Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of the Present

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The Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, 2017

The Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart is a museum for contemporary art in the former reception building of the Hamburger Bahnhof and part of the Berlin National Gallery . The official name of the museum is Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin . In the media, the title is often shortened to Museum für Gegenwart .

In 2019 the museum had around 308,000 visitors.

history

In the mid-1980s, the Berlin building contractor Erich Marx offered to make his private collection available to the city. Thereupon the Berlin Senate decided in 1987 to set up a museum for contemporary art in the reception building of the former Hamburger Bahnhof . The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation agreed to take over the sponsorship. The architect Josef Paul Kleihues won the competition announced by the Senate in 1989 to convert the station building . The reopening took place in November 1996 with an exhibition of works by Sigmar Polke . Since then, the Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin and the Joseph Beuys Media Archive have been housed here as part of the National Gallery .

Interior view: Berlin Circle by Richard Long

Works by Joseph Beuys , Anselm Kiefer , Roy Lichtenstein , Richard Long , Andy Warhol , Donald Judd and Cy Twombly , among others, are on display. The holdings consist of exhibits from the National Gallery and the Marx Collection. The Marx Collection consists of around 150 pictures and around 500 drawings by Beuys and Warhol. In March 1982 it was exhibited in parts in the Neue Nationalgalerie for the first time . Since 2004, highlights of Friedrich Christian Flick's art collection have been shown on loan. However, this exhibition was critically discussed in public because the collection was financed with the legacy of the entrepreneur Friedrich Karl Flick , who is considered a war profiteer of the Nazi regime and whose father Friedrich Flick was convicted for it.

Originally, these loans were to be shown until 2010. At the beginning of 2008, Flick finally donated 166 works from his Friedrich Christian Flick Collection to the museum. In view of its size and quality, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation describes this donation as unique in the post-war period .

Furthermore, the concept of the museum leaves room for temporary exhibitions of current contemporary artists.

The director of the museum is the art historian Gabriele Knapstein . Her predecessor from 2001 to August 2016 was the curator Eugen Blume .

According to information from the FAZ , from June 2020, the museum is to be bought back by the investor CA Immo and then renovated and expanded.

Rieckhallen

Transition from the Hamburger Bahnhof to the Rieckhallen
Walk along the Rieckhallen

The former freight yard, which adjoins the Hamburger Bahnhof, was converted into an exhibition area for the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection . The exhibition area is approx. 330 meters long and offers an area of ​​6000 m². The renovation was carried out by the architects Kühn Malvezzi and completed in summer 2004. It is connected to the Hamburger Bahnhof by a bridge.

In 2007, the Rieckhallen property was sold by the Deutsche Bundesbahn to the Austrian CA Immo AG and leased back. In spring 2020 it became known that the Austrian real estate company would not extend the lease and would instead build new residential buildings on the site. The Flick collection shown in these halls is to move to Zurich .

Movies

literature

  • Britta Schmitz, Dieter Scholz: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. 2nd Edition. Prestel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7913-1713-X .

Web links

Commons : Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin State Museums counted more than 4 million visitors in 2019. January 31, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Source: Ines Goldbach: The Museum für Gegenwart in the former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin studies on architecture and museum concept. (PDF; 1 MB) Status: 1999; Master's thesis, University of Freiburg, 2004, online version, note 127 on p. 42
  3. ↑ Both the review (pp. 27–38) and a long interview with the lender (pp. 5–25) are documented in detail in the first edition of the in-house publication Museum für Gegenwart (2004).
  4. ↑ Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart receives 166 works of contemporary art as a gift from Friedrich Christian Flick. In: preussischer-kulturbesitz.de. February 19, 2008, accessed April 19, 2019 (press release).
  5. ^ Negotiations "on the right track": Federal government wants to buy back the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 29, 2020]).
  6. ^ The collection in Berlin | FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN FLICK collection. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Nicola Kuhn: Berlin loses Flick Collection - demolition of a dream . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 24, 2020 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Eugen Blume: Contemporary Art in Berlin: Save the Rieckhallen! In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Color rush at the Hamburger Bahnhof. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 42 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 19.8"  E