Nur hier The Federal Republic of Germany's Contemporary Art Collection Acquisitions from 2007 to 2011

Presented for the first time, this visual reference documents 100 works by 78 artists featured in the Federal Republic of Germany’s Contemporary Art Collection and demonstrates the wide range of techniques and media—from large-scale installations, drawings, paintings, and sculpture to photography and video—that characterize the current creative practice. Launched in 1970, the exhibition presents works purchased by an acquisitions committee whose five-year mandate came to an end in 2011. It is built around a series of fundamental ideas and concepts such as historical roots, fluxus, poetry, creative self-reflection, modernism, values, historical and political references, and contemporary relevance.

Anne-Marie Bonnet is a professor of art and archaeology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. Hans-Jörg Clement is the director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Bonn. Yilmaz Dziewor is the director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. Markus Gabriel is a philosophy professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. Ingrid Mössinger is the director-general at the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz. Bernd Neumann is the Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Bernhard Spies is the director of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany.