Nuremberg Art Gallery

Kunsthalle Nürnberg, November 2018

Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art museum in the KunstKulturQuartier in Nuremberg for contemporary art.

history

It was founded in 1967 as an institution for international contemporary art. The reason for the establishment of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg was the creation of an exhibition forum for the presentation and communication of international contemporary art as well as the establishment of a municipal collection of international contemporary art. In 1997 the collection was given on permanent loan to the Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg . As a temporary exhibition house, it presents exhibitions on contemporary art and the so-called Second Modernism of the sixties. The art gallery is ideally and financially supported by the Förderverein Contemporaries e. V.

The building itself has a long tradition as an art museum. It goes back to the initiative of the former Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, Georg von Schuh . He managed to win over the private donors, Oskar von Petri and his wife, Elisabeth von Petri, for the project. Elisabeth von Petri is considered to be the originator of the foundation idea for the exhibition hall. The chief engineer Otto Seegy drafted the plans. The building was built in 1912 as an art exhibition hall at the Marientor in the former kennel area of the city wall and was originally intended to " give local artists the opportunity to present their products to the public at any time, even if they are not intended for here ... " The words come from the address of the Lord Mayor Georg von Schuh for the festive inauguration of the exhibition hall on October 12, 1913. The city fathers and the donor couple intended the exhibition hall to complement and expand the exhibition space of the neighboring Künstlerhaus Nürnberg . As part of the celebrations, the first exhibition with works by artists from the Nuremberg Art Cooperative was opened.

In the thirties the building was renamed the Franconian Gallery and used for temporary exhibitions of Franconian art.

In October 2019, the Kunsthalle reopened after a renovation phase that lasted around one and a half years. In addition to the interior lighting, the roof was renewed, which since then has had eight skylights with electrochromic glazing instead of the previous seven .

Exhibitions (selection)

1931: Catalog of the exhibition of contemporary Catholic art: in the Kunsthalle am Marientor from 9 August to 20 September 1931 on the occasion of the 70th Catholic Day in Nuremberg
1949 - Art with new eyes (including Barlach, Beckmann, Fietz, Heckel, Hofer, Kohler, Marcks and Nolde)
1969 “Constructive Art, Elements and Principles”, Biennale 69, Nuremberg
1975: Jürgen Claus - The Sea. Celebration of the Ocean
1984: Leiko Ikemura , Leiko Ikemura. City draftsman of Nuernberg 1983
1994/1995: Hans Arp
1995: Günter Fruhtrunk within the exhibition Hans Arp (in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art Munich )
2008/2009: Cao Fei
2009: Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven : Nothing More Natural
2009/2010: Juergen Teller : Logical!
2010: Karla Black : Ten Sculptures
2012: 30 artists / 30 rooms , group exhibition
2012/13: gold rush. contemporary art from, with or about gold (in cooperation with Villa Merkel , galleries of the city of Esslingen)