BOARDS
FOUNDATION OF THE FRIENDS
OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY
FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
H.-G. JAN OELMANN
Chairman
DR. KATHARINA VON CHLEBOWSKI
deputy
ANDRÉ ODIER
Deputy
SEBASTIAN CICHOCKI
Chief Curator at the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
DR. GABRIELE KNAPSTEIN
Deputy Director and Collection Manager (Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Moderne) Berlin
DR. CHRISTIAN BAUSCHKE
Member of the board of
FRIENDS of the Nationalgalerie
DR. GABRIELE KNAPSTEIN
Director of the Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für Aktuell – Berlin
JÜRGEN LUCIUS
Member of the Board of Trustees of the
Friends of the National Gallery
NATASHA GINWALA
Curator at Gropius Bau and artistic
director of the Gwangju Biennale 2020
DR. GABRIELE KNAPSTEIN
Director of the Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für Aktuell – Berlin
JÜRGEN LUCIUS
Member of the Board of Trustees of the
Friends of the National Gallery
AGUSTÍN PÉREZ RUBIO
Curator of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
UDO KITTELMANN
Director of the National Gallery –
State Museums in Berlin
ERIKA HOFFMANN-KOENIGE
collector
WOLFGANG TILLMANS
artist
UDO KITTELMANN
Director of the National Gallery –
State Museums in Berlin
DR. CHARLOTTE VON KOERBER
collector
ANDREAS SLOMINSKI
Artist and professor in Karlsruhe and Hamburg
UDO KITTELMANN
Director of the National Gallery –
State Museums in Berlin
DR. CHARLOTTE VON KOERBER
collector
ANDREAS SLOMINSKI
Artist and professor in Karlsruhe and Hamburg
DR. EUGEN BLUME
Head of the Hamburger Bahnhof
SYLVIE LISKA
President of the
Friends of the National Gallery
HELMUT DRAXLER
Professor of Aesthetic Theory, Merz Academy, Stuttgart
STEPHAN GEORGE
Managing Director of the Donors' Association for German Science
DIETER PÖHLMANN
DR. ANJA BÖCKMANN
Curator at Gropius Bau and artistic
director of the Gwangju Biennale 2020
PETER ANDERS
Managing Director of the Donors' Association for German Science
DIETER PÖHLMANN
HANS PETER GIPPERT
Since 2005, the Friends of the National Gallery Foundation for Contemporary Art has provided the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art - Berlin with an annual budget for the purchase of contemporary art. This is the first foundation in Germany whose sole purpose is to acquire contemporary art for a state museum.
This foundation, which was made possible by the success of the MoMA exhibition, is intended to intensify the dialogue between the National Gallery and young current international art and to create the opportunity to promptly donate contemporary works of art to the collection of the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Aktuell – to acquire Berlin.
Which works are acquired is decided by an independent purchasing committee elected for a period of two years. In the first year, the foundation acquired over 24 works, including a large collection from the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann. The new acquisitions will be shown in alternating presentations at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Contemporary Museum – Berlin.
Exhibition “Official Welcome – Purchases by the Foundation of the Association of Friends of the National Gallery for Contemporary Art”, December 17th, 2013 to August 31st, 2014 in the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Aktuell – Berlin | Photo David von Becker
