Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
 Herfurth Villa, to the left of it the modern exhibition hall (2024) | |
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| Established | 1998 |
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| Location | Leipzig, Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°20′02″N 12°21′55″E / 51.33389°N 12.36528°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 107,540 (2022)[1] |
| Director | Franciska Zólyom[2] |
| Website | https://gfzk.de/en/ |
The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) (English: Gallery for Contemporary Art) is an exhibition center for contemporary art and a museum for art post 1945 in Leipzig, Germany, in a beautiful location opposite Johannapark.
History
The Friends of the GfZK is a group founded at the end of 1990 on the initiative of the Leipzig art historian Klaus Werner with the support of the German Business Cultural Group in the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and has set itself the goal of promoting national and international contemporary art.
Initially, from 1991 onwards, exhibitions were held in other people's premises. The gallery received its own exhibition space in 1998.
On May 16 of that year, the gallery opened its own building in the neighborhood Musikviertel of Leipzig-Mitte, not far from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) (English: Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig). The exhibition rooms are located in the former Herfurth villa of the newspaper publisher Edgar Herfurth, built in 1894 in the style of the Gründerzeit, which was redesigned by Peter Kulka between 1996 and 1998 and expanded with a cube-shaped extension.[3] The renovation project was awarded the Architekturpreis der Stadt Leipzig in 1999. In addition to the exhibition rooms, the villa houses a publicly accessible library with literature on relevant topics (around 30,000 volumes). The former coach house belonging to the villa was supplemented with the addition of a studio house designed by Peter Kulka and today (2024) houses a music school, a bakery and the GfZK Hotel.
On 28 November 2004, a new exhibition hall (GfZK-2) designed by as-if berlin wien was opened, significantly expanding the exhibition space.[4][5] The functional low-rise building, which also houses the museum café, is designed flexibly thanks to a novel spatial concept with movable partitions. The cost-effective building also attracted attention in the German architectural scene and also received the Architekturpreis der Stadt Leipzig in 2005.
The museum is now supported by a foundation consisting of the
Collection and exhibitions
The spectrum of works shown at the GfZK ranges from
Directors
- Klaus Werner (1998-2001)
- Barbara Steiner (2001-2012)
- Franciska Zólyom (since 2012)[6]
Art installation "Labyrinth"
The art installation “Labyrinth” by the artist
Bibliography
- Thomas Höpel (2019), ISBN 978-3-86583-804-9
- Elke Krasny (Hrsg.): Hands on Urbanism 1850-2012. Vom Recht auf Grün, Verlag Turia + Kant, Wien 2012, ISBN 978-3-85132-677-2.
References
- ^ "Statistischer Quartalsbericht II/2023" (PDF). leipzig.de (in German). p. 23. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
- ^ Thielmann, Ulrike (2023-05-12). "Ökologisch und global? Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig feiert 25-jähriges Bestehen mit Ausstellung". mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ "Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst". peterkulka.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "GFZK2". as-if.info (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Menting, Annette (2005-03-01). "Leipzig. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst". db-bauzeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ Platthaus, Andreas (2023-05-16). "25 Jahre GfZK Leipzig : Im ökologischen Labyrinth". FAZ-NET (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ This is what it says in a statement from the GfZK posted next to it.
- ^ ibid.
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