Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

a source of inspiration for the artist:
historic photographs of the streets of Lublin
by stefan Kiełsznia
• Stoffe aus Lublin/Bławatne z Lublina
(The Fabric of Lublin)
Ulrike Grossarth: contemporary art
and Stefan Kiełsznia: historic photographs
of the streets of Lublin
Exhibition by the Kunstfonds and the
Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie
für Gegenwartskunst, in association with
the cultural centre “Brama Grodzka-Teatr
NN”, Lublin/Poland
The exhibition was supported by the Kulturstiftung
des Bundes (German Federal
Cultural Foundation).
Kunsthaus Dresden, Rähnitzgasse 8
11th June – 19th September, 2010
In her pictorial works produced over the
past few years, Ulrike Grossarth has utilised
the unique historical photographs by
the photographer Stefan Kiełsznia (1911 –
1987), who in 1938, shortly before the German
occupation, documented everyday
life in the Jewish quarter of Lublin, where
the streets were dominated by textile
shops and small craft workshops. The
exhibition showed paintings, graphic animations
and sculptural works, in which
Grossarth transformed details from the
photographs into abstract emblems and
also into objective references to a living
culture and society whose absence is still
felt today.
Jeff Wall, Morning Cleaning, 1999
• Abwesenheitsnotizen. Fotografien von
Anja Bohnhof & Karen Weinert (Notes of
Absence. Photographs by Anja Bohnhof &
Karen Weinert)
Exhibition by the Kupferstich-Kabinett
Josef­Hegenbarth­Archiv, Calberlastraße 2
17th June – 23rd September, 2010
In their work entitled “Notes of Absence”,
Anja Bohnhof and Karen Weinert investigate
the effect of the former homes and
places of work of historically important
personalities, which have now been
turned into museums. The presentation of
rooms such as Bertolt
Brecht’s study in Berlin or that of Albert
Einstein in Caputh as authentic places is
based on their furnishings, which have
either been preserved in the original, have
been reconstructed or have been recreated
in imitation of the style of the
respective period. Bohnhof and Weinert
empty the rooms and document their
vacant condition in a photograph. The im­
ages of the naked rooms raise questions
as to the whereabouts of an aura when
there are no longer any personal objects
remaining to suggest that the former resident
might only just have left the room.
• Wiedereröffnung des Albertinums – Kunst
von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart (The
Reopening of the Albertinum – Art from
the Romantic period to the present day)
Bühlsche Terrasse/Georg­Treu­Platz
Opened on 20th June, 2010
anja Bohnhof & Karen Weinert, from
the series entitled “Notes of absence“
Following its redevelopment and refurbishment,
the new Albertinum was
reopened on 20th June, 2010 as a centre
for art from the Romantic period to the
present day. The new exhibition halls are
shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and
the Skulpturensammlung.
The collections of both these museums
are world renowned, with paintings ranging
from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard
Richter and sculptures from Auguste
Rodin up to the 21st century. Huge glassfronted
display storerooms give the visitor
an unprecedented insight into the inner
workings of the museum and put previously
hidden works of the collection on
permanent view. Within the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden, it is the role
of the new Albertinum to act as a bridge
between the past and the future. The
new Albertinum as a whole is intended as
a meeting place between painting and
sculpture, between the Romantic and the
modern and between East and West.
• Jeff Wall. Transit (Jeff Wall. Transit)
Exhibition by the Galerie Neue Meister
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Brühlsche
Terrasse
20th June – 10th October, 2010
Parallel to the opening of the Albertinum,
the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
held a major exhibition of works by the
Canadian artist Jeff Wall (* 1946). The
photo graphs assembled under the motto
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