Under the auspices of the Corona pandemic, the year 2020 brought some changes. The closure for about four months, cancelled school trips and group tours decimated visitor numbers considerably - but individual guests and families stormed the museum halls with all the greater enthusiasm after a long absence. Due to the lack of events, the chronicle looks a little more than before at the work behind the scenes.
The small museum team used the time gained for the elaborate preparation of various exhibitions in other museums. A total of 73 loans had to be prepared for the large Stolz-Lausen retrospective in the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie and the Chemnitz Kunstsammlungen, 62 for the Heide Stolz exhibition in the Darmstädter Kunsthalle and another four went to the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich.
The development, printing and detail work of the active sheets could also almost be completed in 2020. The offer, initially intended for families, was also gratefully accepted by school children and students and found its way directly into the Bavarian curriculum for secondary schools.
The organisation of the "Oak Plantings in Honour of Joseph Beuys" continued to play a significant role in the museum's work. Especially in times of pandemic, it was not only this action that proved its worth, carrying art into the outdoor space independently of the museum, but also the active arches that allow an independent encounter with the work of art. Above all, however, Heiner Friedrich's museum concept proved its worth: while the closures of blockbuster exhibitions and the cancellation of large-scale events shook the cultural scene worldwide, the artworks in the (permanent) collection at Museum DASMAXIMUM reliably await their visitors.
You can read the annual chronicle 2020 here here.