State of the Art since 1560
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) are celebrating their 450th anniversary with a series of art events. Over the course of the year, celebratory exhibitions will trace the origins of the collections and with an eye that is sharpened by tradition they will explore the challenges of the present and the future. The series will culminate in an international collaboration with the National Museum of China in Beijing. In compact form, the 2010 events will represent everything that distinguishes the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
The series will be spearheaded by the much-anticipated openings in 2010 of the Türckische Cammer (Turkish Chamber) and the new Albertinum. The Türckische Cammer will feature the collection of Oriental art that forms part of the royal Saxon Rüstkammer (Armoury). The collection goes as far back as 1591 and it will now finally feature in the permanent exhibition it deserves. The Albertinum is an entire building dedicated to the “Art from Romanticism to the Present”. The exhibition is designed to create a link between the past and the present, a concept that is perfectly reflected in the architecture of the ancient building and the newly designed spacious roof spanning the previously open courtyard.
The anniversary exhibition, “State of the Art since 1560”, will be held in the original location of the royal Kunstkammer (literally, “art chamber”), in the heart of the Residenzschloss (Royal Palace). The exhibits will trace Dresden’s exceptionally consistent tradition of art collecting.
To mark the 300th anniversary of the Meissen porcelain factory, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden will explore European porcelain art on its own turf, and with a parallel exhibition in Berlin. The Dresden exhibition will take place in the Japanisches Palais (Japanese Palace), a fitting host for the collection and also its genius loci, as this traditional gallery was originally designed as a Baroque “porcelain palace”.
Three major German museum associations – the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums of Berlin), the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staats-gemäldesammlungen, München (Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich) – have joined forces to stage an international exhibition, “The Art of the Enlightenment”, which will be held in Beijing in the National Museum of China.
Opening: The Türckische Cammer
Dresden, Residenzschloss, March 2010
State of the Art since 1560.The Exhibition.
Dresden, Residenzschloss
18 April to 7 November 2010
Two exhibitions to mark the 300-year anniversary of the state
porcelain manufactory Meissen:
Triumph of the Blue Swords. Meißen Porcelain for Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie from 1710 to 1815
Dresden, Japanisches Palais
8 May to 29 August 2010
The Fascination of Fragility.
Masterpieces of European Porcelain
Berlin, Ephraim-Palais
9 May to 29 August 2010
Reopening: Albertinum – Art from Romanticism to the Present
Dresden, June 2010
Jeff Wall. Transit
Dresden, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
mid-June to mid-September 2010
The Art of the Enlightenment
Exhibition by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen München in the
National Museum of China in Beijing
September 2010 to February/March 2012