Mömphenglandbach in Germany that is home to one of the oldest football team. Interesting space where major artists from the 1960s and beyond, I stop in a room with only works by Gerhard Richter.
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Mömphenglandbach, west of Düsseldorf, Germany. It opened in 1982 and has a long history. There are artworks from 1960 onwards. The location is about a 20 minute walk along the main street from Mömphenglandbach Central Station. There is an unusual building just off the main street.
There are two entrances. One entrance is from the ground floor and the other is outside on the top (second floor) of the building. This museum is on a hill, and if you come up from the bottom, you will enter through this outdoor entrance.
Enter from the ground floor. There is an exhibition space behind the reception desk. I have asked a man at the reception desk, “Do you have a map of the building ?” He has responded, “there is no map due to the museum’s policy and the concept was for visitors to freely walk around and feel the atmosphere”. I thought that make sense and walked through the exhibition space.
There is a space in the center, and small rooms are arranged on several steps. Ground floor, semi-basement, 1st floor, 2nd floor. On the second floor, there were two nice rooms with a little bit of light coming in from the ceiling. One area is a wonderful space with eight gray paintings by Gerhard Richter. Among others: Yves Klein, Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Yayoi Kusama.
I happened to come across Yayoi Kusama’s work in the gap between the pillars while walking in the semi-basement that I had forgotten to look at. This is also the case with the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, which uses the shade of pillars to display works.
Overall, I have never seen the space design like in this museum before, and it was a relaxing space with few people. It is worth visiting the room on the second floor with Gerhard Richter’s artworks.
Basic Information
■ Name : Museum Abteiberg
■ Address : Abteistraße 27, 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany
■ Homepage：https://museum-abteiberg.de/?lang=en
■ Others
I was concerned about the staff standing inside the building, probably because there were almost no people in the building.
