Berlinische Galerie

Berlin Gallery at the Old Jakobstraße

The Berlin Gallery ( State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Public Law Foundation ) is located in the Old Jakobstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It collects in Berlin since 1870, resulting art with a local and international focus. The collection consists of fine arts, photography, architecture, graphic artists and archives. Director of the museum since September 2010, the art historian Thomas Köhler, by then deputy director, succeeding Jörn Merkert.

• 3.1 GASAG Art Prize
• 3.2 Vattenfall Contemporary
• 3.3 Hannah Höch Price

History

The Berlin Gallery was founded in 1975 as an association to present in Berlin created art. In the early years they resided in a Charlottenburg office, exhibitions were shown among others in the Academy of Arts and the National Gallery. 1978 moved the gallery into the Landwehr Casino Jebensstraße at Zoo Station and in 1986 in the Martin- Gropius-Bau.

The collection was 1994 public foundation, from the sponsoring organization was later the Friends of Berlin Gallery V. In 1998, the Berlin Gallery had to leave the Martin- Gropius-Bau for renovation. After years without a home a house was opened in a converted industrial building with 4,600 m² of exhibition space in the Old Jakobstraße on 22 October 2004. The conversion of the 1965 constructed building took a year; originally there was a glass warehouse. In the building next the glazier is taught today.

Outside the museum building is, among other things, a metal sculpture of the sculptor - couple Matschinsky - Denninghoff. In addition, there is lack of space in the streets around the museum a public sculpture park called Art - City - space.

Exhibitions

On two levels, the permanent exhibition as well as special exhibitions. In addition, there is an auditorium, an archive, a library, a study room, a café, a museum shop and an art school for children and adults.

Upstairs, the gallery presents in chronological order a selection of masterpieces of their collection, as updated by discoveries and new acquisitions. Focus is on Berlin Dada, New Objectivity and Eastern European avant-garde. In addition, the gallery displays the art of the divided and reunified Berlin.

The special program on the ground floor ranges from classical modernism to contemporary art in Berlin. It is supplemented by a series of events with films, concerts, artist talks, curator tours and lectures.

The oldest works of the inventory date from the year 1870. In the visual arts, the museum's collection has, among other works of the Berlin Secession ( Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Franz Skarbina, Hans Baluschek ), New Objectivity and Expressionism ( Otto Dix, George Grosz, Hannah Höch ) and paintings by Georg Baselitz, works by Wolf Vostell, Ursula Sax and the young savages, and contemporary installations. Then there are the great graphic collection (about 15,000 works ), photographs and architectural models.

Special

• 2010/2011: Nan Goldin - Berlin Work. Photographs 1984-2009.
• 2010/2011: Susanne Kriemann - GASAG Art Prize 2010.
• 2010/2011: Arno Fischer - Photographs 1953-2006. Hannah Höch Prize 2010.
• 2011/2012: Eva Besnyö - Photographer from 1910 to 2003. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam.
• 2011/2012: J. Mayer H. - RAPPORT. Experimental Spatial Structures.
• 2011/2012: 12 × 12 The IBB video lounge at Berlinischen gallery.
• 2011/2012: Friedrich Seidenstücker - Photographs 1925-1958.
• 2012: Boris Mikhailov: Time is out of joint. Photographs 1966-2011.
• 2012: From the collection: Streets and Faces 1918-1933.
• 2012: Michael Sailstorfer - Forestry. Vattenfall Contemporary 2012
• 2012: Manifesto collage. About Change, Collection guest in the Berlinischen gallery.
• 2012/2013: Closed Society - Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949-1989
• 2012/2013: GASAG Art Prize 2012
• 2013: Vattenfall contemporary Katja Strunz - Torque ( A lot of time, a little space ), April 26 to September 2
• 2013: Tobias Zielony Jenny Jenny, June 21-September 30
• 2013/2014: 12 × 12 IBB video lounge at Berlinischen Gallery, June 5, 2013 to May 5, 2014
• 2013/2014: Ari Benjamin Meyers. Chamber Music ( Vestibule )
• 2014: Dorothy Iannone: This Sweetness Outside of Time. Paintings, objects, books from 1959 to 2014.

• Pictures of the collection

Lovis Corinth: Portrait of the Painter Fritz Rumpf, 1901

Wilhelm Gallhof: The temptation of the knight, before 1910

Hans Baluschek: Concourse, 1929

Art prices

GASAG Art Prize

Since 2010, the GASAG Art Prize is awarded in cooperation with the Berlinischen gallery. Every two years, the price of an " artistic position at the interface of art, science and technology" from. The GASAG art prize is worth 10,000 euros and includes an art purchase in the amount of 4,000 euros.

• 2010 was awarded the prize the lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin artist Susanne Kriemann.
• 2012 got Tue Green Fort the price.

Vattenfall Contemporary

The price Vattenfall Contemporary is the successor to the award Vattenfall Energy Art Prize, which is awarded annually since 1992. 2009 Vattenfall Europe has realigned the Art Prize together with Berlinischen gallery. Besides painting and drawing he has since been awarded for media art, performance and sculpture by internationally renowned artists who live and work in Berlin. The price includes an exhibition at the gallery Berlinischen, the production of a catalog and the purchase of a work for the collection Vattenfall. Previous winners are Julian Rosenfeldt (2010) and Angela Bulloch ( 2011). 2012 the award went to Michael Sailstorfer, 2013 he is awarded Katja Strunz (born 1970 ).

Hannah Höch Price

Since 1996, is awarded by the Cultural Affairs of the Berlin Senate of Hannah Höch Prize for an outstanding artistic lifework. Target group of the award are visual artists who have completed their 60th year of life and their life and work focus is marked by Berlin. Decisive for the selection is a continuously high quality artistic performance that has not been publicly acknowledged. The selection of winners is made by the Grants Committee of the Fine Arts Department of Culture of the Berlin Senate, where Self-nominations are not possible.

The prize money is 15,000 euros. The honor is connected with an artistic project or an exhibition and a catalog. These are carried out where possible by the Foundation Berlin Gallery, the Berlin City Museum Foundation, the Print Room or the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. The award ceremony will take place in November of each year based on the birthday of Hannah Höch.