GREART MUSEUMS: MMK New Collection Part II
In June 1991, the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) opened, 25 years later, the MMK is one of the most prominent Museums of Contemporary Art worldwide. Its collection encompasses more than 5,000 artworks dating from the ‘60s to the very present. In honour of the museum’s 25th Anniversary, a new presentation of its collection waits the visitors with a focus on the acquisitions of the past few years (Part I).
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MMK Archive
At the early ‘80s, the city of Frankfurt attracted wide notice when it purchased works from the former Karl Ströher Collection and thus laid the foundation for the MMK’s Collection. Consisting largely of examples of American Pop Art and Minimalism of the ‘60s, these original holdings include groups of works by artists as: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, but also by German artists of the same period like: Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo and Franz Erhard Walther. In the years that followed, the Collection was consistently expanded through the addition of works by International Contemporary artists. Especially worthy is the enhancement of the holdings in more recent years with examples by artists from India, Asia and Africa. The exhibition “25 Years MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst-New Collection Presentation” consists almost exclusively of workgroups made especially for the museum, in some cases in close collaboration with the artists for certain spaces in the building’s interior and in dialogue with its architecture. At the exhibition on presentation are newly acquired installations by: Wolfgang Tillmans, Isa Genzken and Carsten Nicolai as well as photos by: Dayanita Singh, Tobias Zielony, Gerald Domenig and Santu Mofokeng. The museum is taking its anniversary as an occasion to present ceramic works by Shane Munro, photos and films by Jack Smith, workgroups by Adrian Williams and Michael Pfrommer, a room installation by Carsten Fock, a large-scale multipartite drawing by Zinny/Maidagan and one of the earliest drawings by Sturtevant. Thomas Bayrle is represented with an extensive workgroup on one of his core themes, the Autobahn.
Info: Museum für Moderne Kunst, MMK 1, Domstraße 10, Frankfur Duration 2/6-31/12/16, Days & Hours: Tue & Thu-Sun 10:00-18:00, Wed 10:00-20:00, mmk-frankfurt.de
