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Wemhöner Collection

»The art I encounter and surround myself with improves my quality of life. It gives me strength and inspires me,«

ISAAC JULIEN, Horizon / Elsewhere (Playtime), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

German businessman Heiner Wemhöner started collecting contemporary art in the late 1990s.

Part of his collection is housed in Wemhöner’s company building, based in the East Westphalian city of Herford where it may be visited by appointment. During Berlin Gallery Weekend 2014, Wemhöner exhibited the Wemhöner collection for the first time in a former lightbulb factory in Berlin, the Osram-Höfe in the district of Wedding, where the installation shots seen in this online exhibition were taken.

The presentation of works in Berlin sought to highlight some of the primary focuses in the collection featuring contemporary works from China by artists such as Chen Xiaoyun and Yin Xiuzhen as well as a vivid combination of painting, photography and sculpture by renown international artists such as Roger Ballen, Tony Cragg, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Joseph Kosuth and Andreas Mühe.

ALFREDO JAAR, Gold in the Morning (Black), 1985. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ALFREDO JAAR, Shanghai (el artista del futuro), 2005. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

DARREN ALMOND, Fullmoon@The Sea of Clouds, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ANTONY GORMLEY, TIP, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ALFREDO JAAR, Other People Think, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ANTONY GORMLEY, Clasp VI, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

Installation View Sammlung Wemhöner. Courtesy Sammlung Wemhöner

ANDREAS MÜHE, Dönitz 43 II, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ANDREAS MÜHE, Darges 42 II, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ASTA GRÖTING, Acker, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

HANS OP DE BEECK, Clouds (Study) II, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ERIK VAN LIESHOUT, Daniëlle (sister), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

Installation View Sammlung Wemhöner Installation View Sammlung Wemhöner

IMI KNOEBEL, Anima Mundi 2014-11, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ISAAC JULIEN, Eclipse (Playtime), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

ANDREAS MÜHE, Wandlitz, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

JOSEPH KOSUTH, Double Reading, 1993. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER, Two Executed Lovers, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

TONY CRAGG, Cauldron, 2005. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

LIU WEI, Jungle No.21, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

GUILLAUME BRUÈRE, Dancers (17 Januar 2013), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER, A Pair of Selfish Portraits, 2013. Courtesy the artists and Sammlung Wemhöner

SHEN FAN, Punctuation – Dwelling in the Mountains (I–V), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

GEORG BASELITZ, Zweimalerich, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER, Maze 78, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Wemhöner

Insights into the Wemhöner Collection

The Wemhöner Collection is featured in the BMW ART GUIDE by INDEPENDENT COLLECTORS.

For more information visit Wemhöner Collection.

Wemhöner Collection

»The art I encounter and surround myself with improves my quality of life. It gives me strength and inspires me,«

Germany (114)

You are the Concept

Private sessions with IC founder and strategist Christian Kaspar Schwarm.

Sammlung Gräfling

The young couple merges private and public spaces by displaying their collection at their home in a prestigious historic apartment.

Mario & Julia von Kelterborn

The von Kelterborn Collection isn’t for the faint of heart—although that’s not to say the works are visually jarring.

Julia Stoschek

Sergej Timofejev in conversation with Julia Stoschek: one of the most active and famous collectors of time-based art.

Boros Bunker #4

This former techno-club has been home to the private collection and residence of Christian and Karen Boros.

Christine and Andrew Hall

Interview with the collectors behind Hall Art Foundation

The Walther Collection

A collection of photographs, spanning the early days of photography to the contemporary

Philara Collection

Since the mid 1990s, Gil Bronner’s collection has grown to more than 1 400 works

haubrok projects

Lollie Barr meets collector Axel Haubrok in Lichtenberg

Wurlitzer Berlin-Pied-à-Terre Collection

Gudrun and Bernd Wurlitzer have created a space where artworks sit comfortably alongside signs of everyday life

KUNSTSAELE Berlin

Geraldine Michalke provides one of the most dynamic sites for aesthetic exchanges in Berlin

The Feuerle Collection

Désiré Feuerle has turned a site of isolation and paranoia into a place infused with humanity, lightness and sensuality

Ingrid & Thomas Jochheim

The collector couple describes the discovery process, which has led them to around 700 artworks to date, as emotional

ARNDT Collection

Tiffany Wood and Matthias Arndt aim to collect works that create disturbance

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

Alexander Tutsek and Dr. Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek share a passion for glass

PRIOR Art Space

Oliver Elst and Laura del Arco have built significant collections, both individually and together

Elke and Arno Morenz Collection

A collection about seven postwar avant-garde movements

BRAUNSFELDER Family Collection – Gute Nacht

An exhibition inspired by a song from Franz Schubert’s cycle “Winterreise” (1827)

Museum Brandhorst

Francesca Gavin and Benjamin Jaworskyj explore this dazzling space in Munich.

AT HOME WITH IC x sammlung FIEDE

Video art in times of crises: Selection 12 presents the work of Berlin artist and performer Constantin Hartenstein.

The Essence of Existence at Woods Art Institute

The Woods Art Institute (WAI) is a park destination near Hamburg for the experience, teaching & creation of art located in nature, as part of the Sachsenwald Forest.

Collection Night

A new twilight initiative takes places in Berlin to bring private collections together in a special programme.

Wege Zur Welt / Connections To The World

The Hildebrand Collection showcases its thirteenth temporary exhibition at its Leipzig home, the G2 Kunsthalle.

Alexander Tutsek Stiftung – About Us

See inside the exhibition, About Us, intended as a contribution to the discourse on contemporary photography in China.

You Are Here

"You are here" presents works from the Peters-Messer Collection, exhibited at the Werkschauhalle in Leipzig's former cotton spinning mill.

Warhol and Works on Paper

Editions and works on paper from The Dirk Lehr Collection.

Art is a Window – Christian Kaspar Schwarm

Una Meistere in conversation in Berlin with IC founder Christian Kaspar Schwarm.

Young Desire and Cuperior

A young collector pushing young artists to be seen and heard.

Kunstwerk – Sammlung Klein

Alison and Peter W. Klein are two collectors who do not follow art-market trends but instead only buy what they love.

The Peters-Messer Collection at the Weserburg

Bremen’s river museum, the Weserburg, hosted works of the Peters-Messer Collection, provoking an investigation of present day qualms and the function of art alongside these.

Friedrich & Johanna Gräfling

The young collectors with collaboration at the heart of their collection.

ALLES NOTWENDIGE (Everthing Necessary)

We newly introduce Braunsfelder – the private initiative of a Cologne family, who in their current exhibition (which can be visited) present the urgency for art, especially in difficult times.

Dirk Lehr Collection

A look inside the Berlin-based collection that refuses to follow trends.

The Art of Recollecting

A selection of artworks from the Hildebrand Collection that explore individual and collective memories.

Max & Corina Krawinkel

What might have initially begun as two collectors with two very different tastes has now resulted in one of Germany’s most important collections of contemporary art by West German artists.

Generation Loss

With fifteen exhibitions under its belt and over 100 000 visitors through its doors, the Julia Stoschek Collection is officially celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Recent Histories

Uniting the perspectives of contemporary artists of African descent who investigate social identity.

Yvonne Roeb

Inside the studio of the artist with the unusual collection.

Christian Kaspar Schwarm “Young Collections”