Presse-Infos | Kultur

Mitteilung vom 18.12.13

Reopening and Exhibition of British Art: The brand new LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
Opening exhibition ¿The Artist¿s Eye. London artists working from life, 1950¿80¿

Münster (lwl). The Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) will be unveiling the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster in a new building in the forthcoming year: following several years of rebuilding, the Westphalian metropolis¿s art museum will be opening its doors again from 20 September 2014. On this occasion, its collection of 1,000 years of art and cultural history is being newly presented, as well.

Shortly afterwards (8 November) the first exhibition ¿The Artist¿s Eye. London artists working from life, 1950-80¿ will follow, for which the museum has chosen an exhibition of international modern painters.

7,500 Square Metres of Space for Art and Culture from 20 September 2014
During the last years the LWL-Museum has acquired a new extension, following a design by the Staab architectural office, Berlin. Linked to the old building from 1908, the exhibition floor space has been extended by 1,800 square metres, now comprising a total of 7,500 square metres. Within 51 exhibition spaces the museum will be presenting its collection, which is of significance beyond just regional borders, to the highest modern standards and in a completely new presentation. Approximately 1,000 exhibits can now be experienced in all their glory, thanks to Staab¿s sensitive approach to both the architecture and art. Some pieces will even be on display for the very first time.

Already from outside, the tapering space on the building¿s north side, housing stone sculptures from the Middle Ages is strikingly conspicuous. Another of the main features of the new building are the six metre high windows, enabling generous views out of, as well as tantalising views into the museum. The old building with its expansive inner courtyard is sensitively connected to the new building, enabling an uninterrupted tour through the entire museum for the first time.

The ground floor features the ¿architecture of the courtyards¿, a sequence of four courtyards designed by Staab Architects: the forecourt on Rothenburg, the open patio, the inner foyer with its more than 14 meter high ceiling and the forecourt on Domplatz, creating a new continuous passage from south to north, representing a new and publicly accessible passage within the urban fabric of the city.

From 20 September 2014 the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur will again be open. During the entire opening weekend the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur will be offering visitors an opportunity to explore the new exhibition building, accompanied by a wide-ranging programme of events.

The first thematic exhibition:
The Artist¿s Eye. London artists working from life, 1950¿80
8 November 2014 ¿ 22 February 2015

Seven weeks after the reopening LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur opens with an international group show.

The Museum¿s first major exhibition following the unveiling of the new museum building is devoted to figurative painting in London from the 1950s to the 1980s, including works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, David Hockney and Richard Hamilton. Around 100 works by fifteen artists will be displayed to highlight the artistic dialogue which took place in London over three decades beginning in the 1950s. Although this group of artists is of international stature, many names will be unfamiliar to a German audience, as will their determination to capture the life around them which seemed, in the aftermath of the war, both precarious and thrilling.

Displayed in the museum¿s new suite of grand exhibition galleries, the exhibition will draw on work from these artists¿ earliest years in London¿s art schools to mature works which continue to influence the artists of today. Portraits, nudes, interiors and cityscapes will be exhibited chronologically, beginning with a section `setting the scene¿, the groupings made to reveal the extraordinary re-invention of figurative art which took place in London during this period. The exhibition is curated by Catherine Lampert, formerly Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery and Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, and Dr Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, curator of Modern Art at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster.

Until its reopening on 19 September 2014 the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur will remain closed during construction of the New Building and the installation of the permanent collection in the new exhibition spaces.

Further information, anecdotes and photos can be found in the Internet:
http://www.lwl-museum-kunst-kultur.de
http://www.facebook.com/LWLMuseumKunstundKultur
http://www.lwl-museum-kunst-kultur.de/blog

Contact:
Frank Tafertshofer, LWL-Pressestelle, Telefon: +49 251 591-235, presse@lwl.org und Claudia Miklis, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Telefon: +49 251 5907-168, claudia.miklis@lwl.org

presse@lwl.org

Der LWL im Überblick:
Der Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) arbeitet als Kommunalverband mit 20.000 Beschäftigten für die 8,3 Millionen Menschen in der Region. Der LWL betreibt 35 Förderschulen, 21 Krankenhäuser, 18 Museen sowie zwei Besucherzentren und ist einer der größten deutschen Hilfezahler für Menschen mit Behinderung. Er erfüllt damit Aufgaben im sozialen Bereich, in der Behinderten- und Jugendhilfe, in der Psychiatrie und in der Kultur, die sinnvollerweise westfalenweit wahrgenommen werden. Ebenso engagiert er sich für eine inklusive Gesellschaft in allen Lebensbereichen. Die neun kreisfreien Städte und 18 Kreise in Westfalen-Lippe sind die Mitglieder des LWL. Sie tragen und finanzieren den Landschaftsverband, dessen Aufgaben ein Parlament mit 125 Mitgliedern aus den westfälischen Kommunen gestaltet.

Domplatz entrance.
Photo: Elisabeth Deiters-Keul

Euan Uglow, The Diagonal, 1971-77, Estate of John Paul Getty Jr.
© Estate of Euan Uglow / Courtesy of Browse and Darby Ltd