190 Years of Westfälischer Kunstverein
28 August - 24 October 2021
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am -7 pm
Admission free
Kindly register for the events at: info@westfaelischer-kunstverein.de
Covid 19-Pandemic
Please observe the applicable 3G rules when visiting and bring appropriate proof (either/or double-vaccinated, flow-tested, recovered).
Photo exhibition space: LWL/Hanna Neander
Opening
Saturday, 28 August 2021 from 6 pm
6 pm
Welcome: Tobias Viehoff (Board Westfälischer Kunstverein)
Presentation of filmclub münster:
Daniel Huhn (Filmwerkstatt Münster) and Kristina Scepanski (Westfälischer Kunstverein)
Opening of the exhibition RADAR: Dr Marianne Wagner (Curator Contemporary Art, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur)
7 pm
Film | "My Blueberry Nights
Director: Wong Kar-Wai, USA 2006, 95 min., OV with german subtitles
9 pm
Introduction by Dr Jörg Albrecht (Burg Hülshoff / Center for Literature)
Film |"Futur Three"
Director: Faraz Shariat, Germany 2020, 92 min.
Sunday, 29 August 2021 at 8 pm
"The Steve Swell Recovering Tour"
Bart Maris - trumpet
Jan Klare - woodwinds
Wilbert de Joode - bass
Michael Vatcher - drums
Venue: Westfälischer Kunstverein
Admission: 20 €, reduced 16 €
(Box office only, no advance booking)
Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 6 pm
Artist talk and video screening with Ben Greber and Bram Cuypers
Hosted by: Marijke Lukowicz (Curator Emscherkunstweg | Urbane Künste Ruhr).
"Procession I" is the first part of a video trilogy being created as part of the cross-exhibition project "All the Power that Remains".
Ben Greber and Bram Kuypers"Procession I," 20216:51 min.
Cello: Patrick Reerink
An artistic reactivation of the disused Transrapid line in Emsland.
Video screenings (in loop)
Friday, 3 September 2021, 11 am -1 pm
Saturday, 4 September, 2021, 11 am -2 pm (Schauraum - Nacht der Museen und Galerien)
Sunday, 5 September, 2021, 11 am -1 pm
Lecture: The Institution "Kunstverein" as Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO (in German)
Thursday, 9 September 2021 at 6 pm
Meike Behm and Peter Lütje (Kunsthalle Lingen / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV)) will speak on the topic "The Institution "Kunstverein" as Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO".
The cultural form of Kunstvereine was included in the Federal List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the German UNESCO Commission with the decision of the Conference of Ministers of Culture on March 19, 2021.
Further information: here
Lecture: Art associations as resilient organisations? (in German)
Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 6 pm
Prof Dr Annette Zimmer (Institute for Political Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Lecture: Modernism between Kunstverein and Museum (in German)
Thursday, 23 September 2021 at 6 pm
Dr Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, Curator of Modernism and Deputy Director of LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
Thursday, 30 September 2021 at 6 pm
Talk with Camillo Grewe and Ulrike Grewe about the current RADAR exhibition „Hallo, habe unlesbare Signale von dir erhalten, melde mich bald.“.
Hosted by Jana Peplau (Westfälischer Kunstverein) and Dr Marianne Wagner (LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur).
Westfälische Küche
Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 6 pm
A series of talks initiated by members of Westfälischer Kunstverein.
Lecture: "WKV 1-4" - The beginnings of the collection of Westfälischer Kunstverein (in German)
Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 6 pm
Dr Petra Marx, Curator for Medieval Art at the LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur on the beginnings of the collection of Westfälischer Kunstverein using the example of the first pieces with inventory numbers I-IV.
Lecture: "Origin harmless"? (in German)
Thursday, 21 October 2021 at 6 pm
Eline van Dijk, provenance researcher at LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, will speak on the topic provenance research and will give exemplary insights into her research.
The series of events celebrating the 190th anniversary of Westfälischer Kunstverein is sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW and Kulturstiftung of the Sparkasse Münster