real. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Times are us. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ ne of us cannot be wrong - Positions on video and media art. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Solid Liquids - International Trends in Sculpture in Contemporary Art. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  11. ^ Irony and Idealism. City of Münster, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Tobias Euler, Thies Mynther, Veit Sprenger: Moon Machine, Landing. Kunsthalle Münster, accessed on June 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 7 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 39"  E