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The Dr. Christiane Hackerodt Arts and Culture Foundation was founded in 2013 as a civil-law foundation based in the city of Hannover, Germany. It focuses on the promotion of and research into contemporary art from an international perspective, especially in relation to art from East (Asia) and West (Europe and the United States). The Dr. Christiane Hackerodt Arts and Culture Foundation supports and promotes visual artists, both emerging and established, who approach reality in new and creative ways. It regularly offers support to events and artists in the Hannover region, while additionally inspiring artistic and social discourse by supporting catalogues and exhibitions related to its own collection of international contemporary art. In 2019, the Foundation’s collection was exhibited at the Museo Communale d’Arte Moderna in Ascona; in 2021, it featured in the exhibition Emptiness and Form at the Dommuseum Hildesheim.

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L'artista Heike Gallmeier con la sua opera "Selbst im Grün" del 2010

New Publication

Heike Gallmeier: Selbst im Grün, Berlin 2025

Heike Gallmeier's book Selbst im Grün (Self in Green) documents her re-staging of a work by
the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, The Tempest.

DOPPEL two

Exhibited from the collection

DOPPEL two displays works from the Sperling Collection and, on loan from the Dr. Hackerodt Foundation, the scroll painting Chimaki by Nikka Tanaka.

In its exhibition, kunstraum friesenstrasse explores artistic duplications and the play with identity as they manifest themselves in repetitions, pairings, twin relationships, counterparts, diptychs, replicas, duplicates, or halves. Open until March 08, 2026, Friday to Sunday from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

LEIKO IKEMURA

New addition to the collection

Leiko Ikemura, artist vborn in Japan and now living and working in Germany, combines European and Asian motifs and traditions in simple and poetic imagery. Her motifs straddle the boundary between nature and the human sphere. Her female figures present themselves as being in between: sensitive, mindful, delicate, yet determined in the spaces and at the boundaries of human existence. The work complements the foundation's collection, which is dedicated, among other things, to the dialogue between East and West, Asia and Europe.

James Turrell

Europe's largest art work by the artist in Hanover

In 2026, the Sprengel Museum Hanover will be expanded to include a spectacular light installation by the renowned US artist James Turrell. A Sky Space will be created in the museum's sculpture garden - a work specially developed for this outdoor space, called TOTUS INTUS, TOTUS FORIS - TOTALLY INSIDE, TOTALLY OUTSIDE

Turrell's installation will transform the museum courtyard into a total work of art that integrates the other sculptures and the architectural landscape into an immersive landscape of light.

Catalog books

Exhibitions

The Foundation’s remarkable art collection has been put together on the theme of Contemplation and Meditation in Contemporary Art. In 2019, the Foundation’s collection was exhibited at the Museo Communale d’Arte Moderne in Ascona and in 2021, in the exhibition Emptiness and Form at the Dommuseum Hildesheim. In 2024 it will be shown at the Osthaus-Museum in Hagen.

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Collection

In a field marked by opposing poles of East and West, speed and deceleration, extroversion and inwardness, the Dr. Christiane Hackerodt Arts and Culture Foundation has chosen “meditation” and “contemplation” as twin concepts to describe how works in the collection are selected.

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Funding

The Dr. Christiane Hackerodt Arts and Culture Foundation continues to support projects on a regional, national and international level. It provides support for institutions and individuals, on both a long-term basis and for shorter-term projects.

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