Kunsthaus Bregenz
 Kunsthaus Bregenz, exterior view in November 2010 |
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| place | Bregenz |
| Art |
Art museum
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| architect | Peter Zumthor |
| opening | 1997 |
| management |
Thomas D. Trummer
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| Website | |
The Kunsthaus Bregenz (short: KUB) shows international contemporary art in changing exhibitions in the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz . It was planned by the well-known Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on behalf of the State of Vorarlberg and built between 1990 and 1997.
General
The Kunsthaus Bregenz is one of the architecturally and programmatically outstanding exhibition halls for contemporary art in Europe. The 1880 m² exhibition area extends over the KUB Arena on the ground floor and three upper floors. In the Kunsthaus international contemporary artists exhibit works, most of which are specially created for the rooms of the Kunsthaus. The KUB has its own collection with two main focuses: the Archive Art Architecture Collection and the Collection of Austrian Contemporary Art. Even before the opening in 1997, purchases of works by Austrian contemporary artists such as Maria Lassnig , Valie Export and Heimo Zobernig as well as works by international artists at the intersection of art and architecture began. Since 2009, the collection has been expanded to include works by the artists exhibiting there, including significant donations from Donald Judd and Per Kirkeby .
With its exhibitions and projects, the Kunsthaus Bregenz is not only facing international challenges. At the same time, it makes a contribution to the cultural identity of the region with projects in Vorarlberg. Expressions of the identity-creating function of the Kunsthaus Bregenz are z. For example, the work “Signatur 02” by Gottfried Bechtold on the Silvretta Dam, the work “Truth Before Power” by the American artist Jenny Holzer from 2004, in which large-format texts were projected onto architectural and natural monuments throughout Vorarlberg, or that from August 2010 to April 2012 realized the landscape project "Horizon Field" by the British sculptor Antony Gormley .
In addition to extensive representative exhibitions in the characteristic rooms of the Kunsthaus, the KUB shows projects in the KUB Arena that are process-based and interdisciplinary . The KUB-Arena, as an art and communication platform on the ground floor of the Kunsthaus, is designed as a discursive interface between architecture and work.
In addition to the exhibitions, the Kunsthaus offers an extensive educational program. The Kunsthaus Bregenz is the publisher of publications, text series and catalog books which implement the artistic idea in close cooperation with the exhibiting artists and renowned graphic designers such as Walter Nikkels or Stefan Sagmeister . In addition, special editions are created exclusively for the Kunsthaus Bregenz from the close proximity to the artists and their production facilities.
On May 1, 2011, Österreichische Post AG issued a postage stamp on the property as part of the definitive series of art houses .
Museum management
The founding director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz is Edelbert Köb , who held this position until 2000. Eckhard Schneider followed him from 2000 to 2008. From October 1, 2009 to January 31, 2015, Yilmaz Dziewior was director of the Kunsthaus. On February 1, 2015, he took over the management of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. The native Austrian and curator Thomas D. Trummer was appointed as his successor from May 1, 2015 .
architecture
“The Kunsthaus stands in the light of Lake Constance. Its body is made of glass plates, steel and a stone mass of poured concrete, which forms structure and space inside the house. Seen from the outside, the building looks like a light fixture. It absorbs the changing light of the sky, the haze of the lake, reflects light and color and, depending on the angle of view, time of day and weather, gives an idea of its inner workings. "
"Unobservable from the outside and correspondingly majestic, the glass-covered cube on the shores of Lake Constance has been an aesthetic presence in Vorarlberg for ten years now."
The Kunsthaus Bregenz was designed by the internationally renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, who was awarded the Pritzker Prize . In 1998 he won the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture with the Kunsthaus . With its multiple award-winning construction, the KUB is one of the most important museum buildings of contemporary architecture worldwide and is a vivid example of the architectural style of minimalism . Conceived as a daylight museum, the building impresses with its significant external shape and the uncompromising implementation of its spatial concept. With his design for the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor committed himself to the actual task of a museum, to be a place for works of art and a place for people who would like to encounter these works of art in peace. For the artists exhibiting at the KUB, the architecture becomes a real benchmark and conceptual impetus for their exhibition appearances, especially when producing entire series of works. The architecture is therefore an indispensable platform for the international exhibition program of the KUB.
tour
In addition to the vorarlberg museum and the Vorarlberger Landestheater , the new KUB building is positioned as a self-confident solitaire in the center of Bregenz on the shoreline to Lake Constance . Together with the State Theater, the Kunsthaus defines its own space between the old town and the lake.
Building structure
The building structure of the KUB consists of finely etched, frosted glass-like glass panels of the same size, which are held in place by clips. They form an air-flushed light diffusion skin in front of the exterior of the exhibition building and ensure initial filtering and optimal redirection of daylight into the light ceilings on the exhibition floors. In the dark, the artificial light shines through the light strips from inside the building through the glass skin and shows its inner workings. Technical service zones are integrated into the filigree support structure between the building and the glass facade. Sometimes the outer skin is also used by the artists exhibiting at the Kunsthaus Bregenz and integrated into installations.
inside rooms
The interior of the Kunsthaus is characterized by a high presence of materials. Visible concrete dominates as no cladding or painting over has been made. The floors and stairs are made of polished terrazzo . The walls and ceiling of the first floor are made of raw, unpolished concrete. The ground floor of the exhibition building takes on the function of the foyer with cash register, catalog sales and cloakrooms. Most of the almost 500 m² serves as exhibition space and multifunctional action space for presentations in the so-called KUB-Arena. With its glass outer walls, the ground floor underlines the load-bearing construction of three differently placed wall panels, which on the one hand define the exhibition space on all floors and at the same time separate the vertical access zones (staircase, escape stairs, passenger and goods lift) from the actual room. Due to the uniform positioning of the entrances and exits, a tour develops from the ground floor through the three upper floors, which differ only in the room heights and which, depending on the exhibition, can be used as a large hall or freely divided by mobile elements. All three upper floors are designed as skylight halls. The ceilings of the exhibition rooms consist of etched industrial glass panels joined together. These distribute the daylight in the room, which falls into the cavity above the glass ceiling from all four sides of the building through circumferential light strips. The artificial light, also integrated in the cavity above the dust blanket, supplements and replaces the daylight if necessary, but without making the individual light sources visible. The ground floor and the three floors stacked on top of each other form a closed unit with their material and form aesthetics with great potential for art installations. Two basement floors complete the spatial program. In the first, partly still supplied with daylight by a light ditch, there is next to the sanitary rooms the lecture and museum education room, which is separated from the non-public areas (workshops, staff rooms) by translucent glass brick walls. The second basement is defined by an original archive and storage areas as well as the technical center and is not accessible to the public.
Administration building and café
In front of the Kunsthaus on the old town side is the KUB administration building. With its black facade, it directs the view of the main facade of the Kunsthaus and its entrance. Its dimensions are adapted to the proportions of the smaller buildings surrounding the old town. The KUB-Café is located next to the administration offices on the ground floor. Here too, Peter Zumthor shows his architectural consistency: the café and bar area as well as the kitchen are designed in black exposed concrete. The relocation of the facilities that have become indispensable in today's exhibition business from the exhibition building emphasizes the concentration of the main building on its actual purpose.
KUB collection showcase
The Kunsthaus Bregenz has its own collection. One of the largest bundles in the collection consists of over 300 architectural models by Peter Zumthor. Some of these exhibits have been archived by the KUB since the architect's solo exhibition in 2007, and new models are added regularly. Both realized buildings and project drafts are presented. The diversity of the presentation shows the outstanding role that working with models and materials such as wood, metal or clay plays in the work of the Atelier Peter Zumthor.
Awards
Exhibitions
| year | Artist | exhibition | Duration |
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| 1997 | James Turrell | James Turrell | July 26th to September 7th, 1997 |
| Various | Art in the City 1 | July 26th to September 7th, 1997 | |
| Various | Artists | September 29th to November 30th | |
| Per Kirkeby | Personal: painting, drawing, sculpture | December 6, 1997 to February 15, 1998 | |
| 1998 | Lois Renner | Lois Renner | February 28th to April 13th |
| Various | Atlas Mapping: Artists as Cartographers. Cartography as a culture | February 28th to April 13th | |
| Adrian Schiess | Painting. Personal | April 25th to June 28th | |
| Various | Spaces of art | April 25th to June 28th | |
| Sepp Dreissinger | 66 photo portraits from Vorarlberg culture | May 8th to June 28th | |
| Various | Art in the City 2 | July 11th to September 20th | |
| Various | Lifestyle | July 11th to September 20th | |
| Bechtold / Kalb / Neyer / Wacker | Work show | October 3 to June 27, 1999 | |
| Rainer Ganahl | Rainer Ganahl | October 10th to November 22nd | |
| Erwin Bohatsch | painting | November 28, 1998 to January 24, 1999 | |
| Gerhard Merz | Dresden | November 28, 1998 to January 24, 1999 | |
| 1999 | Ingeborg Strobl | Some items. And sunset | January 30th to April 5th |
| Erwin Wurm | one minute sculptures | January 30th to April 5th | |
| Devlin, Gursky & Höfer | Spaces | April 9th to June 27th | |
| Ernst Strouhal & Heimo Zobernig | The catalog | May 28th to June 27th | |
| Wolfgang Loaf | Personal | July 10th to September 19th | |
| Various | Art in the City 3 | July 10th to September 19th | |
| Keith Sonnier | Environmental Works 1968-99 | October 2nd to November 28th | |
| Helmut Federle | Personal | December 9, 1999 to February 6, 2000 | |
| 2000 | Peter Kogler | Personal | February 19 to April 30 |
| Donald Judd | colour | May 13th to July 2nd | |
| Various | Truck (art of living) | July 15th to September 17th | |
| Symposium art houses | Architecture vs art - art vs museum | November 16 to November 18 | |
| Various | Museums for a new millennium | October 3, 2000 to January 7, 2001 | |
| 2001 | Daniel Buren | Les Couleurs Traversées | January 27th to March 18th |
| Olafur Eliasson | The mediated motion | March 31 to May 13 | |
| Günther Förg | FÖRG | May 24th to July 8th | |
| Jeff Koons | July 18 to September 16 | ||
| Hiroshi Sugimoto | The Architecture of Time | September 27 to January 6, 2002 | |
| 2002 | Douglas Gordon | 17th January to 14th April | |
| Gilbert & George | April 28th to June 23rd | ||
| Louise Bourgeois | Drawings and Sculptures-Drawings and Sculptures | July 6th to September 15th | |
| Ruth Schnell | Territorism (KUB facade) | July 12th to August 18th | |
| Pierre Huyghe | L'expédition scintillante | September 28th to November 24th | |
| Doug Aitken | NEW OCEAN (a shifting exhibition) | December 7, 2002 to January 26, 2003 | |
| 2003 | Mariko Mori | Wave UFO | February 8th to March 23rd |
| Gerhard Merz | fragments bregenz 2003 | April 12th to June 22nd | |
| Franz West | We'll Not Carry Coals | July 5th to September 14th | |
| Anish Kapoor | My Red Homeland | September 27th to November 16th | |
| Various | Remind ... | November 30, 2003 to January 11, 2004 | |
| Tone finch | Carwalk | December 6, 2003 to January 18, 2004 | |
| 2004 | Gary Hume | The Bird had a Yellow Beak | January 24th to March 21st |
| Santiago Sierra | 300 tons / 300 tons | April 3 to May 23 | |
| Jenny Holzer | Truth Before Power | June 12th to September 5th | |
| Thomas Demand | Phototrophy | September 18 to November 7 | |
| Hans Schabus | The rendezvous problem | November 20, 2004 to January 16, 2005 | |
| 2005 | Jake + Dinos Chapman | Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs | January 29th to March 28th |
| Various | Constructive provocation - new building in Vorarlberg | February 5th to March 28th | |
| Rachel Whiteread | Walls, Doors, Floors and Stairs | April 9th to May 29th | |
| Roy Lichtenstein | Classic of the New | June 12th to September 9th | |
| Siegrun Appelt | 288 KW | July 9th to September 4th | |
| Various | Do Felix Austria ... Wild at Heart | July 9th to September 4th | |
| Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller | The Secret Hotel | November 26, 2005 to January 15, 2006 | |
| 2006 | Jean-Marc Bustamante | -beautifuldays- | January 29th to March 19th |
| gelitin | Chinese synthesis of meat loaf | April 13th to May 28th | |
| Michael Craig-Martin | Signs of Life | June 10th to August 13th | |
| Tino Sehgal | August 17th to September 24th | ||
| Gottfried Bechtold | Pure and mixed states | October 1st to November 19th | |
| Cindy Sherman | December 2, 2006 to January 28, 2007 | ||
| 2007 | Marcel Duchamp , Gerhard Merz , Damien Hirst , Jeff Koons | Re-Object | February 18th to May 13th |
| Joseph Beuys , Matthew Barney , Douglas Gordon , Cy Twombly | myth | June 2nd to September 9th | |
| Peter Zumthor | Buildings and projects 1986–2007 | September 29, 2007 to January 9, 2008 | |
| 2008 | Maurizio Cattelan | February 2nd to March 24th | |
| Carsten Höller | Carrousel | April 12th to June 1st | |
| Richard Serra | Drawings-Work Comes Out of Work | June 14th to September 14th | |
| Jan Fabre | From the Cellar to the Attic - From the Feet to the Brain | September 27 to January 25, 2009 | |
| 2009 | Markus Schinwald | Vanishing Lessons | February 14th to March 13th |
| Lothar Baumgarten | Seven Sounds / Seven Circles | April 25th to June 21st | |
| Antony Gormley | July 13th to October 4th | ||
| Tony Oursler | Lock 2,4,6 | October 24, 2009 to January 17, 2010 | |
| 2010 | Candice Breitz | The Scripted Life | February 6th to April 11th |
| Roni Horn | Well and Truly | April 24th to July 4th | |
| Cosima von Bonin | The Fatigue Empire | July 18th to October 3rd | |
| raumlaborberlin | Bye bye utopia | July 18th to October 3rd | |
| Harun Farocki | Soft montages | October 23 to January 9, 2011 | |
| Antony Gormley | Horizon Field | August 2010 to April 2012 | |
| 2011 | Haegue Yang | Arrivals | January 22nd to April 3rd |
| Michal Heiman , Hannah Hurtzig , Katrin Mayer | KUB Arena: Living Archives cooperation Van Abbemuseum | January 22nd to April 3rd | |
| Various | So we do it. Techniques and Aesthetics of Appropriation . From Ei Arakawa to Andy Warhol | April 16 to July 3 | |
| Yona Friedman and Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz | KUB Arena | April 16 to July 3 | |
| Ai Weiwei | Art / Architecture | July 16 to October 16 | |
| Various | KUB Arena: a good start. All good | July 16 to October 16 | |
| Valie Export | archive | October 29 to January 22, 2012 | |
| Theater project: International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) Berlin | KUB Arena: Hate Radio | October 29 to January 22, 2012 | |
| 2012 | Yvonne Rainer | Space, body, language | February 4th to April 9th |
| Various | KUB Arena: lasting value? Cooperation> springerin < | February 4th to April 9th | |
| Danh Võ | Vô Danh | April 21 to June 24 | |
| Ulrike Müller | KUB Arena: Herstory Inventory: 100 feminist drawings by 100 artists | April 21 to June 24 | |
| Peter Zumthor | KUB Collection Showcase: Architectural Models Peter Zumthor | 2012 to February 9, 2014 | |
| Ed Ruscha | Reading Ed Ruscha | July 7th to October 14th | |
| Various | KUB Arena: Summer Academy. Art and ideological criticism after 1989 | September 24th to September 30th | |
| Florian Pumhösl | Spatial sequence | October 26th to January 20th 2013 | |
| Various | KUB Arena: Nairobi - A State of Mind, cooperation Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Kenya | October 26th to January 20th 2013 | |
| 2013 | Various | Love is colder than capital. An exhibition on the value of feelings | February 2 to April 14 |
| Andy Warhol | KUB Arena: Andy Warhol - Fifteen Minutes of Fame | February 2 to April 14 | |
| Wade Guyton, Guyton \ Walker, Kelley Walker | Wade Guyton, Guyton \ Walker, Kelley Walker | April 27th to June 30th | |
| Various | KUB Arena: On the move. European art gallery in the KUB arena | April 27th to June 30th | |
| Gabriel Orozco | Natural motion | July 13th to October 6th | |
| Various | KUB Arena: Back to the future. A summer week of art, films and music | August 5th to August 11th | |
| Barbara Kruger | Believe + Doubt | October 19 to January 12 | |
| Dora García | KUB Arena: The Sinthome Score | October 19 to January 12 | |
| 2014 | Pascale Marthine Tayou | Ich liebe dich! | January 25th to April 27th |
| Gerry Bibby \ Juliette Blightman | KUB Arena: Gerry Bibby \ Juliette Blightman | January 25th to April 27th | |
| Maria Eichhorn | Maria Eichhorn | May 10th to July 6th | |
| Sung Hwan Kim \ dogr | KUB Arena: Sung Hwan Kim \ dogr - I will dress you, howl bowel owl | May 10th to July 6th | |
| Richard Prince | It's a free concert | July 19 to October 5 | |
| Various | KUB Arena: Summer Festival - About becoming and being | July 19 to October 5 | |
| Jeff Wall | Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013 | October 18 to January 11 | |
| Hannah Weinberger | KUB Arena: Hannah Weinberger | October 18 to January 11 | |
| 2015 | Rosemarie Trockel | March ûnd Wiebôrweh sand on Môargô niana më | January 24th to April 6th |
| Trix and Robert Haussmann | KUB Arena: Trix and Robert Haussmann | January 24th to April 6th | |
| Berlinde De Bruyckere | The Embalmer | April 18th to July 5th | |
| Dexter Sinister | KUB Arena: Dexter Sinister | April 18th to July 5th | |
| Joan Mitchell | Retrospective. Her Life and Paintings | July 18 to October 25 | |
| KAMP KAYA feat. KAYA | KUB Arena: Summer program KAMP KAYA feat. KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch, Debo Eilers & Kaya Serene) & Guests | July 18 to October 25 | |
| Heimo Zobernig | Heimo Zobernig | November 7th to January 10th | |
| Amy Sillman | KUB Arena: Amy Sillman | November 7th to January 10th | |
| 2016 | Susan Philipsz | Night and Fog | January 30th to April 3rd |
| Theaster Gates | Black Archive | April 23 to June 26 | |
| Wael Shawky | July 16 to October 23 | ||
| Lawrence Weiner | Wherewithal - What it takes | November 12th to January 22nd | |
| 2017 | Rachel Rose | February 4th to April 17th | |
| Adrian Villar Rojas | The Theater of Disappearance | May 13th to August 27th | |
| Peter Zumthor | Dear to Me (Zumthor's world) | September 16, 2017 to January 7, 2018 | |
| 2018 | Simon Fujiwara | Hope House | January 27 to April 8, 2018 |
| Mika Rottenberg | April 21, 2018 to July 1, 2018 | ||
| David Claerbout | 4th July 2018 to 7th October 2018 | ||
| Tacita Dean | October 20, 2018 to January 6, 2019 | ||
| 2019 | Ed Atkins | January 19 to March 31, 2019 | |
| Miriam Cahn | LOOK CLOSELY | April 13th to June 30th, 2019 | |
| Thomas Schütte | July 13th to October 6th, 2019 | ||
| Raphaela Vogel | I woke up barking | October 19, 2019 to January 6, 2020 | |
| 2020 | Bunny Rogers | Child kingdom | January 18 to April 13, 2020 |
| Helen Cammock, William Kentridge's The Center
of the Less Good Idea, Annette Messager, Rabih Mroué, Markus Schinwald, Marianna Simnett, Ania Soliman |
Unforgettable time | June 5 to August 30, 2020 |
literature
- Peter Zumthor : Kunsthaus Bregenz (= Kunsthaus Bregenz. Archive, art, architecture. Work documents. ). Hatje, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7757-0720-4 .
- Toni Hildebrandt (in conversation with Peter Zumthor): Architecture, image and design. (PDF; 942 kB) In: Rheinsprung 11. Zeitschrift für Bildkritik. 1, 2011, ISSN 1664-9966 , pp. 139-146.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Kohler: Yilmaz Dziewor from Bonn: This is the new one for the Museum Ludwig . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , May 13, 2014, Culture; accessed on May 14, 2014
- ↑ Thomas D. Trummer becomes the new KUB director . (PDF) Press release KUB 2014; accessed on October 14, 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 17 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 52 ″ E