Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren

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Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren from the north

The Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren is an art gallery for the exhibition of contemporary and cultural-historical art in Kaufbeuren . It was built in 1996 under the founding director Boris von Brauchitsch with funds from the Kaufbeur building contractor and patron Hans Dobler . The house has been run by the Munich curator and art historian Jan T. Wilms since May 2015 .

program

Every year three to four exhibitions are shown, some in collaboration with other museums and institutions.

Extract from the exhibitions:

  • Against the Grain: Chicago Calling - American Maverick Art (October 11, 2019 - January 20, 2020)
  • A new look at home - photographs and original models from Germany (May 10 - August 25, 2019)
  • Images of people - Ernst Barlach | Otto Dix | George Grosz | Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita - Works on paper (December 13, 2018 - April 22, 2019)
  • Peter Krauskopf - DRIFT (May 9 - August 19, 2018)
  • Crossing Cultures - The Color Woodcut in Europe and Japan 1900–1950 (December 20, 2017 - April 22, 2018)
  • Karl Kunz - loner of modernity (September 8th - December 3rd, 2017)
  • Perfect World - Christian Hellmich | Sven Kroner | Pere Llobera (December 21, 2016 - April 30, 2017)
  • High & Slow - Hana Usui | Thilo Westermann (September 7th - December 11th, 2016)
  • Blick Fang - annual exhibition for the 20th anniversary (June 10 - August 21, 2016)
  • Luther is not enough! - Artistic impulses for constant reform (March 4 - May 22, 2016)
  • Art and stigma - cross-border commuters between coercion and freedom (November 6, 2015 - February 21, 2016)
  • Ludwig Ganghofer - the downside of a cliché (June 3 - November 6, 2005)
  • Keith Haring - Short Messages Posters (September 5 - November 9, 2003)
  • Dix , Franck and Goya - I've seen it, graphics from three centuries (October 18, 2002 - January 26, 2003)
  • Josef Albers - Art Looks At Us (November 26, 2000 - March 11, 2001)
  • Crescentia Höß von Kaufbeuren - A nun and her town in the 18th century (July 28 - November 12, 2000)
  • Georg Baselitz - Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection (July 2 - August 26, 1999)
  • Joseph Beuys - Small Drawings (February 20 - April 26, 1998)

construction

The house with approx. 500 m² of exhibition space is located in the center of Kaufbeuren next to the Spittelmühlkreuzung, in the back yard of the historic hospital. The shape is based on medieval salt and grain stalls, and concrete and glass were used as materials.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marianne Wellershoff : An end to the silence in the forest. In: Der Spiegel . April 29, 1996, accessed September 11, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier : ambition as a motor. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 4, 2015, accessed December 28, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 24 ″  E