Image series 42 / 2024: The Joy of Collecting
Objects of Everyday Use, Old or Unusual Objects
People have loved collecting things for centuries. Whether it’s stamps, football cards, dinosaurs, precious stones, beer coasters, fossils, porcelain figures, dolls, matchboxes or art, people have collected and continue to collect old or unusual things. Sometimes for a lifetime, sometimes only until another collection object becomes more attractive.
The exhibition showcases the diversity of collecting and the people behind the collections. For the digital part, everyone can post pictures of their private collections on Instagram and
become part of the exhibition: #kölnsammelt.
“Collect! What we collect”
24 September until 17 November 2024, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Adriaan de Lelie. De kunstgalerij van Jan Gildemeester Jansz in zijn huis aan de Herengracht, Ausschnitt, 1794 – 1795, olieverfpaneel, 63,7 × 85,7 cm, Amsterdam; Amsterdam Museum
Honoré Victorin Daumier. L’amateur d’estampes, Ausschnitt, Öl auf Leinwand; The Daumier Register, Ascona
Verschiedene Kaleidoskope, Sammlung Nekes, Ausschnitt, um 1850; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Aby Warburg. Mnemosyne-Atlas, Tafel 79, Ausschnitt, um 1929, 140 × 170 cm; Digitale Diathek, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Staatsdruckerei Wien. Postzegel Republik Indonesia, Ausschnitt, 1949, papersteel engraving, 40 × 30 mm, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam