Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
| Nassau Art Association Wiesbaden (NKV) |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | July 16, 1847 |
| Seat | Wiesbaden |
| precursor | Society of Friends of Fine Arts |
| Chair | Elke Gruhn, Christian Lauer, Britta Fischer, Gerrit von Velsen |
| Website | www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de |
The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden is the oldest art association in the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden . The promotion of contemporary art in the form of exhibitions and art education are the two main tasks of the association. A team of art historians and exhibition organizers shows national and international artists as well as regional positions in changing thematic group and solo exhibitions. Guest curators from different nations show excerpts of their perception of the art scene.
history
The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden was originally founded in 1847 by citizens of the city as the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in the Duchy of Nassau and is thus the oldest art association in Wiesbaden. The founding members came mainly from the upper middle class of Wiesbaden. It was her concern to promote the visual arts without being dependent on politics and the state. Initially, the association supported local artists , albeit with moderate success, so that they could receive grants from the Nassau duke, or it commissioned Wiesbaden artists to paint paintings for the museum's gallery. The first permanent exhibition was set up in the painting room of the library that was then housed in the Hereditary Prince's Palace, namely “[...] with older. and more recent works of art by domestic and foreign artists ”, as it was recorded in the protocol of that time. Within a very short time the association became the most popular private company in town with the largest number of members. The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden initially formed the basis for the art collection of the Wiesbaden Museum . In 1850 the association was entrusted with the task of administering the state art collection - it was not until 1899 that this task was transferred to the city. The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden also had its headquarters and exhibition rooms in the new building of the Wiesbaden Museum, which opened in 1915. From now on, the respective museum director was a member of the association's board of directors. The artists of the Free Art Association of Wiesbaden , founded by Otto Ritschl in 1925, used both facilities.
After the Wiesbaden Museum was handed over from the city to the state in 1973, the first step in the attempt to find its own exhibition space, which was formulated when it was founded, was fulfilled: in 1979 the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden moved into its still existing headquarters on Wilhelmstrasse 15 in a three-storey old villa. With the conclusion of the long-term lease in spring 2007, the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden was assigned this house for 66 years.
Exhibitions
Every year the Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden organizes a series of group and solo exhibitions of fine art. One focus of the exhibition is on promoting young, experimental art, which is often presented for the first time in an institutional setting. Numerous artists who became famous had their first institutional solo exhibition at the NKV, such as B. Mona Hatoum (2002), Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba (2003), Xuken Teruya (2005), Sven Johne (2007), Jorinde Voigt (2008), Emily Wardill (2008/2009), Murray Gaylard (2009), Rory Macbeth ( 2009), Nina Yuen, Blue Curry (2011), Alexandre Singh (first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, 2012). The Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden mostly publishes catalogs for the exhibitions and thus permanent documentation that extends beyond the duration of the exhibitions and supplements them with scientific texts.
On the special occasion of the 50th birthday of the Fluxus movement, the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden was the only European institution to show the retrospective "Born in the State of FLUX / us" in cooperation with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston , Texas , USA Fluxus artist Ben (Benjamin) Patterson .
In 2013, the Kunstverein showed an overview of works by students from Adam Jankowski's painting class from 1987–2013.
Art education
In addition to the exhibition activities, the Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden provides the interested public with mediating offers that are intended to promote and deepen the understanding of contemporary art. The regular and often free offers include:
- the NKV discourse , a panel discussion on the theory of contemporary art,
- the children's program with the NKV discovery tour and NKV children in the middle , who address the children's visitors and introduce them to art in a playful and creative way,
- Art trips at home and abroad,
- Artist talks on the current exhibitions,
- Cooperations with other cultural institutions.
Follow Fluxus
In the wake of the international art movement Fluxus , which first attracted widespread attention in Germany with the New Music Festival in Wiesbaden in 1962 , the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden promotes young artists whose work is specifically linked to Fluxus. The Follow Fluxus - Fluxus and the consequences work grant, awarded annually in cooperation with the state capital Wiesbaden, includes a three-month work stay with a studio and living space as well as a final exhibition. The scholarship is endowed with € 10,000.
membership
The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden is a member of the ADKV, the working group of German art associations .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Effective transparency / Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden e. V. (PDF) In: kunstverein-wiesbaden.de. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Grätz (ed.), The Nassau Art Association, Fine Arts in Wiesbaden, From the Bourgeois Revolution to Today, The Nassau Art Association, Wiesbaden 1997
- ↑ Freie Zeitung, August 1, 1850
- ↑ Clemens Weiler, Hundred Years of Nassau Art Association, in exhib. Cat .: 100 Years of the Nassau Art Association in the State Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 1947