DDespite the pandemic, life goes on, including cultural life. And so some major construction and renovation projects in the art region will be completed in 2022. In Wiesbaden, the founder Reinhard Ernst opened a museum named after him in September, abstract art after 1945 from his collection is to be shown there on 2,000 square meters – in the immediate vicinity of the Wiesbaden Museum, where a retrospective on Ernst Wilhelm Nay will open in September.
The city of Aschaffenburg has set up its own museum for the artist of the New Objectivity, Christian Schad (1894 to 1982). The first construction phase of the new municipal museum quarter is to be opened in June. And then the exhibition building on Darmstadt’s Mathildenhöhe, which has been declared a World Heritage Site, will finally open again in summer. Between 1907 and 1908 the building planned by Joseph Maria Olbrich was erected on the highest point of Mathildenhöhe.
It has not been used for exhibitions for almost ten years. After extensive renovation, it now shines in new splendor. And it will fully unfold its splendor when paintings and sculptures from the Darmstadt Municipal Art Collection are presented in a first show next summer. The time of upheaval seems to be reflected in the cultural institutions as well, as a matter of course.
The show planned for spring in the Sinclair House in Bad Homburg, in which students from the Offenbach University of Design think about the life we want to lead in the future, is about the “courage to change”. We are looking for a “life in balance”, at least that is the title of an exhibition in the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum that examines similar questions. “How can crises be overcome?” The curators want to know.
Looking for a successor and off to the festivals!
But there are also all sorts of positions to be filled and extended in the cultural scene, which will hopefully also generate many new ideas and collaborations: Sebastian Baden is the new director of the Frankfurt Schirn, and the Wiesbaden State Theater has to have a new general music director, and soon too A new director can be found to succeed Uwe Eric Laufenberg, one wonders whether the Darmstadt director Karsten Wiegand will be extended. In Frankfurt a successor solution is needed for Mousonturm director Matthias Pees, who is moving to the Berliner Festspiele, and 2022 will be the last full year of Frankfurt General Music Director Sebastian Weigle, with Thomas Guggeis taking over in the summer of 2023. And let’s see how things continue at the Landestheater Marburg, where Eva Lange and Carola Unser will soon be entering their fifth year as convincing dual directors.
Of course, documenta will shine above all in 2022 – if everything works out as Kassel and the Indonesian curator collective ruangrupa imagine. The decision was made early on against a cancellation or postponement, the “documenta fifteen”, as it is now called, will even have one more location in Kassel, the Hübner halls, an industrial area in the Bettenhausen district. In any case, the “documenta fifteen” principle is suddenly multiplying in networks all over the world.
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Because in the meantime the names of many invited collectives and artists have been published, none of them well-known favorites of the art tour business. And from June 18, 2022, the inclined public can also flock to Kassel to understand what artistic income from all over the world “lumbung”, the sharing of resources like in a rice barn, can bring. The people of Kassel themselves have long been able to get to know the colorful logos and the common eating, thinking and talking of ruangrupa, in the “ruruhaus” in the middle of the city. And ruangrupa has already planted trees.
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