Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is the state museum of modern and contemporary art in Vaduz. The modern museum building by the Swiss architects Morger & Degelo and Kerez was opened in 2000. The important collection of international modern and contemporary art is also the national art collection of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
History
In 1967, the State of Liechtenstein as a gift ten paintings. This was the occasion of establishing the Liechtenstein State Art Collection in the following year. First curator of the collection was Dr. Georg Malin, a Liechtenstein artists, historians and art historians. He defined very soon the National Collection as a field of international modern and contemporary art.
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents itself as it is today thanks to a group of private founders. Together with the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Commune of Vaduz, they realized the modern museum building.
In August of 2000, the building was the Principality of Liechtenstein passed as a Millennium gift, which established for the operation and management of the museum, the public law "Foundation Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein ." On 12 November 2000, the museum was opened.
Since 1996, Dr. Friedemann Malsch is director of the Liechtenstein State Art Collection, and the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
Architecture
The team of architects Meinrad Morger and Heinrich Degelo with Kerez created with the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, an architecture of high complexity and discreet simplicity. The closed form is a black box of tinted concrete and black basalt stone. Included river pebbles give the outer skin of the building a subtle coloration, also link to the landscape of the Rhine Valley. The surrounding area is also reflected in the hand-ground and touching, full surface of the facade. Elongated bands of windows arrange themselves under the compactness of the building and open the black cube from the inside and from the outside.
Inside the Black Box is a perfect White Cube. The dimensions of the exterior are almost fully developed for the visitors spaces. The house is manageable and yet generous. The art is dedicated to the maximum area. Six exhibition rooms arranged around two diametrically opposed staircases. The ground plan, windmill sails, enables diagonal views through the whole building. The exhibition rooms offer art the greatest possible freedom through self-conscious subordination of architecture, through clarity and precision.
The controversial museum also held regularly input into contemporary literature and gave the architects involved international reputation, but also virtual tourist an entry in the list of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world on the site.
Collection
The collection of international modern and contemporary art covers the period from the 19th century to the present. The profile is determined primarily sculptures, objects and installations. A special position is occupied by artists of the Arte Povera. The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein also administers the estate of André Thomkins.
In 2006, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein acquired together with the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt (MMK ) the art historically significant collection of Cologne gallerist Rolf Ricke, including works by Richard Artschwager, Bill Bollinger, Donald Judd, Fabian Marcaccio, Steven Parrino, David Reed, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier and Jessica Stockholder.
Exhibitions
In recent years, among other solo exhibitions of Otto Freundlich, Gottfried Honegger, Leiko Ikemura, Rita McBride, Paul Klee, Jochen Gerz, André Thomkins, František Kupka, Andy Warhol, Fabian Marcaccio, Alighiero Boetti, Fred Sandback, Georg Malin, Sean Scully were Matt's Leiderstam, Ferdinand Nigg, Jannis Kounellis, Monika Sosnowska, Joseph Beuys, Herbert Zang, Thomas Schütte, Kazimir Malevich, Martin Frommelt, Matti Braun, Christian Boltanski, Graubner, Bill Bollinger, Bojan Šarčević, Günter Fruhtrunk and Rütjer Rühle shown.
Important group exhibitions have included " The inner -being ", " migration ", " Place your bets! Art and play since Dada "," time-out. Art and Sustainability "," Lust for Life. The Ricke Collection, "" Knockin 'on Heaven 's Door "," Modernism as a Ruin. An Archaeology of the Present "," Che fare. Arte Povera. The past year "and" Example Switzerland. Delimitation and passages as art. "
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein also shows regular exhibitions of works from the collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein.