Portikus (exhibition hall)

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Portico on the Main Island, south side (2006)

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.

Portico (2006)

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 .

Light installation by Ólafur Elíasson , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition hall at the old portico:

Exhibitions in the canvas house :

Exhibitions in the New Portikus :

literature

gallery

  • Entry page

  • Entrance board

  • Plaster structure details

Web links

Commons : New Portikus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Lehnert is new curator of the portico , , monopol-magazin.de, January 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Christina Lehnert becomes the new curator of Portikus | Monopol - magazine for art and life. January 9, 2018, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Der Baumeister : Journal for Architecture, Planning, Environment, Volume 103, 2006, p. 16
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  5. ↑ There is certainty only with the doctor , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 19, 2011, No. 42, p. 33
  6. ↑ Art as a democratic model in FAZ of December 9, 2016, page 34

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