Marta Herford

Marta Herford
Location
Country:	Germany
Place:	Herford
Address:	Goebenstrasse 2-10
Coordinates:	52 ° 7 '15.5 " N , 8 ° 40' 6" E Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '15.5 " N , 8 ° 40' 6" E
Data
Use:	Museum of Art, Architecture, Design
Architect:	Frank Gehry
Artistic Director:	Roland Nightingale
Architectural style:	Deconstructivism
Construction time:	2001 to 2005
Exhibition area:	2,500 m²
Building-costs:	30.1 million euros

MARTa Herford, exterior view of Frank Gehry's museum building, May 2005

Roof construction of the museum building by Frank Gehry, April 2006

The Marta Herford is a museum for contemporary art that also creates links to design and architecture . The building was designed by the architect Frank Gehry and opened in 2005. The founding director was the Belgian Jan Hoet . Roland Nachtigäller has been the artistic director of the museum since the beginning of 2009 .

The name MARTa, which was found when it was founded, was made up of m for museum, art = art and a for ambience or architecture. For the tenth anniversary in 2015, the appearance was also carefully revised and the guiding principles made more precise. The museum has been called Marta Herford ever since .

In December 2014 the German section of the International Association of Art Critics ( AICA ) named Marta Museum of the Year 2014.

location

The museum is located on Goebenstraße about 300 meters from Herford train station in the Radewiger Feldmark . The area now known as the Marta Quarter includes the Elsbachhaus , the Marta Areal multi-storey car park with 456 parking spaces, the Herford Music School , the Marta Atelier in a Wilhelminian style villa, the museum depot, restaurants, and residential and office buildings. The IntercityHotel is under construction and is due to open in January 2020.

history

House of Furniture

On November 29, 1996, the then North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Economics, Wolfgang Clement , was a guest in Herford. He had the idea of founding a "House of Furniture" in the city, since Herford is a major German furniture location and well-known furniture manufacturers have been based there and in the surrounding area for decades. The house, which should strengthen the business location Ostwestfalen-Lippe , should be ready for Expo 2000 , which took place in Hanover and, according to the city, become a "showcase for the economic performance of the city and region". In June 1998 the city council released a budget of 30.1 million marks for the major project, which was supposed to cover the acquisition of the land and all construction costs, with the state wanting to subsidize the construction. The house of furniture was to be built on the site of the Ahlers Goldress textile factory on Goebenstrasse. Ahlers had taken over the building from the Elsbach shirt factory , of which the Elsbachhaus still stands across the street.

In memory of the last owner's sister who was murdered in a concentration camp, the square next to the Elsbachhaus and across from the Marta Museum was named "Käte-Elsbach-Platz".

museum

In the meantime, the city decided to add a furniture design museum to the House of Furniture. Through the acquaintance of the then managing director of the Minden-Ravensberg GmbH electricity company and former chief district director of the Herford district, Manfred Ragati, with the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry , he was commissioned to develop a design for the building. The founding director was the Belgian Jan Hoet , who was the artistic director of Documenta IX in 1992 .

The owner of the Ahlers company, Jan A. Ahlers , wanted to make his picture collection available to the museum on permanent loan. Within more than 35 years, Ahlers had assembled one of the largest and most complete private collections of Expressionism. Since Jan Hoet only wanted to devote himself to contemporary art of the 21st century, Ahlers withdrew his offer. The then 66-year-old then sold the collection, which comprised more than 100 works, in 2001. Ahlers used part of the proceeds to purchase works by contemporary artists whom he sometimes knew personally for his new collection.

In 2001 a museum for contemporary art was created with a special eye for architecture and design. The name is made up of the parts “M” for furniture, “art” for art and “a” for ambience or architecture. Gehry designed a building that is vaguely reminiscent of the shapes of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao . In doing so, he also included the building section of the former textile factory, which was built in 1959 by the architect Walter Lippold. Gehry left this original building, which runs parallel to the Aa , largely unchanged in its basic structure. The Lippold-Bau is now home to the furniture associations and the exhibition room called “Lippold-Galerie” is on the first floor. The upper floors of the building were clad towards the main entrance, the new parts of the museum were built to the right and left of it.

Jan Hoet held several art exhibitions in the city and in the Elsbachhaus during the construction period. This is how, among other things, kiosk 24 was created , which will continue to be used as an art space. In 2002, an exhibition by Bjarne Melgaard entitled "Black Low: The punk movement was just hippies with short hair" caused a sensation. It was initially forbidden and later only permitted under certain conditions, since in addition to images with motifs glorifying violence, a goat was supposed to be put into a black latex suit as a metaphor of evil. Melgaard painted over the pictures used for the ban completely or in places with black paint and renamed the exhibition "Ruin of an exhibition - Maybe art should have consequences".

The museum opened on May 7, 2005. On the day of the opening, around 150 people from Herford responded to the anti-social dismantling group's call “enough is enough” and demonstrated against the project. Critics justified their rejection of the project with unplanned cost increases. The construction costs alone swallowed up twice the amount originally estimated, namely 30 million euros instead of the planned 30 million marks.

After fluctuations in the first few years, the annual number of visitors has leveled off at 60,000 to 70,000.

architecture

The museum building made of red clinker brick and stainless steel is reminiscent of a huge sculpture. It is built asymmetrically and has no windows on the street side. The building is composed of many convex and concave components with corrugated roofs. Light shafts are incorporated into it, which illuminate the interior of the museum. From a distance, the light shafts look like broken chimneys from ocean liners. The center of the building is a cathedral rising 22 meters. Around this cathedral are five galleries, all of which have different heights. The entrance area is made of glass and stainless steel. The walls and ceilings inside are made of plasterboard and are also sloping and wavy. The building offers an exhibition area of 2500 m². The wood paneling and slightly curved wooden stairs are particularly striking.

In the outdoor area of the museum there are several objects , including a stainless steel ball by Luciano Fabro , which represents the end of a floor sculpture that occupies the median of Goebenstraße, which passes the museum and depicts an excerpt from the poem The Ball by Rainer Maria Rilke .

Service facilities

Various types of events take place in the museum's forum (films, lectures, concerts). The museum has a bookshop and a café. The museum is supported by the Marta Friends & Patrons Association .

legal form

On May 26, 1998, the MKK non-profit company for furniture, culture and art was founded as a building and construction company by Marta Herford. In July 2005 the name was changed to MARTa Herford gGmbH . The company pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes by sponsoring, maintaining, promoting and designing art and history exhibitions of all kinds, as well as building and operating a museum. The management currently consists of the artistic director Roland Nachtigäller. The chairman of the shareholders' meeting is the Herford mayor Tim Kähler , his deputy the Herford entrepreneur Heiner Wemhöner , owner of Wemhöner Surface Technologies GmbH & Co. KG.

Herford Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-Beteiligungs-GmbH (HVV) holds an 88.87 percent stake in Marta Herford gGmbH .

Artistic directors / management

The founding director of Marta Herford was the Belgian curator Jan Hoet , who ran the museum from 2003 to the end of 2008. He was succeeded in January 2009 by the art historian Roland Nachtigäller (previously artistic director of the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn ). His contract runs until 2023. Andreas Kornacki has been the commercial director of Marta Herford gGmbH since mid-May 2018. He is also the managing director of Kultur Herford gGmbH.

Furniture associations

The following professional associations for the wood and furniture industry are located in the Marta Museum: the Association of the German Kitchen Furniture Industry e. V., the Association of the German Upholstered Furniture Industry e. V., the Association of the German Home Furniture Industry e. V., the employers' association wood processing and timber trade in NRW e. V., the Association of the Wood Industry and Plastic Processing Westphalia-Lippe e. V., the trade association for serial furniture companies in the trade, the lightweight construction interest group e. V., the initiative Pro Massivholz, e. V., the German Cork Association e. V. and the Daten Competence Center e. V.

The building also houses a test laboratory for furniture from TÜV Rheinland LGA Products GmbH.

Awards

2014: Museum of the year , chosen by art critics of the German section of the international art critics association (AICA)
2011: Justus Beer Prize for curators

Special exhibitions

2020: glass and concrete. Manifestations of the impossible

2020: Navid Nuur. Hocus Focus

2019/20: In the light of the night. Of life in the semi-darkness

2019/20: 9th RecyclingDesign Award . Excellent ideas
2019: Posture & Fall. The world in a tumble
2019: Rebellious splendor. Design punk instead of Bauhaus
2019: Reality ... is more absurd than any film (Gehry Galleries)
2019: OWL5. Search for clues
2018/19: explosive dreams. The art of the world exhibition
2018: Welcome to the labyrinth. Artistic misleading
2018: Break out of the area. The origami principle in art
2018: 8th RecyclingDesign Award - Excellent Ideas
2017/18: Radical modernist. The Mart Stam Mystery

2017: The Art in Music. 25 years of the ACT label

2017: Mix it - pop music and video art

2017: Cosmos. Explorations in Moldova and Transnistria

2017: cracks in reality. Gavin Turk / Jens Wolf

2017: Between zones artists from the Arab-Persian region

2017: The inner skin. Art and shame

2016/17: Anders Petersen . Retrospective (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor), in cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale de France , the Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm and the Galerie Vu 'in Paris

2016/17: The foreign space. Attacks, metamorphoses, explosions (Gehry galleries)

2016: OWL4 opponent (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2016: moments of dissolution. Photographic works by Andreas Gefeller , Fabian Marti , Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (Gehry galleries)

2016: Green bothers you. In the focus of a color (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2016: magic and power. From flying carpets and drones (Gehry galleries) (greatly expanded takeover of the Heaven and Hell presentation conceived in 2015 by Diane Hennebert and Christophe Dosogne for the Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain in Brussels )

2016: Brutally beautiful. Violence and Contemporary Design (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2015/16: in pairs. New works in the Marta Collection (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2015/16: Mark Dion . Unruly Wilderness (Gehry Galleries)

2015: 7th RecyclingDesign Award. Excellent ideas (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2015: harmony and change. Reflections of Chinese Landscapes (Gehry Galleries)

2015: lines of ideas. Architecture as a drawing (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2015: On January A tribute (Marta Forum)

2015: (im) possible! Artists as Architects (in the Gehry Galleries)

2015: Frida Kahlo . Your photos

2014/2015: The unleashed look. The Rasch brothers and their impulses for modern architecture (in the Gehry galleries)

2014: Clemens Krauss . It's time (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2014/2015: good prospects. young german photography 2014/2015 (in the Lippold gallery)

2014: Friendly takeover. Artists show their collection (in the Gehry galleries)

2014: Dare to ask. Clashes with the Marta Collection (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2014: BOOSTER. Art sound machine (in the Gehry galleries)

2013/14: 52 weeks, 52 cities. Photographs by Iwan Baan

2013/14: in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Ahlen : rest disorder. Forays into the worlds of collage (in the Gehry galleries)

2013: EVA & ADELE . Obsidian (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2013: Show your colors. What art does (Gehry galleries on the ground floor)

2013: good prospects. Zoom (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2013: visions

2013: Usable areas - OWL3 (in the Lippold Gallery)

2012/2013: Olav Christopher Jenssen . Enigma. Works 1985–2012

2012/2013: good prospects. young german photography. New german photography 2012/2013 (in the Lippold Gallery)

2012: Roger Ballen . Photographs 1969 - 2009

2012: Guillaume Bruère . GIOM Centipede (in the Lippold Gallery) (in collaboration with the Gallery of the City of Backnang )

2012: Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratory of the Senses (in the Gehry Galleries)

2012: ashes and gold. A world tour (in the Gehry galleries)

2012: Franz Erhard Walther . The memory of form (an exhibition as part of the Kraftwerk Depot project ) (in Marta Cathedral)

2012: Nezaket Ekici . Personal Map (to be continued ...) (an exhibition as part of the Kraftwerk Depot project ) (in the Gehry galleries)

2012: NOW. Sense of time and contemporary design (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2012: Art project Ralf Witthaus . The International Lawn Show 2012. The Appointment. The borehole to New Zealand , in Hof Bröer ( Löhne )

2011/12: GWK Art Award 2011: Kristina Berning, No More Illusions ; Benjamin Greber, Almagia 2

2011: Now. Sense of time and contemporary design (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2011: Silent Treasures. Portfolio works from Matisse to Twombly from the Marzona Collection (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2011: We are all astronauts. Richard Buckminster Fuller's universe in the mirror of contemporary art

2011: Silent Treasures. Portfolio works from Matisse to Twombly from the Marzona Collection (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2011: Missing Synagogues. Photos by Martin Mühlhoff and Christian Vossiek (in Marta Forum)

2011: Things are Queer. Highlights of the UniCredit collection

2011: That's me. Photographic self-pictures (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2011: Marta_SMS 06: Kerstin Stoll (presented by the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster in the Marta lobby)

2010/11: SPAGAT! Design Istanbul Tasarımı

2010/11: We are Orient. Contemporary arabesques

2010: Marta_SMS 05: Thomas Gerhards (presented by the Heidelberger Kunstverein in the Marta lobby)

2010: 4th RecyclingDesign Prize. The award-winning submissions (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2011: We are all astronauts. The Universe of Richard Buckminster Fuller Reflected in Contemporary Art

2010: Invisible Shadows. Images of uncertainty

2010: Marta Sommer . Changes and actions

2010: Richard Neutra in Europe. Buildings and projects 1960–1970 (in the Gehry galleries)

2010: The photographer Julius Shulman . A Lifetime for Architecture (in the Gehry galleries)

2010: Stephan Mörsch . Land grab (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2010: Marta_SMS 04: Karolin Meunier (an exhibition by the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in the Marta lobby)

2010: Martin Walde . Unken (in the Gehry galleries)

2010: I don't even know what art is. Insights into a private collection (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2010: Marta_SMS 03: Walter Zurborg (presented by Kunstverein Wolfsburg in the Marta lobby)

2009/2010: good prospects. young german photography 2009/2010 (in the Marta Forum)

2009/2010: Picturesque. New perspectives on the landscape

2009: Marta_SMS 02: Michele Di Menna (presented by the Kunstverein Nürnberg in the Marta lobby)

2009: 3rd RecyclingDesign Prize (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2009: Wide awake present. Views of the Marta Collection

2009: here and elsewhere. OWL2

2009: Marta_SMS 01: Suse Weber (presented by Kunstverein Lingen in the Marta lobby)

2009: Paolo Chiasera . Under the open sky

2009: Dennis Oppenheim . Electric kisses

2009: Royden Rabinowitch

2009: zero point. Nieuwe German design

2008/2009: Loss of Control. Boundaries to art from Félicien Rops to today

2008: Christopher Dresser . A pioneer of modern design (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2008: Siegfried de Buck . Table Works (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2008: Thomas Huber . rhombus sad (in the Gehry galleries)

2008: Robert Devriendt . The story of a hunter (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2008: Ad absurdum. Energies of the absurd from classical modernism to the present (in the Gehry galleries)

2008: The Hands of Art (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2008: Max Bill . without beginning without end

2008: When a traveler on a winter night. Variations on Max Bill

2007/2008: Andreas Hofer . The Long Tomorrow

2007/2008: OWL 1. Art from Ostwestfalen-Lippe

2007: MARTa is silent. Garde le silence, le silence te gardera

2007: Inge König-Gausepohl and Dini Thomsen . confessional

2007: Benjamin Katz . Photographs from the Marta Collection (in the Marta Café)

2007: If Albrecht Dürer were a child today, he would certainly visit Marta Herford

2007: Carla Accardi meets Lucio Fontana . An encounter

2007: Erik Schmidt. Hunting grounds

2006/2007: Modernism. Designing a New World

2006: seven in one go. Baudart, Sánchez Castillo, van Erp, Fogli, Roberts, Van Severen, Stollhans

2006: Susanna Taras . Artificialia

2006: Empty X Vision. Connexions (an exhibition in public space)

2006: Tupperware . Transparent

2006: Between Body and Object (a video exhibition)

2006: V + W Design_Matrix a project by Vogt + Weizenegger (in the Gehry galleries)

2006: Art as furniture in resistance. Works from the Marta Collection (in the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)

2006: Photography as an image (in the Marta Forum)

2006: Asta Gröting . The Inner Voice

2006: Letizia Battaglia . Passione, Giustizia, Libertà

2005: Reinhart Wolf . Architecture photographs 1969–1982

2005/2006: Marta Herford Collection. A selection

2005/2006: Karl Kerber Collection. A selection

2005/2006: Anton Henning . Octagon for Herford

2005: Pascal Marthine Tayou . Date

2005: Maarten van Severen . Works / Work

2005: (my private) Heroes (opening exhibition)

literature

Uli Kahmann (Red.): Frank O. Gehry - MARTa Herford . Published by MARTa Freunde und Förderer eV Birkhäuser, Basel u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7162-5 .

Michael Kröger (Red.): Collection MARTa Herford 01 . MARTa, Herford 2005, ISBN 3-938433-03-5 .

Klaus Leuschel (Ed.): Richard Neutra. Buildings and projects 1960-1970 . DuMont et al., Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9286-0 (exhibition catalog)

MARTa gGmbH: Invisible Shadows - Pictures of Uncertainty , Herford 2010 ISBN 978-3-938433-19-5

Martin Ludwig Hoffmann, Katharina König (ed.): The Gehry effect. An architectural- sociological study of the Marta Herford , Wilhelm fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5141-5 .