Tour d'Horizon - Werke aus der Sammlung migros museum für gegenwartskunst

Lothar Baumgarten, Georg Baselitz, Jan Dibbets, Martin Disler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Klaudia Schifferle
February 11–March 4, 2012

Atelier van Lieshout, Carlos Amorales
March 7–25, 2012

Art & Language
March 28–April 15, 2012

Gianni Motti
April 18–May 20, 2012

After the collection exhibitions in Vaduz, Kassel and Krems, the migros museum für gegenwartskunst presents a variety of works from the collection before another presentation in Bolzano. The Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund’s collection was created in 1957, when the Migros’s statutes were set down, providing for the Migros-Kulturprozent (Migros Culture Percentage); the late 1970s brought a new focus on international contemporary art and greater professionalization. Divided into four sections, Tour d’Horizon offers insights into the different interests and thematic standpoints that guided acquisition policies over the decades, but also addresses specific aspects and issues of how a collection is built. The show focuses on the presentation of exemplary works that have not been on public display in a long time, if ever. Organized along a chronology of the collection’s acquisitions, the exhibition is accompanied by a program of events that examine a wide range of questions about collecting and the history of the collection.

The fourth and final section of the exhibition project Tour d’Horizon—Works from the collection of the migros museum für gegenwartskunst brings the first presentation of a spectacular new work the museum purchased last year: Gianni Motti’s room-sized piece Moneybox (2009). The work consists of 20.000 one-dollar bills suspended on wires from the gallery ceiling and just beyond the visitor’s reach. Motti charts a humorous approach to the interrelation between art and money. The presentation of this work concludes the migros museum für gegenwartskunst’s exhibition programming at Hubertus Exhibitions; over the summer, the museum will move back to its home at the freshly renovated Löwenbräu-Areal.

Curated by Judith Welter