New Berlin Art Association

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The Neue Berliner Kunstverein (abbreviation nbk or NBK ) is an art association founded in Berlin in 1969 , which is dedicated to promoting contemporary art . The association has permanent exhibition rooms in Chausseestrasse in Berlin-Mitte . The Artothek, which has been operated by the nbk since 1970, is the largest artothek in Germany with 4,000 works of art that can be borrowed. The Video-Forum , founded in 1971, is a collection of video art that today comprises more than 1,600 works.

history

In the 1960s there were few public exhibition opportunities for contemporary art in West Berlin compared to today. Civil art associations from the prewar period did not survive National Socialism and the war. In 1965, Adolf Arndt, who had left office as Berlin Senator for Culture a year earlier, founded the German Society for Fine Arts (DGBK) to close this gap. The statute of the DGBK provided for financing and control "from above", the money came from the German Lottery Foundation and the decisions were to be made by thirty members elected for life. This model met with resistance in the context of the Berlin student movement. On December 5, 1968, students blew up the DGBK general assembly with the slogan "The art association stinks!" In 1969 the DGBK was dissolved.

In 1969, the New Berlin Art Association was founded , three days later the New Society for Fine Arts (NGBK). The Berlin Senate divided the Lotto Foundation funding equally between NBK and NGBK. For a long time, the NGBK, in which the members themselves, organized on a grassroots basis , exert influence on the exhibitions, was considered more “progressive” than the more traditionally organized NBK, which tended to show solo exhibitions by Berlin artists. In 1973 the NBK organized the event ADA actions of the avant-garde , for which, among other things, the Happening Berlin - Fieber was realized by Wolf Vostell . In 1974 ADA 2 took place. The NBK was headed by Lucie Schauer from 1975 to 1994 . In 1987 the NBK developed the exhibition Sculpture Boulevard , which was shown in Berlin on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1994, the NBK moved from Charlottenburg to Mitte to Chausseestrasse 128/129 near the Oranienburger Tor . The new director was Alexander Tolnay in 1995 , previously deputy head of the exhibition service at the Stuttgart Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa). Tolnay was replaced in 2008 by Marius Babias , who had previously worked as an art critic and curator.

The Kunstverein Berlin is a registered association , had a good 700 members in 2007 and is a member of the Working Group of German Art Associations (ADKV).

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Rosemarie Bremer, Lucie Schauer: 10 years NBK: Balance sheet and accountability from Berlin . New Berlin Art Association, Berlin 1979.
  • Rosemarie Bremer, Renate Grisebach: 20 years of NBK: the second decade . New Berlin Art Association, Berlin 1989.
  • Marius Babias, Sophie Goltz, Kathrin Becker (eds.): Art and the public: 40 years of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein . König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-715-7 . (Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the NBK from March 28 to May 10, 2009.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature from and about the German Society for Fine Arts in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Kolja Reichert: Painting more democracy . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 29, 2010.
  3. ↑ Martin Conrads: Behind the Barricades - the Neue Berliner Kunstverein celebrates its 40th anniversary . ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Goethe-Institut Online , May 2009.
  4. ↑ ADA 1 and 2 Retrieved April 19, 2014
  5. ^ Bernhard Schulz: Lucie Schauer's Chronicle of Berlin Art Life since 1945 . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 29, 1999.
  6. ^ List of NBK exhibitions. Retrieved May 28, 2014
  7. ↑ Avant-garde and the bomb threat . Text about sculpture boulevard , Goethe-Institut e. V., online editing. Retrieved May 28, 2014
  8. ↑ Personal details . In: Art , No. 9/1994, p. 134
  9. ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Marius Babias is not a club owner . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 29, 2007.
  10. ^ Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, district court Berlin-Charlottenburg , association register number 4084 .
  11. ^ Nicola Kuhn, Christiane Meixner: Capital of the I-Container . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 28, 2007. (Interview with Marius Babias)
  12. ^ Members of the ADKV . (Retrieved August 4, 2010.)

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