Sammlung Goetz

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What`s on in Munich with pictures or without pictures

The Goetz Collection is an internationally renowned, private collection of contemporary art in Munich. The Collection's activities embrace the entire diversity of today's artistic forms of expression in all media. Apart from drawings, graphics, paintings, and photography, the focus is on video and film work, room-sized installations and multi-channel projections. The Collection is committed to keep up and to develop high standards in art historical researching, cataloguing, preserving, and restoring of the works of art.

The semi-annual exhibitions in a museum building which was designed by the architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and completed in 1993 are concentrated on the development of individual artistic expressions and focused on larger group of works by single artists. In order to satisfy the needs of the mediaworks of the collection, the building was in 2004 enlarged by BASE103. They are open to the public by appointment only. Our exhibitions are proof of the autonomy of art, of its creative strength and its ability to show us the world in a way we would never have imagined possible. The Goetz Collection feels duty bound to plead for the openness of our perceptions and the constant correction of our thoughts and views through contemporary art.

The Goetz Collection's library is a reference library containing around 7,000 volumes focusing thematically on the art of the second half of the 20th century and early years of the 21st century, and constitutes a vital resource for academic work at the Collection. The library contains artist monographs on all the artists represented in the Collection, a selection of international exhibition and group catalogues of the last 30 years, inventory catalogues of leading museums, galleries, and collections, and a selection of the most important periodicals and magazines. The Collection's archives are particularly concerned to document the work and development of the artists represented at the Goetz and the history of the Collection. Use of the library by outsiders for academic purposes is possible only on prior notification.