Kunsthaus Hamburg

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Kunsthaus Hamburg (2006)

The Kunsthaus Hamburg is a center for contemporary art, located between the main train station and Deichtorhallen . It was founded in 1962 by the Hamburg cultural authority and is dedicated to international and local positions in contemporary visual arts in changing solo and group exhibitions.

program

The Kunsthaus Hamburg sees itself as an exhibition space for contemporary art and also as a place for discussion of current, socially relevant issues. In addition to the five to eight changing individual and group exhibitions of fine arts and related disciplines every year, artist talks, lectures, symposia, readings, film screenings and other events take place here. The focus is on promoting younger contemporary artists and relating to historical positions in the city. The main task today is to place the original local orientation of the house in an international context of contemporary art. In addition to international solo and group exhibitions, the Kunsthaus Hamburg annually offers an overview of the current, local young talent scene with the presentation of applicants for the Hamburg work grant and the annual exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg. In addition, the winners of the Finkenwerder Art Prize , one of the most highly endowed art prizes in Europe, have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Hamburg since 2007 . The prize winners included Edith Dekyndt , Georges Adéagbo , Christian Jankowski , Ulla von Brandenburg , Daniel Richter and Candida Höfer .

history

founding

Founded in 1962 by the Hamburg cultural authority, the Kunsthaus Hamburg was opened in 1963 with the exhibition “Hamburg Painting from 1912 to Today” by the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg (BBK). Originally the association was the sponsor of the house and offered the Hamburg contemporary artists a new and separate exhibition space. At that time the Kunsthaus was located in a building designed in the Bauhaus style by the architect Paul Seitz at Ferdinandstor, where the present gallery of the Hamburger Kunsthalle is now. It was connected to the Kunstverein in Hamburg via a glass corridor.

move

In the early 1990s, the Kunsthaus Hamburg and the Kunstverein in Hamburg had to give way to the new building of the Galerie der Gegenwart at the Hamburger Kunsthalle: the building complex was demolished and the Kunsthaus Hamburg and the Kunstverein in Hamburg moved into the premises of the former market halls at Klosterwall 15 in 1993 where it is to this day.

today

After the Kunsthaus Hamburg became a non-profit limited company in 2002, the institution got a new structure. An independent management was set up and the professional association of visual artists became the main shareholder. The Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e. V. , the New Art Association in Hamburg and initially the Lichtwark Society, later the media entrepreneur Frank Otto . The office of the Professional Association of Visual Artists is located in the Kunsthaus Hamburg, where it shows an annual exhibition and organizes other events. The Kunsthaus Hamburg is an important point of contact for Hamburg artists. The association Ateliers für die Kunst eV (AfdK), which arranges work spaces for Hamburg artists, has had its office since 1993 also in the rooms of the Kunsthaus Hamburg.

After 20 years in office of Claus Mewes, Katja Schroeder took over the management of the Kunsthaus Hamburg in 2014.

Previous directors of the Kunsthaus Hamburg were Ruth Dunckelmann (1963–1986), Petra von der Osten-Sacken (1986–1989), Doris Cordes-Vollert (1989–1992), Rita Baukrowitz (1992) and Claus Mewes (1993–2013).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019
    • Goutam Ghosh - Reptiles
    • Edith Dekyndt - The White, The Black, The Blue
  • 2018
    • Shirana Shahbazi - Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
    • Flaka Haliti - Here - Or Rather There Is Over There
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • Bani Abidi - Exercise in Redirecting Lines
    • ... and another world - Hanne Darboven in the context of contemporary art production
  • 2015
    • Khalil Rabah - Scale Models
    • Christian Jankowski - Traditional Art History (Finkenwerder Art Prize)
  • 2014
    • Thomas Kilpper - 150 Years of Printmaking (in cooperation with Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e.V.)
  • 2013
    • "Freedom roads!" - Colonial street names / postcolonial culture of remembrance
    • Ulla von Brandenburg - Shadowplay (Finkenwerder Art Prize)
    • Night mars and ruin angels. Hamburg art 1920 to 1950
    • “The reform of urban culture. The life's work of Fritz Schumacher (1869 - 1947) " (An exhibition by the Fritz Schumacher Institute)
  • 2012
    • Jan Meyer-Rogge
  • 2011
    • Thorsten Brinkmann (Finkenwerder Art Prize)
  • 2009
    • Daniel Richter (Finkenwerder Art Prize)
    • Friedrich Einhoff - retrospective
    • Clivia supply - linea clivia
    • Sent to death. The deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti from Hamburg 1940 - 1945. (In collaboration with the Research Center for Contemporary History, Hamburg)
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2006
  • 2001
    • Wols. Watercolors, drawings and note sheets
  • 1999
  • 1995
  • 1994
    • Aby Warburg , Mnemosyne Atlas - Images from the Warburg Institute, London

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicole Büsing, Heiko Klaas: Neue Dreifachspitze - Bettina Steinbrügge, Katja Schroeder and Anna Sabrina Schmid in an interview In: Lerchenfeld. No. 25 , 2014, pp. 15-17.
  2. ↑ Katja Engler: Current impulses for art. In: The world . Axel Springer SE, August 22, 2014, accessed on July 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Belinda Grace Gardner: Fascination of empty spaces. In: Welt am Sonntag , July 15, 2007.
  4. ^ DG Reiss (Ed.): 1st row - 50 years of the Kunsthaus. ACCEDO Verlag, Munich 2013. p. 6.
  5. ↑ Petra Schellen: A lot of art space, little concept: debate about a change in the management of the Kunsthaus. In: TAZ . TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH, December 19, 2013, accessed on July 6, 2018.
  6. ^ DG Reiss (Ed.): 1st row - 50 years of the Kunsthaus. ACCEDO Verlag, Munich 2013. p. 18.
  7. ↑ Hamburg A – Z. In: Szene Hamburg Stadtmagazin , January 2009. p. 99.
  8. ↑ https://www.bbk-hamburg.de
  9. ↑ Katja Engler: Current impulses for art. In: The world . Axel Springer SE, August 22, 2014, accessed on July 6, 2018.
  10. ↑ List of exhibitions