From April 27, 2013
An exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
The exhibition “Generosity. Donations and Loans from the ZKM Collection”, honors the act of giving and donating though which, in recent years, the collection of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe has been enriched with significant works of art by internationally known artists. Following the exhibitions “Architektur und Identität”, 2010/11 and “PRESENTation”, 2012, which provided insights into the ZKM collection for the first time, the exhibition “Generosity” emphasizes those works which were handed over to the house as donations and permanent loans. Works of art by over forty international artists will be shown which, in various media, straddle a period ranging from the 1060s to the present. The works from the collection will be thematically supplemented with works by Christin Lahr, Thomas Locher und Antje Majewski, who have focused on different aspects on the social practice of donation and the social implications of gift-giving.
Since the founding of the ZKM in 1989, the collection, initially directed by Heinrich Klotz and presently chaired by Peter Weibel, has grown to around 1500 positions; in addition to a large number of works of media art it also contains paintings, photographs, installations, videos and works on paper. Civic participation, which expresses itself in the transfer of works of art by single persons – among which are often artists themselves–, families and companies to public institutions, guarantees free access to art to a broad public and thus represents an invaluable value for the generality.
Artists: Hans Peter Alvermann, Christoph Brech, Werner Büttner, Jim Dine, Jimmie Durham, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Jürgen Klauke, Imi Knoebel, Christin Lahr, Thomas Locher, Urs Lüthi, Michel Majerus, Antje Majewski, Olaf Metzel, Albert Oehlen, Fabrizio Plessi, Otto Piene, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Struth, Günther Uecker, Franz Erhard Walther, Erwin Wurm, Herbert Zangs et al
Curators: Nina Fernandez, Idis Hartmann, Daria Mille, Philipp Ziegler
More information at http://zkm.de