The ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst opened its doors in Karlsruhe in December 1999 with the goal of making works from important private art collections in Baden-Württemberg accessible to the public. A large exhibition has now been prepared on the occasion of the museum’s tenth anniversary that will demonstrate that the state of Baden-Württemberg is unequalled in its unique concentration of private collectors. Nowhere else in the country are the private collections so diverse, of such high quality, and so internationally oriented. As a veritable musée imaginaire, this volume assembles major works from these collections, providing a rich survey of artistic movements and tendencies from the onset of modernism to the present day. This opulently illustrated publication contains works by a wide variety of artists, such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, and Tobias Rehberger.
 
Exhibition schedule: ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, December 5, 2009–April 11, 2010

PETER WEIBEL (* 1944, Odessa) is an internationally known media and conceptual artist, curator, and art and media theoretician. Since the 1960s his work has firmly regarded artistic creativity as an open-ended field of activity. He was head of the ZKM, Karlsruhe until 2020. Since 2017 he has been director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Culture at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.