Exhibition hall of the Art Foundation DZ BANK
Established in 2020, offers an exhibition space accessible to the public, and showcases 4 exhibitions per year based on the DZ BANK Art Collection. Guided tours are provided for the public every Thursday at 6 pm and every last Friday of the month at 5.30 pm at the exhibition space at Frankfurt/Main.
Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Contact: +49 69 7680588 00
E-Mail: info@kunststiftungdzbank.de
Admission free of charge
Städel Museum
Since 2008, DZ BANK has presented the Städel Museum with a selection of 220 works from its art collection. This now forms the basis of the Städel Museum’s collection of photographic art.
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Launch year:
1993
Number of artworks:
Comprising more than 10 000 works of art by over 800 international artists, the Collection is one of the largest of its kind. Its focus is on contemporary art as manifested in the photographic image.
Status of collection:
International
Artistic domain:
The Collection has always shown a particular interest in photographic works by artists better known in other fields of art, such as painting or sculpture, artists who take a different approach to photography and who are able to offer the public a new perspective on the medium.
Commission program / Site-specific order(s) :
- Robert Barry, untitled, 1997 (Installation)
- Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Les Nuages, 1999 (Installation)
- Émilie Pitoiset, The Third Party, 2013 (Photography) among others
In 2013 Art Foundation DZ BANK resumed the scholarship support for two artists that it had discontinued ten years previously.
Condition of eligibility: Not open to free candidacy but subject to proposal by the jury. Each of the 7 members of the jury proposes 10 artists. The required profile is for international artists using photography in their mid-career
Reward : € 15,000 and an exhibition at the exhibition space of the Art Foundation DZ BANK together with the 3 other artists from the final shortlist of 5. A brochure available for the exhibition. The exhibited series will be purchased for the DZ BANK Art Collection.
About the company
Launch year:
2001
International presence:
Presence in 15 countries
Annual revenue:
DZ BANK Group’s profit before taxes reaches € 2.87 billion
Number of employees:
4000
Profile of the company:
DZ BANK AG is the cooperative financial network’s central institution and serves more than 900 cooperative banks, by which it is majority owned. Furthermore, it is also active as a corporate bank and functions as the holding company for the specialized service providers in the DZ BANK Group. With its extensive range of financial products and services the DZ BANK Group supports the local cooperative banks in Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Capital Markets and Transaction Banking.
In September 2020, the Board of Directors of the DZ BANK AG established the Art Foundation DZ BANK as a non-profit limited liability company to make the collection, which has existed since 1993, more broadly accessible to the public. This laid the groundwork to cement the foundation in Frankfurt’s cultural landscape. Through its museum space, the Art Foundation, an independent institution, connects with other exhibition houses and at the same time makes its non-profit character tangible. With its biennial grant, the Art Foundation supports artists of all ages who explore photographic forms of expression that break down the boundaries of genre. In so doing, it takes on the responsibility of fostering current artistic processes, showing the works of the fellows in an exhibition, and incorporating those works into its own collection.
Each year, three exhibitions feature socially relevant topics. Through collaborations with universities and institutions from science, research, and art, current discourses are addressed. Presentations in other exhibition venues in German-speaking regions display photographic approaches alongside other artistic materials in order to question, and open up, a dialog around the boundaries between genres.
The Art Foundation’s diverse outreach program encourages an exchange of viewpoints and inspires contemplation through our art tours for all age groups, workshops, continuing education for teachers, opportunities for students, and collaboration with schools and universities. Conferences, lectures, and discussion series also enable scholarly and interdisciplinary reflection.
The Art Foundation is another building block with which the DZ BANK fulfils its social responsibility. By cultivating artistic expression, communicating it and making it available to the public free of charge, the DZ BANK simultaneously makes art a living element of its corporate culture. The Art Foundation grew out of the DZ BANK's extensive collection, which focuses on photographic works from 1945 to the present.