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Joseph Beuys. Parallelprozesse - K20
NUMBER FOUR: DEREK JARMAN - Julia Stoschek Collection
Nam June Paik - Museum Kunstpalast
James Lee Byars The Perfect Axis - Schloss Benrath
Marcel Broodthears - Kunsthalle
Kunst der 80er Jahre - K21
Katharina Grosse - Ellipse - Kunsthalle
"Die Theorie des Himmels I - Die Milchstrasse" - KIT
LIGHT IN DARKNESS - Zero foundation
Jef Verheyen and Friends - Langen Foundation
Katharina Sieverding. Projecte - imai
Mit Kopf und Hand Variationen der Zeichnung - Akademie-Galerie
Art friends from home and abroad are looking forward to the second Quadrennial, which will be opened on 10.09.2010 and ends in January 2011. Nine Dusseldorf museums and exhibition halls are preparing for it before high-level exhibitions and received therefor from the City of substantial financial contributions, without which the ambitious exhibition project would not be feasible. Despite the general financial crisis, the city, the Quadrennial supported with additional resources of around five million euros. Ruf als internationale Kunstmetropole."" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"With this celebration of fine arts," said Mayor Dirk Elbers, "reinforces the traditional art city its reputation as an international cultural metropolis."
Art in Düsseldorf
modern e und zeitgenössische Kunst in Deutschland entwickelt." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Düsseldorf has developed in recent decades an important center for modern and contemporary art in Germany. Established and many new museums and galleries, as well as regular big exhibition events shape today the city on the Rhine. The world-famous Academy of Fine Arts is at the heart of museums. Taught and learned in her internationally renowned artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students. Artis ts such as Byars, Paik Broodthaers and were attracted by the city and have worked here. But many representatives of the younger generation of artists have taken their beginning in Düsseldorf and are now perceived in the international exhibition context.
Quadrennial 2010 - Kunstgegenwärtig
Run de." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Kunstgegenwärtig" - under this title, the 2010 Quadrennial start a new round. Gesternheute-tomorrow: Under which was the focus of art in the 60s, 70s and 80s, the events in Düsseldorf, but also certain? A review of the rich artistic production of these years, a time of Düsseldorf as a center of international art scene, rising to well over the borders of influence took up the art scene, is the starting point for further research questions that are examined in numerous exhibitions. What effect does this art today? How is the current situation of art in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area? And: How important contemporary art in Düsseldorf in the future be? With the reflective view "back to the roots" is also a critical self-positioning and current inventory is made. Cultural Affairs Hans-Georg flames on the thematic focus: "In the retrospective view opens up the Quadrennial 2010, a broad spectrum of contemporary art of the last 50 years - with all the different interactions and the international appeal of the Düsseldorf art that illuminate the various exhibitions, surprise again and again. "
The program: a focus with many facets.
Already today, the Quadrennial a fixture in the art world and will also consolidate a sustainable position in Düsseldorf in 2010 as such. A total of nine museums and exhibition halls in Düsseldorf take to the 2010 Quadrennial part of exhibitions, it has been imposed in this form. Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath mit James Lee Byars, wird es auch Gruppenausstellungen geben.">art addition to solo exhibitions at institutions such as the museum palace, the Nam June Paik shows, the K20, which will present a comprehensive exhibition of works by Joseph Beuys', or the Palace and Park Foundation Benrath with James Lee Byars, there will be group shows. Thus, the K21 focuses on the art of the 80s, the NRWForum Düsseldorf opened with the photography exhibition "THE RED BULLY. Stephen Shore and the New Dusseldorf Photography 1971-87 "and the School transformed their gallery spaces in a dense installation of drawings by others Joseph Beuys, Anthony Cragg, Peter Doig u.v.a.
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf besteht aus zwei Gemeinschaftsausstellungen: Zusammen mit KIT - Kunst im Tunnel widmet sie sich einer jüngeren Generation von wichtigen Düsseldorfer Künstlern für die stellvertretend Arbeiten von Katharina Grosse, Dirk Skreber und Björn Dahlem gezeigt werden." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The contribution of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf has two group exhibitions: together with KIT - Kunst im Tunnel dedicated they are a younger generation of artists to the Dusseldorf important representative works by Katharina Grosse, Dirk Skreber and Björn Dahlem be shown. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen werden in der Ausstellung La chambre de l'éloge ausgewählte Werke Marcel Broodthaers' im Dialog mit aktuellen Arbeiten international renommierter Künstler zu sehen sein." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In partnership with the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in the exhibition "La chambre de l'Eloge" selected works of Marcel Broodthaers' be on view in dialogue with current works of internationally renowned artists.
Julia Stoschek Collection , das imai - inter media art institute mit einer Katharina Sieverding-Ausstellung und die ZERO Foundation." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For the first time also participate in the Julia Stoschek Collection , the imai - inter media art institute with Katharina Sieverding exhibition and the ZERO Foundation. Ruf als Foren der lebendigen Kunstszene erneut unter Beweis stellen." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The galleries will Düsseldorf Germany premieres under the title "current positions of not yet present in Germany and are shown artists with common openings on the first weekend of September 2010 her reputation once again as a forum of lively arts scene to the test.
The accompanying program: stimulus for further discussion and reflection
Introduced to the many activities of the Quadrennial 2010 by a symposium at the Robert Schumann Hall, join the visitors as experts in the forthcoming exhibitions and thematic issues, and inspire intense debate. Under the title "objects for all and none" will be discussed in particular the complicated triangle of artists and art viewers in the context of avant garde. - The symposium will take place on 8./9.September 2010 in the Robert-Schumann-Saal.
The Quadrennial-GmbH
Go to the content and sustainable positioning for the practical organization of the Quadrennial the city of Düsseldorf had been established in late 2008, the Quadrennial-GmbH. As Managing Director of Cultural Affairs of the City of Düsseldorf, Hans-Georg Lohe, and Angela Eckert Swiss were named. Chairman of the Supervisory Board is the Mayor Dirk Elbers.
The Quadrennial 2010 is a project of the state capital Duesseldorf.
(Press release)
