Art Association Lantern
The Kunstverein Laterne e. V. is a non-profit association in Chemnitz . He has been running the gallery of the same name since 1992 and, with the “Laterne-Zeitung”, publishes the only art magazine in the region that is still published today.
history
When the gallery was founded, exhibitions in the studio of Andreas Schüller and Matthias Stein in Fritz-Reuter-Str. 20 ahead.
After a break at the end of the 1980s, exhibition activities were resumed in 1990 at the new location, Dresdener Straße 92. Later addresses were Jakobstrasse 38 (from 1998) and the “Salamandersaal” of the city library (Haus am Schillerplatz, from 1999). The gallery has been located at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 19 since 2000.
In addition to promoting regional art in lively exchange with artists, groups and associations from home and abroad, the activities of the art association initially included taking on socio-cultural tasks such as creative work with children from the Sonnenberg district , tendering for competitions (photography, mail art ) and the organization of the “Chemnitzer Herbstsalon” at Augustusburg Castle , the organization of plein airs with partly international participation, performances of the association outside of the house in various buildings in the city and the surrounding area, the artist group's trips to Poland, Finland and Switzerland, among others the profile.
The association has recently been looking after artists' estates. Premises for this could be rented in the former Chemnitz Schönherr factory.
History: "Gallery Boycott"
Since spring 1987, the Chemnitz artists Andreas Schüller and Matthias Stein have been exhibiting in an empty rear building on Fritz-Reuter-Str. 20 working away from the official gallery operations of her colleagues. Art was shown by generations of colleagues, mostly self-taught. Although they felt themselves to be a supplement or expansion of the existing cultural scene, the activities were recorded and monitored by the MfS under the file name “Boycott”. After two years and about a dozen exhibitions, gallery work came to a standstill for the time being.
In 1992 she was taken up again in Schüller's next studio, Dresdner Straße 92. On October 1, 1991 the association was founded under the name “Totales Theater Chemnitz e. V. ”, on October 28, 1991 it was entered in the register as“ Kunstverein LATERNE eV ”. Founding members were the Chemnitz visual artists Gudrun Höritzsch, Jürgen Höritzsch, Matthias Stein, Edgar Waltz, Andreas Stelzer, Holger Weigelt and Andreas Schüller. In the first exhibition, naive paintings by Renate Linke were shown, later, among other things, an exhibition by the Chemnitz band and art project AG Geige , which had already been exhibited in Fritz-Reuter-Straße and also appeared at other openings, as well as a presentation of the art portfolio A3.
The early gallery history can be found in a special edition of the “Laterne-Zeitung” for the exhibition “Galerie Boycott” in 2010.
Exhibitions
Currently 18 artists belong to the active group.
In addition, artists and projects from Germany and neighboring countries are presented. In addition to positions that have already been achieved, also previously unknown and outsider art .
Individual competitions and mail art projects were held with global participation.
activities
From 2004 to 2011 the art association organized the “Chemnitzer Herbstsalon” on the Haferboden of Augustusburg Castle. All visual artists who live and work in central to southwest Saxony were addressed. A jury decided on participation. A catalog was created for each autumn salon in Chemnitz.
Publications
The art magazine "Laterne-Zeitung" has been published in 5–6 issues per year since 1992, with a circulation of 100 copies, approx. 60 pages, with mostly multicolored images, as well as 10–20 special editions with original graphics, distributed via gallery sales or subscription, provides information on current exhibitions, mostly with interviews or essays, comments on cultural-political issues, provides exhibition reviews, workshop and travel reports as well as literary works, glosses, etc. The authors come from the gallery environment or those of the exhibiting artists.
Artist estates, Schönherrfabrik
In two rooms of the former Chemnitz Schönherrfabrik, estates and bequests of artists from the Saxon region are kept, archived and made accessible to the public. At the moment it concerns the estate of Christine Holscher and the estate of Andreas Schüller, Fritz Schönfelder and Jörg Seifert.
Web links
- Website
- Older website
- Jens Kassner: Tidy Landscape Representation of the Chemnitz gallery scene for the magazine Kunststoff
Footnotes
- ↑ "Sachsen Amtsgericht Chemnitz VR676 Kunstverein Laterne eV" Common register portal of the federal states. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Galerie Laterne" in the catalog of the German National Library.
- ↑ a b [2] “History of the gallery lantern from the point of view of an affected person (Andreas Schüller)” on the website of the Kunstverein.
- ↑ 25 YEARS OF LANTERN. Catalog for the exhibition in the Augustusburg Tower Gallery; Turmgalerie Augustusburg (ed.), 2015, 78 pp. [3]
- ↑ 1235.html? Shf tenant1715.id = 83ps: "Galerie Laterne" website of the Schönherrfabrik. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ^ Fiedler, Yvonne: Art in the corridor. Private galleries in the GDR between autonomy and illegality; Ch. Links Verlag; Berlin 2013; 416 pp. ISBN 3-86153-726-5
- ↑ "Jan Kummer über die Kummer von Then" ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Lantern Gallery.
- ↑ "Bernd Weise gives an explanation about A THREE" website of the gallery lantern.
- ^ "List of members" website of the gallery lantern. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ^ "Galerie Laterne Exhibition Archive" website of the Galerie Laterne. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ^ "Newspaper archive" website of the gallery lantern. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ^ "Nachlassarchiv, Die Künstler" website of the Galerie Laterne. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
