NRW Forum Düsseldorf

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NRW Forum Düsseldorf in May 2017

The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is an exhibition and event house in the Düsseldorf Ehrenhof with a focus on photography , pop and digital culture. The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is characterized by an interdisciplinary program that negotiates current social issues in group and solo exhibitions, festivals and workshops.

The museum building is located north of the old town between the Rhine and the Düsseldorf Hofgarten, in the vicinity of the Tonhalle, Kunstpalast, Rheinterrasse and near the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

The NRW Forum Düsseldorf was jointly subsidized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the state capital Düsseldorf until the end of 2013. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia ended the co-financing on December 31, 2013. Since January 1, 2016, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf has been run in the legal form of a GmbH as an independent institution. The state capital Düsseldorf is the sponsor. Alain Bieber has been the artistic director of the house since April 1, 2015.

Prehistory and foundation

On the occasion of the GeSoLei exhibition, the Ehrenhof area was built according to plans by Wilhelm Kreis in 1926 . After the GeSoLei , the exhibition building for the NRW Forum initially housed the Reich Museum for Social and Economic Studies . It was opened on June 23, 1928 and represented a new type of contemporary museum . Oskar von Miller , the founder of the Deutsches Museum , was involved in his technical, economic and social history exhibition concept . Marta Fraenkel was the managing director of the Reichsmuseum until 1929 .

From December 9, 1951 to the beginning of the 1990s, the State Museum of People and Economy existed here , which, as a technology museum , showed the interplay between people, nature and economy, work and leisure in the course of sociological changes, in particular specific developments within North Rhine-Westphalia. An accessible coal mine in the basement was the main attraction of the house.

Due to the lack of acceptance and the budget crisis in the city of Düsseldorf at the time, this museum was affected by immediate closure and possible sale. In coordination between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Düsseldorf, a new concept for the house was developed. After a complete renovation, it was reopened on October 9, 1998 as the "NRW Forum Culture and Economy" by the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ilse Brusis ; the ceremony was accompanied by a keynote speech by the director of the New York Guggenheim Museum , Thomas Krens .

The infrastructure of the house was jointly managed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state capital Düsseldorf, Messe Düsseldorf , other institutions and Düsseldorf companies through a sponsoring association. All exhibitions of the NRW-Forum were financed exclusively through own income and sponsoring . As a further specialty, for the first time, the exhibition and event management of a public exhibition house will be taken care of by a private operator within the framework of a management contract.

Exit of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Urban Art , 2012

In September 2012, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia announced that it would withdraw from funding the forum at the end of 2013 with an annual grant of 750,000 euros and justified this with its contribution to the consolidation of the state budget. The Fair Dusseldorf also ended the promotion. Werner Lippert and Petra Wenzel then announced the end of their work.

To save the forum, the citizens' initiative Rettet das NRW-Forum was founded, which wanted to win the Victoria and Albert Museum in London ( Martin Roth ) as a cooperation partner for the NRW-Forum . However, the city of Düsseldorf shied away from the costs of such a cooperation. An affiliation to the Museum Kunstpalast with a focus on photography was then discussed.

After the municipal elections in 2014, the newly elected Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel described the exit of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as "awkward" and spoke out in favor of a further development of the previous concept (encounter between culture and business, visual arts and design).

After the state of North Rhine-Westphalia withdrew, the building was initially used as an exhibition space for the Quadriennale art festival , the Photo Weekend and a dance fair.

NRW Forum 2.0

META marathon
Festival director Christopher Peterka and Alain Bieber
Global village
Global village discussion
Relaxation room
Dormitory

On December 19, 2014, the city of Düsseldorf announced that it had appointed ARTE journalist and curator Alain Bieber as artistic director of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf as of April 1, 2015 . The cultural institution, of which the state capital is now the sole shareholder, is to be run as an artistically independent house in the future. An expansion of the group of shareholders is conceivable, and annual funds of one million euros would be made available. The contract with Alain Bieber will be extended beyond 2020. In addition, the NRW Forum will be incorporated into the Museum Kunstpalast .

From September 19, 2015 to January 16, 2016, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf presented "Ego Update - the future of digital identity" as the first exhibition under the responsibility of the new director Alain Bieber. It was about selfies , cyborgs and the question of how ideas of identity are changing in the digital age.

From May 25 to 27, 2018, the NRW Forum Düsseldorf organized a META marathon. The participants design the festival themselves, change roles from expert to layman and experiment with the new format - including overnight accommodation on site.

architecture

The building is part of the listed Ehrenhof ensemble, whose architectural origins date back to around 1900. On the occasion of the industrial, commercial and art exhibition that took place in 1902 , the architects Albrecht Bender and Eugen Rückgauer built the art palace around an inner courtyard as the first of the buildings that belong to a group today.

In 1926, the area of ​​the Kunstpalast (today: Museum Kunstpalast ) was expanded by further buildings according to plans by Wilhelm Kreis for the GeSoLei exhibition: The newly created Ehrenhof ensemble now also included a planetarium (later: Rheinhalle ; today: Tonhalle Düsseldorf ), the Rheinterrasse and the Reich Museum for Social and Economic Studies , later the State Museum for People and Economics , which has been the exhibition building of the NRW Forum since 1998.

A strict symmetrical arrangement, archaic-monumental forms and expressionistic brick facades are the characteristics of the building. Simple, formally reduced structural elements should dominate the overall impression - the neo-baroque facade of the Kunstpalast was also adapted to the newly added buildings and encased with a simple, austere clinker brick facade. The severity and structure of the Rhine facade of the NRW Forum echo the Villa Cuno , which Peter Behrens designed from 1909 to 1910.

Alongside the Wilhelm Marx House and the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, the ensemble is one of the most important designs by Wilhelm Kreis , who succeeded Peter Behrens as director of the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts and transferred its architecture department to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1920 .

"Temple-like porches" / "temple-like corner pavilions" in the style of neoclassicism characterize both ends of the single-storey building, the motif of which is repeated in the art museum on the one hand and in the base of the Rheinhalle on the other. The building rests on a base that is inclined. The windows above are combined to form horizontal strips with stone cornices.

  • Corner pavilion north side

  • Mosaic north side, Jan Thorn Prikker "The day"

  • South side, Heinrich Nauen "Dance" (excerpt)

Orientation and main topics

The NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft shows changing contextual exhibitions that aim to make the convergence or mutual interpenetration of aesthetic, social and economic phenomena of the time tangible. The exhibition concepts dispense with a distinction between “high” and popular art: Instead, they are dedicated to the progressive merging of the most diverse (pop) cultural areas, such as art. B. applied arts, design, advertising, architecture, photography, video and fashion.

  • NRW-Forum Düsseldorf: View of the “Radical Advertising” exhibition on the opening day (April 4, 2008).

  • Permanent video lounge of the imai foundation .

Since its opening in 1998, the NRW Forum has provided the framework for numerous exhibitions and events that dealt with the most varied of art and cultural genres as well as their mutual influence. At the same time, the concept of “framing” is in the foreground: the exhibition concepts aim to break everyday phenomena such as fashion photos or architecture, cars or comics out of their usual context and to place them in a new context of meaning and perspective.

In the first few years, the German Plastics Museum also presented itself in the NRW Forum with a permanent exhibition and themed exhibitions.

Since July 2019, the NRW Forum has also housed a permanent video lounge of the imai foundation , which is dedicated to the collection, restoration and distribution of video and media art. In addition, the "IKS - Institute for Art Documentation and Scenography", which specializes in the production of documentaries and trailers in the field of contemporary art and the development of digital formats, is located in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf under the direction of Ralph Goertz .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • “Mutanten - Die Deutschsprachige Comic Avantgarde.” (1999–2000)
    First museum exhibition of comics from German-speaking countries.
  • “ Anton Corbijn ” (2001)
    retrospective of the Dutch photographer with portraits and video clips.
  • “Media Lounge / The Hire” (2002)
    Establishment of a media lounge that can be used by all visitors on site with over 1000 videos from art, music and advertising.
  • “ Helmut Newton - Work” (2003)
    Extensive retrospective of the photographer who died in 2006.
  • “The Dream of the Tower” (2004–2005)
    compilation of the most important high-rise buildings as models on the same scale; from the 40 cm high Tower of Babel to the 4 m high design by Norman Foster .
  • " Martin Kippenberger - Floor Collage" (2005)
    Exhibition of the restored studio     floor of the fashion designer Claudia Skoda , which was laid out with a photo collage by the artist Martin Kippenberger.
  • “ Alexander McQueen - Catwalk Videos” (2005)
    First exhibition by the British fashion designer, staged as a catwalk with video projections.
  • “ Vivienne Westwood : Princess Punk” (2006)
    Retrospective of the British fashion designer with original creations, documentaries and videos.
  • “ Bruce Nauman - Mental Exercises” (2006–2007)
    Selected installations, films, videos and performances by the American conceptual artist and a true-to-original replica of his first European solo exhibition at the Düsseldorf Galerie Konrad Fischer , 1970.
  • “Images in the Head” (2007)
    The exhibition was devoted to the most important images in the history of photography. Instead of showing them, however, they were described to the visitors through headphones.
  • “ Andy Warhol - Myths” (2008)
    Exhibition of 10 graphics by the American artist with documentation of their respective origins.
  • "Albert Watson - Best of" (September 21, 2008 - January 18, 2009) A
    retrospective of one of the most successful fashion and advertising photographers in the world. In addition to world-famous portraits of celebrities, impressive images of his travels around the world, from Marrakech to Las Vegas and the Orkneys, were on display.
  • “Michel Comte - Retrospective” (February 1 - May 10, 2009)
    Review of the diverse works of photographer Michel Comte, who is best known for his fashion photography. In addition to the commercial work for z. B. Vanity Fair and Vogue, the portraits of many famous people from art, music and entertainment such as Julian Schnabel Jermey Irons, Demi Moore, Mike Tyson, Carla Bruni or Michael Schumacher also parts of the photo documentations from crisis zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and Sudan.
  • "Deanna Templeton - Scratch My Name on Your Arm" (April 4 - May 10, 2009)
    Exhibition of the photo series by Deanna Templeton, which focuses on young people, who sign the body parts of their idols or have company logos sprayed on their bodies. The focus is on the discussion about how to deal with v. a. young women with their bodies, how they present themselves in the media and sometimes voluntarily pursue their own objectification.
  • “UFO - Boundaries between Art and Design” (23 May - 5 July 2009)
    An exhibition that addresses the discussion about the question “Where is the boundary between art and design?”. On view were design and art objects by David Adjaye, Ron Arad, Richard Artschwager, Ronan + Erwan Bouroulle, Fernando + Humberto Campana, Hussein Chalayan, Frédéric Dedelley, Martino Gamper, Liam Gillick, Johanna Grawunder, Konstantin Grcic, Zaha Hadid, Studio Job , Donald Judd, Mona Hatoum, Arik Levy, Ross Lovegrove, Marc Newson, Tom Price, Richard Prince, Rolf Sachs, Tejo Remy, Ettore Sottsass, Haim Steinbach , Kram / Weisshaar, Marcel Wanders, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Jorge Pardo .
  • “Armin Mueller-Stahl - Overpainting a Script” (August 15 - September 27, 2009)
    Exhibition of 173 of the 357 drawings and watercolors that actor Armin Mueller-Stahl made during the shooting of the film “Buddenbrooks”, directed by Heinrich Breloer created.
  • “Catwalks - The Most Spectacular Fashion Shows” (July 26th - November 1st, 2009)
    The Catwalks exhibition showed the most spectacular catwalks by the top designers of recent years: big performances like those of Dior. The circus as a theatrical cabinet of curiosities, as with Galliano. Dramatic productions, as with Alexander McQueen. Conceptual performance as with Hussein Chalayan. Or the festively laid dinner table as a catwalk, as with Dries van Noten. The visitor became a model on the catwalk himself. He follows the catwalk and gets into the big fashion shows - these were animated to 3D live spectacles by video insertions and multimedia installations.
  • Bryan Adams - Exposed (February 2 - May 22, 2013)
    Portrait photos of famous people, photographed by musician Bryan Adams.
  • Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective , (2014)
    First retrospective of the co-founder of NEW COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. In cooperation with the IKS (curator: Ralph Goertz)
  • Ego Update - The future of digital identity (19.9.2015 - 17.1.2016)
  • Tuesday evening fever - young photography (February 12, 2016 - March 6, 2016)
  • Mareike Foecking - Reality Hung Up So I Called (02/12/2016 - 05/22/2016)
  • Horst - Photographer of Style (02/12/2016 - 05/22/2016)
  • Plastic Icons - design icons made of plastic (29.4.2016 - 26.5.2016)
  • Ralf Brueck - .FTLBR # 3 (June 25, 2016 - August 21, 2016)
  • Olaf Breuning - retrospective (June 11, 2016 - August 21, 2016)
  • Planet B - 100 ideas for a new world (06/02/2016 - 08/21/2016)
  • Wackerbarth - Heimat.NRW (17.9.2016 - 30.10.2016)
  • Good prospects - Young German Photography 2016/2017 (November 19, 2016 - January 15, 2017)
  • Bling Bling Baby - glitter, glamor and a flirt with pop (19.11.2016 - 15.1.2017)
  • Thomas Mailaender - The Fun Archive (3.2.2017 - 30.4.2017)
  • Unreal - A Virtual Reality Exhibition (May 25, 2017 - July 30, 2017)
  • Myth of the Tour de France (May 19, 2017 - July 30, 2017)
  • Life 24/7 - 100 years of Nikon (9/22/2017 - 11/5/2017)
  • Erik Kessels & Friends (August 12, 2017 - November 5, 2017)
  • Good prospects - Young German Photography 2017/2018 (November 24, 2017 - February 4, 2018)
  • Klaus-Peter Dienst - Calligrammatic typography and poetic text images (November 24, 2017 - February 4, 2018)
  • Deuscthland (11/24/2017 - 4/2/2018)
  • Louise Dahl-Wolfe - A Style of Her Own (February 16, 2018 - May 20, 2018)
  • Herlinde Koelbl (February 16, 2018 - May 20, 2018)
  • Pizza is God (02/16/2018 - 05/20/2018)
  • Liu Xiaodong - Slow Homecoming (9.6.2018 - 19.8.2018)
  • Pendoran Vinci - Art and Artificial Intelligence Today (9.6.2018 - 19.8.2018)
  • Made in Düsseldorf # 1: Ruff / Jansen (9/21/2018 - 11/18/2018)
  • When in doubt, for doubt - The great world conspiracy (21.9.2018 - 18.11.2018)
  • Bauhaus and Photography - A new way of seeing in contemporary art (December 7, 2018 - March 10, 2019)
  • Body turn - from Nam June Paik to Hirsohi Ishiguro (29.3.2019 - 5.5.2019)
  • Textile Pop - Europeans Together in Sustainable Design / Engineering / Management (May 25, 2019 - June 23, 2019)
  • Two Rivers - Joachim Brohm / Alec Soth (29.3.2019 - 7.7.2019)


Web links

Commons : NRW-Forum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Schroyen: Düsseldorf. The most beautiful city on the Rhine . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-118-7 , p. 64 f. ( online )
  2. ↑ Ute Einhoff: The permanent buildings of Gesolei: Art Museum and Art Palace, Reich Museum for Social and Economic Studies, Rhine Terrace . In: Jürgen Wiener (Ed.): The Gesolei and the Düsseldorf architecture of the 20s . JB Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1445-4 , p. 50 ff.
  3. ^ Bärbl Kleindorfer-Marx: foragers, assistants, directors. The museum as an indicator of equality? In: Elsbeth Wallnhöfer: Take measure - keep measure. Women in Folklore . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77562-1 , p. 271 ( online )
  4. ↑ Epochs and events from 1945 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de , accessed on September 1, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  5. ↑ Press release from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 27, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wirtschaft.nrw.de
  6. ↑ Press release of the state capital Düsseldorf (PDF; 59 kB), September 27, 2012
  7. ^ Rheinische Post: "The NRW Forum will no longer exist" , December 18, 2012
  8. ↑ Die Welt from February 25, 2013 NRW Forum: Citizens' Initiative Wants to Fight for Museums , by Christiane Hoffmans , accessed on February 26, 2013
  9. ↑ rp-online.de: NRW-Forum gets new name and new structure , 25th Uni 2013
  10. ↑ rp-online.de: Interview with Thomas Geisel , August 30, 2014
  11. ↑ welt.de: New plans for the NRW forum. City wants its own museum and is already looking for a new director , November 22, 2013
  12. ↑ rp-online.de: Tanzmesse attracts people from all over the world , August 28, 2014
  13. ↑ New start for NRW-Forum Düsseldorf: State capital appoints Alain Bieber as the new director , website from December 19, 2014 in the duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on December 19, 2014
  14. ↑ Arne Lieb: Alain Bieber remains director of the NRW forum. In: rp-online.de. May 9, 2019, accessed February 17, 2020 .
  15. ↑ wz-newsline.de: NRW-Forum: New director brings selfies to the museum , January 16, 2015
  16. ↑ Welcome to Meta Marathon 2018 , website, accessed on May 29, 2018
  17. ↑ KI festival "Meta Marathon" in Düsseldorf , website, accessed on May 29, 2018
  18. ↑ The META marathon in Düsseldorf deals with the topic of AI , website, accessed on May 29, 2018
  19. ^ Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste, Düsseldorf 1975, No. 30.
  20. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 50, object no. 66.
  21. ↑ imai Foundation, Video Lounge, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
  22. ↑ Institute for Art Documentation and Scenography (IKS), NRW Forum, Ehrenhof 2
  23. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, accessed on September 30, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrw-forum.de
  24. ↑ Dialogue with a stuffed duck in FAZ on February 7, 2014, page 40
  25. ↑ JOEL MEYEROWITZ RETROSPECTIVE , Institute for Art Documentation and Scenography, accessed on February 19, 2016
  26. ^ Ego update: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Tuesday evening fever: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Mareike Foecking: NRW-Forum Dusseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  29. ^ Horst: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Plastic Icons: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  31. ^ Ralf Brueck: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  32. ^ Olaf Breuning: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  33. ↑ Planet B: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  34. ^ Wackerbarth: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  35. ↑ good prospects: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  36. ↑ Bling Bling Baby !: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  37. ↑ Thomas Mailaender: NRW-Forum Dusseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  38. ^ Peter Lindbergh / Garry Winogrand: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  39. ↑ Unreal: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Myth of the Tour de France: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  41. ↑ live 24/7: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  42. ↑ Erik Kessels: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  43. ↑ good prospects 2017/2018: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  44. ^ Klaus-Peter Dienst: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  45. ↑ DEUSCTHLAND: NRW-Forum Dusseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  46. ^ Louise Dahl-Wolfe: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  47. ^ Herlinde Koelbl: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  48. ↑ Pizza is God: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  49. ^ Liu Xiaodong: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  50. ↑ Pendoran Vinci: NRW-Forum Dusseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  51. ↑ Made in Düsseldorf: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  52. ↑ When in doubt, for doubt: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  53. ^ Bauhaus and Photography: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  54. ^ Body turn: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  55. ↑ TextilePop: NRW-Forum Dusseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  56. ^ Two Rivers: NRW Forum Düsseldorf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 59.8 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 19.4"  E