Exhibitions 2013

From April 27, 2013
Generosity. Donations and Loans to the ZKM Collection

An exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, 2^nd floor

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The exhibition “Generosity. Donations and Loans from the ZKM Collection”, honors the act of giving and donating though which, in recent years, the collection of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe has been enriched with significant works of art by internationally known artists. Following the exhibitions “Architektur und Identität”, 2010/11 and “PRESENTation”, 2012, which provided insights into the ZKM collection for the first time, the exhibition “Generosity” emphasizes those works which were handed over to the house as donations and permanent loans. Works of art by over forty international artists will be shown which, in various media, straddle a period ranging from the 1060s to the present. The works from the collection will be thematically supplemented with works by Christin Lahr, Thomas Locher und Antje Majewski, who have focused on different aspects on the social practice of donation and the social implications of gift-giving.

Since the founding of the ZKM in 1989, the collection, initially directed by Heinrich Klotz and presently chaired by Peter Weibel, has grown to around 1500 positions; in addition to a large number of works of media art it also contains paintings, photographs, installations, videos and works on paper. Civic participation, which expresses itself in the transfer of works of art by single persons – among which are often artists themselves–, families and companies to public institutions, guarantees free access to art to a broad public and thus represents an invaluable value for the generality.

Artists: Hans Peter Alvermann, John Armleder, Sieglinde Bölz, Christoph Brech, Werner Büttner, Jimmie Durham, Sylvie Fleury, Günther Förg, Andreas Gursky, Georg Herold, Karl-Horst Hödicke, Edward Kienholz und Nancy Reddin-Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Jürgen Klauke, Barbara Klemm, Imi Knoebel, Mischa Kuball, Christin Lahr, Thomas Locher, Urs Lüthi, Heinz Mack, Michel Majerus, Antje Majewski, Gordon Matta-Clark, Olaf Metzel, Michael Najjar, Albert Oehlen, Dennis Oppenheim, Tony Oursler, Wolf Pehlke, Fabrizio Plessi, Otto Piene, Adrian Schiess, Elke Sommer, Sigmar Polke, Hans-Peter Reuter, Egon Schrick, Thomas Struth, Günther Uecker, Timm Ulrichs, Jürgen Waller, Franz Erhard Walther, Hermann Weber, Erwin Wurm, Herbert Zangs

Curators: Nina Fernandez, Idis Hartmann, Daria Mille, Philipp Ziegler

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