Kunstpalais Erlangen, Contemporary art museum in Marktplatz, Erlangen, Germany.
Kunstpalais Erlangen is an art museum in the city housed in a classical building with multiple exhibition spaces. The venue presents works by emerging international artists on a regular basis, with approximately 4,500 pieces in its collection.
The Städtische Galerie Erlangen occupied Palais Stutterheim from 1974; the palace itself was built 1728–1730 for Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim in the centre of the Huguenot town. After a two-year renovation that doubled the exhibition space by more than 500 m² on the ground and lower floors, the Kunstpalais opened there in 2010 under founding director Claudia Emmert. Amely Deiss has led the Kunstpalais and the Städtische Sammlung since February 2015.
The Städtische Sammlung Erlangen, part of the Kunstpalais, holds over 4,500 prints, multiples, artist books and portfolios, tracing international art after 1945. It includes works by Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, Nan Goldin, Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, and is expanded through targeted purchases of contemporary prints and photographs. In even summers, the Comic-Salon Erlangen brings special exhibitions to the rooms.
The Kunstpalais occupies the ground floor and basement of Palais Stutterheim in Erlangen's Huguenot old town, with around 500 m² of exhibition space reached from the palace entrance. In even-numbered years, special exhibitions tied to the Comic-Salon Erlangen usually run in summer, so timing a visit around that period brings additional shows.
The Kunstpalais shares the Palais Stutterheim with the Städtische Sammlung Erlangen, whose holdings exceed 4,500 prints, multiples, artist books and portfolios. The collection traces international art after 1945 and is expanded through targeted purchases of contemporary prints and photographs. Works by Joseph Beuys, Nan Goldin, Donald Judd and Gerhard Merz are among those represented.
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