Art Association Hildesheim

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The domicile of the Hildesheim Art Association, the Kehrwiederturm

The Hildesheim Art Association is a non-profit , registered association dedicated to the mediation and promotion of contemporary art in the city of Hildesheim . The art association was founded in 1978 and has had its permanent exhibition rooms in the historic Kehrwiederturm in Keßlerstrasse since 1982 . In addition to classic solo and group exhibitions, the art association is dedicated to the conditions of artistic, cultural and curatorial production with projects on art in public spaces , symposia and workshops. The Kunstverein Hildesheim has had its own art education program since 2010 .

history

On the initiative of the Hildesheim university lecturers Hermann Leber and Dieter Lüttge and supported by a number of Hildesheimers interested in art and the Hildesheim Cultural Department, the Hildesheim Art Association was founded on June 15, 1978 as the first Hildesheim institution to primarily promote contemporary art.

The highlights of the first four years were two exhibitions of works by the Hildesheim-born artist Eberhard Schlotter and the 1978 "City of Hildesheim Art Prize".

In 1982 the art association moved into its actual rooms in the “Gallery in the Kehrwiederturm”, which is where it is located today. In 1998, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Kunstverein, the publication “Insights currently exhibited. Kunstverein Hildesheim 1978-1998 ”, which documents the history of the Kunstverein and lets you review it.

In addition to regular exhibitions by local artists and lectures by art historians, efforts were made early on at the Kunstverein Hildesheim to involve the city and residents of Hildesheim in the art discourse. “Tower festivals” in 1983 and 1984 formed the early starting point of a tradition that was continued with projects such as participation in the “Raumsauger Festival” for inner city art in 2006 or a one-year art project in the Ernst Ehrlicher Park in Hildesheim in 2007.

Another constant in the program of the art association is the reflection on one's own function in the art business, on production processes, the distribution and communication of art and on questions about knowledge production. While in the 1980s the Kunstverein did this rather marginally through lectures on “Art Understanding and Art Promotion”, these topics increasingly came into focus from 2004 onwards. The “disposal park for art in public space” functioned in the form of a design competition and made ironic reference to an object-oriented approach to art in public space. In 2007, the current relevance of intuition in art was examined in the exhibition and the associated conference “into it” . Since 2010 the Kunstverein Hildesheim has been experimenting with alternative formats for artistic and theoretical exchange. In 2008, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary and the anniversary exhibition “20 + 10 Re: Presentation”, the catalog of the same name was published, which continues this project. One example is the symposium “work in progress_working process”, which took place in February 2011 and set itself the task of questioning processes of cultural production, the realities surrounding them, but also utopias, with regard to the work concepts on which they are based.

In the 2012 annual program, the Hildesheim Art Association will be showing outstanding positions in contemporary art with a focus on photography under the title “going places”. Thematically, the exhibition program deals with real and fictional places and “non-places”, with traveling and lingering and with the reflection of the topic in the visual arts.

Since the founding of the Hildesheim Art Association, there has been close proximity to the University of Hildesheim , formerly Hildesheim University. Cooperations include courses at the university but also symposia and workshops on content-related, theoretical and organizational issues.

Board

The University of Hildesheim and Torsten Scheid have been chairmen of the board since 2016.

Artistic Director

Since 2004, the artistic direction of the Kunstverein Hildesheim has been occupied every two years by young curators, most of whom have a biographical reference to Hildesheim.

Previous artistic direction:

  • 2004–2006 Thomas Kästle
  • 2007-2009 Elke Falat
  • 2010–2011 Lisa Schmidt
  • 2012 Torsten Scheid
  • 2013–2015 Kathrin Meyer
  • 2015–2016 Nora Brünger and Sonja Wunderlich
  • 2016 Torsten Scheid and Viola Vahrson
  • 2017 Nora Brünger, Torsten Scheid and Francisco Vogel
  • 2018 Nora Brünger, Luzia Gross and Torsten Scheid

Art education

Since 2010, the Hildesheim Art Association has been running the independent art education program “KunstAUFSTIEG”, in which above all methods of artistic art education are carried out.

program

In the rooms of the Kunstverein, three to six internationally oriented, monographic and thematic exhibitions can be seen each year, which are usually specially developed for the house. The focus is always on current artistic or socially relevant topics. The extensive accompanying program includes lectures, panel discussions and artist talks.

Catalogs (selection)

  • Kathrin Meyer (Ed.): Work and Life, Roman Schramm, good day! , argobooks, 2013, ISBN 978-3-942700-35-1 .
  • Torsten Scheid (Ed.): Points of View , Kehrer Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-351-8 .
  • Lisa Schmidt (Ed.): Fail Better I-III. 2010.
  • Elke Falat / Julia Tieke (ed.): Dear artist, tell me!, Verlag für modern art Nuremberg, 2009
  • Elke Falat (ed.): Alexander Rischer / Caput Corvi, Kerber Verlag, 2008
  • Elke Falat / Sabine Kunz (eds.): Observing beast, time, evolution. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-206-8 .
  • Elke Falat (Ed.): Ulrike Mohr / Definitions, Kerber Verlag, 2007
  • Elke Falat / Thomas Thiel (eds.): Into it, Kehrer Verlag, 2008
  • Elke Falat (Ed.): Focus on Egypt. Past / Present, Kerber Verlag, 2007
  • Elke Falat (Ed.): Armin Chodzinski. From well-dressed activity, resistant dancing and liberal cities. 2008, ISBN 978-3-938801-27-7 .
  • Thomas Kästle (Ed.): Who is art? - Function and self-image. 2006, ISBN 3-938025-65-4 .
  • Thomas Kästle (Ed.): When is art? - process, moment, validity. 2005, ISBN 3-938025-16-6 .
  • Thomas Kästle (Ed.): Where is the art? - On the geography of interfaces. 2004, ISBN 3-936646-67-8 .

literature

  • Representation. 30 years of the Hildesheim Art Association. With contributions by Klaus Dierßen, Leonie Baumann, Elke Falat u. a., 2008.
  • Kunstverein Hildesheim (ed.): Insights currently exhibited. Art Association Hildesheim 1978-1998. 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstverein Hildesheim (ed.): Insights currently exhibited. Art Association Hildesheim 1978-1998. 1998, p. 17.

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 14"  E