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Birgit Gnerlich
You live and work in Stuttgart. How did you become a member of the Deutsche Guggenheim Club in Berlin?
The Guggenheim in New York always fascinated me, so when I found out about the Deutsche Guggenheim, and the membership offer was lying there on my table, I made my decision very quickly. I was also keen on the possibility of meeting and getting to know Deutsche Bank clients interested in art. In my everyday life, I unfortunately don’t come into contact with art all that frequently, so it’s a good opportunity to explore it more. But I can also make a present of a Deutsche Guggenheim Club membership to my clients, who, of course, think it’s great that Deutsche Bank makes such a thing possible. Clients love it when we visit the exhibitions here with them.
Which exhibition did you especially like?
I found the Anish Kapoor show simply fantastic. But then I went with some colleagues to see Phoebe Washburn’s grass factory. My colleagues, who were not quite as familiar with art, asked me if I was pulling their leg. We looked at the installation without a guide, and things like that are almost always difficult. But I find art especially fascinating when it challenges me and I don’t understand what it means at first. Then, when I revisit the exhibition with a guide and everything goes “click,” it’s so great to understand the artist’s thoughts. That’s why I find the programs with the art to be extremely important.
This is the aim of the club’s various activities with schoolchildren and youths.
I’ve already taken part in a social project in which we visited an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie with a group of children. The kids came from an SOS Children’s Village Project in Berlin-Moabit. They were really interested. I think it’s great that these things reach out to children from homes where art is not really talked about.
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