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Tuesday, 27 September 2005 | Elif Sungur
Guggenheim Goes to Germany
In the summer of 2006, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany will present one of its biggest and most ambitious exhibitions to date ever. A selection of nearly 250 Modern and Contemporary masterpieces of Classical Modernism and Contemporary art from the holdings of the Guggenheim Foundation, New York, will be on view. With five museum locations in New York, Venice, Italy, Bilbao, Spain, Berlin, Germany, and Las Vegas, the Guggenheim Foundation is the first truly global institution devoted to visual art.
The Guggenheim Museum is unique in its focus on the in-depth presentation of the oeuvre of a select number of outstanding artists, among them Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Robert Delaunay, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso. Representative displays of American post-war art from Abstract Expressionism (Mark Rothko), Pop Art (Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein) to Minimal and Postminimal Art (Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman) bring the collection into the late twentieth century. Recent acquisitions illustrate the museum's ongoing commitment to ground-breaking contemporary works by artists as diverse as Nam Jun Paik, Jeff Koons, Matthew Barney, and Rachel Whiteread.
Global Guggenheim
Part I: The Collection 21 July 2006 to 7 January 2007
Part II: Architecture of the Guggenheim 25 August to 12 November 2006
Architecture of the Guggenheim
Following the tradition established by the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum building, erected between 1946 and 1959 on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation since 1988, has commissioned many of the world's leading architects, among them Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Enrique Norten and Rem Koolhaas to design additional Guggenheim museums in Europe and the U.S. In a separate show that will be held on the ground floor of the atrium hall of the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle from 25 August - 12 November 2006, architectural models and plans of 23 projects and competitions illustrate the radical development of, international museum architecture and exhibition design as reflected in the Guggenheim's own pioneering past and present.
For further information please visit http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de
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