C-print, framed, 126 x 159 cm.
FRIENDS!
Acquisitions by Kunstfreunde for the museum's collection
H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast
02.03.–30.06.2024
Art needs friends. This applies to artists and museums alike, and to the Augsburg art collections without their own acquisition budget in particular. As short and clear as the motto is, is the support of the Freunde der Kunstsammlungen Augsburg e.V. essential and valuable.
Acquisitions of contemporary art
In addition to great acquisitions from the classical focal points of the Augsburg museums' collections, such as gold and silversmithing art, the German Baroque Gallery or the Graphic Art Collection, the Friends of Art have also opened up to the field of contemporary art and made a sustained commitment to it. The exhibition 'Friends' pays tribute to this important commitment and shows representative acquisitions of contemporary art that have made a substantial contribution to Augsburg's contemporary art landscape, especially since the opening of the H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast in 2006.
Document and mirror of a lively, contemporary museum culture
Many of the artworks that have been added to the collection originate from exhibitions and projects that have taken place in H2 and the Neue Galerie in the Höhmannhaus, and for some years now also in the Schaezlerpalais. At the same time, the collection's activities reflect a large part of the recent exhibition history of the Augsburg art collections: The acquisitions of the Kunstfeunde are thus both a document and a reflection of a lively, contemporary museum culture, which is based on a literally friendly, professional dialog between the museums and their patrons, without being reduced to the mere consideration of financial framework conditions.
2 colour photographs (diptych) each 61 x 72.
FRIENDS!
is a tribute to all supporters
and an invitation to all
who are not yet,
to become art lovers themselves.
Mixed media on canvas.
