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A museum for contemporary art represents a “social institution” in an ambiguous way. Among other things, it is the social institution that deals with the current forms of communication in art and everyday life, examines them and questions them.
The Kunstmuseum Bochum was founded as a municipal art gallery for art after 1945 in 1960. Fifteen years after the end of World War II, the declared goal was to found the first museum for modern art in Germany. In the words of the art critic Schulze Vellinghausen, they wanted to create an “optical force field in the center of the city” - a claim that we also make for our work. In the meantime, our institute collects, preserves and presents international art from 1900 to the present day. The art museum Bochum is located in the middle of the dense museum landscape of the Ruhr area and in direct proximity to the Rhenish art metropolises Düsseldorf and Cologne. The program takes account of this cultural-geographical location on the one hand and nationwide art tourism on the other.
The Kunstmuseum Bochum was founded as a municipal art gallery for art after 1945 in 1960. Fifteen years after the end of World War II, the declared goal was to found the first museum for modern art in Germany. In the words of the art critic Schulze Vellinghausen, they wanted to create an “optical force field in the center of the city” - a claim that we also make for our work. In the meantime, our institute collects, preserves and presents international art from 1900 to the present day. The art museum Bochum is located in the middle of the dense museum landscape of the Ruhr area and in direct proximity to the Rhenish art metropolises Düsseldorf and Cologne. The program takes account of this cultural-geographical location on the one hand and nationwide art tourism on the other.