Bucerius Kunst Forum
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 Location of Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg
Location of Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg
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| Established | 2002 |
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| Location | Hamburg, Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°33′04″N 9°59′31″E / 53.551111°N 9.991944°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Franz Wilhelm Kaiser |
| Public transit access | Rathaus station |
| Website | http://www.buceriuskunstforum.de/en/ |
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an international exhibition centre in Hamburg, Germany; founded in 2002 through the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius foundation. It is named after Gerd Bucerius and his wife, and located directly beside the Hamburg Rathaus. The exhibition centre shows 3 - 4 exhibitions per year, in cooperation with other museums and collections. The exhibition centre participates in the Long Night of Museums.
The Bucerius Kunst Forum wants to impart art of high quality in new contexts. The exhibitions focus on one topic, epoch or artist. They are supposed to show artistic coherences, relationships between epochs and disciplines and to build bridges between ancient and modern art. The art pieces shall be viewed under a new aspect – an exhibition to the oeuvre of Henri Matisse gathered his portraits for the first time, the exhibition about Frida Kahlo devoted itself first to the connection between Mexican and European art. Thus also conoissuers are to achieve new impressions.
The manageable size of the display area induces a precise focus of the topic and a limitation on 100 exhibits. At visitor-surveys three special experiences are named consistently: The visitors are delighted, to be able to see the whole exhibition within one hour, without being exhausted; They have the satisfying feeling that their attention lasts for everything; and they were able to connect the experience of art with an increase in knowledge.
Despite the focus on a broad, interested in the arts public the exhibitions of the Bucerius Kunst Forum are scientifically sound. Frequently they are preceded by a symposium, which assembles international specialists of one topic. During the symposium topics and theses of the exhibition are discussed. Until the summer of 2008 this symposiums took place at the Hamburger Warburg-Haus, since winter 2008 they are hosted at the Bucerius Kunst Forum. The contributions are printed in widely illustrated exhibition catalogues, which are published at Hirmer Verlag since 2005.
For most of the exhibitions the exhibits are carried together from various museums around the world. Thus Terror and Desire. The Temptation of St. Anthony from Hieronymus Bosch to Max Ernst showed exhibits form more than 40 lenders from 10 different states, High Society. American Portraits of the Gilded Age gathered exhibits from 32 lenders, among which were exhibits from 29 different museums of the United States. Occasionally exhibitions show thematic presentations, which are chosen from the collection of one institution – as the Mannerism exhibition from the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest or the exhibition New World. Creating an American Art with pieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford (Conneticut).
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