Vera Munro Gallery

The Vera Munro Gallery is a gallery for modern art founded in 1977 by Vera Munro in Hamburg . She is considered one of the leading representatives of avant-garde art in Germany.

history

The founder and owner Vera Munro comes from a family of manufacturers. After completing her commercial training and studying art history, she worked internationally as a television presenter and model in the fashion and cosmetics industry. She married the composer, producer, lyricist and publisher Klaus "Nick" Munro and on April 1, 1977 opened an exhibition with works by the American Michelle Stuart . In the first years she showed, among others, Antoni Tàpies , Joseph Beuys , Mario Merz , Cy Twombly , Lucio Fontana and the artists of Arte Povera .

The 1985 in an Art Nouveau -Villa by Hamburg-Eppendorf , right on the Alster warped gallery is now regarded as one of the leading art houses for the avant-garde. In 2009 and 2010 the gallery house was renewed and the exhibition area was expanded to 600 square meters.

Represented artists

The Munro Gallery looks after and represents unknown as well as well-known German and international artists through exhibitions in its own gallery, through mediation to art museums and major international exhibitions, and through the presentation of their work at international art fairs. The gallery edits exhibition catalogs or suggests art books that appear in art book publishers. She advises the owners and curators of large companies on the conception of their art collections and places their artists worldwide.

• Jean-Marc Bustamante , representative of France at the Venice Biennale 2003
• Imi Knoebel , participant: documenta 5 , 1972; documenta 6 , 1977; documenta 7 , 1982; documenta 8 , 1987
• Günther Förg , participant: documenta 9 , 1992
• Silvia Bächli , representative of Switzerland at the Venice Biennale 2009
• John M. Armleder , participant: documenta 8 , 1987; Representative of Switzerland at the 1986 Venice Biennale
• Gerwald Rockenschaub , representative of Austria at the Venice Biennale 1993; Participants: documenta 12 , 2007
• Helmut Dorner , participant: documenta 9 , 1992

public perception

The openings of the Vera Munro Gallery are considered a social event for Hamburg and are a meeting place for celebrities from art, business and politics. The exhibitions are regularly discussed in international art magazines ( Artforum International , Frieze Magazine) and the national press and in the Hamburg travel guides (ADAC travel guide: Hamburg , p. 119; Dumont: Hamburg , p. 36; Marco Polo travel guide: Hamburg , p 7; Metz: Kulturverführer Hamburg , p. 174) they are recommended as a “sight”.

Trade fair participations

The gallery regularly presents the work of its artists at the major international art fairs. She was represented on:

• ARCO Madrid (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• Armory Show , New York (2001, 2003)
• Art Basel (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016)
• Art Basel Miami Beach (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• Art Cologne , Cologne (2002, 2003, 2012)
• Art Forum Berlin , Berlin (2009)

Catalogs and art books

• Arnulf Rainer: Rembrandt overpaintings 1980/81. Gallery Munro, Hamburg 1981.
• Arnulf Rainer: Beautiful graffiti 1968–1978. Munro Gallery, Hamburg 1984.
• Helmut Dorner: Through. Text by David Moos. Munro Gallery, Hamburg 1996.
• Miwa Ogasawara: breath of wind. Text by Noemi Smolik. Kerber, 2009.
• Gerwald Rockenschaub: The core of the void. Text by Markus Brüderlin . Vera Munro Gallery, 1990.
• On the subject of sequence: there must be order, but is being order? Text by Helmut Draxler. Vera Munro Gallery, 1990.
• Franz Erhard Walther: The new alphabet. Text by Veit Loers. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Foundation, 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Vera Munro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vera Munro Gallery website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Just being beautiful was not enough for Vera Munro ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Abendblatt No. 271, November 20, 1978, p. 10.
2. ↑ Ms. Munro's art pieces , Hamburger Abendblatt No. 12, January 15, 2002, p. 14.
3. ↑ Deborah Knür: A mediator between two worlds. In: welt.de . February 15, 2002, accessed March 18, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '8.7 "  N , 9 ° 59" 42.3 "  E