Portikus (exhibition hall)
The Portikus is an exhibition institution for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main . It was opened in 1987 in a container room behind the classicist column frontispiece of the Old City Library and has been on the Main Island by the Old Bridge since 2006 . In addition to current works by internationally known artists, positions by young artists are also shown. The Portikus has been an integral part of the Städelschule since it was founded in 1987 and contributes to the enrichment of the curriculum and the international reputation of the school. From October 2014 to the end of 2017, Fabian Schöneich was the curator of Portikus, followed by Christina Lehnert, who most recently headed the Braunschweiger Kunstverein.
history
The portico was named after the portico of the neoclassical City library in the Second World War in the air raids on Frankfurt in March 1944 by aerial bombs was largely destroyed. Only the portico with its gable supported by six Corinthian columns remained. The ruins were structurally secured in 1958 and placed under monument protection as a memorial .
In 1987 Kasper König was appointed rector of the Städelschule. One of his conditions was to have an independent exhibition hall. After only four months of construction, the container-style hall planned by the architects Marie-Theres Deutsch and Klaus Drei 30acker was built behind the portico on the remains of the city library.
The building alluded to an anonymous industrial hall through a cladding with light gray painted folded sheets, but avoided any impression of improvisation inside and outside. The windowless interior with a footprint of eight by sixteen meters, a height of five meters and a grid ceiling with skylight was considered an uncompromising and no-frills “ white cube ”. Function rooms made of stacked shipping containers were connected to the left and right of the main building. The Portikus art gallery was inaugurated for the book fair in October 1987; the first exhibition was for the Swiss artist Dieter Roth .
In 2000, Daniel Birnbaum, as rector of the Städelschule, also became director of the exhibition hall. In 2003 the city decided to reconstruct the old city library in order to accommodate the Frankfurt Literature House. A new building on the Main Island , planned by the Frankfurt architect Christoph Mäckler and financed by the Giersch Foundation , was chosen as the new domicile for the Portikus exhibition institution . During the construction phase from summer 2003, the exhibition hall temporarily moved into the screen house . The ground floor of the Gothic building in Frankfurt's old town was modified by Tobias Rehberger with box and platform elements. Thanks to his spatial concept, the exhibition room, office, bookstore and storage room could be realized on one level.
New building
On May 5, 2006, the exhibition hall moved into the now completed building on Main Island. In April, a light installation designed by Ólafur Elíasson was installed under the glass roof, which is visible through the northern, glazed roof side after dusk. In the following two years 12 light installations were shown. The interior was shown for the first time on May 5, 2006 with an exhibition by the Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrc and the Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno .
Selected exhibitions
Exhibition hall at the old portico:
- 1987: # 1 Dieter Roth : the published and the unpublished
- 1987: # 2 Anna and Bernhard Blume : Trautes Heim
- 1988: # 3A Thomas Struth : Unconscious Places
- 1988: # 3B Siah Armajani : Sacco and Vanzetti reading room
- 1988: # 4 Erik Wladimirowitsch Bulatow : Pictures from 1967 to 1987
- 1988: # 5 Niele Toroni : Untitled
- 1988: # 6A Franz West : Nice view
- 1989: # 14A Gerhard Richter : Three pictures
- 1989: # 14B Gerhard Richter : October 18, 1977
- 1989: # 17 Lawrence Weiner : Books
- 1989: # 18 Hans-Peter Feldmann : Untitled
- 1989: # 21 Hanne Darboven : Quartet> 88 <
- 1990: # 22 Thomas Bayrle : Autobahn head
- 1990: # 31 Bruce Nauman : Ok Ok Ok
- 1991: # 34 Christian Boltanski : Untitled
- 1991: # 37 Claes Oldenburg : Multiples 1964–1990
- 1992: # 38 Mike Kelley : Alma Pater [Wolverine Den]
- 1992: # 45 Isa Genzken : Everyone needs at least one window
- 1994: # 57 Sigmar Polke : Laterna Magica
- 1995: # 68 Wolfgang Tillmans : Untitled
- 1995: # 70 Marlene Dumas : Models
- 1997: # 77 Bazon Brock : Mediators Radicators Cybernauten
- 1997: # 79 Steve McQueen
- 1997: # 80 Matthew Barney : Cremaster 5
- 1998: # 90 Daniel Buren : Color transparency
- 1999: # 91 Gabriel Orozco : Chacahua
- 2000: # 99 Manfred Pernice : 1a - Dosenfeld'00
- 2001: # 105 Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset : Powerless Structures, Fig 111
- 2001: # 106 Rirkrit Tiravanija : Untitled
- 2001: # 108 Jason Rhoades : Costner Complex (Perfect Process)
- 2002: # 111 Philippe Parreno : El Sueño De Una Cosa
- 2002: # 112 Gilbert & George : Nine Dark Pictures
- 2002: # 113 Simon Starling : Kakteenhaus
Exhibitions in the canvas house :
- 2002: # 119 Tobias Rehberger - Ólafur Elíasson - Louise Lawler "Portikus" in the canvas house
- 2003: # 120 Bas Jan Ader : 1970–1974
- 2005: # 139 Mark Leckey : Gorgeousness & Gorgeosity
Exhibitions in the New Portikus :
- 2006: # 140A Marjetica Potrč , Tomas Saraceno : Personal States / Infinite Actives
- 2006: # 140B Ólafur Elíasson : Light Lab, 2006/2007
- 2006: # 142 Francis Alÿs : A Story of Deception
- 2006: # 143 Paul Chan : Untitled
- 2007: # 145 John Baldessari : Eden: Adam and Eve (with Ear and Nose) Plus Serpent.
- 2007: # 146 Judith Hopf & Henrik Olesen : Doors
- 2008: # 154 Martha Rosler : Location, Location, Location
- 2008: # 155 Wade Guyton : Untitled
- 2008: # 156 Frances Stark: The New Vision
- 2009: # 163 Rachel Harrison: Haycation
- 2010: # 165 Trisha Donnelly : Untitled
- 2010: # 166 Jimmie Durham : Rocks Encouraged
- 2010: # 168 Faivovich & Goldberg , Meteorit El Taco
- 2010/2011: # 169 Sergej Jensen : Dog Show Painting Show
- 2011: # 170 Matthew Brannon : A Question Answered with a Quote
- 2012: # 176 Nora Schultz : Portikus Printing Plant and Portikus Sounds
- 2012: # 177 Michael Stevenson : A life of crudity, vulgarity and blindness
- 2012: # 178 Latifa Echakhch : The Birds
- 2012: # 179 Jack Smith : Hamlet - Mis-en-scene
- 2013: # 180 Carsten Nicolai and Rainer Römer: Aleph-1
- 2013: # 181 Lutz Bacher : Snow
- 2013: # 182 John Knight : Untitled
- 2013: # 183 Anne Imhof : Parade
- 2013: # 184 -: Capacete
- 2013: # 185 Michel Auder : Selected Works
- 2013: # 186 Amelie von Wulffen : At the cool table
- 2014: # 187 Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy : Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
- 2014: # 188 John Latham & Neal White : God is Great (10-19)
- 2014: # 189 Simon Denny : New Management
- 2014: # 190 Lucy Raven : Curtains
- 2014: # 191 Elif Erkan : Concentration of strength
- 2015: # 192 Hassan Khan : Concert: Taraban
- 2015: # 193 Meyer Vaisman : In History - In Future - Meyer Vaisman - Meir Ben David - 5774
- 2015: # 194 Zin Taylor : Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus
- 2015: # 195 Minouk Lim : United Paradox
- 2015: # 196 Otobong Nkanga : Crumbling Through Powdery Air
- 2015: # 197 Ade Darmawan : Magic Center
- 2015: # 198 Jana Euler : In it .
- 2016: # 199 Lawrence Abu Hamdan : Earshot .
- 2016: # 200 Shahryar Nashat : Model Malady .
- 2016: # 201 Amy Sillman : the ALL-OVER .
- 2016: # 202 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys : Untitled
- 2016/2017: # 203 House of Commons. A Constantly Changing Exhibition Presenting Art Works, Talks, Screenings, and Performances .
- 2018: # 211 Candice Lin A Hard White Body, a Soft White Wor
- 2018: # 212 Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I
- 2018: # 213 Arin Rungjang Bengawan Solo
- 2018: # 214 Thea Djordjadze o potio n.
- 2018: # 215 Leo Asemota and Nástio Mosquito # 215
- 2019: # 216 Tala Madani Oven Light
- 2019: # 217 Dawn Kasper The Wolf and The Head on Fire
literature
- Dankwart Guratzsch: Manifesto against modernist bigotry . In: The world . April 18, 2006 ( online [accessed July 26, 2016]).
- Brigitte Kölle: Portikus Frankfurt am Main, 1987–1997 , Portikus, 1997, ISBN 3-928071-34-3
- Christoph Mäckler: Portikus Art Gallery . Niggli, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7212-0602-9
- Rudolf Schmitz: The art box on the Main . In: Art in Frankfurt 1945 to today . (Ed. Rolf Lauter ) Societät, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-7973-0581-8 , p. 354 ff
- Chris van Uffelen : Museum architecture . Ullman, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-8331-6058-5 , pp. 244-247
gallery
Web links
- Official website
- Literature on Portikus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portikus at Kunstaspekte.de
- Swantje Karich: Documenta art in the portico: It's raining meteorites . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 25, 2010, accessed July 26, 2016 .
- Gabriele Detterer: Longing for old Frankfurt. Architectural nostalgia in the banking metropolis. In: NZZ . April 28, 2006, accessed March 14, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christina Lehnert is new curator of the portico , , monopol-magazin.de, January 9, 2018
- ↑ Christina Lehnert becomes the new curator of Portikus | Monopol - magazine for art and life. January 9, 2018, accessed March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Der Baumeister : Journal for Architecture, Planning, Environment, Volume 103, 2006, p. 16
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ There is certainty only with the doctor , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 19, 2011, No. 42, p. 33
- ↑ Art as a democratic model in FAZ of December 9, 2016, page 34
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