Art Association Langenhagen
The non-profit art association Langenhagen was founded in 1981 by citizens. Ursula Schöndeling has been the artistic and management director since 2008, and Holger Graab has been the chairman of the board since 2013.
description
The association promotes international contemporary art through presentations in Langenhagen and offers art education . In a year-round exhibition program, the association presents at least five solo and group exhibitions, which are accompanied by artist talks, lectures and roundtables, as well as weekly free tours and freely bookable workshops. A central task is the promotion of new productions of artistic works for the exhibitions in order to support artists in the implementation of new projects.
The association sees itself as a forum for international contemporary art that participates in the current artistic discourse, takes up relevant social issues and provides impulses beyond regional significance. A recurring topic is the dialogue with local conditions in the city of Langenhagen. Virulent discussions, historical traces and the constant change in the living environment are the starting points for dealing with (public) spaces in Langenhagen and point beyond the local level to social changes. Positions in contemporary photography and the promotion of up-and-coming artists from Lower Saxony are another constant.
Exhibitions
In 2009 a new short exhibition format was established that gives space to experimental and performative artistic practices.
So far, this series has shown:
- 2009: team 404 wrap o wrap o
- 2010: Ingo Mittelstaedt New order
- 2011: Quick Magazine feat. Jan Paul Evers and Julian Stalbohm
- 2012: Judith Raum L'Inspecteur des Cultures
- 2013: Franziska Nast Oh Douleur in the chapel in Langenhagen city park
In 2010 the association presented part of the biennial autumn exhibition of artists from Lower Saxony for the first time as a cooperation partner of the Kunstverein Hannover . At the Bremen Art Spring 2011, the Kunstverein and the Society for Contemporary Art Bremen presented works by Inka Nowoitnick, Wolfgang Plöger and the artist group 5533.
In 2012 the art association took part in the 700th anniversary of the city of Langenhagen with a large-scale international group exhibition and presented at 12 locations, including a. in the Europa-Markthalle, the CCL, the chapel in the oak park and the multigenerational house, works by 30 international artists. T. originated for the place.
Since 2012 the Kunstverein Langenhagen has been playing in the chapel in the Eichenpark Langenhagen as an external exhibition space.
Placement program
The art association makes an important contribution to understanding contemporary art with a wide range of educational offers, such as participatory tours, lectures, discussions and workshops. It is not about a fixed definition, but about conveying different and constantly changing contents, forms and functions of art today. In addition to artist talks, guided tours and specialist lectures on the individual exhibitions, the art association offers workshops that accompany and cross-exhibition exhibitions in cooperation with local actors and institutions.
From 2008 to 2012, the Langenhagen art association took part in the model project "Mediation in Lower Saxony Art Associations". During these years u. a. the projects “Ghostwalk - Walk of Memories” through Langenhagen with a book (2009), “Langenhagener Landscapes”, digital photography of (threatened) landscapes with an exhibition and “Art Radio” (2010/11) as well as a cooperation with the Institute for Design Practice and Realized art studies at Leibniz University Hannover (2011/12). The project with Leibniz University for the training of teachers and art educators will be continued in 2013 with two-semester seminars.
The art education team has now established itself as an integral part of the work of the art association with a broad impact. The agents offer free workshops for all exhibitions. With the specialist service for children and youth in Langenhagen, creative offers are regularly carried out as part of the KreativWerkstatt and holiday programs. In these workshops, artistic impulses for the investigation and design of one's own living environment are taken up and thus made fruitful for the participants. Most recently, two films were made by students at IGS Langenhagen about the Langenhagener Kulturdreieck and about leisure time in the shopping center.
Through guided tours with artists through the urban space, the association brings the citizens closer to art in public space in Langenhagen and thus creates a broader reception.
recognition
In 2016 the Kunstverein was nominated for the 6th time for the ADKV-ART-COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations. In 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 he was nominated for the ADKV-Art-Cologne-Prize for art associations.
Internationally, nationally and regionally active foundations support the art association with their exhibitions and with its mediation activities.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.kunstverein-langenhagen.de/de/ueber_uns/profil.html
- ^ Sven Warnecke: Kunstverein is again nominated for a prize. In: haz.de ( Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ). February 8, 2013, accessed August 15, 2013 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 17 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 3 ″ E