Art Forum Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank

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Art Forum Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank
Legal form: Non-profit GmbH (gGmbH)
Purpose: Promotion of art, culture, especially in the field of contemporary art, and promotion of education and promotion of popular and vocational training, including student aid.
Chair: Carsten Jung and Daniel Keller
Managing directors: Yvonne Heidemann and Sebastian Pflum
Consist: since August 2007
Seat: Berlin
Website: www.kunstforum.berlin

no founder specified

With the Foundation Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank profit company that bundles Berliner Volksbank their artistic and cultural work in the region Berlin - Brandenburg . It was founded in autumn 2007 and is based at Kaiserdamm 105, on the Lietzensee .

activity

The aim of the Kunstforum Foundation is to inspire and excite those interested in art, customers and employees. The gGmbH tries to do this on three pillars of art and culture funding:

Art forum of the Berliner Volksbank

Today's art forum was originally opened in 1985 at Budapester Strasse 35 as an art forum for the Grundkreditbank . Located on the ground floor of the new headquarters of the cooperative financial institution, a predecessor of Berliner Volksbank eG, around 100 exhibitions were shown in the area designed as a rotunda.

Initially, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and other houses of the National Museums in Berlin and the Berlin Festival hosted exhibitions. From the beginning of the 1990s, the art gallery was played independently with changing cooperation partners. In 2002/2003 the exhibition hall of the Berlinische Galerie was made available for the construction phase of a new building.

After the merger of the two cooperative banking institutes GrundkreditBank eG - Köpenicker Bank and Berliner Volksbank, the exhibition started again in January 2004 with the exhibition immediately and unadulterated - watercolors, drawings and prints of the 'Brücke' in cooperation with the Brücke-Museum , the own exhibition activity, now under the Name of the art forum of the Berliner Volksbank . In mid-2016, after around 30 years and around 100 exhibitions with national, international and regional partners, the farewell exhibition BankArt - Three decades of the Berliner Volksbank's art collection , due to the demolition of the building, the art engagement at this location ended.

In November 2018, after several months of renovation, the foundation opened the art forum in a new location in Berlin-Charlottenburg with an exhibition by Harald Metzkes . There is an exhibition area on the ground floor at Kaiserdamm 105. After a conceptual realignment, the focus of the exhibition activities is primarily on its own art collection with its artists.

Entrance to the art forum of the Berliner Volksbank at Kaiserdamm 105 in Berlin

Exhibitions from 2018 - Kaiserdamm 105

  • August 27 to December 13, 2020: The wild 20s - After (t) living an era. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank
  • January 30 to June 28, 2020: Tête-à-Tête. Heads from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank
  • August 29 to December 15, 2019: The turning point - 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank
  • 7 March to 7 July 2019: Bohéme in Charlottenburg - Hans Laabs and friends. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank
  • November 7, 2018 to February 10, 2019: Harald Metzkes - A musical cabinet for the 90th pictures from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank

Selection of exhibitions from 1985 to 2016 - Budapester Strasse 35

The exhibitions were realized together with Berlin museums such as the Stadtmuseum Berlin , the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection or the Brücke Museum , and regional museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig , State Museum Schwerin - art collections, palaces and gardens , Purrmann House in Speyer . In 1990 a work exhibition by Joan Miró showed sculptures , five years later Christo and Jeanne-Claude : Three Works in Progress was presented, 1997 Unter den Linden - Berlin's boulevard in views by Schinkel, Gaertner and Menzel in cooperation with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Stadtmuseum Berlin and 1998 Oskar Kokoschka - “ Traces of a wandering knight . A selection of works from the years 1953 to 1973 ”, in 2004 the exhibition followed directly and unadulterated in collaboration with the Brücke-Museum Berlin - watercolors, drawings and prints from the“ Brücke ”. In 2007 the exhibition Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Shapes and Colors took place, in the same year also The Million Streaker , the early work of Horst Janssen in cooperation with the Horst-Janssen-Museum Oldenburg and the gallery and publishing house St. Gertude. The exhibition “Beauty and Transience - Dutch Still Life” was realized by the Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank with the State Museum Schwerin in 2008. In 2010 Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann was honored with the exhibition Berlin-Paris-Berlin . In 2009, the exhibition Werner Tübke - Retrospective for his 80th birthday was shown in cooperation with the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts . In the same year, the art forum honored the artist HAP Grieshaber on his 100th birthday with the exhibition HAP Grieshaber 100 - Current Events and Nature . In 2011/2012 the Kunstforum presented together with Prof. Dietrich Wildung, the long-time director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin, the royal city of Naga - excavations in the desert of Sudan. In 2016, the last exhibition in the Kunstforum on Budapester Strasse was BankArt - 30 Years of the Berliner Volksbank Art Collection.

The special focus on the art of the GDR from the early collection years is documented by exhibitions such as 1997 Ostwind - Five German Painters from the GrundkreditBank Collection, or State Artist - Harlequin Critics. GDR painting as a contemporary document 1991 . Dutch still lifes were presented in the presentation Beauty and Transience . The exhibition Symphony of Light - Landscapes in Kimonos by Itchiku Kubota in 2000 was one of the greatest public successes at the Kunstforum.

Workshop for creative people

Experience art - understand art - is the motto and at the same time the starting point of the art educational program Workshop for Creatives . In the summer of 2005 the art educational program was opened with the opening of the exhibition Pictures and Balance Sheets - From Antes to Zylla. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank brought into being. According to the company, the aim was and is primarily to offer children and young people the opportunity to engage actively and creatively with art with mostly free, age-appropriate offers such as guided tours and workshops. With the establishment of the workshop for creative people, Berliner Volksbank eG was one of the regional pioneers in this segment of art education.

Located at Budapester Strasse 35 for more than ten years, the workshop for creative people moved into new rooms in Sophie-Charlotten-Strasse 53-54 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, directly opposite its own art forum, in mid-2018 with its art education offering.

Workshop programs on different techniques such as drawing, watercolor, drypoint, collage, printing or plastic modeling have been designed and implemented in the workshop for creative people since it was founded. The programs are based on the current exhibition in the art forum.

In addition, the Foundation for Art Forum continuously engaged with an art education program as a cooperation partner of temporary non-profit child and youth projects like the Children's Cultural Month creative, FEZitty or kids.

Since it was founded in 2007, the Kunstforum Foundation has been in charge of art education for children and young people.

Art collection of the Berliner Volksbank

Parallel to the establishment of the art forum, the establishment of an own art collection was established with the aim of adequately visualizing the cooperative business model "by people, for people" and the art true to the collection motto "Pictures of people", later supplemented by "Pictures by der Stadt ”, to be made publicly available.

The concept founded in 1985 by the West Berlin gallery owner Dieter Brusberg through his Galerie Brusberg is still the guiding principle of the art collection today. At the beginning of the collecting activity the focus was on figural art from Berlin and East Germany. Right from the start, only works of painting and sculpture as well as works on paper, prints and, in addition, a few photographs were included.

With the purchase of the marble sculpture Sich Umschauende by the West Berlin artist Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber , the foundation stone was laid for the collection of contemporary German art. It encompasses works of art from 1950 to the present day, with a few earlier works dating from the late 1940s. Two small sculptures each by Hans Uhlmann and Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber as well as sheets by Werner Heldt are intended to open a window to the art of the immediate post-war period.

The collection includes several outstanding paintings by Bernhard Heisig , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Werner Tübke and Harald Metzkes . Another focus of the artist is the oeuvre of the Thuringian painter Gerhard Altenbourg , who is represented with important works from all creative phases. Works by West Berlin artists Rainer Fetting , Johannes Grützke , Markus Lüpertz , Wolfgang Petrick and Rolf Szymanski are also part of the collection. The main collection currently includes around 1500 works of art by almost 150 artists such as Horst Antes , Gudrun Brüne , Christa Dichgans , Sabine Franek-Koch , Angela Hampel , Karl Horst Hödicke , Ingeborg Hunzinger , Veronika Kellndorfer , Carl-Heinz Kliemann , Roland Nicolaus, Rita Preuss , Cornelia Schleime , Erika Stürmer-Alex , Gerd Sonntag and Ulla Walter .

In addition to the main collection, the Kunstforum Foundation also has a smaller inventory of works by other artists. In addition, in 2008 she took over the estate of the Berlin artist Bertold Haag and is keeping a core part of his work. An informative selection of Haag's paintings has also been integrated into the art collection.

Since 2007, the Berliner Volksbank's art collection has been managed by the Kunstforum Foundation, to which the bank has transferred the entire art collection.

Art collection on the go - loans for exhibitions (selection)

Works for exhibitions are regularly loaned out, for example the painting Januskopf by Harald Metzkes for the seat of the Federal President Schloss Bellevue, Pariser Platz II by Wolfgang Peuker and Even with a cut finger by Jürgen Wenzel for the exhibition Point of no return in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts Künste, 2019. Furthermore, the painting Stürzender by Wolfgang Mattheuer for the Museum de Fundatie , Zwolle ( Netherlands ), was awarded in 2018. There were also loans from the art collection to the Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop , 2015, Neues Museum Weimar 2013 or Johanneskirche Saarbrücken, 2009.

literature

Inventories of the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank

The inventories consist of two parts:

  • The art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, inventory, ed. by the Art Forum Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank, Berlin 2013
  • The art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, acquisitions 2013 to 2015, ed. by the Stiftung Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank, Berlin 2015 (supplement to the inventory, Berlin 2013)

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • The roaring 20s - after (t) living an era. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, ed. by the Art Forum Foundation of Berliner Volksbank gGmbH, Berlin 2020
  • Tete-a-tete. Heads from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, ed. by the Art Forum Foundation of Berliner Volksbank gGmbH, Berlin 2020
  • Turning point. 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, 2019. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, ed. by the Stiftung Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank gGmbH, Berlin 2019
  • Bohème in Charlottenburg - Hans Laabs and friends. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, ed. by the Stiftung Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank gGmbH, Berlin 2019
  • Harald Metzkes. A musisches Kabinett for the 90th pictures from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, ed. by the Art Forum Foundation of Berliner Volksbank gGmbH, Berlin 2018
  • bank Art. Three decades of art collection at the Berliner Volksbank, ed. by the Art Forum Foundation of Berliner Volksbank gGmbH, Berlin 2018
  • Pictures and balance sheets. From Antes to Zylla - works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank, ed. from Berliner Volksbank eG, Berlin 2005
  • Dialogues. Works from the collection of the Grundkreditbank, ed. from Berliner Volksbank eG, Berlin, 1999
  • East wind. Five German painters from the collection of the GrundkreditBank, ed. from GrundKreditBank, Berlin 1991
  • State artist - harlequin - critic? GDR painting as a contemporary document, ed. from GrundkreditBank, Berlin 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ The foundation: Stiftung Kunstforum with a new managing director. In: www.die-stiftung.de. October 25, 2019, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Bauer: The 70s are the new 20s - show on the influence of the Weimar Republic artists. In: bz-berlin.de . August 20, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ Manuela Frey: Heads exhibition in the art forum of the Berliner Volksbank. In: berliner-woche.de . February 12, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Simone Reber: Sandy desert, blades of grass, death strip. In: tagesspiegel.de . October 2, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ NN: Bohème in Charlottenburg - Hans Laabs and friends. In: tip-berlin.de . March 2, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  7. ^ Mathias Richter: Harald Metzkes in the art forum of the Volksbank. In: maz-online.de . November 17, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Gisela Sonnenburg: Withering Beauty. In: morgenpost.de . June 12, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Andrea Hilgenstock: Flowers from Schwerin in the art forum. In: morgenpost.de . December 14, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Anna Pataczek: Marked by life. In: tagesspiegel.de . March 22, 2010, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  11. ^ Martina Jammers: Werner Tübke retrospective at the Kunstforum Berlin. In: tip-berlin.de . December 17, 2017, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jens Hinrichsen: For the wall. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 3, 2009, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Andrea Hilgenstock: Flowers from Schwerin in the art forum. In: morgenpost.de . December 14, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Uta Baier: Landscapes on Kimonos by Itchiku Kubota. In: welt.de . March 14, 2000, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Publications. In: KUNSTFORUM Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank gGmbH. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .