Kunsthaus Bregenz
The Kunsthaus Bregenz ( KUB ) shows temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in the capital of Vorarlberg Bregenz. It was designed by the famous Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on behalf of the State of Vorarlberg and built in the years 1990 to 1997.
Generally
The Kunsthaus Bregenz is among the architecturally and programmatically outstanding exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Europe. The 1880 m² exhibition area extends over the KUB Arena on the ground floor and three upper floors. In the Kunsthaus provide international contemporary artists from work created specifically for the most part for the Kunsthaus rooms. The KUB has its own collection with two focal points: the collection archive art architecture and the collection of Austrian contemporary art. Was even before the opening in 1997, with purchases of works by Austrian contemporary artists such as Maria Lassnig, Valie Export and Heimo Zobernig and started from international artists at the intersection of art and architecture. Since 2009, the collection will be extended in addition to works of the artists exhibiting there, including major donations from Donald Judd and Per Kirkeby.
With its exhibitions and projects, the Kunsthaus Bregenz is not only international challenges. At the same time making it with projects in Vorarlberg a contribution to the cultural identity of the region. Expression of identity-forming function of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, for example, the work "signature 02" by Gottfried Bechtold at the Silvretta High Dam, the work " Truth Before Power" by the American artist Jenny Holzer in 2004, at the large text on architecture and natural monuments were projected in all of Vorarlberg, or until April 2012 implemented by August 2010 Landscape project " Horizon Field " by British sculptor Antony Gormley.
In addition to large, representative exhibitions in the characteristic areas of the Kunsthaus, the KUB shows in the KUB Arena projects that are aligned process- and interdisciplinary. The KUB Arena, as an art and mediation platform on the ground floor of the Kunsthaus, is conceived as a discursive interface between architecture and work.
Accompanying the exhibitions offers the Kunsthaus an extensive outreach program. The Kunsthaus Bregenz is the editor of publications, text rows and catalog books that implement the artistic idea in close cooperation with the exhibiting artists and renowned designers such as Walter Nikkels or Stefan Sagmeister. In addition, arising from the work and production close to the artists exclusively for the Kunsthaus Bregenz special editions.
On 1 May 2011 the Austrian Post AG expended as part of the Definitive series Art houses a stamp to the object.
Museum lines
Founding director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz is precious Bert KÖB, who exercised this activity until 2000. He was followed by Eckhard Schneider from 2000 to 2008. Since October 1, 2009 Dziewior Yilmaz is the director of the Kunsthaus.
Architecture
" The art house stands in the light of Lake Constance. Its body is made of glass plates, steel and stone mass of poured concrete that forms the structure and space inside the house. From the outside the building looks like a luminous body. It takes the changing light of the sky, the light mist of the lake on, shines back light and color, and can, depending on the viewing angle, time of day and weather glimpse something of his inner life. "
" From the outside, secluded and majestic marked according to the glasverhüllte cube on the banks of Lake Constance for the past ten years, aesthetic presence in Vorarlberg. "
The Kunsthaus Bregenz was designed by the internationally renowned and awarded the Pritzker Prize Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. This won the 1998 with the Kunsthaus Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture. With its award-winning design, the KUB among the world's greatest museum of contemporary architecture and is a vivid example of the architectural style of minimalism. As daylight museum designed, offers the construction by its significant external shape and the uncompromising implementation of its space concept. The actual task of a museum to be a place for art and a place for people who want to encounter these works of art at rest, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor had committed in his own words with his design for the Kunsthaus Bregenz. The exhibiting artists at the KUB is the architecture of real scale and conceptual impetus for their exhibition performances, especially in the new production of whole plant consequences. The architecture is therefore indispensable platform for the international exhibition program of KUB.
Tour
In addition to the museum and the Vorarlberg Vorarlberg State Theatre, the new building of the KUB positioned as a confident solitaire in the center of Bregenz along the shoreline to Lake Constance. Together with the State Theatre defines the Kunsthaus own place space between the old town and the lake.
Building body
The body of the building is made of finely etched KUB, equal-sized milk glass-like glass panels, which are held by brackets. They form an exterior of the exhibition house in upstream, air- swept light diffusion skin and provide an initial filtering and optimal redirection of daylight in the ceilings of the exhibition floors. In the darkness of the artificial light radiates through the bands of light from the interior of the building through the glass skin and shows his inner life. In the filigree support structure between the building and glass facade integrated, there are technical service zones. Sometimes the outer skin is also recorded by the exhibiting artists at the Kunsthaus Bregenz and integrated into installations.
Interiors
The interiors of the Kunsthaus are characterized by a high material presence. It dominates visible concrete, as no panels or repaints were attached. The floors and stairs are made of polished terrazzo. The walls and ceilings are made of raw, unpolished concrete. The ground floor of the exhibition building takes over the function of the foyer with cash, catalog sales and wardrobes. Most of the nearly 500 m² of exhibition space and serves as a multifunctional space of action for the presentations of the so-called KUB Arena. With its executed in glass outer walls the floor emphasizes the supporting construction of three different set wall panels that define the exhibition space on the one hand on each floor and at the same time the vertical circulation areas ( staircases, escape stairs, passenger and goods lift) separate from the actual room. The uniform positioning of the inputs and outputs from the ground floor of a tour developed by the differing only in the room heights, three upper floors, which can be used freely divided depending on the exhibition as a large hall or by mobile elements. All three upper floors are designed as skylight halls. The ceiling of the exhibition rooms consist of open assembled glass panels. These distribute the daylight in the room, which is incident from all four sides of the building by circumferential bands of light in the cavity above the glass ceiling. The Tungsten, also integrated in the cavity above the dust cover, supplemented and replaced the light of day if necessary without leaving however, the individual light sources are visible. The ground floor and the three stacked floors form a closed unit with great potential for art installations with their material and shape aesthetics. Two basements complete the space program. In the first, still partially powered by a light well with natural light, located next to the washrooms of lecture and museum education room, which is separated by translucent glass brick walls of the non-public areas (workshops, staff rooms ). The second basement is defined by an original archive and storage space as well as the technical centers and not accessible to the public.
Administration building and Café
In front of the Arts building on the Old Town side is the administration building of the KUB. It steers with its black facade the view of the main facade of the Kunsthaus and its receipt. In its dimensions it is adjusted to the proportions of the surrounding smaller buildings of the old town. In addition to the administrative offices on the ground floor, the KUB Café. Peter Zumthor also shows its architectural consequence café and bar area and the kitchen are decorated in black -faced concrete. Outsourcing has become indispensable in today's exhibition factory equipment from the exhibition building emphasizes the concentration of the main building to its original purpose.
KUB collection showcase
The Kunsthaus Bregenz has its own collection. One of the biggest bundles of the collection consists of more than 300 architectural models by Peter Zumthor. Some of these exhibits was archived by the KUB since the solo exhibition of the architect in 2007, new models will be added regularly. Since June 2012, a selection of these models in KUB collection showcase is shown next to the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz first floor of the post office building. It presents both realized buildings as well as remaining design projects. The presentation shows the paramount role played by working with models and materials such as wood, metal or clay in the work of his studio Peter Zumthor in its diversity.