Port25 - space for contemporary art

Port25 - space for contemporary art - gallery in Mannheim

Port25 - Room for Contemporary Art is a gallery for temporary exhibitions in Mannheim's Jungbusch . Since July 2015, artists from the region have been exhibited together with international artistic positions.

history

The Port25 gallery - space for contemporary art - was created in response to the wish of the Mannheim artists and the cultural office for an appropriate facility in which regional, contemporary visual art can be exhibited. The exhibition space was created as part of a new building for the creative industry center C-HUB in Jungbusch. On the basis of a Europe-wide tender, the operation of the gallery was awarded to Stefanie Kleinsorge. In the new building, completed in 2015, visual artists from the region are shown together with international artistic positions and put up for discussion. The program is neither tied to artists of a certain generation nor to specific artistic media, artistic strategies or attitudes. The focus is on current artistic productions that are relevant in the present. Port25 thus replaced the Stadtgalerie Mannheim , which as an interim solution since 2011 has successfully bridged the period up to the opening of the new exhibition house.

building

The two-storey building designed by hartwig schneider architects integrating two listed brick façades blends in with the industrial character of the port. It complements the new building of the creative industry center C-HUB, which serves as a start-up center. Before the construction of the new gallery, Hafenstrasse No. 25 was part of the Kauffmannmühle founded in 1881 . The two brick facades belonged to a warehouse that was known as the "Yaman Building" after the operator of the import-export business.

The gallery building offers 500 m² of exhibition space and a reception area for a shop with art books and editions as well as for events and offices. The building also houses the St. James café, which is spatially separated from the gallery. On February 2, 2016, the entire building complex received the State Prize for Building Culture, awarded for the first time by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, in the commercial / industrial construction category.

Exhibitions

The first exhibition in Port25 took the spatial proximity to the creative industry center C-HUB as an opportunity to ask about the meaning of everyday things. The exhibition was curated by the director Stefanie Kleinsorge in collaboration with the former director of the Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Benedikt Stegmayer, and its orientation is programmatic.

2015: everyday beauty. Group exhibition with Alfred Packer Company, Max Kosoric, Florian Slotawa, Ulrich Strothjohann
2015: “Knowledge, Order, Power” as part of the 6th Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg Photo Festival “7 Places, 7 Precarious Fields”. Group exhibition with Ilit Azoulay, Daniel Blaufuks , Hans Danuser (artist) , Simone Demandt , Yann Mingard, Dayanita Singh , Jules Spinatsch
2015: Jeannette Fabis and Barbara Hindahl - drawing boring boing
2016: DELTABEBEN - Regionale 2016. Group exhibition with Geckeis & Walz, Janet Grau, Benjamin Jantzen, Sven Paustian, Schmott, Vicky Stratidou, Superart.tv, Julia Wenz
2016: just go on: figure - body - existence. Group exhibition with Andrea Esswein, Hubi M., Wolfgang Sautermeister, Hanna Woll
2016: FORMSCHAU - Uncover Design Award 2016
2016: Barbara Hindahl & Bernhard Sandfort. Winner of the Mannheim Art Prize of the Heinrich Vetter Foundation 2016
2016: TIMELINES. In cooperation with the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Group exhibition with Siegfried Anzinger , Claudia Desgranges , Peter Dreher , Collaboration_Patrycja German / Holger Endres, Jürgen Krause, Oscar Muñoz, Jens Risch, Konstantin Voit
2016: Seiichi Furuya - Gravitation
2016: Simone Demandt & Margret Eicher - Common Cause
2017: What remains. Group exhibition with Dieter M. Gräf , Marvin Hüttermann, Irina Ruppert
2017: Port25 meets B-side. Group exhibition with Martin Backes, Johannes Bayer & Tobias Gallé, Lars Breuer, Werner Degreif, Juliane Gutschmidt, Schirin Kretschmann, Skafte Kuhn, Ana Laibach, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, Roland Schappert
2017: SUPERCOPY - WORLD COPY. Group exhibition with Sylvia Ballhause, Daniel T. Braun, Christoph Büchel , Márcio Carvalho, Hadia Gana, Andreas Hachulla, Abdellah Hassak, Guido Münch, Ülkü Süngün, Stephanie Syjuco
2017: stratifications. Group exhibition with Jutta Grell, Myriam Holme, Herbert A. Jung , Francisco Klinger Carvalho, Susanne Lyner
2017: "" No picture is an island "as part of the Biennale for Current Photography " Farewell Photography ". Group exhibition with Natalie Bookchin, Hans-Peter Feldmann , Andreas Horlitz & Reinhard Matz , Stefan Karrer, Marc Lee , Eva & Franco Mattes, Joachim Schmid , DH Saur, Juergen Teller (photographer) , Amalia Ulman, Andrew Norman Wilson
2017: 100 <1000. Hundred under a thousand. Group exhibition with Matthis Bacht, Sylvia Ballhause, Christian Buck, Margret Eicher , Jeannette Fabis, Barbara Hindahl , Hubi M., Gisela Kleinlein , Skafte Kuhn, Ana Laibach, Susanne Neiss, Andrea Ostermeyer, Irina Ruppert, Konstantin Voit, Michael Volkmer
2018: “Sooner or later” - a project by Mirko Müller and Jonas Gieske
2018: "Tête-à-Tête". Tine Voecks
2020: “Between Art and Commerce” as part of the Biennale for Current Photography “The Lives and Loves of Images”. Group exhibition with Hein Gorny, Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes, Bryan Schutmaat, Daniel Stier, Christopher Williams, Thomas Wunsch