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The Kestnergesellschaft art gallery in Hanover

Kestnergesellschaft - is an art gallery in Hanover, Germany.

The Kestnergesellschaft, sometimes referred to as the Kestner society, was founded in 1916 with the goal of promoting the arts in Hanover, Germany. Its founders included the painter Wilhelm von Debschitz (1871-1948). The association blossomed under the management of Alexander Dorner and Justus Bier as a pioneer of modern art.

After the Second World War Alfred Hentzen took over the management in 1947 followed by Fritz Schmalenbach. In 1997 the Kestnergesellschaft moved into new premises at Goseriede 11, the former site of the Goseriede baths. The new gallery lies directly next to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover's local newspaper.

The gallery hit the headlines in 2005 when it exhibited a mud house created by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra featuring a room with mud floor reminiscent of Lake Maschsee.

The gallery's current director is Veit Goerner.


History

In 1916, with the First World War raging, the kestnergesellschaft was founded by citizens of Hanover, among them Hermann Bahlsen, August Madsack and Fritz Beindorff. Their goal was to bring internationally renowned and innovative artists and their current works to Hanover. The first exhibition, consisting of Max Liebermann’s new work, represented in 1916 the critical starting point for this concept. The first director, Paul Küppers, stated at the time that the aim was to present artworks which “do not simply function as a relaxing amusement but instead have a stimulating and – if necessary –provocative and scandalizing effect.”

In 1936, the kestnergesellschaft was closed under pressure from Hitler’s National Socialist government. The director at the time, Justus Bier, a Jew, presented artists Erich Heckel, Gerhard Marcks, Christian Rohlfs and August Macke – artists who only one year later were banned in the notorious “Degenerate Art” exhibition in Munich. Soon after the war, the new kestnergesellschaft was opened in the Warmbüchenstraßse by public service-minded Hanoverians in 1948, among them Hermann Bahlsen, Wilhelm Stichweh, Bernhard Sprengel and Günther Beindorff, the director of the Pelikan Works. In the 1990s, this building could no longer meet the high technical demands of modern exhibition operations, and the kestnergesellschaft looked for a new domicile. The former Goseriede swimming pool complex in the citycentre was chosen, and a team of internationally selected architects designed and oversaw the transformation into a modern exhibition house.

The list of artists whose works have been exhibited during the 75-year history – excluding the years of closure – reads like a "Who’s Who" in the history of 20th and 21st century art. Among them Paul Klee (1920), Wassily Kandinsky (1923), El Lissitzky (1923) and Kurt Schwitters (1924), both of whom were bound in friendship to the kestnergesellschaft, Joan Miró (1952, 1956, 1989), Jean Dubuffet (1960), Marcel Duchamp (1965), Pablo Picasso (1973, 1993), Georg Baselitz (1987), Joseph Beuys (1975, 1990), Andy Warhol (1981, his first retrospective in Germany, 2001), Richard Prince (1991), Rebecca Horn (1978, 1991, 1997), Antoni Tàpies (1962, 1998), Jonathan Meese (2002), Thomas Ruff (2003) and Peter Doig (2004).


Kestnergesellschaft at the Goseriede

The House

In 1997, the then Minister President of the State of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schröder, inaugurated the new facilities of the kestnergesellschaft at Goseriede 11. Simultaneously, the "Münchener Abendzeitung" declared the remodelled exhibition facility "Germany’s most beautiful exhibition house." The remodelling of the former Goseriede swimming-pool into an up-to-date exhibition house not only incorporates the high technical demands of modern exhibition operations but also preserves and showcases the "Jugendstil" features of this historic landmark. With its five halls on two levels, the house has at its command more than 1,500 square meters of exhibition surface.

History of the House

From 1902 to 1905 the Hanoverian chief city architectural commissioner, Carl Wolff, oversaw the construction of the Goseriede swimming-pool. The middle section of the public bathing facility was destroyed in 1943 during the Second World War, and later rebuilt from 1947 to 1953. After the reopening, the pool remained in use until 1982. In the same year, the city placed the beautiful "Jugendstil" façade under protection as a monument. In 1990 the publishing house Madsack purchased the building, offering the sections of the former women’s pool area, entrance hall and all adjoining rooms to the kestnergesellschaft for its use. An international architectural competition was launched in 1992 in search of an innovative design for the space with the support of Norddeutsche Landesbank. Chaired by Prof. Peter P. Schweger, the jury awarded the first prize to the Hanoverian architects Kai-Michael Koch, Anne Panse and Christian Hühn. In collaboration with the curators of the kestnergesellschaft, their design was developed further into the elegant and dynamic amalgamation of modern architectural elements. The prize of the Association of German Architects of the State of Lower Saxony was awarded to the building in 1998.

Exhibition Spaces

Each of the five halls at kestnergesellschaft has its own unique dimensions and atmosphere. Able to accommodate diverse exhibition concepts, the spaces can be transformed with high-tech equipment including a close-meshed and invisible network of electrical connections in the floors, walls and ceilings. The lateral galleries in the Halls II and III can be closed off to create smaller exhibition spaces. The total of twelve entrances into the Claussen Hall may be used to create different orientations of projects and viewers. In planning for the building renovations, care was also taken to create the necessary infrastructure for the careful transport and handling of artworks to and within the halls, with direct access to the exhibition spaces via loading dock. Due to ceiling-high gates on the ground- and upper-floors along with a large elevator, pieces arrive safely and easily into the exhibition halls.

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Kestnereditions

Since 2003, Kestnereditions are being released in correspondence to every exhibition. The works, which include graphic art, photography and other art forms, are offered exclusively for members of the kestnergesellschaft in limited editions.


Exhibitions (Excerpt)

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(since 1948)


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(since 1997)

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References

  1. ^ www.kestner.org
  2. ^ Veit Görner: kestnerchronik. Buch 1, Hannover 2006.
  3. ^ Veit Görner: kestnerchronik. Buch 2, Hannover 2009.
  4. ^ Archive of the Kestnergesellschaft past exhibitions since august 2004 on www.kestner.org
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