Artists: Tina Bara, Silvia Bächli, Günter Brus, Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger, Regula Dettwiler, Carola Dertnig, Jíøi Georg Dokoupil, Meta Einvald, Else Gabriel, Dora García, Till Gathmann, Gerhard Hoehme, Guillermo Fiallo Montero, Sabine F., Günther Förg, Alexander Györfi, Josef Hegenbarth, Eberhard Havekost, Oliver Hangl, Mike Hentz, Stefan Hurtig, Franziska Jyrch, Wolf Kahlen, Klaus Kumrow, Pia Lanzinger, Jozef Legrand, Via Lewandowsky, Dorit Margreiter, Ewald Mataré, Yana Milev, CFM, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Olaf Nicolai, Tadej Pogaèar, Blinky Palermo, Antje Schiffers, Cornelia Schleime, Christine Schlegel, Heike Stephan, Gabriele Stötzer, Sofie Thorsen, Rosemarie Trockel, Alba D'Urbano, Angelika Waniek, Corinne Wasmuht

Opening, 18.6.2010 at 7 pm

For the exhibition PUZZLE, ten different groups will each exhibit in one of the exhibition spaces in the Neubau over half a year, whereby each group is made up of many participants. In this way, new spaces will be created at irregular intervals. PUZZLE is a constantly changing exhibit. The involved groups have a direct or indirect connection to the house collection: there are the members of the Friends Organisation, who are responsible for most of the GfZK's purchases, then there are the art mediators from GFZK FOR YOU or the mediation team, who constantly deal with questions about art education - especially in relation to the collection in recent years. The conservators are the ones who are devoted to questions of conservation and make inquiries concerning the condition and handling of the collection. In addition, the artists are the ones who grapple with questions related to inventory and collecting. The custodian and the portfolio manager of the GfZK both have the most intensive, albeit different, relationship with the collection. In addition, there will be zones for potential purchases for works made in connection with GfZK, but where museum lacked the money to acquire them. Then there will be an exhibit space for collecting differently with works which would fit into the collection well, yet don't fit in with or weren't envisioned by the collection's concept. Works related or referring to the collection by students from the Intermedia class of the HGB will make up another group.

The concept's key idea is that a collection can be seen as a puzzle whose individual parts make up a whole, which is constantly expandable and thus incomplete. The Neubau, with its patchwork of shard-shaped rooms, serves as the formal framework. Every room follows its own concept.

The idea for the exhibit is tailored to the layout of the GfZK-2 (Neubau) – which even inspired the exhibit. The building distinguishes itself through its openness and transparency, its flexibility and difference compared to other presentation rooms. The PUZZLE exhibition's perspective on the collection should be seen in the same spirit as the rooms. It shouldn't be rigid but flexible; not mono-perspective but multi-perspective; not exclusively specialized but inclusive of outside expertise. PUZZLE’s identity is that of a stage and experiment whose outcome is incalculable.

For four years the Museum for Contemporary Art has been carrying out long-term exhibitions of its collection. In recent years, they were >German Histories<, >KW - Hommage à Klaus Werner< and >Nichtorte, Orte<. These exhibitions, most of which lasted one year, always took place in the Villa. Starting with the collection exhibition PUZZLE, the concept of both houses will change: The Villa will house the temporary exhibits while the Neubau will be devoted to the presentation of the collection. This concept is embedded in an annual programme where we explore the question what >A Commission for Art?< could be.

The graphic artists Annalena von Helldorff and Toni Schönbuchner will develop a display for PUZZLE, which will visualize the exhibit's change over time. The large display windows of the Neubau will act as an over-dimensional board that documents and informs about what was, what can now be seen, and what will be.

Participants:
Franziska Adler (Illustratorin/Kunstvermittlerin), Angela Boehnke (Depotverwalterin), Anneliese Böhm (Lehrerin), Willem Conrad (Schüler), Carola Dertnig (Künstlerin), Meta Einvald (Kunststudentin), Sabine F. (Kunststudentin), Guillermo Fiallo Montero (Kunststudent), Max Fechner (Schüler), Andrea Günther (Künstlerin/Kunstvermittlerin), Leo Hingst (Schüler), Annalena von Helldorff (Grafikerin), Angelica Hoffmeister-zur Nedden (Restauratorin), Stefan Hurtig (Kunststudent), Franziska Jyrch (Kunststudentin), Alexandra Kühnert (Kunstvermittlerin), Julia Kurz (Theaterwissenschaftlerin/Kunstvermittlerin), Kristin Meyer (Comiczeichnerin/Kunstvermittlerin), Cornelia Friederike Müller (Künstlerin), Christin Müller (Kunstvermittlerin), Tadej Pogaèar (Künstler), Hendrik Pupat (Kulturjournalist), Sybille Reschke (Restauratorin), Angelika Richter (Kunsthistorikerin/Kuratorin), Stephan Schikora (Finanzbeamter), Toni Schönbuchner (Grafiker), Luise Schröder (Kunststudentin/Kunstvermittlerin), Lena Seik (Kunstvermittlerin), Heidi Stecker (Kustodin), Verena Tintelnot (Kunsthistorikerin), Alba D’Urbano (Künstlerin/Professorin), Angelika Waniek (Kunststudentin)

The Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig is supported by the City of Leipzig, the Ministry of Science and Art of the Free State of Saxony and the Friends Organisation of the Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art.

The programme 2010 >A Contract for Art?< is also supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State Saxony.

Supported by: Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

The Sachsen Bank continues its long-standing cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig in 2010 by supporting the exhibition PUZZLE.