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Migros Museum für GegenwartskunstCollection / Sammlung 1978-2008

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst  - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Collection catalogue.
The origins of the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (www.migrosmuseum.ch) date from the late 1950s, initiated by the Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler, and, in the late 1970s, began focusing on collecting international contemporary art. This publication offers a wide overview focusing on the core pieces of the collection, which consists of around 400 artworks by international and Swiss contemporary artists such as Art & Language, Maurizio Cattelan, Christopher Wool, Katharina Sieverding, Rachel Harrison, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Christoph Büchel, Paul Thek, and Douglas Gordon.
The large-scale illustrations are accompanied with texts by writers such as Tom Holert, Charles Esche, Irit Rogoff, and Jan Verwoert, reflecting different museums and collection strategies, and referring in particular to the history of the museum which was founded in 1996. Further texts by Philip Ursprung, Heike Munder, et al. outline the main thematic focuses of the collection as political art, participation strategies of the 1990s, glamour and pop, and the psychological meaning of space and architecture in contemporary art. Short texts by Raphael Gygax, Judith Welter, and Bettina Steinbrücke highlight a selection of specific works and artists in the collection.
See also the catalogues and monographs published by the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
Edited by Heike Munder.
Texts by Dan Fox, Tom Holert, Heike Munder, Philip Ursprung, Jan Verwoert, Astrid Wege, Tirdad Zolghadr...
 
published in 2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
24 x 32,5 cm (hardcover)
416 pages (142 color & 411 b/w ill.)
 
78.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-905829-42-6
EAN : 9783905829426
 
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