NRW-Forum

The NRW - Forum Kultur und economy is an exhibition and event hall in Düsseldorf's main courtyard with a focus on photography, film, video, fashion, design, advertising and architecture. After withdrawal of the state government of North Rhine -Westphalia from the joint promotion with the city of Dusseldorf, the carrier club has decided its resolution of 31 December 2013. The last exhibition was held until January 5, 2014. The continued use of the building is open.

The museum building is located north of Old Town, between the Rhine and Düsseldorf's Hofgarten Park in the neighborhood of Tonhalle, Kunst Palast, Rhine terrace and near the Dusseldorf Art Academy.

History and foundation

At the GeSoLei exhibition was built the courtyard - area, designed by Wilhelm Kreis 1926. The exhibition building for the NRW Forum hosted by the GeSoLei first the kingdom Museum for Social and Economic Studies. At its technological, economic and social history exhibition concept was Oskar von Miller, the founder of the Deutsches Museum, was involved. After the Second World War to the beginning of the 1990s, here was the State Museum of Folk and economy, the interplay between man, nature and economy of work and leisure in the sociological changes pointed out as a technology museum, in particular specific developments within North Rhine- Westphalia. A walk-in coal mine in the basement was the main attraction of the house.

Due to a lack of acceptance and the former budget crisis the city of Dusseldorf, this museum was affected by the immediate closure and eventual disposal. In coordination of North Rhine -Westphalia with the city of Dusseldorf, a new concept for the house was developed. After a complete reconstruction, it was on October 9, 1998 as "NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft" by the Minister of Culture of the State of NRW, Ilse Brusis reopened; the ceremony accompanied by a keynote speech by the Director of the New York Guggenheim Museum, Thomas Krens.

The infrastructure of the house was the responsibility of the State of North Rhine Westphalia, the state capital of Dusseldorf, Messe Dusseldorf, other institutions and Düsseldorf-based company jointly through a sponsoring organization. All exhibitions at the NRW-Forum were financed exclusively through its own revenue and sponsorship. Another special feature of the exhibition and event management of a public exhibition house by a private operator under a management contract is also the first long-term concern.

Closure

In September 2012, the State of North Rhine -Westphalia announced that it will get the end of 2013, the promotion of the Forum with an annual allowance of 750,000 euros, citing the contribution to fiscal consolidation. The Fair Dusseldorf also ended promotion. Werner Lippert and Petra Wenzel subsequently announced at the end of their activity.

To rescue the Forum, the Citizens' Initiative Save founded the NRW-Forum, to win as a cooperation partner for the NRW-Forum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London ( Martin Roth). Left on her own now, but the city Dusseldorf shrink from the cost of such cooperation. In conversation annexation to the Museum Kunst Palast, with an emphasis on photography was first discussed.

Under the direction of Bernd and Hilla Becher many visitors to the Düsseldorf School of Photography have become successful world: Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Axel Hütte, Elger Esser, Götz Diergarten, Petra Wunderlich and Tata Ronkholz. For the new approach seeks Beat Wismer, Director Museum Kunst Palast, the conversation with the new academy professor Gursky.

Only once the house is 2014 exhibition space for the arts festival Quadrennial, the photo Weekend and a dance show.

Architecture

The building is part of the protected courtyard ensembles, which dates back architectural origins in the early 1900's. On the occasion of 1902 held industrial, commercial and art exhibition set up the architects Albrecht Eugen Bender and Rückgauer landscaped around a courtyard Kunst Palast as the first of which now belong to a group of buildings.

(Now the Museum Kunst Palast ) 1926, the area of ​​the arts palace was expanded to other buildings for the GeSoLei exhibition, designed by Wilhelm Kreis: The newly created courtyard ensemble comprised now also a planetarium (later Rheinhalle; Today: Tonhalle Dusseldorf ), the Rheinterasse as well as the national Museum of social and economic Studies, later the National Museum for people and business, which is since 1998, the exhibition building of the NRW - Forum.

A strict symmetrical arrangement of archaic monumental forms and expressionist brick facades are characteristic of the building. Simple, formally reduced components should dominate the overall impression - even the neo-baroque facade of the Palace of Fine Arts was adapted to the newly added buildings and covered with a simple, strict brick facade.

The ensemble is one next to Wilhelm Marx House and German Hygiene Museum in Dresden at the most significant designs of Wilhelm Kreis, who was the successor of Peter Behrens Director of the School of Applied Arts Dusseldorf in 1908 and whose architecture department in 1920 resulted in the Dusseldorf Art Academy.

" Temple -like Stems " / " temple-like corner pavilions " in the style of neoclassicism mark both ends of the single-storey building structure whose motif is repeated in the art museum on the one hand and the base of the Rheinhalle other., The building rests on a base, which is inclined. The darüberbefindlichen windows are summarized by stone ledges to horizontal bands.

Mosaic north side, Jan Thorn Prikker "The Day "

South side, Heinrich Nauen "Dance " (detail)

Orientation and focal points

The NRW - Forum Kultur und economy is changing contextual exhibitions, which have the goal to make the convergence and interpenetration of aesthetic, social and economic phenomena of temporal experience. The exhibition concepts while still offering a separation between " high " and popular art: Instead, they devote themselves to the progressive fusion of the most diverse (pop - ) cultural areas such as applied art, design, advertising, architecture, photography, video and fashion.

NRW-Forum Dusseldorf: View of the exhibition " Radical Advertising " on the opening day (April 4, 2008).

NRW-Forum Dusseldorf: View of the exhibition " Albert Watson - Best of " (Sept. 2008 - Jan. 2009 )

Since its opening in 1998, the NRW-Forum was formed as a framework for numerous exhibitions and events, themed the most diverse art and cultural genres, and their mutual influence. At the same time the concept of "framing" is in the foreground: the exhibition concepts set itself the goal of everyday phenomena such as fashion photography or architecture, cars and comics to be released from their familiar contexts and placing them in a new sense and viewing frame.

The NRW - Forum also hosts from " Media Lounge " emerged Foundation imai - inter media art institute, the collection, restoration and distribution of art videos dedicated to. In the early years, and the German Plastics Museum at the NRW - Forum presented with a permanent exhibition as well as thematic exhibitions.

Exhibitions (selection)

" Mutants - The German -language comic avant-garde. " (1999-2000) First solo museum exhibition of comics from the German speaking countries.

" Anton Corbijn " (2001) Retrospective of Dutch photographer with portraits and video clips.

" Media Lounge / The Hire " (2002) Establishment of a usable by all visitors on site Media Lounge with over 1000 videos from art, music and advertising.

" Helmut Newton - Work" (2003) Comprehensive retrospective of the photographer died in 2006.

" The dream of the tower " (2004-2005) Compilation of the most important high-rise buildings as models in the same scale; 40cm from the high tower of Babel to 4m high design by Norman Foster.

" Martin Kippenberger - Floor Collage" (2005) Exhibition of the restored floor studio of a fashion designer Claudia Skoda, which was designed with a photo collage of the artist Martin Kippenberger.

" Alexander McQueen - Catwalk Videos" ( 2005) First exhibition of the British fashion designer, staged as a catwalk with video projections.

" Vivienne Westwood: Punk Princess " (2006) Retrospective of British fashion designer with original creations, documentaries and videos.

" Bruce Nauman - Mental Exercises " (2006-2007) Selected installations, films, videos and performances by the American conceptual artist and exact replica of his first European solo exhibition in Dusseldorf Galerie Konrad Fischer, 1970.

" Pictures in the mind " (2007) The exhibition devoted to the most important pictures of the history of photography. Instead of this, however, to show they were described to visitors through headphones.

" Andy Warhol - Myths " (2008) Exhibition of 10 illustrations by the American artist with a documenting their own history.

" Radical Advertising " (2008) Exhibition on the paradigm shift in advertising with numerous major campaigns of recent decades, such as Benetton, Helmut Lang, Comme des Garçons, Calvin Klein exhibits, etc.

" Albert Watson - Best of " (September 21, 2008 - January 18, 2009 ) Showcase one of the most successful fashion and commercial photographers in the world. On display were next to world famous portraits of celebrities stunning images from his travels around the world, from Marrakech to Las Vegas and the Orkneys.

" Michel Comte - Retrospective" ( 1 February to 10 May 2009) Review of the diverse work of the well-known primarily for his fashion photography photographer Michel Comte. The exhibition showed in addition to the commercial work for example Vanity Fair and Vogue, the portraits of many prominences of art, music and entertainment such as Julian Schnabel, Jermey Irons, Demi Moore, Mike Tyson, Carla Bruni, and Michael Schumacher also parts of the photo documentation from crisis zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia or Sudan.

" Deanna Templeton - Scratch My Name on Your Arm" ( 4 April to 10 May 2009) Exhibition of the photo series by Deanna Templeton, who young people focused, sign the body parts of their idols or have company logos spray on the body. The focus is on the discussion after dealing va young women with her body, according to how they present themselves in the media and sometimes voluntarily operate their own objectification.

" U.F.O. - Boundaries between art and design " ( 23 May to 5 July 2009) An exhibition that the discussion of the question " Where is the line between art and design? " Arises. On display were art and design objects by David Adjaye, Ron Arad, Richard Artschwager, Ronan Erwan Bouroulle, Fernando Humberto Campana, Hussein Chalayan, Frédéric Dedelley, Martino Gamper, Liam Gillick, Johanna Grawunder, Konstantin Grcic, Zaha Hadid, Studio Job, Donald Judd, Mona Hatoum, Arik Levy, Ross Lovegrove, Marc Newson, Tom Price, Richard Prince, Rolf Sachs, Tejo Remy, Ettore Sottsass, Haim Steinbach, Kram / Weisshaar, Marcel Wanders, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Jorge Pardo.

" Armin Mueller-Stahl - painting over a script " ( 15 August-27 September 2009) Exhibition of 173 of the 357 drawings and watercolors, the actor Armin Mueller-Stahl has created during the filming of the movie " Buddenbrooks", directed by Heinrich Breloer.

" Catwalks - The most spectacular fashion shows " ( 26 July to 1 November 2009) The exhibition showed the most spectacular catwalks catwalks of the top designers in recent years: Great performances like Dior. The circus as theatrical Wunderkammer, as with Galliano. Dramatic productions, like Alexander McQueen. Conceptual performance as Hussein Chalayan. Or the festively decorated dinner table as a catwalk, like Dries van Noten. The visitor was a matter of the model on the catwalk. It follows the catwalk and falls into the major fashion shows - these were animated by video overlays and multimedia installations to 3d live spectacles.

Robert Mapplethorpe (2010)

The red Bulli - Stephen Shore and the New Düsseldorf Photography ( 2011)

Rankin. Show Off (2012 /13)

Bryan Adams - Exposed ( 2 February to 22 May 2013) Portrait photographs of celebrities, photographed by musician Bryan Adams.

Duane Michals, 2014

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