Solingen Art Association
The Solinger Kunstverein is a German art association based in Solingen . The association was founded in 1989. The initiator was Ernst Martin Walsken , a member of the state parliament at the time . The Solinger Kunstverein is registered in the Wuppertal Register of Associations and is non-profit.
Goal setting
Since it was founded, the Solingen Art Association has dedicated itself to the self-imposed task of familiarizing more people in Solingen and the surrounding area with art and confronting them with the most diverse manifestations of contemporary art . The palette of exhibitions and projects ranges from works on paper to stylistically diverse directions in painting, sculptures and objects to current art and media art. New artistic developments and even experimental approaches are tracked down and shown. Art education also has its place in the form of excursions to interesting museums as well as outstanding results of current architecture. The Solinger Kunstverein works with several partners in realizing its exhibitions and projects. He is a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADK). At the suggestion of the art association, the Baden Museum , today Solingen Art Museum , was opened in the former Graefrath town hall .
In 2018, 43 members were registered in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine.
Chairperson
- Jens H. Hünerjäger: 1989 to 1991
- Rolf Reininghaus (†): 1991 to 2013
- Heinz-Willi Müller: 2013 to 2017
- Christa Berger: since 2017
job
In 2013 a sculpture by Ulrich Rückriem was donated to the city of Solingen on the initiative of the Solingen Art Association with the help of numerous sponsors. The two wedge-shaped blocks made of Anröchter dolomite rock, which were broken and carefully worked by Ulrich Rückriem, are on the forecourt of the new town hall in Solingen.
In 2018, the Kunstverein realized the project (UN) SICHTBAR under the direction of Andreas Schäfer , in which students and a lecturer from the Art School for Media made the Solingen synagogue visible again on a bunker that was built on the site where the synagogue was built by SA in 1938 People and a Solingen mob was destroyed in the pogrom night .
In 2019 the Kunstverein celebrated its 30th anniversary in the Solingen theater and concert hall with a performance of Oskar Schlemmer's "Lacquer Ballet" in a new production by the Düsseldorf Theater of Sounds.
Events and exhibitions (selection)
- Between abstraction and figuration , Eugen Batz , Works (1990)
- Susanne Kessler - exhibition Susanne Kessler , constructions (1991)
- New pictures , Serge Selvon, painting (1994)
- Vedute di ... , Helga Budde-Engelke , spatial visions based on etchings by Piranes (1994)
- In the field of tension of expressionism , Fritz Schaefler (1996)
- Pictures 1995 to 2005 , Peter Casagrande , painting (2006)
- Wedge sculpture , Ulrich Rückriem , exhibition - drawings, free figurations (2013)
- Finsheen - a village disappeared. Epitaph , René Böll , painting (2016)
- (UN) SICHTBAR - Video campaign to make the synagogue that was destroyed in the pogrom night visible; Open-Air, Solingen (2018)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Solinger Kunstverein on the ADK website, accessed on February 16, 2018.
- ↑ Wedge sculpture in front of the town hall. City of Solingen, accessed on November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Pogrom Night is a reminder for today. Solinger Tageblatt, November 10, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 .