Collection Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle

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The Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle Collection is a Swiss private collection located in Bern . It was brought into being by Carola Ertle Ketterer and Günther Ketterer.

Collector

Collecting

Carola Ertle Ketterer and Günther Ketterer started buying art out of family passion. Günther Ketterer's father, the art dealer and auctioneer Norbert Ketterer, laid the foundation stone for the Kirchner Museum Davos as the administrator of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 's estate . Fascinated by the works of German Expressionism, the collector couple came to the expressive and large-format painting of the Neue Wilde and thus to contemporary art. Contemporary artistic methods found their way into the collection in the form of installation and interactive works. In 1996, Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle acquired a video work by the artist Frantiček Klossner - a first purchase of video art. Today this medium is a focus of active collecting and mediation activities. In addition to two-dimensional works, sculptures and objects, the collection also includes installations, interactive media projects and artist's books . The personal contact and direct exchange with the artists is a central criterion of the collecting activity and is the basis for the mostly long-term cooperation.

Life and commitment

Günther Ketterer has been an independent trustee and real estate trustee since 1981. With Carola Ertle Ketterer, he has been running the TIS trustee office in Bern since 1995. Companies such as associations, cooperatives, stock corporations, limited liability companies, foundations, self-employed people and housing cooperatives are looked after there. Günther Ketterer is president of NPG (AG for sustainable building) and founding member of Wogeno Bern (housing cooperative) as well as the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation Davos and is involved in artist studios in the Foundation Progr in Bern. Carola Ertle Ketterer is the President of the Steering Group Kunstachse Bern Bümpliz and the Advisory Board of the Bern University of the Arts and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation Davos. She is co-founder of the Bernese Culture Conference in 2012 and presides over the Friends of Progr and, since 2016, the City Art Commission of Bern.

To complement their own collection activities, Carola Ertle Ketterer and Günther Ketterer launched the videokunst.ch project together with Galerie Bernhard Bischoff and Galerie Henze & Ketterer in 2004 . The platform for video art contains a showroom in the Bern cultural center Progr and a video window in the Bienzgut. Eight to ten exhibitions are shown each year. In 2007 the collector couple founded the OVRA Archives association, which offers artists a digital archive of works. In 2010, the ART estate foundation for artists was launched with the aim of commemorating the work of important artists in the service of cultural memory and ensuring that their works were recognized by the general public.

Collection presentations

  • Life in art. Works from the Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle collection , Schweizerische Mobiliar (Art & Sustainability Series, Vol. 9), Bern 2018
  • Danse Macabre - The Dance of Death in Contemporary Art , Museum for Communication Bern , Bern 2016
  • videocity.bs - video course through downtown Basel, Basel 2015
  • gartentor golf , zone contemporaine, Niederwangen 2013
  • The Solo Project, Basel 2012
  • Images Vevey - Festival des arts visuels, Vevey 2010
  • Looping Memories , Château Mercier, Sierre 2010
  • Looping Memories , art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2010
  • Looping Memories , Progr Center for Cultural Production, Bern 2009
  • Some from Bern, some from elsewhere , Museum Liner, Appenzell 2007

literature

  • Life in art. Works from the Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle collection. Exhibition catalog, Art & Sustainability Vol. 9, Die Mobiliar, Bern 2018.
  • Looping memories. Works from a Swiss video art collection. Verlag Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern 2009.
  • Some from Bern, some from elsewhere - Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle Collection. CD-ROM for the exhibition at the Museum Liner, Appenzell 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helen Lagger: In the realm of the wild collectors. In: Berner Zeitung . April 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Günther Ketterer (managing director). In: Wogeno's website.
  3. ↑ a b Foundation. In: Website of the Kirchner Museum Davos .
  4. ↑ Advisory Board of the HKB. In: Website of the Bern University of the Arts .
  5. ↑ Art Commission. In: Website of the City of Bern.
  6. ↑ Life - not just with, but in art. Swiss Mobiliar website , March 29, 2018.