The MGKSiegen’s collection presents internationally important works of art from 1915 until today. It currently comprises 400 items, including many extensive work groups and lots. Unique paintings and printed works are complemented by outstanding photographic series and portfolio pieces, as well as installative and time-based works from the 1960s to the present day.
Among the highlights of the collection are the works of the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, which comprises representative works by all fourteen past winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, who are Hans Hartung, Giorgio Morandi, Francis Bacon, Antoni Tàpies, Fritz Winter, Emil Schumacher, Cy Twombly, Rupprecht Geiger, Lucian Freud, Maria Lassnig, Sigmar Polke, Bridget Riley, Niele Toroni and Miriam Cahn. The paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures in the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection offer unique access to the history of contemporary painting.
The second field of the Contemporary Art Collection, is dominated by the media of photography, video and installation. Here, the generation of artists who pursued the dissolution of the genres in the 1960s (Bernd and Hilla Becher, Terry Fox, Hans Haacke, Nancy Holt, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Charlotte Posenenske, Yvonne Rainer, William Wegman, Stephen Willats and others) now enters into an exemplary dialogue with younger artists such as Mariana Castillo Deball, Bernhard Fuchs, Katharina Grosse, Candida Höfer, Aglaia Konrad, Jochen Lempert, Armin Linke, Stefan Panhans or Diana Thater.
