Kunsthaus Göttingen
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The Kunsthaus Göttingen is an exhibition house under construction, planned for works on paper, photography and new media in the southern inner city of Göttingen . The focus of the exhibition should be on contemporary art with an international focus. The first exhibition is planned for winter 2020. The project is financed from federal funds amounting to 4.5 million euros through the funding program “National Urban Development Projects”.
General
The building of the exhibition house is currently being completed on the property at Düsteren Strasse 7, next to the Günter Grass archive . The Kunsthaus is not a museum as it will not have its own collection. The program includes changing exhibitions with a focus on works on paper, photography and new media with an international focus and regional roots. The topping-out ceremony took place at the end of September 2019.
Directorate
Founding director Gerhard Steidl , founding managing director Alfons von Uslar, assistant to the management board , are responsible for the construction phase and operation in the first few years. Dorle Meyer and curator Ute Eskildsen . Guest curator is Joshua Chuang.
Gerhard Steidl is the honorary founding director of the house. He runs the Steidl Verlag near the Kunsthaus Göttingen. As early as 1969 he printed posters and multiples by artists such as Joseph Beuys and Klaus Staeck and now publishes selected art and photography volumes, literature and political non-fiction books. In addition to making books, Gerhard Steidl designs and curates exhibitions around the world. Alfons von Uslar supports the project in the start-up phase on a voluntary basis as the founding managing director. Dorle Meyer supports the Kunsthaus as authorized signatory and assistant to the management. The art historian with a doctorate has worked in the museum sector for many years and has accompanied the development of new exhibition projects. After working in Kassel and Berlin, and most recently as a project manager and curator when setting up a branch at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, she returned to Göttingen to help shape the realization of the Kunsthaus. Ute Eskildsen is the founding curator of the Kunsthaus. She advises the city on construction planning and is significantly involved in the programmatic orientation of the house. Eskildsen was the deputy director of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, where she headed the photography department, which she set up herself. Her photo exhibitions curated in the Folkwang Museum are known far beyond Germany. Joshua Chuang will work as a guest curator for the Kunsthaus. He established photography as the first curator at the Art Gallery at Yale University and was chief curator there. Today he works as head of the Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs and as a curator for photography at the New York Public Library and teaches at the Yale School of Art.
Architecture & courtyard
In 2016, the architecture studio Atelier ST in Leipzig won the competition for the construction project Kunsthaus Göttingen. The Berlin landscape architect Stefan Bernard won the associated competition for the design of the inner courtyard in 2017.
House
The four-storey house with a pointed roof is based on the neighboring half-timbered houses - here, too, the floor space expands towards the top. The foyer of the Kunsthaus is to be entered via an entrance gate and on the opposite side to reveal a view of the green inner courtyard. It is accessible to the public from three sides. The special feature of the building are three approximately 120 m² large and 3.20 m high column-free gallery rooms. The gallery rooms each have a floor-to-ceiling window that can be covered if necessary to protect the works on paper and to enable video installations and projections. In addition to the three large galleries, the Kunsthaus will have four smaller exhibition rooms. A 100 m² »forum« for events and mediation work is planned on the top floor. The Kunsthaus Göttingen thus has an exhibition area of 736 m².
patio
The inner courtyard is to be reached via the foyer of the house. There is a green area with seating and a children's playground. The Kunsthaus will share the inner courtyard with the Rote Straße bookstore and will also be publicly accessible via the Nikolaikirchhof. In addition, a pavilion with works by the American pop artist Jim Dine is planned in the courtyard.
Exhibitions
The focus of the exhibition will be on current positions in international contemporary art. In the curatorial program, close collaboration with the artists is planned, both for exhibitions and new productions. Three to four exhibitions are planned as individual or group exhibitions per year. A preview of the first exhibitions is to be published in January 2020. An accompanying program is planned for every exhibition, especially for children and young people. The artist Sebastian Stumpf is currently accompanying the construction phase of the Kunsthaus with the conception of a video work.
KuQua - art district Göttingen
In 2008 Gerhard Steidl and the then Lord Mayor Wolfgang Meyer presented the idea of an art quarter with the Kunsthaus as its center. The art district is located between Düsterer Straße, Nikolaikirchhof, Nikolaistraße and Turmstraße in the historic center of the city. In the quarter there are already some art and cultural institutions such as the Literary Center and the Göttingen Literature Autumn, as well as cafes and small businesses. The Günter Grass Archive , which belongs to the University of Göttingen , has been active as an exhibition and event location since 2015. In 2016 it was awarded the “Prize for Monument Preservation” from the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation. With the Kunsthaus, more technically complex exhibitions of contemporary art will also be possible in Göttingen in the future.
Friends of the Kunsthaus Göttingen
The Kunsthaus Göttingen is ideally and financially supported by a group of friends. The aim is to promote and convey art and culture to the public. With its financial donations, the Freundeskreis contributes to the running of the Kunsthaus and enables the exhibition program.
Web links
- Kunsthaus Göttingen
- City of Göttingen
- Steidl publishing house
- Göttingen literary autumn
- Literary Center Göttingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.goettingen.de/suedliche-innenstadt/kunstquartier.html
- ↑ https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/FP/ZIP/NPS/NPS_node.html
- ↑ https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/FP/ZIP/NPS/2014/foerderprojekte-2014/steckbriefe/goettingen.html?nn=1202346
- ↑ Steidl and his dream of a gallery: the Kunsthaus Göttingen celebrates the topping-out ceremony , hna.de, September 27, 2019
- ↑ https://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Die-Region/Goettingen/Richtfest-fuer-das-Kunsthaus-im-Kunstquartier-Goettingen
- ↑ https://www.atelier-st.de/projekte/kunsthaus-goettingen
- ↑ https://www.bauwelt.de/themen/betrifft/Steidls-Galerie-fuer-Goettingen-Wettbewerb-2582507.html
- ↑ https://www.goettingen.de/suedliche-innenstadt/artikel/2017-06-22/berliner-buero-soll-innenhof-gestalten.html
- ↑ https://www.hna.de/lokales/goettingen/goettingen-ort28741/goettinger-kunstquartier-berliner-buero-soll-hof-gestalten-8422559.html
- ↑ https://www.boersenblatt.net/2008-04-07-artikel-guenter-grass-haus_in_goettingen-steidl_verlag.185719.html
- ↑ https://www.goettingen.de/suedliche-innenstadt/kunstquartier.html
- ↑ https://kunsthaus-goettingen.de/freundeskreis-neu-19-09/