Aus Leidenschaft. Die Sammlung Maximilian und Agathe Weishaupt zu Gast

In the organizer's words:

What motivates people to collect art? At best, out of passion! Openness to new things, an interest in enriching encounters and the joy of convincing design were the decisive driving forces for Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt to build up a collection of top-class works of international contemporary art from the mid-1980s onwards. Their enthusiasm for artistic forms of expression characterized by a tendency towards reduction developed through personal contact with female artists and gallery owners.

The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen, which was developed in collaboration with Agathe Weishaupt, offers a rare opportunity to get to know a private collection of impressive quality that has rarely been shown in public. Thematic rooms, for example on manifestations of light, the art of the 1960s or the principle of folding, alternate with artists' rooms, intensely colorful works with meditative, austere paintings. New discoveries meet stars of the art scene. Female sculptors fascinate with their precise minimalism, while graphic and sculptural works in black and white stand for simplicity and variance. For the first time, works by Maximilian Weishaupt, who died in 2018 and was not only a passionate collector, but also artistically explored spaces, geometric bodies and surfaces, will also be on display.

The exhibition represents the diversity of artistic means of expression and the key issues of contemporary art. It is an invitation to intensive perceptual experiences - to experience the rare quality of silence, to practice concentration and to feel beauty.

With works by: Josef Albers // Walter Dexel // Inge Dick // Ulrich Erben // Adolf Fleischmann // Christoph Freimann // Rupprecht Geiger // Ernst Geitlinger // Ha Chonghyun // Peter Halley // Jus Juchtmans // Edwina Leapman // Camill Leberer // Catherine Lee // Sol LeWitt // Heinz Mack // Julia Mangold // Christian Megert // Vera Molnár // François Morellet // Nakajima Osamu // David Nash // Park Seo-bo // Sean Scully // Heiner Thiel // Bill Thompson // Peter Weber // Yun Hyong-keun and many more.

Price information:

Regular: 7 euros Reduced*: 5 euros Children and young people up to 18 years: Free admission *Reduction: Students, trainees, artists, severely disabled persons from GdB 60, artCard (only on presentation of corresponding official documents or membership cards).