Art | 09.01.2007
Guggenheim's Mobile Exhibit a Money-Maker in Bonn
Initially, around 600,000 visitors had been expected to view "The Guggenheim Collection" at the National Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, which opened in July 21, yet in the end over 800,000 came to see the show.
"We're extremely pleased," a museum spokesperson told reporters, not least because the 12-million euro ($15.6 million) exhibit broke even with the 600,000th guest and started making a profit after that.
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The Bonn exhibit featured works from all five of the Guggenheim museums
The exhibit, which welcomed thousands of visitors per day, showcased works from the late 19th century with paintings by Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh as well as from the 20th century, with masters like Pablo Picasso, Vassily Kandinsky, Andy Warhol, and Jackson Pollock.
The most recent works included photography and art installations from the 1990s. In total, nearly 200 pieces from all five of Guggenheim's permanent museums -- in New York, Las Vegas, Venice, Berlin and Bilbao -- were on display.
Guggenheim's cooperation with the Bonn museum has been compared to a guest exhibit of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from New York at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie in 2004, where some 1.2 million visitors viewed the show.
