Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann: Kunstkammer Gegenwart

Das Bild zeigt eine an ein Depot angelehnte Ausstellungsarchitektur mit Werken der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, des Kunstfonds, des Kupferstich-Kabinetts und des Albertinums. Das Bild zeigt einen Blick in den Ausstellungsraum, unter anderem sind Werke von Christian Boltanski, Georg Herold oder Marcel Odenbach zu sehen.

Kunstkammer Gegenwart

Contemporary art at the Dresden Palace

The roots of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden lie here in the Dresden Residenzschloss (Royal Palace). Over the past 500 years and starting from the Münzsammlung, the Rüstkammer and the Kunstkammer one of the world's most important museum complexes has grown. Destroyed in World War II, the Royal Palace was reconstructed since 1986. Today it is a network of restored, reconstructed, and newly designed structures. It is a hybrid and ambiguous creation – a generator of identity and a construction of history at the same time.

Exhibition Site Residenzschloss

DATES 25/11/2023—17/11/2024

Kunstkammer Gegenwart | Zeitgenössische Kunst im Residenzschloss Dresden

The Kunstkammer Contemporary, with annually changing focal points, is now complementing this significant storehouse of knowledge and art. It is an archive of the present, an energy center of contemporary art, featuring primarily works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, but also from the Kupferstich-Kabinett, the Kunstfonds and the Albertinum. For this purpose, designer Konstantin Grčić has created a modular and flexible structure that alludes to the appearance and atmosphere of a depot. It also includes a workshop that provides visitors with insights into the conservational handling of modern, fragile materials. In this way, the Royal Palace becomes a place where not only the history of collecting becomes visible but also the act of collecting in the present. A place for an exchange between the centuries.

STORING, REMEMBERING, TRANSFORMING

The works of art shown in this first year of the Kunstkammer Contemporary revolve around the notions of storing, remembering and transforming. What is stored in museums? How do works of art function as memories, as containers for the ephemeral? And how do they transform over time? Museums have the mission of securing works for an unlimited period, for eternity, so to speak. However, materials age: pigments and binders change, fibers become brittle, softeners escape. Excessive or prolonged exposure to light also damages materials. Some of the works on display are therefore exchanged after three or six months, others can be presented for a year. Thus, the Kunstkammer Contemporary is not a static place but changeable and flexible. Similarly, the preservation of art is in constant motion and effort. Specific projects will be used to demonstrate the conservation and restoration approach to contemporary art as part of the open workshop.

With works from Christian Boltanski, Joseph Beuys, Peter Bux, Miriam Cahn, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Georg Herold, Eberhard Havekost, Candida Höfer, Nan Goldin, Janet Grau, Dieter Roth, Frank Stella etc.