Salon des amateurs

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Building of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf with the entrance to the Salon des Amateurs (to the right of the main entrance of the Kunsthalle)

The Salon des Amateurs is a lounge and music club in the building of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . As a nightclub for avant-garde music , especially for live acts of electronic and new improvisation music , the bar on Grabbeplatz in Düsseldorf's old town became known beyond the local area. It was closed from November 2018 to December 2019.

History and design

The Salon des Amateurs was founded in 2004 by the artists Stefano Brivio, Aron Mehzion and Detlef Weinrich , all three former students of the Düsseldorf Art Academy . The restaurant was named after the Société des Artistes Français and the Salon des Indépendents organized by it as a parallel event to the Salon de Paris . The part of the name of the Amateurs (French "the lover") refers to the concepts of hobby and improvisation as well as the objective of giving amateurs , newcomers and underground space for artistic performances.

The interior design was developed by Marie-Céline Schaefer (* 1967), Karsten Weber (* 1965) and Jo Meyer (* 1966), at that time members of the rheinflügel architecture office , which received the renovation contract for the Kunsthalle building from the city of Düsseldorf in the late 1990s would have. They designed the 17 meter long, seven meter wide and 2.5 meter high former exhibition room in the style of a modernist lounge from the 1970s. The seven-meter-long bar counter made of dark green Anröchter stone takes up about a third of the hose-like room, which can hold around 150 people, and extends in front of a floor-to-ceiling, specially illuminated lamellar wall that imitates a model by the Russian constructivist El Lissitzky . According to the interior design concept of rheinflügel, the floor was originally a carpet made of light and dark green checkerboard fields. After water damage, the city of Düsseldorf carried out a one-year renovation "in line with the original state of the salon" until October 2019, while retaining the essential design elements. The floor was replaced by light-colored concrete blocks. They have a terrazzo look and were laid in a checkerboard pattern. The lighting has been renewed so that different lighting moods can be created and accents can be set differently depending on the use. All lights were also replaced with LEDs.

In 2011 and 2013, the musician Volker Bertelmann named studio albums after the Salon des Amateurs . The travel portal hostelworld.com named the restaurant one of the 20 best nightclubs in the world in 2017.

Events

Mouse on Mars in the Salon des Amateurs, January 16, 2010

While the Salon des Amateurs exudes a rather calm atmosphere during the day as a museum café and artist bar, in the evening and at night it functions as a lively meeting point for an artistically interested scene and as an event location for a cultural program away from the mainstream , which not only consists of electronic music and avant-garde piano concerts , but also offers film nights and extraordinary stage shows. In particular, rarities from the currents of recent music history are put on the turntable. From 2005, the Salon des Amateurs, in cooperation with the Düsseldorf Film Workshop , organized the Approximation Festival , an experimental cultural program consisting of concerts, film screenings and lectures.

Local and international artists and groups who have performed in the bar include Chris Abrahams , Acid Pauli , Poppy Ackroyd , Alexander Bălănescu , Nik Bärtsch , Jonathan Bepler , Steve Beresford , Johanna Borchert , Tony Buck , Matti Bye , Sylvain Chauveau , Philip Corner , Benoît Delbecq , Loco Dice , Maya Dunietz, Jakobus Durstewitz , Ludovico Einaudi, Ensemble Modern , John Kameel Farah , Pierre Favre , Nils Frahm , Cor Fuhler , Susanna Gartmayer , Howe Gelb , Goldmund , Grandbrothers , Rachel Grimes, Hauschka , Frida Hyvönen , Vladimir Ivkovic, Jan Jelinek , Jóhann Jóhannsson , Zoë Keating , Kronos Quartet , Pamela Kurstin , Magda Mayas , Lubomyr Melnyk , Wim Mertens , Momus , Barbara Morgenstern , Mouse on Mars , múm , Andrea Neuman , Michael Nyman , Dustin O'Halloran , Moritz von Oswald , Charlemagne Palestine , Phantom / Ghost , Tonia Reeh , Steve Reich , Mense Reents , Max Richter , Eve Risser , Ryūichi Sakamoto , Marcus Schmickler , Irène Schweizer , Jan Schulte, M atthew Shipp , Aki Takase , John Tilbury , To Rococo Rot , Francesco Tristano , Wolfgang Voigt , Bugge Wesseltoft , Lena Willikens and salon manager Detlef Weinrich himself (member of the band Kreidler and solo as Tolouse Low Trax ).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Meister: Aron Mehzion's art salon as living space . Article from November 25, 2016 in the portal wz.de ( Westdeutsche Zeitung ), accessed on July 28, 2017
  2. ^ Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf , website in the portal kulturkenner.de , accessed on July 29, 2017
  3. ^ Salon Des Amateurs , project description on the mariecelineschaefer.com portal , accessed on July 28, 2017
  4. ^ Salon des Amateurs , project presentation in the portal karstenweber.com , accessed on July 29, 2017
  5. ^ After a year of renovation work: Salon des Amateurs reopened . Düsseldorfer Anzeiger, October 28, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019
  6. ↑ Salon des Amateurs: Living room of the avant-garde , article from September 19, 2014 in the portal coolibri.de ( coolibri ), accessed on July 29, 2017
  7. ↑ 20 of the Best Nightclubs in the World , website from July 14, 2017 in the hostelworld.com portal , accessed on July 28, 2017
  8. ↑ Düsseldorf Club and the 20 world's best discos . Article from July 27, 2017 in the portal rp-online.de ( Rheinische Post ), accessed on July 29, 2017
  9. ^ Marion Zorn (Hrsg.): Düsseldorf for Düsseldorfer and the surrounding area . 2014 edition, Marco Polo City Guide, Mair Dumont Marco Polo, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8297-0921-7 , p. 171 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ Gregor Quack: “Salon des Amateurs”: rarities for the turntable . Article from August 2, 2007 in the portal rp-online.de ( Rheinische Post ), accessed on July 29, 2017
  11. ↑ Approximation Festival , website from November 2016 in the approximation-festival.de portal , accessed on July 29, 2017