MARABU
07 Feb - 24 Mar 2019
Exhibition view "MARABU", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2019. Photo: Stephan Baumann, www.bild-raum.com
Peter Ackermann, Tariq Alvi, das änderungsatelier, Hermann Anselment, Horst Antes, Theda Arnold, Friedrich Barth, IAIN BAXTER&, Karl Biese, Diethard Blaudszun, Juliette Blightman, Rudolf Bonvie, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Rainer Braxmaier & Werner Pokorny, Kaucyila Brooke, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Matthew Buckingham, Hildegard Burhenne, Andrea Büttner, Kerstin Cmelka, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Walter Conz, Stephen Craig, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Josef Dabernig, Danica Dakić, Enrico David, Barbara Denzler, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Jürgen Drescher, Michael Dreyer, Edgar Endress/Lori Lee/Chris Rackley, Ellie Epp, Equipo Cronica, Hans Martin Erhardt, Noa Eshkol, Ruth Ewan, Fotoarchiv Bauer, Luca Frei, Aurélien Froment, Günter Fruhtrunk, Gagel, Simone Gilges, Helmut Goette, Awed D. Gorella, HAP Grieshaber, Gabriele Grosse, Jakob Grünenwald, Nilbar Güreş, Rana Hamadeh, Burkart Hanstein, Theodor Hildebrandt, Lubaina Himid, Arnulf Hoffmann, Karl Holmqvist, Heidrun Holzfeind, Judith Hopf, Laura Horelli, Karl Hubbuch, Barbara Jäger, Constantin Jaxy, Rainer Jochims, Horst Egon Kalinowski, Sanya Kantarovsky & Liz Magic Laser, Garry Neill Kennedy, Janice Kerbel, Ida Kerkovius, Scott King, Willy Kiwitz, Bert E. A. Klag, Jürgen Klauke, Fritz Klemm, Heinrich Klumbies, Joachim Koester, Albert Korat, Dieter Kraemer, Martha Kropp, Peter Kuckei, Zofia Kulik, Milan Kunc, Hermann Kupferschmid, Edmund Kuppel, Warja Lavater, Denisa Lehocká, Matts Leiderstam, Horst Lerche, Marie Lund, Adolf Luntz, Taus Makhacheva, Elke Marhöfer & Mikhail Lylov, Bertold Mathes, Dóra Maurer, Nick Mauss, Hansjörg Mayer, Bruce McLean, Birgit Megerle, Michaela Meise, Michaela Melián, Michele Di Menna, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Hanspeter Münch, Willi Münch-Khe, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Marcel Odenbach, Boris Ondreička, Willem Oorebeek, Ewa Partum, Otto Piene, Falke Pisano, Norbert Prangenberg, Lothar Quinte, Walter Rabe, Ursula Rauch, Timm Rautert, Heinrich Reiffescheid, Albert Rieger, Louis Léopold Robert, Alex Martinis Roe, Ana Roldán, Heinz Schanz, Adolf Schinnerer, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, Georg Scholz, Dieter Schosser, Jutta Schwalbach, Hanna Schwarz, Grace Schwindt, Setareh Shahbazi, Catriona Shaw, Edith Seibert, Shmuel Shapiro, Franz Skarbina, Pravoslav Sovak, Tamás St.Auby, Helmut Stowasser, Thomas Straub, Iza Tarasewicz, Hans Thoma, Heinz Treiber, Nasan Tur, Tomi Ungerer, Rolf Urban, Peer Veneman, Marisa Vola, Bernd Völkle, Hans von Volkmann, Voré, Wolf Vostell, Emil Wachter, Günter Wagner, Daphne Walch, Ian Wallace, Patricia Waller, Emily Wardill, Annette Wehrmann, Hannah Weinberger, Thomas Werner, Tanja Widmann ft. Johannes Porsch, Gottfried Wiegand, Stephen Willats, Susanne M. Winterling, Elke Wree, Herbert Zangs u.a.
What remains from the 200 year jubilee of the Badischer Kunstverein? Following intensive research into the history of our institution and the exhibitions, we asked ourselves what had been addressed, and what still remained unexamined. As a kind of echo of the jubilee, we want to return to a special aspect of the work of the Kunstverein: to the history of the annual editions. Parallel to the members’ exhibition, it was only possible to present a small portion of the existing editions although it is precisely this somewhat ephemeral and flexible format that illustrates the various aspects of the program of the Kunstverein in a particularly significant way.
For the first time, a Kunstverein examines the principle of the annual edition, so peculiar to the Kunstverein as an institution, through which works donated to the Verein by selected artists are made available or newly produced and offered for sale to members. The origin of the annual edition is hence closely intertwined with the genesis of the art market: once annually, the Kunstverein is infiltrated by the cycle consisting of the sale and purchase of artworks. Press attention to the annual editions of the Kunstvereine has grown markedly in recent years, with major articles in Die Zeit, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung presenting a cross-section of the works on offer from these institutions. At the same time, international art magazines are devoted to regular reports about the yearly offering of annual editions. Purchase conditions are enticing, since works can often be acquired for prices lower than those asked by the galleries, and, at last, works have been offered for sale not just to members, but for non-members as well – albeit with a surcharge.
A team of art historians, art critics, scenographers, and designers has grappled with the question of the presentation and contextualization of the annual editions at the Badischer Kunstverein. The result is an exhibition whose paramount objective is, first, to make as many as possible of the existing annual editions and artist’s editions from 1842–2017 available again while visualizing their placement within the exhibition history on the basis of posters, catalogs, and documents. And secondly to critically illuminate the principle of the annual edition and its genesis. Contributing to this process, in particular, are the Wednesday evening events which complement the exhibition.
Conception and execution of the exhibition and events:
Anja Casser, Hubert Distel, Lizzy Ellbrück, Tiffany Justine Erndwein, Yvonne Fomferra, Hanna Franke, Hanne König, Malte Pawelczyk, Christina Scheib, Lisa-Kathrin Welzel
What remains from the 200 year jubilee of the Badischer Kunstverein? Following intensive research into the history of our institution and the exhibitions, we asked ourselves what had been addressed, and what still remained unexamined. As a kind of echo of the jubilee, we want to return to a special aspect of the work of the Kunstverein: to the history of the annual editions. Parallel to the members’ exhibition, it was only possible to present a small portion of the existing editions although it is precisely this somewhat ephemeral and flexible format that illustrates the various aspects of the program of the Kunstverein in a particularly significant way.
For the first time, a Kunstverein examines the principle of the annual edition, so peculiar to the Kunstverein as an institution, through which works donated to the Verein by selected artists are made available or newly produced and offered for sale to members. The origin of the annual edition is hence closely intertwined with the genesis of the art market: once annually, the Kunstverein is infiltrated by the cycle consisting of the sale and purchase of artworks. Press attention to the annual editions of the Kunstvereine has grown markedly in recent years, with major articles in Die Zeit, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung presenting a cross-section of the works on offer from these institutions. At the same time, international art magazines are devoted to regular reports about the yearly offering of annual editions. Purchase conditions are enticing, since works can often be acquired for prices lower than those asked by the galleries, and, at last, works have been offered for sale not just to members, but for non-members as well – albeit with a surcharge.
A team of art historians, art critics, scenographers, and designers has grappled with the question of the presentation and contextualization of the annual editions at the Badischer Kunstverein. The result is an exhibition whose paramount objective is, first, to make as many as possible of the existing annual editions and artist’s editions from 1842–2017 available again while visualizing their placement within the exhibition history on the basis of posters, catalogs, and documents. And secondly to critically illuminate the principle of the annual edition and its genesis. Contributing to this process, in particular, are the Wednesday evening events which complement the exhibition.
Conception and execution of the exhibition and events:
Anja Casser, Hubert Distel, Lizzy Ellbrück, Tiffany Justine Erndwein, Yvonne Fomferra, Hanna Franke, Hanne König, Malte Pawelczyk, Christina Scheib, Lisa-Kathrin Welzel