Sammlung Grässlin

The collection is a Grasslin compiled by Dieter and Anna Graesslin from Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest and their children Bärbel, Thomas, Sabine and Karola art collection. The private collection includes works of contemporary art.

The origin of the collection lies in the 1970s, when the parents Graesslin began to collect works of the German Informal. Your children collected from 1981 Artist positions in the 1980s. Their attention focused on the art of the immediate present. The art of the 1980s, for which they decided, was by no means complacent and not without controversy far. Rather, were works of Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Markus felt like the sculptural works of Genzken, Hubert Kiecol, Georg Herold or Meuser as bulky, cynical or even pretentious. Positions that contradicted by irony and disavowal of the bourgeois understanding of contemporary art. Since the early 1990s, the collection is enhanced by young international positions such as Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, Tom Burr, Mark Dion, Michael Krebber, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Christian Philipp Müller, Vincent Tavenne and Jan Timme, and with the conceptual issues territoriality deal.

Tim Berresheim, Werner Büttner, Fischli & Weiss, Günther Förg, Genzken, Asta Gröting, Georg Herold, Mike Kelley, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Meuser, Reinhard Mucha, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Franz West, Christopher Williams Heimo Zobernig, Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, Clegg & Guttmann, Mark Dion, Hans -Jörg Mayer, Christian Philipp Müller, Manuel Ocampo, Tobias Rehberger, Andreas Slominski, Vincent Tavenne, Ina Weber, Joseph Zehrer, Tim Berresheim, Michael Beutler, Henning Bohl, Tom Burr, Sergej Jensen, Lindena, Michaela Meise, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Stefan Müller, Catherine Sullivan, Stephanie Taylor, Jan Timme

Art Space Graesslin

The completed in June 2006 art space Graesslin was designed by the Cologne architect Luke Baumewerd. In the exhibition space, as in the external SPACES ART artistic positions from the collection will be presented at regular intervals. The concept of the presentation of the collection focuses on networking with the local urban structure - the new art space Graesslin is accompanied by the existing project since 1995 ROOMS FOR ART, which uses vacant shop premises and former retail shops as venues.

Spaces for Art

In St. Georgen empty storefronts are recorded in the interim use with Art. The concept of " spaces for art " has been around since 1995. 2008 Advanced Graesslin Thomas, associate of collection Grasslin, the project under the name " spaces for art and Scholz " in various places in Stuttgart.

Awards

In 2010, the family Graesslin was honored for her outstanding contribution to the teaching of modern art with the ART COLOGNE Prize. The award was sponsored by the Association of German Galleries and Editions, together with Koelnmesse and awarded annually since 1988 at the Art Cologne.