Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Joseph-Beuys-Platz 1
47798 Krefeld
Germany
2024 program preview
A visit from a French museum collection, discoveries of young talents and re-evaluations of established positions and visionary architectural projects—the Kunstmuseen Krefeld offer numerous opportunities for surprising, aesthetic experiences in 2024. “Breaking down boundaries, rethinking spaces, and enabling unusual experiences both inside and outside the museum spaces: This is what distinguishes our 2024 program in a special way,” says museum director Katia Baudin. “We are intensifying the encounters between art and design, venturing into the public space and, for the first time in many years, dedicating an exhibition to architecture.”
Museum without Borders. Art—Design / Dunkirk—Krefeld
Haus Lange Haus Esters, April 28–September 8, 2024
In an exchange of collections between the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and the FRAC Grand Large—Hauts-de-France (Fonds régional d’art contemporain), a selection of key works of international contemporary art and design from the FRAC collection will “move in” to the former residential buildings Haus Lange Haus Esters by Mies van der Rohe and highlights the importance of the dialog between the disciplines of art and design.
With (a.o.): Stéphane Calais, Latifa Echakch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, Marti Guixé, Hella Jongerius, Studio Formafantasma, Rirkrit Tiravanija
Museum without Borders is a collaboration and collection exchange between the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and the FRAC in Dunkirk.
Collection Satellite #9: Liora Epstein in Dialog with Jürgen Drescher and Reinhard Mucha, “The Bar as Work of Art and Social Space”
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (KWM)
May 24–October 6, 2024
Collection Satellite #9 takes the early collaborative work Verkaufen (Selling, 1981) by the artists Jürgen Drescher (b. 1955 in Karlsruhe, lives in Berlin) and Reinhard Mucha (b. 1950 in Düsseldorf, lives in Düsseldorf) as the starting point for an exhibition on artistic possibilities and forms of participation. The artist Liora Epstein (b. 1991, Vilnius, Lithuania, lives in Düsseldorf and Berlin), will respond to the work with a staging that can also be activated and used. The exhibition space will thus become a place of social interaction.
HLHE DIALOG: The Human Scale
Haus Lange Haus Esters, October 6, 2024–February 9, 2025
Since 2017, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld have been conceiving exhibitions in the neighboring iconic villas by Mies van der Rohe, Haus Lange and Haus Esters that enter into dialogues with each other—between art and design, older and younger generations, modernism and its pertinence today.
Marion Baruch, Haus Lange
Marion Baruch (b. 1929 Timişoara, Romania, lives in Gallarate, Italy) is interested in the relationship between inside and outside, body and space, subject and system. She is currently working with offcuts from the clothing industry, playing with the absent body and the normative. Parallel to the project in Krefeld, the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein is presenting an exhibition of recent works by Marion Baruch.
Anna K.E., Haus Esters
Anna K.E. (b. 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia, lives in New York) develops architectural constructions, settings, and sculptural models, as well as spontaneously filming her own actions in order to trace the relationship between the subjective body and the social environment. Modern architecture of the early twentieth century always plays a key role in her work. For her exhibition at Haus Esters, Anna K.E. is developing a total installation with new works related to the site.
Visionary Spaces. Walter Pichler Meets Frederick Kiesler in a Display by raumlaborberlin
KWM, November 22, 2024–March 23, 2025
The exhibition project Visionary Spaces presents two important avant-gardists from different generations: Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) and Walter Pichler (1936–2012). The Austrian American architect Kiesler, who turned increasingly to sculpture after his pioneering exhibition displays and architectural visions of the 1920s, meets the Austrian sculptor Pichler. In the early 1960s, Pichler’s sculptures, declared as alternative living spaces, provided significant and internationally recognized impulses. The interdisciplinary architecture collective raumlaborberlin is developing an experimental exhibition design for the show. Visionary Spaces. Walter Pichler Meets Frederick Kiesler, an exhibition of the Belvedere, Vienna, in cooperation with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, is curated by Verena Gamper in Vienna and Michael Krajewski in Krefeld.
