K10 kunzarchive

15/05/2025

Vi aspettiamo stasera al Kunzarchive K10 in via Lavizzari 10 a Lugano per ricordare Martin Kunz

14/05/2025

19/11/2024

Cari amici del K10 Kunzarchive,
siamo lieti di informarvi che sabato 23 novembre, alle ore 16.00, presso la casa d'aste Germann a Zurigo, sarà messa in vendita la collezione d'arte di Martin Kunz.
Il catalogo delle opere si apre con due testi commemorativi, rispettivamente a cura di Yasmin Kunz e Thomas Bourgeau, e di Tobia Bezzola.

https://www.germannauktionen.ch/de

Dear friends of the K10 Kunzarchive,
we are pleased to inform you that the art collection of Martin Kunz will be offered for sale on Saturday 23 November at 4 pm at the Germann Auction House in Zurich.
The catalogue of works opens with two commemorative texts, respectively edited by Yasmin Kunz and Thomas Bourgeau, and by Tobia Bezzola.

Wir sind Ihr Partner für Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, Multiples, Druckgrafik, Fotografie sowie Plakate.

18/07/2024

Cari amici del K10,
vi comunichiamo che l'archivio e la biblioteca del K10 kunzarchive, secondo l'ultima volontà di Martin Kunz, sono stati donati alla Biblioteca dell'Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana - USI: https://biblio.arc.usi.ch/

La Biblioteca dell'Accademia di architettura si impegnerà a salvaguardare e rendere pubblicamente accessbile l'eredità culturale di Martin Kunz in Via Lavizzari 10 a Lugano.
Vi terremo informati su questa pagina - gestita da oggi in poi dalla Biblioteca dell'Accademia di architettura - e sul nostro sito:
https://biblio.arc.usi.ch/it/conoscere_le_collezioni/fondispeciali/fondo-kunz

Nella speranza di vedervi presto per mantenere viva la memoria di Martin Kunz porgiamo i nostri migliori saluti

Biblioteca dell'Accademia di architettura

28/10/2021

Wir sind zutiefst traurig über den Tod von Martin Kunz, ehemaliger Direktor des Kunstmuseums Luzern, der Anfang Woche im Alter von 74 Jahren verstorben ist. Mit Martin Kunz verlieren wir einen treuen Freund des Museums, einen belesenen und wissensdurstigen Menschen, einen inspirierenden Gesprächspartner sowie Kenner der Institution und ihrer Geschichte.

In den letzten Jahren besuchte Martin Kunz seinen ehemaligen Wirkungsort in Luzern vermehrt. Er identifizierte sich stark mit dem Programm unter der Direktorin Fanni Fetzer und war begeistert von der neuen Ausrichtung der Sammlungspräsentationen durch Alexandra Blättler. Erst noch letzten Juni berichtete er an einer Veranstaltung im Kunstmuseum Luzern über seine Zusammenarbeit mit Joseph Beuys und lieferte zahlreiche Anekdoten zu dessen Fettkiste aus unserer Sammlung.

Martin Kunz studierte Kunstgeschichte in Basel. Von 1977 bis 1989 war er Direktor des Kunstmuseums Luzern. Als Direktor ordnete er das Vermächtnis der wilden 60er- und 70er-Jahre, holte Joseph Beuys zurück ins Museum und zeigte grosse Ausstellungen mit Vito Acconci, Josephine Troller, Aldo Walker und Dieter Roth. Ein weiterer Meilenstein war die grosse Übersichtsausstellung zum Zentralschweizer Maler Hans Emmenegger in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Zürich. Der aktuelle Erfolg von Hans Emmenegger, gerade geht seine Ausstellung in der Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne zu Ende, ist also auch zu grossen Teilen Martin Kunz zu verdanken. Seiner Luzerner Zeit folgten viele Jahre in New York, wo er die New York Kunsthalle gründete. Zuletzt lebte Martin Kunz im Tessin.

Martin Kunz stand den Menschen nahe. Er schwelgte gerne in alten Zeiten, vergass dabei aber nicht den Fokus auf die Zukunft zu richten. So zum Beispiel in seinem jüngsten Projekt, der Webseite www.k10-kunzarchive.com. In detaillierter Forschungsarbeit bündelte er sein gesamtes Schaffen und Wissen.

🍂Wir drücken den Hinterbliebenen unser tiefstes Beileid aus. Martin wird uns fehlen.

📷 Martin Kunz vor einer Arbeit von Joseph Beuys in der Ausstellung WERDEN UND VERGEHEN. ZUSTANDSBERICHTE AUS DER SAMMLUNG, Kunstmuseum Luzern 2021, Foto: Eveline Beerkircher

25/10/2021

Our dear friend Martin, master of the arts, eternal young passionate scholar, acrobat of the memory, conjurer of objects (some of them disappeared by forgetting them somewhere!) has left us. We are announcing it to all friends and to those who knew him from near or far, sure of the trace he left in each of us. He taught us not to spare ourselves, to live intensely, to work with passion, to always travel and to love greeting friends, to give attention to details, through which the game of art is revealed. They are for us, these precious teachings that we will not forget. Full of feelings in our hearts we bid you farewell with the verses of a poet on an autumn day that he loved so much along with summer. Ciao Martin!

Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Day in autumn

After the summer's yield, Lord, it is time
to let your shadow lengthen on the sundials
and in the pastures let the rough winds fly.
As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness.
Direct on them two days of warmer light
to hale them golden toward their term, and harry
the last few drops of sweetness through the wine.
Whoever's homeless now, will build no shelter;
who lives alone will live indefinitely so,
waking up to read a little, draft long letters,
and, along the city's avenues,
fitfully wander, when the wild leaves loosen

Il nostro caro amico Martin, maestro di arte, eterno giovane studioso appassionato, acrobata della memoria, prestigiatore di oggetti (alcuni li faceva sparire dimentandoli da qualche parte!) ci ha lasciato. Ne diamo l'annuncio a tutti gli amici e a chi lo ha conosciuto da vicino o da lontano, sicuri della traccia che ha lasciato in ognuno di noi. Ci ha insegnato a non risparmiarci, a vivere intensamente, a lavorare con passione, a voler viaggiare e amare per salutare gli amici, a dare attenzione ai dettagli, attraverso cui il gioco dell'arte si rivela. Sono per noi, questi, preziosi insegnamenti che non dimenticheremo. Al colmo di sentimento nel cuore lo salutiamo con i versi di un poeta in una giornata d'autunno che lui amava tanto insieme all'estate. Ciao Martin!

Poesia di Rainer Maria Rilke
Giorno d'autunno

Signore: è tempo. Grande era l'arsura .
Deponi l'ombra sulle meridiane,
libera il vento sopra la pianura.
Fa' che sia colmo ancora il frutto estremo;
concedi ancora un giorno di tepore,che il frutto giunga a maturare, e spremi
nel grave vino l'ultimo sapore.
Chi non ha casa adesso, non l'avrà.
Chi è solo a lungo solo dovrà stare,
leggere nelle veglie, e lunghi fogli
scrivere, e incerto sulle vie tornare
dove nell'aria fluttuano le foglie.

27/06/2021

Martin Kunz holte Joseph Beuys 1979 für eine Ausstellung nach Luzern. Der Kunsthistoriker erinnert sich an Beuys als weltoffenen Menschen ohne Ressentiments.

26/06/2021

Tomorrow Sunday,27.06.21 at 11.00 a roundtable discussion between Alexandra Blaettler, curator of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Luzern about Joseph Beuys close relationship to this Museum , my 50 years of knowing Beuys and working as student assistant with him in Basel, the many encounters from Bern, Lucerne, Duesseldorf, Edinburgh, and as curator of the Exhibition in Lucerne Spuren in Italien/Trace in Italia and the major installation for the Venice Biennial 1980 Das Kapital-Raum 1979-1977, where I was one of the 4 main curators and among many installations specifically responsibke for that major Beuys piece, afterwards presented in Schaffhausen for 20 years by Urs Raussmueller : But tomorrow's ficus are the fattcorners Beuys installed in Lucerne in the small Kabinett with a major impact as the core of the Duesseldorfer Artists and the incredibke story afterwards that Beuys suggested to hokd them in a metallbox which underwent an adventurous story I was in part involved, later the box damaged to be taken as destroyed , but tge damaged box, still there, the damaged fattcorners still exist in a transformed state, and now it is in the exhibition cirated by Alexandra Blättler: WEREN -VERGEHEN and
we can speculate about the imagined reaction of the creator himself: what would he say : A prove of his theory that Sculpture is Energy in different stages, or That he woukld decline it as has still any relation anymore to his work of the gour fat corners ? You can come and see
the box and fat and judge your conclusions .
Martin Kunz - sorry taped in the shaking train going to Lucerne

Am Mittwoch war Martin Kunz, der Direktor des Kunstmuseums Luzern 1977–1989 zu Besuch. Am Sonntag wird er mit der Sammlungskonservatorin Alexandra Blättler über Joseph Beuys sprechen. Was verbindet den bedeutenden deutschen Künstler mit dem Kunstmuseum Luzern? Wie kam dessen Fettkiste in die Sammlung des Kunstmuseums? Und was ist mir ihr seither passiert?

Fette Kunst
Sonntag, 27.06., 11 Uhr

25/06/2021

Summertime news from K10 - Martin Kunz -

10/04/2021

Now in K10:

LUMINANZA - Reactor of contemporary Swiss Italian-speaking dramaturgy: a platform for meetings and workshops with the collaboration of supraregional, Swiss and international realities and the possibility of discovering and deepening dramaturgical writing. Luminanza is a project by V XX ZWEETZ, coordinated by Alan Alpenfelt and Mara Travella.

We were very happy to welcome them at the archive!

24/03/2021

Springtime news from K10 - Martin Kunz -

Upcoming projects.