Ravensburg Art Museum

Art Museum in March 2013

The Ravensburg Art Museum is a municipal museum for modern and contemporary art in Ravensburg, Upper Swabia .

history

The art museum succeeds the Städtische Galerie Ravensburg , which in the Alten Theater am Gespinstmarkt showed art of classical modernism , contemporary art and contemporary photography in changing exhibitions until 2011 .

The creation of the new art museum in May 2009, decided by the local council, was discussed controversially among the population, partly because of the type of financing (the city is renting the building from a developer for 30 years).

In February 2010, the Friends of the Art Museum Ravensburg e. V. founded.

The museum was opened on March 8, 2013 by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann . On the opening weekend, the museum had around 6,000 visitors with free admission, the museum had a total of 27,000 visitors by the beginning of June 2013, and the museum had a total of 60,000 visitors from March 2013 to March 2014.

building

In order to create the construction site for the building, initially not listed warehouse buildings and a commercial building (with a dance school) from the 19th and 20th centuries were demolished. The groundbreaking for the new museum was on September 21, 2010, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on May 10, 2012. Right next to the museum, a residential and commercial building from the same developer was built at the same time.

View of the museum with its roof structure

The building was designed by the Stuttgart architects Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei and is the first museum in the world to be built as a passive house . The planned energy requirement is given as 15 kWh per year and m². The largely windowless double-shell outer wall consists of a load-bearing concrete wall, 24 cm thick thermal insulation and an outer shell made of used clinker brick that comes from a demolished Belgian monastery. The top floor closes off with vaults that can be read on the facade. The roof base is divided into opposing trapezoidal sections, over which frustoconical brick vaults are built. Thus, smaller and larger arches alternate at the top of the facade.

For the museum building, the architecture firm received the German Architecture Prize in 2013 , the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany and the Hugo Häring Prize 2014 from the Association of German Architects in Baden-Württemberg.

The new museum building is located in the old town of Ravensburg on Burgstrasse next to the Ravensburger Museum (opened in 2010). This means that it is also close to the Museum Humpis-Quartier (opened in 2009) on Marktstrasse and, together with the aforementioned museums and the Ravensburg Economic Museum (opened in 2012), forms a “museum district”.

management

The founding director of the art museum is the art and cultural scientist and curator Nicole Fritz . Ute Stuffer took over the management of the Ravensburg Art Museum in March 2018.

Awards

In 2014 the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg was nominated for the European Museum Prize (EMYA).

In November 2015, the German section of the international art critics association AICA selected the Ravensburg Art Museum as Museum of the Year 2015 .

Collection and exhibitions

The basis of the collection is a permanent loan from the Peter and Gudrun Selinka Foundation, initially limited to 30 years, with works of expressionism and the artist groups CoBrA and SPUR .

Presentations from the Selinka Collection as well as changing exhibitions of modern and contemporary art will be shown.

Opening exhibition

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: artist , color woodcut, 1910 (Selinka collection)

The opening exhibition in 2013 with works from the Selinka Collection and other loans was entitled “Appassionata - The Selinka Collection in Dialogue”. Works by Pierre Alechinsky , Karel Appel , André Butzer , Constant , Otto Dix , Hadassah Emmerich , Lothar Fischer , Sebastian Hammwöhner , Erich Heckel , Alexej von Jawlensky , Asger Jorn , Lucebert , Jonathan Meese , Max Pechstein , Heimrad Prem , Max were shown Kaus , Anton Kerschbaumer , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Gabriele Münter , Otto Mueller , Saskia Niehaus , Michael Nitsche , Franz Nölken , Tal R , Anton Rooskens , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Renée Sintenis , Helmut Sturm , Mary Wigman and HP Zimmer .

Temporary exhibitions

March 16 - June 10, 2019: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . Fantastic figures
January 27 - April 8, 2018: Marcus Schwier . Ravensburg.
End of December 2015 to April 10, 2016: Max Pechstein . Body. Colour. Light.
April 12 - August 24, 2014: Stephan Balkenhol
November 16, 2013 - March 23, 2014: Egon Schiele . The beginning
July 6th - October 27th 2013: Gert and Uwe Tobias
July 17 - October 11, 2013: Wynrich Zlomke
March 9 - June 16, 2013: Appassionata. The Selinka Collection in Dialog

literature

Nicole Fritz (Ed.): Appassionata. The Selinka Collection in Dialog. Ravensburg Art Museum . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86984-339-1
Falk Jaeger: Under swinging vaults. Ravensburg Art Museum. Origin and architecture . Edited by Andreas Reisch and Hans-Jörg Reisch. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8030-0757-5