Engelbach, Barbara (Hrsg./Ed.) : Familienbande. Die Schenkung Schröder / Family Ties: The Schröder Donation

Language: German, English.

In the 1990s a new art scene be­gan to form in Cologne. New gal­leries, mag­azines such as Texte zur Kunst, and the al­ter­na­tive ex­hi­bi­tion space Frie­sen­wall 120 were start­ed. Alexan­der Schröder fol­lowed th­ese de­vel­op­ments from Ber­lin. Al­ready as an art stu­dent at the Hoch­schule der Kün­ste Ber­lin, he found­ed his own gallery along with Thi­lo Wermke. At the same time, he be­gan col­lect­ing art from the 1990s and 2000s with his spe­cial eye.

Now the Schröder fam­i­ly has do­nat­ed twen­ty-nine works from their col­lec­tion, in­clud­ing large-scale in­s­tal­la­tions, to the Mu­se­um Lud­wig by artists such as Kai Al­thoff, Cosi­ma von Bonin, Tom Burr, Lukas Duwen­hög­ger, Isa Gen­zken, and Danh Võ. The ex­hi­bi­tion Fam­i­ly Ties: The Schröder Do­na­tion pre­sents th­ese works to the public along with a se­lec­tion from the Mu­se­um Lud­wig col­lec­tion. It fo­cus­es on art at the turn of the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry and ex­amines the spe­cial con­di­tions that ex­ist­ed in Cologne, al­so in re­la­tion­ship to New York.

The ex­hi­bi­tion ca­t­a­logue doc­u­ments the works from the do­na­tion with ex­pla­na­to­ry texts. Archi­val ma­te­rials such as in­vi­ta­tions, fly­ers, posters, and publi­ca­tions pre­sent the con­text of their pro­duc­tion. All th­ese ma­te­rials, as well as the works, are ar­ranged chrono­log­i­cal­ly on a time­line that al­so lists the most im­por­tant events in Ger­many and abroad in art and so­ci­e­ty in the 1990s and 2000s. A se­lec­tion of cen­tral texts from the pe­ri­od, which are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the mul­ti­lay­ered de­vel­op­ment of art, il­lus­trate the vari­ous de­bates and con­tro­ver­sies. The fore­word by Yil­maz Dziewior and the es­say by Bar­bara En­gel­bach out­line the Mu­se­um Lud­wig’s re­la­tion­ship to the 1990s and 2000s and show the im­por­tance of the do­na­tion to the col­lec­tion.

Edit­ed by Bar­bara En­gel­bach, with texts by Die­drich Died­erich­sen & Jut­ta Koether, Lukas Duwen­hög­ger, Yil­maz Dziewior, Bar­bara En­gel­bach, Michaela Eich­wald, An­drea Fras­er, Ste­fan Germer, Renée Green, Is­a­belle Graw, Man­fred Hermes, James Mey­er, Neil Mul­hol­land, Ste­fan Römer, Franz Schu­bert/Ax­el Stock­burg­er, 20 × 25cm, 384 pages, ap­prox. 260 il­lus­tra­tions, Ger­man/En­glish, published by Museum Ludwig and Buchhandlung Walther König.