Kunsthaus Essen

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The Kunsthaus Essen in the Essen district of Rellinghausen is an exhibition and event center for artists in Essen.

Art house

The Kunsthaus was founded in 1977:

Exhibition poster for the first joint exhibition of the founding members of Kunsthaus Essen eV

The founding members are shown on the poster.

  • top row: Lisa Klahold, Albrecht Nolte, Rolf-Maria Rexhausen, Tom Forger, Günter Sponheuer
  • bottom row: Jürgen Fraczewski, Bärbel Forger, Walter Nagat, Waltraud Steuer, Jo Schäfer

The first joint exhibition of these founding members took place in November 1977 in the Bizard Gallery in Bochum. The first joint work was a poster for the Bochum exhibition based on an idea by Walter Nagat. The aim of the artists was to rent an empty house, speculating on an old school building, in which, in addition to living studios for the members, various workshops for working with wood and metal, a pottery and a photo laboratory should be located. The group wanted to gain more creativity for their own work by dealing with the work of the other artists.

View from the front building of the courtyard and the building of the Kunsthaus Essen eV from 1978 on

At the same time, a communication center with all kinds of artistic representation should be made available to the public. In 1978 suitable premises were rented in the former "Adler" laundry in the backyard of Eduard-Lucasstrasse. 26a in Essen. In the same year the expansion of a wood workshop, a painting studio and a photo laboratory began. The renovation work increased the feeling of togetherness, but at the same time the artistic content was neglected. Some members withdrew, others joined them. There was cooperation with the cultural office of the city of Essen and the AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt). A course program was developed.

There were performances by Pigeon Drop, who had signed Rolf Maria Rexhausen and Dana Savic directly from the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam, as well as concerts by Helge Schneider , who was often ready to perform when there were financial difficulties, and Stefan Stoppok with the Stender band .

The first exhibition poster. A joint effort by Rolf-Maria Rexhausen and Rainer Vollmer

Harald Schmidt , who had just been brought to the Düsseldorfer Kommödchen by Kay Lorentz , performed his first solo program. These highlights were due, among other things, to the good contacts made by the Kunsthaus managing director Andreas Kunze , who died in 2010. Other important people were as managing directors: Günter Sponheuer, Folkwang performance award winner for painting in 1967 and as board member: Waltraut Steuer.

In the mid- 1980s , the Kunsthaus moved to a former school in the Rellinghausen district of Essen, where it developed into a regionally and internationally important exhibition and production location for contemporary art . The conception of the exhibitions, publications and events are developed and carried out by the artists and members represented in the house. There are 16 permanent studios , a sound studio, a modern dance hall and a studio with living space for the artist in residence program of the house.

Kunsthaus Essen 2018

Young Art Scholarship in Essen

  • 1998 Caro Suerkemper
  • 1999 Peter Torp
  • 2000 Phillip Zaiser
  • 2001 Matthias Weischer
  • 2002 Astrid Nippoldt
  • 2003 Jana Gunstheimer
  • 2004 Slawomir Elsner
  • 2005 Phillip Morlock
  • 2006 Simon Halfmeyer
  • 2007 Anna Lea Hucht
  • 2008 Ole Aselmann
  • 2009 Axel Loytved
  • 2010 Simone Junker
  • 2011 Balz Isler
  • 2012 Julia Charlotte Richter
  • 2013 Francisca Gómez

Artist in residence program

  • 2015 Idan Hayosh
Café with a small concert stage in the Kunsthaus Essen 2018

Studios

The artists working at the Kunsthaus until 2016 include: Luis Antunes Pena, Stephan von Knobloch, Christian Gode, Christoph Esser, Colin Penno, Katrin Braun, Ulla Kalkowsky, Cornelia Baltes, Anne Berlit, Pavlina Cerna, Sebastian Fritzsch , Petra Göbel, Alexeider Abad Gonzalez, Johannes Gramm , Anke Grams, Raoul Haarmann , Christoph Hildebrand , Katharina Lökenhoff, Renate Neuser, Paran Pour, Sandra Setzkorn, Gerda Schlembach, Martina Achenbach, Peter Cloos, Sven Drühl , Thomas Fehige, Tomas Forger, Ellen Hartleif, Matt Haycocks, Roman Kochanski, Karin Hilmar, Elke Kelc (Grevel), Mlallack Klyne, Sigrid Lange, Karl-Heinz Mauermann, Katharina Mentink, Uschi Meschenmoser, Christian Paulsen, Gillian Perry, Anna Reitmeier, Claudia Sacher, Hubert Sandmann , Matthias Schamp , Klaus Sondermann, Günther Sponheuer, Christoph Kammer, Jens Meinerz, Rainer Vollmer, Alexander Werth, Fabian Weinecke, Christoph Wiese, Harriet Wölki, Ingrid Weidig, Phillip Ullrich and others. The managing director and curator is Dr. Uwe Schramm, who also organizes the exhibitions together with some studio users.

Exhibitions in recent years at the Kunsthaus

  • 2014 Anna Lena Grau, Hiroko Kameda, Martin Meiser, Qumi, Anna Steinert - Beyond Mainstream
  • 2014 René Hüls - To the things
  • 2013 Diana Rattray - Uncomfortably close
  • 2013 Artists Anonymous - The world needs that, otherwise it will end
  • 2013 Julia Charlotte Richter - Promised Land
  • 2013 Territoires émergents (in cooperation with the Center Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais and the Goethe-Institut Lille)
  • 2013 Clare Strand & Gordon MacDonald - Most Popular of all time
  • 2013 Jens Liebchen - Tsukuba-Narita 2011/03/13
  • 2012 Chu chun Teng, Iva Kontic, Alexis Milne, Sandra Setzkorn, Burcu Yagcioglu / Korhan Erel - I see something that you don't see
  • 2012 Julien Deiss, Meret Held, Roman Kochanski, Paula Mueller, Leonie Schilling - pictures about pictures
  • 2012 Balz Isler - Jez kommz dick
  • 2012 Tapemosphere - Tapemosphere # 20
  • 2012 Greta Alfaro, Mels van der Mede, Tony Tasset, Kris Verdonck - Drama, Baby, Drama!
  • 2012 Hiraki Sawa - Dwelling
  • 2011 ES Mayorga - Another Fire Tragedy
  • 2011 Franz Burkhardt - available hour
  • 2011 Laurina Paperina, Katja Stuke , NUG, Suzanne Posthumus, Christopher Daniels - Flashmob
  • 2011 Jan Buchholz - own brand
  • 2011 Manuel Wiedemann - disruptive factor
  • 2011 Rana Matloub - happiness rages in strangers
  • 2011 Philipp Artus, Martin Bothe / Alexander Policek, David Buob / Susan Schmidt, Evelyn Ebert, Frederik Kochbeck, Benjamin Zuber / Daniel Kiss - Dual
  • 2011 Timm Rautert , Carl Emanuel Wolff - A lot helps a lot
  • 2010 Mirko Martin, Jason Evans, Mark Neville - nextOne. discussing photography
  • 2010 loveboat
  • 2010 Heike Kati Barath - house friends
  • 2010 Susanne Britz - Neonbird
  • 2010 checkpoint
  • 2010 Paul Barsch, Jens Braun, Tobias Töpfer, Suzanne Wild - Sweet Dreams
  • 2010 Axel Loytved - Everything has to go
  • 2010 Axel Braun - Christian Odzuck , Sebastian Fritzsch - Daniela Friebel, Isabel Hernandez - Daniela Riesch - There will never be problems again
  • 2009 Ole Aselmann - The essence of the pea
  • 2009 Josef Schulz - transition
  • 2009 Arno Roncada, Bert Danckaert, Marc De Blieck - Best General View
  • 2009 Christian Forsen, Sebastian Wickeroth - Hell Feld
  • 2009 Andrea Bakketun
  • 2008 Gereon Krebber - droopy
  • 2008 Grit Hachmeister
  • 2008 Cornelia Baltes, Paran Pour, Sandra Setzkorn - 3 IN 1
  • 2008 New Visions - Gerrit Rietveld Academie class Johannes Schwartz and Paul Kooiker
  • 2008 Florian Süssmayr
  • 2008 Brigitte Spiegeler - no exit
  • 2007 Sylvie Zijlmans
  • 2007 Susanne Ring
  • 2007 Sabrina Jung
  • 2007 Simon Halfmeyer - the grown and built
  • 2006 Susanne Kutter - Back in five minutes
  • 2006 Philipp Morlock - I'm already there
  • 2006 Wolf Klein - The flower shop
  • 2006 Tatsuya Higuchi - slowly forgotten now
  • 2005 Anne Berlit, Ralf Haarmann, Christoph Hildebrand
  • 2005 The Gunhild Söhn collection
  • 2005 Dirk Bratz - REUNION - social ball
  • 2005 Slawomir Elsner - Red - White
  • 2005 Jennifer Baumeister, Comfort XxL, The comfort machine is
  • 2005 Phillip Morlock - way to school
  • 2004 Veronika Witte - unexpected
  • 2004 Johannes Gramm - 18? Now I want to see everything!
  • 2004 Rani Marius Le Prince - audibly absent
  • 2004 Jana Gunstheimer - people without a task
  • 2004 Jörg Bloem - disappear
  • 2004 Thomas Gerhards - in between
  • 2004 Clara Röllinghoff - For a lifetime or per tutta la vita / I barbieri a Roma
  • 2004 Astrid Nippoldt - 9 and curve
  • 2004 Robert Scheipner - Windei (Propellerkino)
  • 2004 Mark Stolte - Well hung

Monday, Monday

The concert series Monday-Monday has been running in the café of the Kunsthaus since 2010, the year of the Ruhr Area's Capital of Culture. Since every Monday musicians, bands and performers have been playing a one-hour concert with free admission.

building

The school building was built by Oskar Schwer , the architect responsible for the entire Gottfried Wilhelm colony in Essen-Rellinghausen. The "Städtische Knabenmittelschule Essen-Süd" was inaugurated in today's Kunsthaus in 1925, the predecessor of today's Albert Einstein Realschule . The school itself has the first documents for 1934; documents may have been destroyed during the Second World War. After the resumption of classes in 1945, the students had to endure long shifts with morning and afternoon classes. In 1953 the groundbreaking ceremony for a new school building on Ardeyplatz took place - the first ever new school building in the city of Essen after the Second World War. In the following year, classes began in the new classrooms.

location

  • Address: Kunsthaus Essen eV, Rübezahlstrasse 33, 45134 Essen
  • Public transport: Essen, stops Finefraustraße, Annental

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunsthaus-essen.de The Gunhild Söhn Collection http://www.kunsthaus-essen.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105:gunhildsoehn2005&catid=35&Itemid=29

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 8 ″  E