Daimler Contemporary
8 April - 17 July 2005

List of Participating Artists

In 2005, the juxtaposition of approaches in private and corporate art collections is continued after the first exhibitions with the collections of Paul Maenz (2002) and Ileana Sonnabend (2003).
  

Jörg Immendorf
Musée d'Art Moderne, 1984
acryl and oil on canvas 65 x 103 cm
(collection Spiekermann)

Exhibition view with artworks from
Trockel, Rosenbach, Langlands & Bell

It has now been the turn of the Heliod Spiekermann Collection to accept the invitation of Daimlerto be presented to the public for the first time at the Daimler Contemporary. "Private/Corporate III" first and foremost focuses on German art from the last 30 years.

The private Spiekermann Collection reflects the vibrant art scene in Germany in the 1980s, represented by Kippenberger, Herold, Trockel, Oehlen, Penck, Polke, Baselitz, Knoebel and others. Cologne and Düsseldorf are the collector's hubs where she also got to know "her" artists personally.

Due to her close relations with the art scene, the collector acquired works of art from the early stages of the individual artists' careers.

 

Over a period of 25 years, Heliod Spiekermann's collection has developed continuously and been complemented by works of contemporary artists (Andreas Slominski and Jonathan Meese).
In addition to paintings, Heliod Spiekermann's collection also encompasses numerous sculptures by Rosemarie Trockel, Georg Herold, A.R. Penck and others.

Exhbition view: Works of Simone Westerwinter

Simone Westerwinter
o.T. (JA)
Canvas Collage

From the Daimler Art Collection, founded in 1977 and meanwhile grown to some 1,300 works of art by over 300 German and international artists, acquisitions from the last ten years are shown.

The works of art by Kippenberger, Knoebel, Baselitz, Oehlen, Rosenbach and others have not been shown in public to date.

The Daimler Art Collection has right from the start been focusing primarily on abstract, geometric and minimal art from the 20th century until today, complemented by relevant individual art positions, as represented by the works of Dieter and Björn Roth, Knoebel, Förg, Warhol and Baselitz.

 

The focus on German art since the 1980s is rounded off by contemporary works (Simone Westerwinter, Ina Weber and Markus Huemer) whose themes relate to the more recent history of art or to art concepts and strategies after 1945.