Kunsthaus Dresden

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South side with a view of the main entrance; on the right the spiral-shaped seating on the Kunsthausplatz

As a municipal cultural institution, part of the museums of the city of Dresden and house for international contemporary art , the Kunsthaus Dresden provides insights into current art happenings in the world with changing exhibitions and accompanying events. The exhibitions and collaborations, festivals, lecture series and educational projects at schools developed at the Kunsthaus Dresden are devoted to particular current topics of global contemporary art from the perspective of very different origins and generations in various artistic forms of expression. Due to construction work, the Kunsthaus is expected to be closed until April 2019. Necessary fire protection measures and quality improvements are carried out.

description

Since it was dedicated in 1991, the Kunsthaus Dresden has been a central urban location for international contemporary art. The building was built around 1740 according to the specifications of the bourgeois Baroque and has since been open to the latest developments in international and supraregional art as well as to young contemporary art in Dresden . In the foyer of the Kunsthaus, tanteleuk , a Neustadt café with fair coffee and a vegan as well as traditional cake offer, has been operating a branch since 2016.

International contemporary art

The work of the Kunsthaus applies in different, often interdisciplinary team constellations to the development and presentation of exhibitions of current contemporary art and the development of offers of education and communication. Since 2009 also with own program sections outside of the own house for schools in Dresden and the region. The lively program with changing lectures, workshops, film series, performances, concerts and tours also offers an interested Dresden audience, who unites a broad spectrum of the cultural scene and also a young audience, insights into very current trends in art. The exhibitions and collaborations, festivals, lecture series and educational projects at schools developed in the Kunsthaus Dresden are devoted to special topics of global contemporary art in various artistic forms of expression.

Art in urban space

The Kunsthaus Dresden is not limited to in-house exhibitions, but initiates artistic experiences and encounters between people in many other places in the city, including on Theaterplatz and Neumarkt. Examples of this are the culture festival Am Fluss / At the River, launched in 2016, on Cultures of Arrival . In this context, the temporary memorial 'Monument' by the German-Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni initiated by the Kunsthaus Dresden triggered a wave of regional and supra-regional sympathy and emotions. An intensive examination of forms of remembrance and contemporary art accompanied the events on site and attracted international media attention.

Other important projects from 2014 to 2016 were Vot ken you mach? an interdisciplinary project in Dresden and Wrocław on Jewish identities in Europe together with Dorota Monkiewicz and Rafal Jakubovic at the MWW Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Breslau as in 2016 The Germans did not come in cooperation with Michal Bieniek in Wrocław and the premiere of the touring exhibition of ifa The Event of A thread that started in Dresden with an extensive program of collaborations and performances in urban space (Lara Schnitger Suffragette City , Raul Walch Azimut Muqarnas Elbflug ).

Jaan Toomik, Marian Bogusz, Christa Jeitner, Seiichi Furuya, Lysann Buschbeck, Ulrike Grossarth, Lisl Ponger and Leoni Wirth are artists who u. a. were represented with solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Dresden. The subject of media speculation on a larger scale was a contribution to the group exhibition Artificial Facts / Boundary Objects . Here eleven collages were shown under the author's name Karl Waldmann, with reference to a previously puzzling history. This led to the Waldmann case , in which Thomas Steinfeld, as the author of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , expressed suspicion of art forgery . This suspicion could not be corroborated, nor could a final clarification of the question of authorship be carried out in the context of the 'case'.

Art in context before and after 1989

Other important projects include the exhibition of the master class students on the 250th anniversary of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts "New Masters so Far", and the large number of exhibitions that experienced and reflected on the different art developments in East and West together Address the prehistory of our present day. A selection of these exhibitions and projects reads: “I am not my target group” for the Stefan Heinemann collection, “On-site meeting with Leoni Wirth” , the first retrospective on the work of the Dresden sculptor Leoni Wirth in collaboration with the Art Fund / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, “40 years Video art ” , a review of media art in East and West in cooperation with the ZKM Center for Media Culture, “ Unknown Sister I / II ” and much more

Art and education

Another focus of project development at the Kunsthaus Dresden is the educational potential of contemporary art in terms of aesthetic and cultural education. Projects such as Shifting Identities , Das Mobile Landschaftsatelier , Walden # 3 , Vot ken you mach mobil and White Cube Black Box , a separate format of Kunsthauses in cooperation with young people in cooperation with architects, designers, artists in Dresden have been created in recent years under the title Art = Education .

The Walden # 3 project, developed in 2007 at the Kunsthaus and published by Spector Books, dealt with the topicality of historical reform pedagogy in cooperation with artists and schoolchildren with exhibitions and conferences in Dresden and Munich .

Publications

In addition to the work of the house, a number of publications have been created, including the photo book, Seiichi Furuya: Why Dresden , 2016, the two-volume catalog on art and historical photography Ulrike Grossarth: Fabrics from Lublin , 2011, the collection of essays World in Hand. World in Your Hand 2010, on the cultural and social changes caused by mobile telephony, Wildes Kapital. Wild Capital. Reflections on post-socialist cities / Reflections on post-socialist cities 2006.

Location

The building is located in the Innere Neustadt district , the right Elbe part of Dresden city center. It is located on Rähnitzgasse, the historic connecting route between Altendresden and Rähnitz . The Kunsthaus Dresden is the southernmost preserved building in the contiguous baroque quarter around Königstrasse . Immediately adjacent are prefabricated buildings around Neustädter Markt , which replaced the town houses destroyed in the air raids in 1945. Other Dresden museums in the vicinity are the Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism and the museums in the Jägerhof and the Japanese Palace .

The Kunsthausplatz in front of the Kunsthaus was realized in 2010 on the initiative of the Kunsthaus Dresden and on behalf of the City Planning Office of the City of Dresden, based on a design by the artist Jozef Legrand .

history

Back entrance

The history of today's Kunsthaus Dresden begins in 1981, when the "Galerie Rähnitzgasse" was set up in the same building for exhibition purposes and the house built in 1730 in the typical style of Dresden Neustadt was converted into an exhibition building. From 1984 to 1990 the house acted as the seat of the "Center for Art Exhibitions", from which the IX. and X. Art Exhibition of the GDR was logistically prepared. After German reunification , the cultural offerings at the Kunsthaus Dresden were realigned. The cultural offerings, which until then had mainly focused on local and national art, were connected to the international art and culture scene and henceforth serve as a platform for current art movements.

From 1995 to 2001 the house was managed by Harald Kunde. The Kunsthaus has been run by Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz since spring 2003. In the period from 2007 to 2009 and 2011 to 2013, Susanne Weiß (2007–2009) and Petra Reichensperger (2011–2013) took on parental leave substitutes. The Kunsthaus has been part of the Dresden City Museums since 2017.

In the period from August 2018 to probably April 2019, the Kunsthaus Dresden will be closed due to the implementation of necessary fire protection measures and quality improvements, but new exhibitions are in preparation and projects are taking place outside the house.

Other local municipal art galleries are the Leonhardi Museum and the Dresden City Gallery .

Web links

Commons : Kunsthaus Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kunsthausdresden.de
  2. ^ Kunsthaus Dresden (about us). Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Monument. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Confrontation Monument. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ vote you do. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Germans did not come. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Suffragette City. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The event of a thread. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Dadaist Karl Waldmann, it is a fiction. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ New Masters so Far. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ I am not my target group. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  12. ↑ On-site meeting with Leoni Wirth. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  13. ^ Shifting Identities. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Mittendrin, an exhibition by the mobile landscape studio. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Walden 3, or the child as a medium. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  16. ↑ white cube black box. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Walden, 3. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Seiichi Furuya, why photography Dresden. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  19. ^ Fabrics from Lublin. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Publications. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  21. ^ Kunsthausplatz: Josef Legrand. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  22. ^ History of the Kunsthaus Dresden. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  23. ^ Head of Kunsthaus Dresden. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 27.5 ″  E