Heidelberg Art Society (Heidelberger Kunstverein)

The Art Association Heidelberg - founded in 1869 - is one of the largest and oldest Art Associations in Germany. Its purpose - as a citizens initiative - is the promotion and mediation of contemporary art. Since 2006 the Art Association Heidelberg is run by the 31 year old Dane Johan Holten, who serves this purpose by curating changing exhibitions, guided tours and art trips. The base of his curatorial work is a conceptual understanding of art. Topic of his first exhibition - Political Realities - was the mediation of political and historical events. The participating artists (Luc Tuymans, Jeremy Deller, IRIWN and others), tried to prove the relativity of reality throughout their exhibited works.
For his solo exhibition Simon Starling - who won the Turner prize in 2005 - used an elaborated printing technique to blow up an image from a newspaper cutting. Eventually the result was a wall covering print, consisting of oversized pixels with no indication of what the original image had shown. This deficiency of the human sight is also topic of the current and upcoming exhibitions.


Address
Hauptstrasse 97
69117 Heidelberg
Phone +49 (0)6221 - 184086
Web www.hdkv.de

Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Wednesday 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Prices
Adults 3,00 €, reduced 1,50 €