Art Association Trier Young Art
The Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst emerged from the producer gallery Kaleidoskop, founded in 1985, developed into the Friends of Young Art in 1991 and received its current name in 1995.
It is not limited to the tasks of a classic art association , but reaches out and includes elements of an artists 'association and a producers' gallery.
Exhibitions
The art association holds around ten exhibitions a year. These took place and continue to take place both in the association's exhibition rooms and outside of the Galerie Junge Kunst. With its large shop windows, the closed hanging areas and the pleasant room proportions, the small gallery space in Karl-Marx-Straße was able to prove that it is ideally suited for every visual artistic form and every medium up to astonishingly large-format works and room installations its ambience works with and not against the works of art and is therefore certainly one of the most relevant exhibition spaces in the Greater Region.
The exhibitions are curated independently by artists, art historians or those interested in art, or they are jointly developed and regularly accompanied by catalog publications.
concept
The successful engagement applies above all to not yet established younger positions and forms of expression. Beyond Trier, both Rhineland-Palatinate and supraregional contemporary art will be presented with targeted support from the artists of the Kunstverein. It is Walter Grasskamp's statement that regionalism, especially in the German art landscape, has always been an "opportunity for modernity". The art association was one of the first art venues in the Trier region and in the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate to receive the nationwide coveted banana logo from the banana sprayer Thomas Baumgärtel .
However, the art association is also opening up far beyond Trier and since its founding has played a key role in overcoming the provincialism that often poses a threat to the visual arts, provided that it primarily serves social purposes. The association therefore leads talented artists in individual and, above all, group exhibitions to the outside world and represents the city and region there. In addition to Trier, Kirchberg (Hunsrück) or Simmern (Hunsrück), artists from Trier and its greater region have now also been able to work in Dresden, Essen, Weimar, Grevenmacher (Luxembourg), Sprinkange (Luxembourg), Thionville (France), Clermont-Ferrand (France) ) and New York (USA).
Cooperations
The Kunstverein was one of the founders of the Trier Art Days, initiated the joint season start of Trier galleries and art associations in the late summer of each year, brought it to Luxembourg for the first time, regularly participates in the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer with remarkable projects and promotes constructive contacts in a regional context a.
It has been and is being cooperated with institutions in the city of Trier (culture office, culture department, culture and communication center cloth factory , Simeonstift city museum , European art academy Trier ) and in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (cultural summer, ministry for culture, state parliament).
Regional and supra-regional contacts with like-minded institutions are of particular importance: We are currently cooperating with galleries, art and artist associations in Trier (Society for Fine Arts), Essenheim near Mainz (Essenheimer Kunstverein eV), Pirmasens (Art and Culture Pirmasens eV), Frankfurt am Main (Galerie FAC Prestel), Dresden (Deutsche Werkstätten Dresden-Hellerau) and in the Trier twin city Weimar (Kunstverein Hofatelier Weimar eV) in the Rhineland-Palatinate partner state Thuringia.
The cultural participation in the border region Belgium - Luxembourg - Lorraine - Rhineland-Palatinate is also important. Through the commitment and participation of the art association, European multi-country projects emerged, for example with the Arche Gallery in Grevenmacher (Luxembourg), with the Lëtzebuerger Artist Center LAC (Luxembourg) and the Center Culturel Jacques Brel de Thionville (France).
society
The association has around 60 members. They come from Trier and the district of Trier-Saarburg as well as from all of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Luxembourg and France. It is people who identify more with the immediacy of small initiatives than with the anonymity of large institutions. These include visual artists who are represented by the art association.
The basic financing of the registered and non-profit-making association comes from membership fees. It also has business sponsors and receives project-related grants. However, this modern form of financing cannot replace permanent support from the public sector. However, it is important to maintain conceptual and artistic independence.
The chairman of the art association is Stefan Philipps (as of 2011).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ArtFacts.Net Ltd. , London: Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst eV, Trier - overview. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
- ^ BG Ulrich: Art Association Trier Young Art. February 12, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 6.7 " N , 6 ° 37 ′ 43.7" E