Hombroich is a museum and artists' site, a landscape and a place for architecture as well as for events in art, literature, philosophy and music. Created as an ongoing "open experiment" and resulting from the personal commitment of private collectors and artists with long-term ties to Hombroich, the Insel Hombroich Foundation, founded in 1997, has developed a cultural space with the Museum Insel Hombroich, the Hombroich Rocket Station and the Kirkeby Field, which is expanded and enriched by independent partners: The Langen Foundation, the Sculpture Hall of the Thomas Schütte Foundation and the Feld-Haus - Museum for Popular Printmaking. The Hombroich Island Foundation and partner institutions each contribute to the development of the Hombroich cultural area in their own way by organizing exhibitions, symposia and concerts.
Museum Insel Hombroich
Art parallel to nature. The motto of Museum Insel Hombroich, based on a statement by Paul Cézanne that art is a harmony parallel to nature, characterizes the design of an ideal museum and landscape space. The collector Karl-Heinrich Müller developed it together with the artists Gotthard Graubner (collection installation) and Erwin Heerich (walk-in sculptures) and the landscape planner Bernhard Korte (landscape) to present an important art collection.
The Museum Insel Hombroich, which opened in 1987, comprises a landscape conservation area of 21 hectares and is purely a daylight museum with ten walk-in sculptures, some of which are used as exhibition buildings. In order to make art and nature a sensory experience, there is no artificial lighting, no signage, captions, barriers etc. and no didactics of any kind.
The Hombroich missile station
Halls, hangars, bunker systems; partly underground facilities: retrospective views that we must not lose sight of as part of our history of an old Federal Republic.
Since 1994, the former NATO missile station has been used as a complement to Museum Insel Hombroich as a place for the development of art and architecture and as a living and working space for artists from the fields of art, literature and music. The artists and architects Raimund Abraham, Tadao Ando, Dietmar Hofmann, Erwin Heerich, Oliver Kruse, Katsuhito Nishikawa, Claudio Silvestrin and Álvaro Siza were involved in its redesign and redevelopment.
Kirkeby Field
The area named after Per Kirkeby enables art installations and the realization of other artistic formats (Three Chapels) in five buildings by the Danish artist, including the Kahmen Collection and the Feld-Haus - Museum for Popular Printmaking operated by the Clemens Sels-Museum Neuss.
