City Gallery Bremen

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Building with Schwankhalle in the foreground, Städtische Galerie in the background

The Städtische Galerie Bremen (also Städtische Galerie im Buntentor ) is an art museum of the city of Bremen . It is integrated into the specialist department for fine arts in the Senate for Culture and has been the Bremen center for the promotion of current fine arts from Bremen and the region since 1985.

History and direction

Information board - Ensemble Buntentorsteinweg 104–114

The Städtische Galerie Bremen was founded in 1985 as a municipal gallery to offer the Bremen art scene an exhibition opportunity with continuous curatorial support and to promote current visual arts such as photography, sculpture and painting from Bremen and the region. It was located in the Weserburg until it was converted into the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in 1991 .

Since 1991 it has been located in the former fermentation and storage cellars of the former Remmer brewery in Buntentorsteinweg 112 in the Neustadt district, Buntentor district , after some of the historically valuable but desolate buildings of the former brewery were demolished or rebuilt as part of a renovation concept. The renovation according to plans by the architects Manfred Schomers , Rainer Schürmann and Walter Stridde took into account the idiosyncratic architecture and the character of the industrial monument as much as possible , by preserving the view of the exposed brick walls, wooden posts, iron girders and ceiling structures, as well as the old water tower. As a striking urban landmark, the tower was given a glass tower that can be seen from afar. The entire ensemble received the BDA award in 1994 . The renovation of the Buntentorsteinweg ensemble was completed by converting the Schwankhalle and adding new buildings. The old buildings have served culture since then, the new buildings with an inner courtyard are residential complexes for the elderly.

Entrance gallery

The gallery has over 600 square meters of exhibition space in the former fermentation and storage cellars of the beer brewery, where it offers changing exhibitions of current visual art, work shows, retrospectives and exhibitions on the history of the visual arts in Bremen. In addition, exemplary exhibitions on art in public space as well as thematic group exhibitions of regional and supra-regional art positions on socio-political current issues are shown. In addition, the Städtische Galerie maintains and manages a collection of contemporary art from the region since the 1950s with over 5000 works of art. Since it was founded, it has also hosted the Bremen Prize for Fine Arts .

Exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Burkhard Straßmann: Does she camp? Is she freezing? Or is it fermenting? In: TAZ of February 21, 1992. Retrieved December 29, 2019
  2. ^ Concept for the promotion of contemporary art in Bremen . In: Template No. 74 for the meeting of the Deputation for Culture (urban) on May 16, 2017 , May 11, 2017. The Senator for Culture, Rose Pfister, Ingmar Lähnemann, Anna Greve, p. 8. Retrieved on 28 May 2017 . December 2019
  3. ↑ Karin Mörtel: Springboard for young talents . In: Weserkurier of July 26, 2012. Retrieved on December 28, 2019
  4. ↑ Communication from the Senate of June 15, 2010, printed matter 17/606 S: Local law on the repeal of the formal definition of a redevelopment area "Buntentorsteinweg" of November 28, 1989 . Retrieved December 29, 2019
  5. ↑ Press office of the Senate: Foundation stone laid today for the art and artist house "Schwankhalle" , October 29, 2002. Accessed December 28, 2019
  6. ^ WFB Bremen Economic Development Agency: Städtische Galerie Bremen . Retrieved December 28, 2019
  7. ↑ Städtische Galerie Bremen: exhibitions / publications . Retrieved December 28, 2019
  8. ↑ Städtische Galerie Bremen: exhibitions / archive . Retrieved December 28, 2019

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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 24 ″  E