Kunstmuseum Celle with the Robert Simon collection

The museum, March 2010

The Art Museum Celle with the Robert Simon Collection is an art museum in Celle .

The house has an exhibition area of ​​over 1000 square meters, spread over three floors. The architectural highlight of the house is the colored glass cube that shines from the inside at night. In 2005 an extension was made according to a design by the architects Ahrens and Grabenhorst . The museum houses a large part of the Robert Simon collection . The museum's founder and honorary director is the art collector, gallery owner and donor Robert Simon . The museum is supported by the Celle Art Foundation and the Robert Simon Art Foundation.

concept

Main entrance of the museum with light installations during the exhibition Einuchten , Waltraut Cooper, Hartung and Trenz

The house shows art day and night. Pictures, objects and sculptures can be viewed in the interior during regular opening times. After the house closes and when it gets dark, the installations of international light artists can be viewed from the outside.

Special exhibitions (selection)

• 2001: Otto Piene - light years 1957-2001
• 2002: Brigitte Kowanz - See it now
• 2008: Otto Piene - Transformation
• 2013: Headlights - light art in Germany in the 21st century , Celle, Germany (with Jürgen Albrecht, Tim Berresheim , Urs Breitenstein, Klaus Geldmacher , Andrea Thembie Hannig, Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz , Daniel Hausig , Margareta Hesse, Christoph Hildebrand , Hans Kotter , Siegfried Kreitner , Mischa Kuball , Vollrad Kutscher , Stefanie Lampert, Heinz Mack , Francesco Mariotti , Jakob Mattner , Molitor & Kuzmin , Chris Nägele, Otto Piene , Stephan Reusse , Susanne Rottenbacher , Max Sudhues , Timm Ulrichs , Nils Völker, Rosmarie Weinlich, Claudia Wissmann , Achim Wollscheid)
• 2014: headlights. Light art in Germany in the 21st century. Part 2
• 2015: The power of the idea. 20 years of the Robert Simon Collection in Celle
• 2016: [p: lux] - sharing light , in cooperation with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and Mischa Kuball

collection

The art museum shows works from the present to the early 20th century. The focus is on the 1960s. On display are paintings, graphics, sculpture, light and object art from the Robert Simon collection. In addition to a collection of multiples by Joseph Beuys , works by Ralph Fleck , Dieter Krieg , Molitor & Kuzmin , Regine Schumann , Timm Ulrichs and Ben Willikens are represented. In addition, there is the focus of the collection on Lower Saxony painting with works by professors and graduates of the Braunschweig Art School and showcases by Peter Basseler . The inventory also includes drawings from the 1920s by two representatives of the New Objectivity, the Hanoverian artists Grethe Jürgens and Erich Wegner, as well as works by their teacher Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld. The “nocturnal side” of the museum is equipped with works by Klaus Geldmacher , Brigitte Kowanz , Vollrad Kutscher , Francesco Mariotti , Leonardo Mosso, Otto Piene and Timm Ulrichs , among others . The pair of sculptures “Fireworks for Celle” by Otto Piene are in the inner courtyard on the side of the Celle Markt. The light room specially designed for Celle also came from the ZERO artist.

Awards

• In 2007 the Kunstmuseum Celle was recognized by the “ Germany - Land of Ideas ” initiative. The innovative museum concept was recognized.
• The architecture of the building also received an award in 2007: an international jury of experts ranked the Kunstmuseum Celle fifth of the twelve best examples of contemporary architecture in Germany.

literature

• Susanne McDowell, Robert Simon (ed.): Kunstmuseum Celle. The world's first 24-hour art museum. Celle 2006, ISBN 3-925902-57-0 .
• Dirk Meyhöfer (ed.), Stephen Roche (transl.): Made in Germany - best of contemporary architecture (partly in English, partly in German and English), Braun Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938780-35-0 and ISBN 3-938780-35-5
• Susanne McDowell, Julia Otto, Robert Simon (eds.): The world's first 24-hour art museum AT NIGHT. Light art in the Robert Simon Collection. Celle 2010, ISBN 978-3-925902-69-7 .
• Chris van Uffelen : Museum architecture . Ullman, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-8331-6058-5 , pp. 228-231.
• Julia Otto, Robert Simon (Ed.): Headlights - Current light art in Germany in the 21st century . 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0056-1 .

Web links

Commons : Kunstmuseum Celle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the art museum and the foundation
• Tourist information website about the art museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official name on the museum website
2. ↑ Otto Piene - light years 1957-2001. Kunstmuseum Celle, accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Brigitte Kowanz - See it now. Kunstmuseum Celle, accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Otto Piene - Metamorphosis. Kunstmuseum Celle, accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Headlights. Light art in Germany in the 21st century. Kunstmuseum Celle, 2014, accessed on March 18, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Catalog of the same name for the exhibition, 2014
7. ↑ Light art in Celle. Signals for the total work of art. Kunstmuseum Celle, accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
8. ^ Dpa: Exhibitions Facets of Light in the Art Museum Celle. October 30, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Dirk Meyhöfer (ed.), Stephen Roche (transl.): Made in Germany ... (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 26.9 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 45.7"  E