Art Box Bonn, Museum for the Grothe Collection
The “Kunstkiste” (Art Box) is a museum project designed specifically to house the holdings of German art collector Hans Grothe. The collection is devoted to post-war German art up to the present-day with special emphasis on the seventies. The rooms in the museum have been planned in conjunction with the artists’ concepts for the hanging of their works. There are rooms for Beuys, Graubner, Baselitz, Richter, Polke, Lüpertz, Penck, Immendorf, Horn, Rückriem, Ruthenbeck, and Kiefer. The museum is designed to express the close relationship between art and architecture and, more importantly, between the artists and the collector. The rooms are all a uniform 5m/16.4’ high, so that there is no hierarchical distinction between the building’s three floors of exhibition space. Daylight comes in through floor-to-ceiling slits in the walls – overhead daylight was ruled out for technical, architectural and financial reasons. The site of the museum was predetermined by the layout of the Museum Forum, consisting of the Bundes Kunsthalle designed by Axel Schultes and the Bonn Museum of Fine Arts designed by Gustav Peichl.
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