Eye watching

The publication provides an overview of the new acquisitions and gifts that have entered the collection holdings of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in the years 2009–16, under the leadership of Marion Ackermann as artistic director. These new additions have not only strengthened existing focuses such as the artists’ rooms and the Paul Klee collection; they have also made it possible to fill apparent gaps, for instance, with respect to the women artists represented in the collection. The acquisitions made during this time period are being presented for the first time in this volume, which also makes Marion Ackermann’s acquisition strategies accessible to the public.

Acquisitions

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Gerhard Altenbourg, Atelier van Lieshout, Joseph Beuys, Manon De Boer, Matthew Buckingham, Janet Cardiff /George Bures Miller, Otto Dix, Ólafur Elíasson, Katharina Fritsch, Julian Göthe, Sabine Groß, Andreas Gurszky, Thomas Hirschhorn, Nan Hoover, Axel Hütte, Benjamin Katz, Jürgen Klauke, Paul Klee, Alicja Kwade, Antonia Low, Kasimir Malewitsch, Agnes Martin, Kris Martin, Pauline Mbarek, Gerhard Merz, Annette Messager, Sarah Morris, Robert Motherwell, Anna Oppermann, Susan Philipsz, Angelika Platen, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Karin Sander, Tomás Saraceno, Wilhelm Sasnal, Andreas Schmitten, Thomas Schütte, Wael Shawky, Wiebke Siem, Monika Sosnowska, Nancy Spero, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmanns, Ana Torfs, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard T. Walker, Gillian Wearing, Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer /Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection