Kunstverein Oldenburg

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(Profile only availible in german - translated by machine)

The Oldenburger Kunstverein is one of the oldest art associations in Germany. It was in 1843 for "teaching on works of art and the promotion of art meaning" was founded and quickly took a central role in the cultural life of the city. As the first private residence he moved into 1867 representative "Augusteum" in which the Duke's art gallery was located. About 100 years after its foundation, he then built and moved into a small but modern and contemporary exhibition hall.

After 1945, extended the Oldenburger Kunstverein his work and has since then also chamber concerts and a literature and lecture program in which he initiated the current art and cultural policy debate and care. He was one of the few institutions that opened very early and in detail for Art from the former socialist states. He also sat down early with photography as an art genre, and about the new media, presenting interactive and interdisciplinary projects.

With its program offerings of the various divisions and through cooperative projects, the Oldenburger Kunstverein become an indispensable and current driver of the local and regional arts and cultural scene. In a time that calls for strengthening of civil commitment, he is convinced with the performance and quality of volunteer work to the test.

Since its inception, the Oldenburger Kunstverein has shown over 850 exhibitions that focus on key national and international artists and show, above all, current trends in the development of art. to show the non-proven and established, but the boy, the surprising and bulky - such a program course is risky because he does not the expectations of the event - served audience. The Oldenburger Kunstverein controls this course because he is also about promoting the vision, a critical discourse and curiosity to the future.

Looking back over the past 15 years, the perspective of the Oldenburger Kunstverein has often been confirmed. Young artists, as in 1995 Jörg Sasse, 1996, Thomas Ruf f, 2000 John Bock include recently Michael Beutler and Thomas Zipp, which showed its first institutional solo exhibition here, now one of the stars of the international art scene and are in current art history is not indispensable.