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Red brick and sycamore trees for the extension that includes exhibition spaces
The addition to the Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg, Germany designed by Herzog & de Meuron is a triumph. The contemporary addition pays respect to the original structure. Herzog & de Meuron use a prominent red brick to clad the new addition with a landscape of more than thirty sycamore trees. The structure proudly punctuates the ending of the row of buildings along the harbor basin.
Inside, there is an arrangement of thirty-six exquisite exhibition spaces displaying an array of art work. The old and the new construction seamlessly provide rooms for the Ströher Collection, later German post-war art and works by Erwin Bechtold just to name a few. Outside, there is an awesome viewing platform for the public to enjoy and observe the beautiful Ruhr area.
MKM director Walter Smerling
"The collection mediates an essential chapter of post-war German art history", explains MKM director Walter Smerling. "The centrepiece, as it were, are the informel and abstract painters, the founders of German postwar art, such as Willi Baumeister, K.O. Götz or Emil Schumacher, together with their European colleagues Emilio Vedova, Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva or Wols. Also the following generation, which intensively confronted German history — Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter etc. — is also represented with key works. At the same time, the collection is highly personal, which lends it its unique character and vitality. One can sense the enthusiasm for abstraction across the decades, as evidenced by works from Walter Stöhrer, Christoph M. Gais or David Schnell. And the principal objective of the collectors, namely to present 'their' artists with selections of works from across the different creative phases of their careers, is a kay part of the museum. Visitors can experience German art history first-hand, compare the teacher and student generations, and trace the artistic development of important individual artists. The extension, and the new opening, which will see the collection presented on this scale for the first time, represents a priceless asset for the artistic landscape of Germany."
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Completion: 2021
Site area: 96,875 sqft [9,000 m²]
Gross floor area: 53,819 sqft [5,000 m²]
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Robert Hösl (Partner in Charge)
Project Team: Roland Schreiber (Project Architect/ Project Manager) Mikolaj Bazaczek, Juliane Brantner, Teodor-Octavian Cuciureanu, Florian Hartmann, Sebastian Hefti, Māra Igaune, Susanne Kozlowski, Hannah Reusser, Daniel Schürer
General Planning: Drees & Sommer Schweiz GmbH
HVAC Engineering: Drees & Sommer Advanced Building Systems
Structural Engineering: Drees & Sommer Advanced Building Systems
Construction Management: Diete + Siepmann Ingenieur
Landscape Architect: Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten
Fire Protection Consulting: HHP
