Art Association Munich

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Art Association Munich eV
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legal form society
founding November 26, 1823 in Munich
Seat Munich ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 37.6 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 49.1 ″  E )
purpose Promotion and maintenance of the fine arts
Chair Rüdiger Maaß
Members approx. 1,300
Website http://www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/

The Kunstverein München (km) is a non-profit , registered , privately owned association with over 1,300 members that is dedicated to the mediation of contemporary art. The art association based in the historical arcades of the Munich Hofgarten was founded in 1823 and is therefore one of the oldest German art associations . He belongs to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV).

history

Founding time

The Munich Art Association was also founded to mediate between contemporary art production and those interested in art and, last but not least, to create a sales forum for current art that had not existed in Munich before. It also supplemented the institutions for fine arts in Munich, which had been given an initial boost with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1808 . Dealing with culture and collecting art should no longer be left to the nobility alone. In line with this founding idea, the art association initially served as a form and forum for self-organization for a newly emerging bourgeois public, which in the early 19th century opened up not only new political but also cultural territory.

present

Maurin Dietrich has been the director of the Kunstverein München since July 2019 . Gloria Hasnay ​​has been a curator at the Kunstverein since October 2019 .

Management (selection)

program

Art associations were and are not only places for the presentation of contemporary art, but above all for social exchange, at which a critical awareness of "contemporaneity" can arise through active engagement with the art of the time. It is precisely this central idea of ​​a vital social exchange on insecure cultural terrain that still shapes the work of the Kunstverein today - albeit under changed political and social conditions - as an indispensable force in the network of cultural institutions. According to its current program, the Kunstverein would like to differentiate itself from other art institutions in an autonomous and unconventional way and through its work make a contribution to the political discourse through art. It is dedicated to the presentation and communication of contemporary art, internationally oriented, but with a view to the local context. The association regularly organizes exhibitions, lectures, artist talks, conferences, film screenings, art trips and issues publications.

As a privately owned association, the Munich Art Association operates relatively independently of both direct economic and (cultural) political interests. This double autonomy predestines it as a place for artistic experimentation, in which innovative curatorial work can be carried out without false consideration of political obligations or mercantile calculations. In recent years, the Kunstverein has increasingly pursued its structurally favored ability to react quickly to current artistic developments on an international scale. a. in cooperation with SMAK (Gent), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Hayward Gallery (London), CAC (Vilnius), Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver), White Columns (New York), tranzit .sk (Bratislava), CASCO (Utrecht), ICA (London) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).

Exhibitions until 2000 (selection)

Exhibitions since 2000 (selection)

  • 2000: The injured diva. Hysteria, body, technology in 20th century art
  • 2000: Rodney Graham
  • 2001: Gillian Wearing
  • 2001: Glenn Ligon
  • 2003: Totally Motivated - A Socio-Cultural Maneuver
  • 2004: Natascha Sadr Haghighian
  • 2005: Jeremy Deller
  • 2006: The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978–1988 , with Charles Atlas, Bodymap, Leigh Bowery, Victor Burgin, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Michael Clark, Duvet Brothers, Peter Doig, Gorilla Tapes, Brian Eno, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gilbert and George, Richard Hamilton, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Tina Keane, Sandra Lahire, Linder, Stuart Marshall & Neil Bartlett, John Maybury, Neo-Naturists, Julian Opie, Jon Savage, Peter Saville, Mark E. Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Trojan, Stephen Willats
  • 2007: Oh Girl, It's a boy , with Kaucyila Brooke, Tom Burr, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Cerith Wyn Evans , Charles Henri Ford, Antonello Faretta / John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Richard Hawkins, Homotopia, Ray Johnson, Zoe Leonard , Simon Leung, Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry, Dorit Margreiter, Ariane Müller, Henrik Olesen , Stephen Prina , Danh Vo, Jean-Michel Wicker, Stephen Willats, Akram Zaatari, basso, Clit, Dyke Action Machine, pablo internacional, Straight to Bright
  • 2007: Wolfgang Tillmans - diffraction
  • 2008: Liam Gillick - Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario. Work 1988-2008
  • 2010: Silke Otto-Knapp - Many, many women
  • 2011: Keren Cytter - Hottest Day of the Year
  • 2012: Richard Tuttle & Mei Mei Berssenbrugge - Hello, The Roses
  • 2014: Ger van Elk
  • 2015: Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven - Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum
  • 2019: Andrea Büttner - What is so terrible about craft?
  • 2019: Diamond Stingily - Wall Sits

literature

  • York Langenstein: The Münchner Kunstverein in the 19th century. A contribution to the development of the art market and exhibition , Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia, Munich: Uni-Druck 1983
  • Marina Reitmaier: The annual gifts of the Münchner Kunstverein (1825–1865) , Munich: tuduv Verlag 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Many ideas for the future: Maurin Dietrich becomes the new director of the Kunstverein. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 4, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ km. Accessed December 5, 2019 .