Wilhelmshaven art gallery

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Wilhelmshaven art gallery
Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 01.JPG
Art gallery with sculpture "Seemannsgarn"
by Leonard Wübbena
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place Wilhelmshaven
Art
architect Harms and Sommerfeld
opening 1968
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The Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven is a museum in Wilhelmshaven . It was opened in 1913 as the Kaiser-Friedrich-Kunsthalle. It was founded on the initiative of the then head of the North Sea Naval Station , Admiral Friedrich Graf von Baudissin (1852–1921), and was intended to make visual arts accessible to the city's residents with changing exhibitions. It has fulfilled this task since its inception.

After its destruction in World War II , the Kunsthalle moved from Viktoriastraße to a new building on Adalbertplatz in 1968. The old house had fallen victim to the bombing war. The Wilhelmshaven architects Harms and Sommerfeld realized a sober, sober building based on Bauhaus models with elements of brutalism , in which a large variety of exhibitions have been on view since then. The first director after the war was the artist Siegfried Pagel, who also created the concrete relief for the Kunsthalle.

Exhibitions

The Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven mainly shows temporary exhibitions on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Around six exhibitions are shown each year. In 2006/2007 the existence of the Kunsthalle was threatened by political austerity requests from the city administration, which could be averted. On the 100th anniversary of the Society of Friends of Art for Wilhelmshaven, the Kunsthalle showed the exhibition Between Imperial Claims and Secession in 2012 . The association, the city and its art collection with landscape paintings by Paul Baum , Walter Leistikow , Otto Modersohn and Johann Georg Siehl-Freystett .

  • 2019: Hartmut Wiesner : Wild growing. Pictures 2012–2019
  • 2019: Bernd Zimmer : Crystal World
  • 2018: Agata Madejska. Modified Limited Hangout
  • 2018: Venske & Spänle. takeover
  • 2018: turning points. The year 1968. Positions in German art - and what became of them
  • 2018: David Borgmann. It will also change
  • 2017: Norbert Schwontkowski . Laughed in death's face. Before that in the Goch Museum . Companion book.
  • 2017: uninhibited / committed. Art from the streets of Berlin. Catalog
  • 2017: Ralf Peters . Between day and night, photographic works
  • 2017: NORDWESTKUNST 2017. The nominees
  • 2016: Endangered splendor. Textile design by the Swiss cult brand Fabric Frontline between art, fashion and ecology
  • 2016: Rolf Julius. Music is everywhere. Works 1979–2010
  • 2016: Jan Albers. hallucinogen
  • 2016: Two meters below zero. An art exhibition on climate change in the north
  • 2016: Young look at the iconic building of Wilhelmshaven. Drafts for an extension of the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven on Adalbertplatz
  • 2015: 15 years NORDWESTKUNST Prize. Highlights of the previous winners
  • 2015: Stefan Ettlinger. Bahnhofstrasse / Milky Way Painting 1985–2015
  • 2015: The audience as sovereign. Participative Strategies in Art Today
  • 2015: 20 years of new acquisitions for the graphic collection. The importance of the stylus art association for Wilhelmshaven
  • 2014: NORDWESTKUNST 2013. The winners Gosia Machon and Jenny Feldmann
  • 2014: Answers to Calder. Mobiles in contemporary art
  • 2014: Structures. British and German Painting in Dialogue / British and German Painting in Dialogue
  • 2014: collecting in the north. Treasures from private collections in Wilhelmshaven and in the Oldenburger Land
  • 2013: NORDWESTKUNST 2013. The nominees
  • 2013: Francisco Montoya Cázarez. Kingdom
  • 2013: Jochen Mühlenbrink. FRAGILE. pictures of an exhibition
  • 2013. Christian Pilz. Drawings 2006 to 2013
  • 2013: Karen Geyer. Gray tone orchestra, a soundscape
  • 2007: Gereon Krebber Plastik. All that is solid melts into air
  • 2006: Horst Keining. New spray
  • 2006: deep light. Black in contemporary photography. Zofia Kulik + Peter Schlör + Michael Schnabel + Ingolf Timpner + Adam Thompson
  • 2006: The painting of freedom. Masterpieces of Polish concrete art from the Bydgoszcz District Museum 1960–1980
  • 2006: Leonard Wübbena. 10 years later. Rocaille and Industry
  • 2006: Claudia Hinsch + Stefan Roigk. Laureate of NordWestKunst 2005
  • 2005: Seeing God. Risks and opportunities of religious images
  • 2005: Birgit Antoni. shower
  • 2005: Rainer Fetting meets Lovis Corinth. Wild painting over time
  • 2005: NordWestKunst 2005. The nominees
  • 2005: Anke Erlenhoff. Color and drama
  • 2004: Christian Holtmann + Patricia Lambertus. Laureate of the NordWestKunst 2003
  • 2004: Rik van Iersel. Transparency
  • 2004: What you want! An imaginary portrait of Wilhelmshaven.
  • 2004: Strict wood. Heiner Szamida - Helga Weihs - Jan de Weryha
  • 2004: Ralf Peters . Plastic photography
  • 2003: NordWestKunst 2003. The nominees
  • 2003: Kaiser Wilhelm II as a draftsman and painter
  • 2003. Ornament - Beauty and Crime. Mariella Mosler + Silke Radenhausen + Jochen Twelker + Ekrem Yalcindag
  • 2003: Sea of ​​flags. The exhibition
  • 2003: Marie-Jo Lafontain. Babylon babies
  • 2002: landscape. Photographs by Robert Adams, Joachim Brohm, Laurenz Berges, Berhard Fuchs and Simone Nieweg
  • 2002: Marina Schulze - Diego Castro - Christine Schulz . Winner of NordWestKunst 2002

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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '19.6 "  N , 8 ° 7' 16.8"  E