Optik Schröder
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Optik Schröder
Werke aus der Sammlung Alexander Schröder
Mar 4 – Apr 30, 2006
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1/2Installation view Kunstverein Braunschweig, Lukas Duwenhögger, Room for the Student with a Sense for Beautiful Things, 1995 -
2/2Installation view Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kai Althoff, Stigmata aus Großmannssucht, 2000, Cosima von Bonin, Miss Riley, 2002
In the world of contemporary art a number of private collections have impressively grown over the past few years whose most distinguishing features are the direct contact between the collector and the artists and their works. Alexander Schröder is a member of this group of ambitious collectors. The presentation of the collection he has continuously built up over the past 10 years in the Salve Hospes House and in the Studio Gallery represents the first of a series of exhibitions in which the Kunstverein Braunschweig will present young collections in the coming years.
The roots of Alexander Schröder’s collection lie in the 1960s as his parents Claus and Sylvia Schröder began collecting art of the Berliner Realism. Since the beginning of the 1970s, they focused their attention on contemporary art from artists in Hamburg. Important works from Felix Droese, Thomas Schütte, Marlene Dumas, Bogomir Ecker, Gustav Kluge and Andreas Slominski were all early elements of the collection. The very fact that these names are now internationally renowned speaks to the courage and foresight of the young, collecting couple.
Alexander Schröder, born 1968 in Hamburg, began his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1990 and completed his studies in 1996 as Meisterschüler under Professor Katharina Sieverding. Already as a student, however, he realized that he was less interested in his own artistic production than he was by that of his contemporaries. In 1994, together with his colleague, Thilo Wermke, he opened a gallery in Berlin that today belongs to one of Germany’s most important galleries for contemporary art. Two years later, his profession also became his personal passion as he began to collect art works from artists of his generation.
The main focus of the Collection Alexander Schröder has always been centred around art from the present which represents his desire to be in constant dialogue with the ‘new’. Through this immediacy, the collection especially reflects the current developments in contemporary art in the moment it unfolds. This proximity to the ‘new’ is exactly what fascinates Alexander Schröder and embodies his main inspiration. His collection illustrates an exciting moment in the development of contemporary art over the last 10 years. Many artists – who are now internationally renowned – were supported by Alexander Schröder from the very beginning.
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