Öffentliche Führung // Ausstellung: "Die Unterlagen befinden sich im Zustand der Ablage. Poesie und Verwaltung aus dem Archiv des Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst e.V."

In the organizer's words:

Guided tour with art historian Julia Reich and curator Raimund Ritz.

From March 20 to July 4, 2025, the ZI is showing the exhibition "Die Unterlagen befinden sich im Zustand der Ablage. Poetry and administration from the archive of the Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst e.V.".

The Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst e.V. is the successor to Ausstellungsleitung München e.V., which was founded in 1948 and organized the major Munich art exhibitions and well over 100 special exhibitions at Haus der Kunst from 1949 to 2011. Together with the Münchener Secession e.V., the Neue Gruppe e.V. and the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft e.V., it was instrumental in the resumption of exhibition activities in Munich after the end of National Socialism.
The archive of the exhibition management contains sources from the years 1948 to the present, including correspondence, minutes, exhibitor papers, documents on purchases and sales of art objects and on loans to private collectors and museums, newspaper clippings, organizational documents on the Munich Artists' Carnival, photographs, clichés and repros as well as posters and catalogs on the exhibitions at Haus der Kunst since 1949.
The archive kept at Haus der Kunst is not accessible to the public and has not yet been scientifically processed or analyzed. The sources it contains offer a wide range of starting points for art historical research questions, from exhibitions in the post-war period to art market and provenance research to artists' associations.