Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, shortly Federal Art Gallery, on the Museum Mile in Bonn is one of the most visited museums in Germany. It shows changing exhibitions important for art and cultural objects from around the world. Exclusive sponsors are the federal and state governments. It is headed since March 1, 2013 Rein Wolfs.

The result is 1989 to 1992, together with the neighboring urban Kunstmuseum Bonn, which cooperates with the Art and Exhibition Hall.

Task

The Art and Exhibition Hall is supposed to represent the spiritual and cultural richness of the Federal Republic of Germany adequately and create opportunities for cultural exchange with foreign countries. Furthermore, it is to be a forum for dialogue between culture and politics. Designed from the start as she was changing exhibitions and events platform for both national and international standing; Moreover, it is to enrich the cultural life of Germany. Own collections, they should not have, however.

For the task as an exhibition hall belongs especially to all entities of the Federal Republic of Germany for exhibitions in the fields of art, culture, history, economy, science and technology to show up (federal, state, cities and municipalities). Today's use as a place of lectures, discussions and social performances was intended from the beginning.

Among the tasks that were asked in the competition brief for the architectural competition of the building, also included, together with the Kunstmuseum Bonn to create open spaces for sculptures, actions and the like.

History

From the idea in 1949 to the planning and opening of the Art and Exhibition Hall spans a full color sheet of a complex development history, the result of the involvement of many stakeholders - is due - Artists and culturally as well as politically effective institutions and individuals. As part of the so-called capital city concept 1977, the City of Bonn, many initiatives in support of the project lined up a the federal cabinet finally decided to build in the years 1984 to. From 2 to 4 November 1978, artists and politicians met at the Steigenberger hotel and in the Cultural Forum in Bonn center in Bonn to a seminar organized by the German Association of Artists colloquium question " Do we need a federal Kunsthalle ', to lectures and discussions, the creation of such art - and to discuss cultural platform. The Arbeitsgemeinschaft More art for Bonn in 1981, a group of gallery owners, artists, museum professionals, among others to obtain with the aim of the Art and Exhibition Hall as an open forum for the arts in the federal capital, followed with the establishment of the Foundation Kunsthalle Federal Capital Association in the same year under the chairmanship of the former Bundestag Vice President Annemarie Renger important impetus to implement the idea on federal level. In persistent way she campaigned at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development under Oscar Schneider, the Prime Minister of Baden- Württemberg, Lothar Späth, for their concern. The Centre for Cultural Research Bonn, headed by Karla Fohrbeck, the Cultural Fund eV and the German Cultural Council participated in the enforcement of this project. On 26 October 1983, the then Federal President Karl Carstens received a poster portfolio with eleven designs of renowned artists such as Joseph Beuys, Jörg Immendorf, Otto Herbert Hajek and others who drew attention to the language of the artists again the urgency of a spiritual and cultural center of the covenant.

The ideas and concepts of several groups and instances were included in the sales text of an ideas competition, which saw the emergence of the design by the Viennese architect Gustav Peichl as the winner. Early 1987 by the then Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development and the Federal Ministry of the Interior set up a discussion group, which had the function of an advisory board to the expert supervision of the project. This should provide substantive assistance in the practical implementation of the competition text. With the architecture of the Art Hall, a structural precipitation should be found, which could represent the spiritual and cultural wealth of the Federal Republic of appropriate, should allow a forum for dialogue between culture and politics at the international level and an anticipatory culturally and visually unifying function in the exchange wore between the two yet divorced German States. After October 17, 1989 the cornerstone was laid and the topping- out ceremony was held on 12 September 1990, on 19 June 1992, the opening ceremony. The construction costs amounted to 127 million German marks, about 65.2 million euros.

2011 to be architects redesigned the foyer after plans by the Berlin architectural office AFF.

Criticism of the Federal Audit

Beginning of 2007, the Federal Court of Auditors the budget committee of the Bundestag before an audit report. In it a number of serious violations of the Managing Director of the Art and Exhibition Hall from 1999 to 2006 were identified. As a first consequence decided the Board of Trustees and the shareholders' meeting of the Art and Exhibition Hall, that the contract with the Commercial Director Wilfried Gatzweiler is canceled and the managing director and director Jürgen Wenzel Jacob must let it rest until the clarification of all allegations of its activities and is released from his duties. On May 18 In 2007, Otto Lindner, to exempt from Deutsche Welle, the management of the Federal Art Gallery, to Bernhard Spies from 1 January 2008, a manager has been set. On 25 June 2007 Wenzel Jacob was dismissed by the general meeting and terminated December 31, 2007 due date. The Supreme Court in Karlsruhe ruled in October 2010 that Wenzel has no right to continued employment. Until the appointment of the new director had assumed office as interim solution to the Swiss Christoph Vitali, which continues since January 2009, Robert Fleck. The end of 2013 stain is to leave the house. The Minister of State for Culture and Media will not extend his contract by mutual agreement. Spot became nationwide in the criticism because he in a retrospective of Anselm Kiefer exclusively exhibiting works from the collection of Hans Grothe. In July 2012, Fleck announced that he will leave the Art and Exhibition Hall on October 1, 2012. He justified his premature departure so that he can not combine his duties as a director and a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

Architecture

The developed concept for the building sat two priorities: exhibition and communication. This provision was part of a 1987 international competition ausgelobten whose architecture design Gustav Peichl as his third museum building next to the construction of the extension wing for the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (1990 inaugurated ) and the Art Forum in Vienna 1989, as the winner with special challenges. Peichl's design called for a diverse usable area that accommodated the area of ​​responsibility " exhibition with functional spaces with different characteristics " and the second focus on communication with a large function room (Forum), smaller function rooms, library, bookstore and restaurant. Its physical structure closes aware outward. It radiates with their non-profiled cut rows of windows and narrow gates of the cool dignity of antique Egyptian architecture. 16 brown - reddish patina steel columns that flank the building to the Friedrich- Ebert -Allee out symbolize the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Three highly visible light towers on the roof, which should allow structured as a garden variety exhibition installations, indicate the triad Architecture - Painting - Sculpture.

From a strictly geometric forms out formulated Peichl cubist building on a square plan ( 96.3 × 96.3 m), in the center of four cubes are enrolled. These are framed by a zone of smaller functional space units. The core spaces will be exhibition halls, foyer and auditorium, while offices, private offices, workshops, library and restaurant are located on the periphery. The variety on available space, a large hall with 1300 m², a two-story atrium with 3000 m², three galleries with 700 m² and a central cabinet with 300 m² of different ceiling heights of 3.60, 4.30 and 9 meters offer a versatile exhibition design. The forum for 500 people is included in the exhibition area and is used in many ways as a lecture and meeting facilities. Additional television and radio broadcasting for suitable facilities and translation booths allow the technically oriented outside mediator between artists, scientists and the public. In the architectural link to the opposite Art Museum succeeded in a " concordia oppositorum " a complementary museum ensemble.

Library

The emphasis of the collection is the reference library on the history of exhibitions. It documents the major exhibitions usually exhibition catalogs and secondary literature. So Visitors will find general literature and reference books, current art magazines, artist monographs, books and exhibition organization and techniks and works on the history of museums and collections. For library collection includes a large selection of art literature (especially the art of the 20th and 21st centuries ). About the international exchange of publications, the Library receives current exhibition catalogs of other art galleries and museums, which are rarely found in academic and public libraries. The Exhibition Archive documented by photos, slides, documents, plans, etc. which give a detailed picture of the exhibitions, events and history of the house.

The library is an institutional member of the Association of Art and Museum Libraries ( AKMB ).

Special

At the 5600 m² exhibition area of the Art and Exhibition Hall two to four exhibitions are constantly shown. In the first ten years, over 100 exhibitions in the fields of art and cultural history, science and technology were presented.

Since the Federal Republic of Germany acting as guarantor, it always manages to bring art treasures of international significance to Bonn. The exhibition of the finds from the grave chamber of Tutankhamun from November 2004 to May 2005 some 850,000 visitors came to the Art and Exhibition Hall. In its exhibition series The Great collections world-renowned museums and their collections areas are presented, such as 2012/3 treasures of the world cultures. The British Museum, 2011/2012 Art and Design for ave The Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010/2011 Afghanistan. Surviving Treasures. The collection of the National Museum in Kabul or 2009 under the motto of Modernity. The Kunstmuseum Winterthur and 2003/4 treasures of the Sons of Heaven. The Imperial Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, as well as 1999/2000, the Museo Nacional del Prado guest in Bonn. Velázquez, Rubens and Lorrain, painting at the court of Philip IV.

Other Events

In the Art and Exhibition Hall and other events statutory performed alongside exhibitions. In the forum, function hall with up to 600 seats, hosts concerts, theatrical performances, conferences, readings and film screenings. Permanent cooperation partners are the German Music Council, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Opera Bonn, the Beethoven Festival, the literature Bonn and the Bonn Cinematheque. In 2007, the Festival Drums Summit was founded, which exclusively takes place at irregular intervals in the forum.

In October 2008, the Forum of KAH was the venue for the World Chess Championship 2008.

Forecourt

The often called " Museum Square " designated forecourt, which is part of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany ( " Art and Exhibition Hall " ), was spanned from 1997 to 2012 by a canvas roof, lured under the in the summer months concerts, movie nights and public viewing visitors. In the winter, there was a skating rink. In February 2012, the tent was dismantled and sold after the open-air concerts are moved to a new venue.

Cold square

" Cold Square" has been called the entrance of the Federal Art Gallery an installation of artist Tom Fecht. It belongs to the fixed installations of the project " Names and Stones ", which in humans is to be reminded who have died of AIDS. Among the prominent dead, remember that belongs to installing paving stones in front of the Art and Exhibition Hall, including Freddie Mercury, Michel Foucault, Keith Haring, Miles Davis and Rock Hudson.