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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is presenting its extensive collection of contemporary art in what will be the largest survey of it to date. It includes more than 600 installations, groups of works, and large individual works of art in all media, dating back to the crucial year of 1968. The spectrum of the 100 artists ranges from Franz Ackermann, Doug Aitken, and Firelei Báez, to Mithu Sen and Sam Taylor-Johnson, all the way to Jeff Wall and Thomas Zipp. This elaborate, lavishly illustrated volume gathers texts written by about 100 international authors—curators, directors, gallerists, collectors, and architects—on the artists in the collection. It achieves a multifaceted, overall picture of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s exquisite collection, as well as an impressive panorama of contemporary art from 1968 to the present.
Exhibition:
24.3.–29.9.2019, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
In April 2016, the Kunstmuseum Basel is opening its new building, increasing its exhibition space by approximately two thirds. Designed by the architectural office Christ & Gantenbein, the building is completely in the service of art—solitary in its outward appearance, it is nevertheless closely linked to the Kunstmuseum, both in formal terms as well as by means of an underground connecting tract.
This publication introduces the building in all of its facets for the first time. In extensive texts, the director of the Kunstmuseum Basel, Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, and the architect Emanuel Christ describe the concept as well as the content-related and artistic aspects of this new building; Mechtild Widrich looks at it in the general context of museum architecture. Layout drawings and numerous illustrations complete the overview. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4090-6)
Open starting 19.4.2016
As treasure troves of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich—the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life’s work of the aristocratic artist Franz von Stuck—this unique volume integrates the artist’s house as a category into the international context and is the first to assign these buildings the status of major works. About twenty examples bring to life the fascination that these artistic fantasies hold for art lovers, including both existing projects and some which, although they have been lost, were of unique importance in their day and still retain their charisma. Along with paintings, sculptures, and photographs closely related to the houses, plans and models convey the correlation between art and life as well as the kind of harmony of the arts expressed in Richard Wagner’s historical concept of the total work of art. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3592-6)
Houses featured (selection): Sir John Soane’s Museum, London; William Morris Red House, Bexleyheath; Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Tiffany House, New York City; Mortimer Menpes’s flat, London; the Fernand Khnopff Villa, Brussels; Jacques Majorelle’s villa and garden, Marrakesh; Kurt Schwitters’ MERZbau, Hannover; Max Ernst’s house, Arizona
Exhibition schedule: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, November 21, 2013–March 2, 2014
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is presenting its extensive collection of contemporary art in what will be the largest survey of it to date. It includes more than 600 installations, groups of works, and large individual works of art in all media, dating back to the crucial year of 1968. The spectrum of the 100 artists ranges from Franz Ackermann, Doug Aitken, and Firelei Báez, to Mithu Sen and Sam Taylor-Johnson, all the way to Jeff Wall and Thomas Zipp. This elaborate, lavishly illustrated volume gathers texts written by about 100 international authors—curators, directors, gallerists, collectors, and architects—on the artists in the collection. It achieves a multifaceted, overall picture of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s exquisite collection, as well as an impressive panorama of contemporary art from 1968 to the present.
Exhibition:
24.3.–29.9.2019, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Kunst um 1800 was a research project, exhibition experiment, celebration of the visual arts, and political statement. In the course of establishing a contentious democracy in the 1970s, the series highlighted the impact of artworks in the "Age of Revolutions." The focus was on artists who broke with the conventions of their time: Ossian, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, William Blake, Johan Tobias Sergel, William Turner, Philipp Otto Runge, John Flaxman, and Francisco Goya.
The volume documents in great detail all exhibitions of Kunst um 1800 – a nine-stage process that is missing from current considerations of art exhibition history. Numerous authors from art and cultural history cast a critical eye on the post-1968 era and offer new perspectives on this decade of experiments.
PETRA LANGE-BERNDT is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg.
DIETMAR RÜBEL is Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Together they have curated numerous exhibitions and published books.
ELMGREEN (b. Denmark) and DRAGSET (b. Norway) have been working together since 1995. Their works address sociocultural and political issues such as education and aging, gay rights, the construction of identity, consumer culture, and the privatization of public space. The artist duo has received numerous awards, including the Prize of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2002) and a special mention at the Biennale di Venezia (2009).
EXHIBITION
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
September 14, 2019–January 5, 2020
These and many other questions surrounding the topic "What does art cost?" are addressed by outstanding expert authors who examine, from legal, conservation, and art historical perspectives, how a work of art can be classified and valued.
They explain the significance of an artist's position in history and the classification of their work within their artistic oeuvre. Helpful information on how to find the right market price and navigate the jungle of price databases makes this anthology a competent guide for collectors and art enthusiasts, as well as for artists, galleries, auction houses, and everyone involved in the art market.
The publication Zusammen / Together is a comprehensive recollection of the exhibition highlights of the years 2015 to 2022 at Museum Haus Konstruktiv and brings together what is separated in space and time. A series of insightful conversations with the artists Etel Adnan, Claudia Comte, Elisabeth Goldring-Piene, Brigitte Kowanz, Alicja Kwade, Dóra Maurer, Amalia Pica, Tomás Saraceno, as well as in-depth texts on Imi Knoebel and William Kentridge are accompanied by numerous exhibition views. Many of the conversations and exhibition views have not been published before; some of the texts reprinted here in slightly modified form are taken from books that have long been out of print today and are given their well-deserved new visibility.
SABINE SCHASCHL (*1967), director and chief curator of Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich since 2013, is an art historian and curator of numerous exhibitions on contemporary art as well as author and editor of various scholarly publications and catalogues.