Gruppenausstellung
Nordwest zeitgenössisch
08.10.2017 – 14.01.2018

Contemporary art is in vogue. Contemporary art works are setting new records at auctions. Year after year, new biennials and art fairs are being held around the world. And art museums across the country are increasingly turning their attention to the fine art of the late 20th century.

While contemporary art was the interest of a small avant-garde until a few decades ago, it has long since gained popularity, even beyond the traditional art centers on the Rhine and Ruhr. In Bremerhaven, for example, the newly built art museum opened in 2007 not with classical art, but with an exhibition of freshly painted paintings by the painter Georg Baselitz from his current Remix series.

This is just one example. Grants, special exhibitions, ambitious galleries, art associations, new museums or extensions - contemporary art today finds many forms and locations for presentation in the northwest. But what about the cultural heritage? What remains of the pioneering exhibitions in the committed institutions between the coast and Bremen, between the Jade Bay and the Elbe? The answer lies in the darkness of the depots. They are cultural treasure troves of the region.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Kunstmuseum, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, the Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, the Gerhard Marcks House Bremen, the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Städtische Galerie Bremen, the Kunstverein Bremerhaven and the Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf are opening their warehouses and presenting selected works of contemporary art from the region’s public collections together for the first time in the group exhibition NORDWEST ZEITGENÖSSISCH.