MARTa Herford Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst

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The town of Herford in north-west Germany made the art world sit up and take notice with its ambitious new project, the MARTa Herford Museum, which opened on 7 May 2005 . With the name MARTa fronting the triad of design (M standing for Möbel/furniture), art (ART) and architecture/ambience (a), the museum aims to provide fresh inspiration for art, design, architecture and business both in the local region and far beyond. An extraordinary complex of buildings designed by Frank Gehry houses a novel combination of a museum, centre of excellence and event forum. It is here that exhibition curator and museum director Roland Nachtigäller displays contemporary aspects of art and design. The main idea behind MARTa Herford is to highlight and redefine the contradictory links between art and business.

represented artists

Nandor Angstenberger      Art & Language      Atelier van Lieshout      Georg Baselitz      Hans Op De Beeck      Matthias Bitzer      Matthew Buckingham      Monika Czosnowska      Raphael & Tobias Danke      Robert Devriendt      Felix Droese      Nezaket Ekici      Jörg Ernert      Jean Fautrier      Günther Förg      Kendell Geers      Jochen Gerz      Christoph Girardet      Tamara Grcic      Asta Gröting      Cai Guo-Qiang      Renato Guttuso      Anton Henning      Thomas Huber      Robert Hutter      Asger Jorn      Benjamin Katz      San Keller      Per Kirkeby      Surasi Kusolwong      Sekyung Lee      Bjarne Melgaard

François Morellet      Reinhard Mucha      Matthias Müller      Ingrid Mwangi      Michel Nedjar      Mimmo Paladino      Panamarenko      A.R. Penck      Manfred Pernice      Sigmar Polke      Tobias Rehberger      Thomas Rentmeister      Gerhard Richter      Matthieu Ronsse      Fernando Sanchez Castillo      Wilhelm Sasnal      Silke Schatz      Erik Schmidt      Emil Schumacher      Nedko Solakov      Jürgen Stollhans      Johan Tahon      Pascale Marthine Tayou      Susanne Tunn      Luc Tuymans      Aaron van Erp      Henk Visch      Martin Walde      Robert Wilson      Jens Wolf