SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen presents art of the 20th and 21st centuries (painting, sculpture, photography and installation art) in temporary exhibitions and based on Peter Schaufler’s (1940–2015) and Christiane Schaufler-Münch’s impressive art collection. Since the museum’s opening in June 2010, SCHAUWERK belongs to the leading locations for contemporary art in southern Germany.

For more than three decades, the Sindelfingen businessman Peter Schaufler and his wife were building up a private art collection. As the head of the internationally active company BITZER Peter Schaufler was a kind of entrepreneurial globetrotter. He travelled almost non-stop: Brazil, China, USA, Australia and, time and again, Italy. Yet it was not business alone that interested the Schauflers in these countries. Besides the business appointments, their trips included visits to museums, galleries and fairs. Many works from the Schaufler Collection hang on the walls of BITZER’s subsidiaries to this day so that the company employees have been able to benefit from their private passion for a long time. The Schauflers had actually never planned to open a museum. The idea did not emerge until the production site in Sindelfingen had become too small and the old production hall and a high rack warehouse were vacant. The collection had become so extensive and some of the works were so large that it had long been impossible to accommodate everything in private living spaces or at company sites.

Today museum visitors can enjoy a spacious and elegant complex of buildings presenting the outstanding collection that includes great names in contemporary art such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Katharina Grosse, and Anish Kapoor. Among the collectors’ first acquisitions were pieces from the ZERO movement and its pioneers such as Lucio Fontana. The reduction and clarity of these works characterize the collection, that today comprises of more than 3,500 works. It also impresses with significant photographs from Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Wolfgang Tillmans, and others. Works by Günther Uecker, Dan Flavin, and Donald Judd are already part of the canon of contemporary art. However, lesser-known positions in the minimalist tradition are part of the collection as well.

Moreover, SCHAUWERK dedicates large monographic exhibitions that include international loans to artists represented in the collection. In recent years, special exhibitions on Antony Gormley, Tom Sachs, Chiharu Shiota and Doug Aitken have been realized.

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