Archive Window
designed by Julian Göthe
March 4 – December 31, 2023
For the bicentenary, the window at the Hofgarten, and by that the only permanently accessible space of the institution, transforms into a display for archival findings that offer insight into the activities of the Kunstverein over 200 years. Conceived by the artist Julian Göthe as a modular sculpture, the display element will accommodate a continually changing selection of documents that trace the bureaucratic, discursive, or seemingly marginal activities of the institution.
Images
[1] Julian Göthe, sketch for the Archive Window, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
[2], [3] Archival material on the exhbitions Transform the World! Poetry Must Be Made by All! (1970) and 15 Jahre 1980 (1995), issues of the magazine Blatt – Stadtzeitung für München, Der Münchner Kunstverein im 19. Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Ausstellungswesens, dissertation by York Langenstein (1983), photographs by Wilfried Petzi from the 1990s, March 2023.
[4], [5] Various printed matter for the yearly Jahresgaben exhibition, 1977 – 2017, December 2023.
[6] Bound press reviews from the years 1986 – 1990, edition by Giovanni Oberti, 2015, September 2023.
[7] Scan of the book Akademie (Ed. Stephan Dillemuth), 1995, on the occasion of the summer school The Stories We Tell Ourselves 2023, August 2023.
The Archive Window is supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner.
