Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum or the K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
March 23rd, 2006 by leafworksK21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum
Ständehausstr. 1 (city centre close to Graf-Adolf-Platz)
40217 Düsseldorf, Germany
Tel. 49 (0)211.8381-600
www.kunstsammlung.de
Tuesdays - Fridays 10 am - 6 pm, saturdays and sundays 11 am to 6 pm, closed on mondays.
K21 Kunstsammlung in Ständehaus : dedicated to international contemporary art of the 21st century - from narrative and metaphr, to heterogeneity and ambiguity, new media, photography, moving images of film and video and large spatial installations … Eija-Liisa HTILA; Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Tony Cragg, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, ndreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya Kabakov, Jannis Kounellis, Paul McCarthy, Mario Merz, reinhard Mucha, Juan Munoz, Shirin Neshat, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schütte, Tino Sehgal, Katharina Sieverding, Jeff Wall, Franz West, and many others … my favorites among many were Katharina Fritsch’s Mann und Maus, Juan Munoz’s ‘Plaza’, and pieces in the Sammlung Collection. The starting point for art here is the year 1980 to liberate and extend the prevailing notions of Modernism and the avantgarde. Over 170 works and groups of works from its own collection with mediums such as painting, photographs, sculptures, videos, spatial art installations, sound, audio, and light sitting within the refurbished and restructured former regional parliament building of the Land of Northrhine-Westphalia, the so-called Ständehaus transformed by the Munich architects Kiessler and Partner. Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
