Kunstmuseum Basel Contemporary

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The Kunstmuseum Basel | Present opened in 1980 in Basel under the name Museum für Gegenwartskunst as the first public exhibition building in Europe devoted exclusively to contemporary art production and practice.

description

The museum is not an independent institution, but administratively belongs to the Kunstmuseum Basel , which legally bears the name Basel Public Art Collection . It brings together works from the Art Museum and the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation . Since 2016 it has been named Kunstmuseum Basel | Present to emphasize the togetherness of the houses.

The museum originally goes back to a loan from the Italian art collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo , who in the mid-1970s offered Basel to lend numerous of his contemporary works if suitable premises were found. As a result, the Museum of Contemporary Art was built in Basel's St. Alban Valley . In parallel to the extensive renovation of this quarter , the Christoph Merian Foundation converted a former paper mill into a two-part museum with a new building based on plans by the Basel architects Steib + Steib . The project was financed to a large extent by the patron Maja Sacher-Stehlin on the condition that the public art collection exhibit art objects from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation there. The canton of Basel-Stadt, in turn, contributed land and free building permits and has been paying all operating costs since 1991. In 2005 the building was extensively renovated.

collection

The museum presents art that was created from the 1960s to the present day. It has been collecting since 1971 in addition to the traditional media such as painting or sculpture and video art . The collection focuses on the work of Joseph Beuys , Bruce Nauman , Rosemarie Trockel , Jeff Wall and contemporary American art ( Robert Gober , Elizabeth Peyton , Matthew Barney ). Works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation that have not been exhibited have been kept in Schaulager in Münchenstein since 2003 .

The museum was managed by Nikola Dietrich until the end of October 2013 , who was replaced by Søren Grammel in November 2013 . In autumn 2020 Maja Wismer will take over the management of the contemporary art department at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020: A Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality, December 7th - July 19th, 2020
  • 2019: William Kentridge , A poem That is Not Our Own, 08.08. – 13.10.2019
  • 2018: Martha Rosler , Hito Steyerl , War Games, 05.05.2018-20.01.2019
  • 2018: Sophie Jung , The Bigger Sleep, Manor Art Prize 2018, December 1st, 2018– February 3rd, 2019
  • 2017: Clegg & Guttmann. 120 years after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, November 25, 2017 to April 11, 2018
  • 2017: Richard Serra - Films and Videotapes, May 20 - October 15, 2017
  • 2016: Reinhard Mucha , March 19-21, 2016
  • 2014: One Million Years. System and Symptom, October 11, 2014-04-06, 2015
  • 2013: Tell it to My Heart. Collected by Julie Ault, 02.02. – 02.05.2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Kunstmuseum Basel opens in mid-April with some innovations and an exciting exhibition program. Website of the art museum ( Memento from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Søren Grammel - head of the Kunstverein leaves Cologne. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , February 27, 2013 (accessed February 28, 2013).
  3. ↑ New head of the present at the Kunstmuseum Basel. In: Badische Zeitung. June 17, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ NEW BUILDING KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL BASEL CH / 2016 . In: Archigraphy . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, ISBN 978-3-0356-0555-6 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783035605556-006 .
  5. ^ Beate Söntgen: Rosler and Steyerl in Basel: The banality of drone theater . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 21, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Sophie Jung - Is that all there is? Accessed January 21, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 16.5 "  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 5"  E ; CH1903:  612 251  /  267 108