Goetz Collection

The Goetz Collection is a collection of contemporary art in Munich, which is shown in temporary exhibitions in a separate museum building. A visit is only possible by telephone arrangement.

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Location

The museum building of the Goetz Collection is located in the Oberföhringer road 103 in the Munich district Oberföhring.

Conception and claim

The Goetz Collection would like to represent the autonomy of art in its temporary exhibitions. The exhibitions are to be designed and presented that the art show visitors the world in previously unsuspected ways. Thus, the Goetz Collection wishes to promote all visitors for an openness of perception and for a constant correction of his own thinking and views.

Collection

The Goetz Collection was created as compiled by the Munich-based Ingvild Goetz private art collection with works of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. An early focus was the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s. She was later supplemented by the work of young American and British artist.

Today, the collection consists of the whole range of artistic forms of contemporary paintings, graphics, drawings, photographs, video and film works as well as multiple projections and spatial installations. For the Media Art, a separate area was created in the basement later that fulfills all technical and spatial requirements for this.

In September 2013 Ingvild Goetz gave the museum and the part of the collection, which is in its sole ownership, the Free State of Bavaria. The plants in which family members hold joint ownership, will remain as a permanent loan to the museum when it is transferred to the Free State.

Museum building

The Goetz Collection has its own museum building, designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The sale of works by Cy Twombly helped with the building fund. Since 1993, temporary exhibitions are held here, so as to present the holdings of the Goetz Collection. 2004, the museum building was in the basement to the media area " BASE103 " extended to allow the media work of the Goetz Collection can be adequately shown.

Conception of the museum building

The museum building stands as a solitary on a fenced park-like grounds. Since the building codes for the residential area of the building imposed limits in terms of surface area and height, the exhibition space had to be supplemented by a basement in order to achieve the desired exhibition space. The two floors have a ceiling height of 5.5 and 4 meters and are equipped with uncoated plaster.

At the same time in the building design, the usual hierarchy of spaces was turned upside down: The large exhibition hall is in the basement, three smaller exhibition rooms on the upper floor. Instead of a traditional skylight, it was decided to use strips of frosted glass below the ceiling, so that as the upper level can occur without glare and evenly as in the basement of the daylight. Thus, the light situation in all the showrooms is the same - no matter whether you are in the basement or upstairs. This made it possible to create on two floors of exhibition space, a space equivalent quality.

Conception of the media sector BASE103

When the museum building was expanded for the presentation of media work - through the media " BASE103 " - existing storerooms of the Goetz Collection by the Munich architect Wolfgang Brune in consultation with Herzog and de Meuron have been expanded and renovated.

The aim was to create here a media room, taking into account the special way of seeing in the perception of media art. At the same time, this space should allow the visitor to focus exclusively on the pre- led presentations and be distracted by anything. For this, the media was lined with dark felt, producing a perfect acoustic and visual contrast to the other showrooms.

Access to this exhibition area was designed in the form of a dark lock: For the first small film room a few steps up. Here takes the lighting slowly. The film room itself is separated by a curtain and can therefore be completely obscured. Attached to the film room is the large, divisible media room, which is technically designed for each projection. The end of the media sector is again a small space but lighter and thus forms a bridge to the clear exhibition rooms of the rest of the museum building. This sequence of spaces with a small dark room, a large dark room and a small lighter area is also the varied requirements on the presentation of film and media work justice.

In the technical equipment of the three media spaces experiences converged, with the exhibition >> fast forward (2003/2004) were collected at the ZKM in Karlsruhe: So all the wall panels were installed in the rooms. In addition, the large media room has a walk- installation shaft. The ventilation was - as in the whole museum building - realized with a forced air circulation system. Here, all rooms are mechanically assisted vented the next flow of fresh air is only slightly conditioned.

It was important that the principle of simplicity of the means and the dense format have been retained by the expansion of the museum building to the media.

Library

Basis of the curatorial and scientific work of the collection is a reference library with about 7,000 volumes, which focus on the art of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. This is where artists Monographs find about all the artists that are represented in the collection as well as a selection of international groups and exhibition catalogs since the late 1970s. In addition, inventory catalogs of important museums, collections and galleries as well as a selection of important art magazines and journals.

News Archive

The collection of archive documents the work and the development of artists in the Goetz Collection, as well as the history of the collection. Use for scientific purposes is possible after registration.

Staff

Staff at the Goetz Collection care art history, conservation, curatorial and restorers around the diverse collection.

Cooperations

  • Haus der Kunst (Munich )
  • Munich Film Museum
  • ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • Neues Museum Weimar
  • City of Munich
  • Neues Museum Weserburg
  • Bergen Art Museum
  • Fries Museum Leeuwarden
  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden -Baden
  • Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
  • Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • State Galerie Rudolfinum Prague
  • Kunsthalle Brandts, Odense
  • Causeway cultural, Pfäffikon
  • The Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
  • ZKMax, Munich
  • Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
  • Munich Adult Education
Exhibition catalogue Nan Goldin
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