Goetz Collection

{{Short description|Art museum in Munich, Germany}}

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The Goetz Collection (Sammlung Goetz) is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany.{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchigallery.com/museums/museum-profile/Goetz+Collection/388.html|title=Goetz Collection :: The Saatchi Gallery|first=Saatchi|last=Gallery|website=www.saatchigallery.com|access-date=2018-03-02|archive-date=2018-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303050807/http://www.saatchigallery.com/museums/museum-profile/Goetz+Collection/388.html|url-status=dead}} It opened in 1992.{{cite book|author1=Terence Riley|author2=Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)|title=Light Construction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n1OFTXJNzVsC&pg=PA50|year=1995|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-129-0|pages=50–}} The collection is owned and continually being enlarged by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz,{{cite book|author=Rainald Schumacher|title=American Art: From the Goetz Collection, Munich|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtLpAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Distributed Art Pub Incorporated|isbn=9788086443034 }} who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum. Rather than taking an encyclopedic view, the collection focuses on developing particular artists.{{cite book|author=Alessia Zorloni|title=Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HbhDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|date=19 August 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-24241-5|pages=141–}}

Sammlung Goetz organizes exhibitions along with video and film programmes on the lower level of the building.{{cite web|url=https://www.br.de/themen/kultur/kuenstlerinnen-25-jahre-sammlung-goetz-100.html|title="Künstlerinnen im Dialog": Die Sammlung Goetz zeigt die dreiteilige Ausstellung "Generations" - BR.de|first=Christine Hamel, Bayerischer|last=Rundfunk|date=20 February 2018|publisher=}} The building was designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron.{{cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/211932/sammlung-goetz-munich-herzog-de-meuron|title=Sammlung Goetz Munich / Herzog & de Meuron|date=27 February 2012|publisher=}}{{cite book|author=Brent Richards|title=New Glass Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EgwxpcDRxKEC&pg=PA48|year=2006|publisher=Laurence King Publishing|isbn=978-1-85669-376-9|pages=48–}}

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