“The Weimar Collection”
Exhibition until July 05, 2026
“What would a Weimar collection look like if it existed? A collection whose works thematize, record and reflect Weimar itself, with its unevenness, potholes, false bottoms and slanted positions, with its places, people, myths and stereotypes?”
(from the exhibition info text)
In a stroke of genius, the ACC Gallery is showing precisely this imaginary collection. The curators point out a grievance: In their view, contemporary art receives too little attention in a city characterized by classicism and Bauhaus modernism.
But now it is! The show presents video works, photographs, paintings and installations from the past 50 years. Comprehensive information about the exhibition and the names of all participating artists can be found HERE.
For every visitor to Weimar who approached the city center from the train station on Carl August Allee in the 1980s, the large ruin in the middle of the city’s visual axis formed a strange backdrop. The astonished question: “What kind of imposing building is that?”
In Torsten Schlüter’s watercolor cycle “Landesmuseum”, the motif of the ruins of the Thuringian State Museum embodies a symbol of the decay of the GDR political system. During the isolation practiced by the ruling system, TS transforms the rudimentary building, which was about to be demolished, into an oriental palace pulsating within, thereby also referring to intercultural connections and correspondences between Orient and Occident and to traditional influences on the arts of Weimar from outside.
Four watercolors from the cycle are currently on display in the “Weimar Collection”.
