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Deutsche Bank is proud to support those premier
arts and cultural institutions that contribute to the vitality
of the communities where our employees live and work. |
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2008 Sponsorship
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Metropolitan
Opera’s 125th Anniversary Season
September 22, 2008 |
Deutsche Bank is pleased to be a lead sponsor
for the opening night of the 2008 season of the Metropolitan
Opera. This year the Opera will celebrate its 125th Anniversary
Season. The opening night will take place on September 22,
2008 featuring renowned performer, Renee Fleming in three
of her most celebrated roles (Violetta in La Traviata, the
title role in Massenet’s Manon, and the Countess in
Capriccio.
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Deutsch
Bank Sponsors 2008 California Biennial
Orange County Museum of Art
March 2008 |
Deutsche Bank was a proud sponsor of the 2008
California Biennial, which included over 100 new works by
approximately 30 individual artists and collaborative groups.
The foremost survey of contemporary art by emerging artists
in California, the California Biennial has established an
unparalleled reputation for taking the pulse of contemporary
art in one of the world’s great creative centers. The
California Biennial has become known for responding to the
most thriving ideas and sensibilities found in a new generation
of artists working throughout the state. Their focus is on
California’s unique artistic ambience, which combines
ethnic and cultural diversity with an interest in youth culture
and an immersion in advanced technologies.
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Deutsche
Bank Sponsors Anish Kapoor Exhibition in Boston
May 30 - September 7, 2008
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future assembles 14 works made since
1980 at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. |
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Bank was pleased to sponsor an exhibition at the Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, by renowned artist, Anish Kapoor.
Deutsche Bank has been a long time supporter of the artist,
who is represented in the Deutsche Bank collection with numerous
works on paper as well as one of his most  important
sculptures, Turning the World Upside Down II (1996.) Upon
entering the lobby of the Deutsche Bank headquarters in London,
visitors are met by the gigantic shiny silvery ball in which
the entire room is reflected. The artist was also selected
as Artist of the Year by Deutsche Bank.
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2008
Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art
March 6 - June 1, 2008
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Deutsche Bank is delighted to be a contributing
sponsor of the 2008 Whitney Biennial, which is regarded as one
of the most preeminent surveys of contemporary art in the United
States today. Opening on March 6 at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, curators Shamin Momen and Henriette Huldisch have selected
a diverse group of 81 artists working in a variety of genres and
mediums. In keeping with Deutsche Bank's commitment to supporting
new ideas and aspiring young artists, the bank is proud to fund
new and commissioned work made especially for this bi -annual
exhibition. Several artists in the Deutsche Bank collection are
represented in the exhibit, including Phoebe Washburn, Karen Kilimnik,
James Welling and John Baldessari, among others.
For the first time, the Whitney will create a second venue in
the historic Seventh Regiment Armory Building. Beginning March
6 to March 23, from noon until 8 pm, the Armory will house an
exciting array of events, installations, performances, and other
public programs by Biennial artists. For a program list please
visit the museum website listed below.
2008 Whitney Biennial |
2007 Sponsorship
Highlights
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Richard
Prince: Spiritual America
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum
September 28, 2007 - January 9, 2008 |
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his appropriation-based practice,
Richard Prince makes it new by making it again. Although his photographs,
paintings, drawings, and sculptures are primarily recycled from
popular culture's inexhaustible well of anonymous imagery-through
the selection,cropping, sequencing, and grouping of the material
- a deeply personal perception is clearly conveyed, along with
an incisive commentary on present-day America.
The exhibition Richard Prince: Spiritual America focuses on the
themes and iconography of the artist's work. Deutsche Bank is
delighted to be sponsoring the first comprehensive exhibition
of Prince's oeuvre in the United States since 1992-a presentation
that will fill the museum's rotunda and adjacent galleries.
Support for important exhibitions of artists such as Constantin
Brancusi, James Rosenquist, and David Smith, as well as the joint
management of the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, which includes
the commissioning of site-specific works by established and emerging
artists, have been the focus of Deutsche Bank's collaboration
with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation as a Global Partner
since 1997.
The sponsorship of Richard Prince: Spiritual America is part of
Deutsche Bank's ongoing art program, which supports living artists
through acquisitions, commissioned artworks, and exhibition patronage.
Today, the Deutsche Bank Collection is the world's largest international
corporate collection, comprising more than 50,000 works of art.
Deutsche Bank organizes exhibitions of works from the collection
that tour museums around the world, and the program also comprises
funding for prestigious international projects such as the German
Pavilion at the 52nd International Venice Biennale and the Frieze
Art Fair in London.
The aim of these activities is to help make a substantial contribution
to the cultural life of our cities, as well as to present the
work of remarkable and distinguished artists to the public, our
clients, and staff members. In this way, Deutsche Bank seeks to
foster positive growth in urban communities and promote corporate
social responsibility.
For more information about Richard Prince: Spiritual America
please visit:
Deutsche
Bank Art
To learn more about this, and other Guggenheim exhibitions, please
visit:
Guggenheim
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Chelsea Art Museum
Miwa Yanagi |
May 3 - June 30, 2007
Miwa Yanagi received international acclaim for her 1992 series
of photographs, Elevator Girls, which explored consumer
culture and the role of women in Japanese society. Using color
photography, computer-generated images, and video, Yanagi continues
to explore the female psyche, constraint and liberation, and the
intersection of fantasy and reality. Her following series, My
Grandmothers, features images of her young Japanese models
imagining themselves fifty years into the future. The most recent
works further question women's relationship to each other in Fairy
Tales, based on the famous myths of the Brothers Grimm and
Hans Christian Andersen.
(Miwa Yanagi)
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Gordon Matta-Clark: "You Are the Measure" |
February 22 - June 3, 2007
Deutsche Bank is partnering with the Whitney Museum in a major
retrospective of this important but under-recognized sculptural
and installation artist of the twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark
worked at a time in the history of New York City when urban life
was in decline and the physical infrastructure was one of deterioration
and abandonment. With a combination of humor and passion, Matta-Clark's
art invited viewers to look closely and critically at their surroundings-drawing
attention to vital social concerns regarding architecture, public
space, and the marketplace. Although his life and career were
brief, Matta-Clark had a lasting influence on subsequent generations
of artists, writers, architects, and planners who hold him in
high regard as a leader in the Conceptual art movement and as
an urban folk hero.
(Gordon
Matta-Clark: "You Are the Measure")
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Metropolitan Opera: Opening Night |
September 24, 2007
Deutsche Bank is lead sponsor for the Met’s Opening Night. A Gala
Opening Night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor will
be presented in a new production by the visionary theater director
Mary Zimmerman. This talented director has earned international
recognition in the form of numerous awards, including the MacArthur
Fellowship and a 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction for Metamorphoses.
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Berlin
Philharmonic
November 13, 2007
Carnegie Hall
Magnus Lindberg "New Piece"
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 D-Major
November 19, 2007
Boston Symphony Hall
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 D-Major |
Deutsche Bank and the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic
have been working together since 1990. In the 2002-2003 season,
with the start of the new head conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, the
Bank and the Orchestra took their cooperation to the next level
by becoming partners.
One of global CSR’s programs in Germany is Zukunft@BPhil, an educational
music program aimed at introducing children and young adults to
the world of classical music. Through the program, the Berlin
Philharmonic conducts music and dance workshops for schoolchildren
in Berlin, who build self-confidence and discover their creative
potential in the process. These workshops culminate in a public
performance. In 2004, the documentary film about this project
– "Rhythm is it!" – premiered around the world to critical acclaim.
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2006-2007 Sponsorship
Highlights
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| "More
than meets the eye" Tour, Latin America |
January 27, 2006-September 30, 2007
The Deutsche Bank Art Department and the Deutsche Bank Americas
Foundation have organized a traveling photography exhibition in
conjunction with the Bank's Latin America branches and some of
the region's cultural institutions. The exhibition will travel
to Monterrey and Mexico City, Mexico; Bogota, Colombia; Lima and
Santiago, Chile; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The "More than meets the eye" features German photographs, series
and large-scale works, from the Bank's corporate art collection.
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| Metropolitan
Opera: Opening Night |
September 25, 2006
Deutsche Bank is lead sponsor for the Met’s Opening Night. A Gala
Opening Night performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
will be performed. This acclaimed production marks the met debuts
of British film director Anthony Minghella and an exciting group
of designers who have created a visually striking and highly dramatic
work.
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Solomon
R. Guggenheim
Zaha Hadid |
June 2-August 23, 2006
Zaha Hadid is one of the world’s most visionary architects. She
is the first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture
Prize in 2004. Hadid is internationally known for her projects
which have literally “shifted the geometry of buildings.” She
will be creating a site specific work for the Solomon R. Guggenheim
rotunda. The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has collaborated
with Deutsche Bank on an installation for the recent 25th anniversary
exhibit at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
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| Whitney
Biennial 2006: Day for Night |
March 3-May 28, 2006
(See below for A Journey That Wasn’t)
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R. Guggenheim |
David Smith: A Centennial
February 3-May 14, 2006
David Smith: A Centennial is the first retrospective of the American
artist's sculptures in New York since 1969, and the first in the
United States since 1982. Our commitment to this show is linked
in various ways to the exhibition Constantin Brancusi: The Essence
of Things. Smith had the highest respect for that artist's work,
and the impressive display of Brancusi's oeuvre in the Guggenheim
Museum in 2004 was also curated by Carmen Giménez and made possible
by Deutsche Bank.
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| Berlin
Philharmonic |
January 27, 2006
As part of its global partnership with the Berlin Philharmonic,
Deutsche Bank will sponsor their all-Mozart performance at Carnegie
Hall. Sir Simon Rattle will be music director and conductor with
Alfred Brendel on piano.
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2005 Sponsorship Highlights
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| Jewish
Museum |
November 14, 2005
Dr. Ackermann, Chairman of the Group Executive Committee Deutsche
Bank, will be honored at the Jewish Museum's Bridges to Understanding
Awards Dinner.
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| Microfinance
Consortium Launch |
November 3, 2005
Deutsche Bank will host an event launching the innovative $75
million Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium, a fund which
will provide new capital and ideas for the growth of the microfinance
sector. The consortium is being formed as an innovative partnership
of commercial and institutional investors, including major corporations,
religious pension funds and venture philanthropists as well as
the development agencies of the U.S., British and French governments.
This partnership leveraged institution capital to increase capacity
for this sector and helps to reinforce microfinance as a commercially
viable asset class.
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| Brooklyn
Academy of Music |
2005 Next Wave Festival
October 22, 2005
This festival celebrates groundbreaking international performances
with visionary artists from around the world, complemented by
humanities events, films, live music, and visual art. As part
of the 2005 Next Wave season, Deutsche Bank is sponsoring the
production of Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury's Carnaval Eletronico,
the Latin Grammy-nominated album.
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| A
Journey That Wasn't |
October 14, 2005
Deutsche Bank is delighed to one of the sponsors of the 2006 Whitney.
The lead sponsor of the Biennial is Altria. In addition to all
the Biennial benefits, Deutsche Bank will also receive the benefit
of sponsoring a unique conceptual art installation in Central
Park at Wollman skating rink on Friday, October 14th at 6:30 p.m.
in conjunction with the Public Art Fund.
The young, emerging and noteworthy French artist Pierre Huyghe*
will transform the Wollman skating rink into his journey for a
newly discovered, distant island in Antarctica. Global warming
has opened new landscapes and the artist earlier this year set
out on a journey to Antarctica to search for an unknown island
and an encounter with a unique solitary creature-an albino penguin.
The public art piece accompanied by a symphonic orchestra is based
on this journey and will be filmed at dusk. This one of a kind
experience is both a show and a film shoot, which will record
both the show and the audience members who watch it, so that they
could be part of the film. The film will then be shown at the
Biennial, which opens in March, in its own gallery on the ground
floor.
*Pierre Huyghe has recently moved to NYC, won the Hugo Boss Prize
in 2002, received a Special Award from the Venice Biennale in
2001, and in 2006 will have solo shows at the Tate Modern and
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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| Metropolitan
Opera: Opening Night |
September 19, 2005
Deutsche Bank served as lead sponsor for the Met's Opening Night.
A Gala Opening Night Performance of Act I of Mozart's Le Nozze
di Figaro, Act II of Puccini's Tosca, and Act III of Saint-Sains'
Samson et Dalila was performed on September 19, 2005.
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| The
Gates of Central Park |
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
February 12, 2005 Deutsche Bank is corporate
founding partner of The Gates Alliance for Central Park,
where proceeds from the Christo public art project will benefit
Nurture New York's Nature, a non-profit organization dedicated
to promoting sustainable development through environmental initiatives
in New York City. Beginning on February 12, 2005, Christo
and Jeanne-Claude will display The Gates for 16 days
in Central Park. This ambitious project will have 7,500
16-foot-high gates bearing hanging saffron-colored cloth lining
some 23 miles of pedestrian pathways in Central Park.
The Gates will call attention to the remarkable natural
beauty of Central Park while attracting world-wide attention
to New York City.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for their visually compelling
works, including the “Reichstag Wrapped” in which
the artists enfolded the Berlin Reichstag with shimmery, silvery
fabric, a project that brought the city some $700 million due
to increased tourism.
For the first time in their forty years of creating public art
throughout the world, the artists have made the generous gift
of a license agreement, which includes products and events commemorating
and celebrating The Gates, to benefit the City of New
York. Nurture New York’s Nature was formed to serve
as the ongoing steward of the license proceeds.
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| 2004 Sponsorship Highlights |
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Latin
America |
“Return of the Giants” Tour
October 2002-May 2004
The Deutsche Bank Art Department and the Deutsche Bank Americas
Foundation have organized a traveling exhibition in conjunction
with the Bank’s Latin America branches and some of the
region’s most prestigious cultural institutions.
The exhibition will travel to Monterrey and Mexico City, Mexico;
Sao Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile.
The “Return of the Giants” features 150 works on
paper and paintings from the Bank’s corporate art collection.
First generation New Figurationists such as Georg Baselitz,
Karl Heinz Hodicke, Antonius Hockelmann, Jorg Immendorff, Dieter
Krieg, Markus Lupertz and A.R. Penck will be on display, as
well as Germany’s younger generation of “new Savages”
Elvira Bach, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Rainer Fettigund
and Helmut Middendorf.
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| Metropolitan
Opera: Opening Night |
| September 20, 2004
Deutsche Bank will serve as lead sponsor for the Met's Opening
Nights from 2001-2004. A Gala Opening Night Performance
of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello is scheduled for September
20,2004. Ben Heppner will sing the title role for the first
time at The Met, with Barbara Frittoli as Desdemona and Carlo
Guelfi as Lago. Mestro James Levine will conduct.
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| Wall
Street Rising |
| Art Downtown
Fall 2004
Deutsche Bank is lead sponsor for Wall Street Rising's ART DOWNTOWN
II, a public art event featuring world renowned contemporary artists
from the Bank’s collection presented in five buildings in New
York's historic Financial District. Each of the five exhibits
will be curated by a "Guest Curator" in the creative arts, including
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Diane von Furstenberg, Danny Simmons and
Russell Simmons, and Robert Wilson, and will include artworks
from their private collections. All locations are in close proximity
and can be viewed during and after work.
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| Berlin |
| Grameen Microcredit Development
Fall 2004
For the past three years, Deutsche Bank is lead sponsor of the
Grameen Foundation USA’s Annual Awards Ceremony. Grameen
Bank, a pioneer in the field of microfinance, has since its 1976
inception in Bangladesh loaned more that 3.7 billion dollars to
the world’s poorest families so they could build small businesses
and lift themselves from poverty. The Deutsche Bank Humanitarian
Award was created to honor a single individual who has provided
outstanding leadership and vision in addressing poverty.
This fall the Awards Ceremony will be held at Deutsche Bank Berlin
where Bank clients will be invited. On November 5, 2003
at the Pierre Hotel, the Deutsche Bank Humanitarian Award was
presented to Graca Machel based on her outstanding lifetime contributions
to creating a better world for children. She has been a
major force in increasing literacy and schooling in Mozambique
and is world-renowned for her commitment to children’s and
women’s rights, education, and development.
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Academy of Music |
| 2004 Next Wave Festival
October 19, 21-24, 26-30 2004
This festival celebrates groundbreaking international performances
with visionary artists from around the world, complemented by
humanities events, films, live music, and visual art.
As part of the 2004 Next Wave season, Deutsche Bank is
sponsoring the production of The Temptation of St. Anthony,
a new opera directed by Robert Wilson, based on the unique interpretation
of Gustave Flaubert’s novel.
Robert Wilson's retelling of Flaubert's novel is an electrifying,
inspirational gospel musical. For his latest work, he teamed
up with Bernice Johnson Reagon founder of the a cappella ensemble
Sweet Honey in the Rock. The Temptation of St. Anthony
had its world premiere on June 20, 2003 as part of the RuhrTriennale
festival in Duisburg Germany. Mark Swed of the Los Angeles
Times writes "Wilson strips nearly all of the verbal excess
from Flaubert's ornate text, relying upon Reagon's gospel numbers
to recount the basic themes of doubts and belief. Of the
14-member all-black chorus, Swed says "It is breathtaking
to watch these singers possess the stage. Each is amazing,
and there can be no question that they believe every word they
sing."
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R. Guggenheim |
Brancusi: The Essence of Things
June 11-September 19, 2004
On June 11, the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum will launch a new
exhibit, Brancusi: The Essence of Things. Deutsche
Bank is the sponsor of this exhibit, which is organized by Tate
Modern, London in collaboration with the Guggenheim. Constantin
Brancusi (1876-1957) was one of the founding figures of modern
sculpture and introduced abstraction and primitivism into sculpture.
Brancusi’s serene, simplified sculptures are widely acknowledged
as icons of modernism. His choice of materials, including
marble, limestone, bronze, and wood, and his individual expression
through carving established him as a leading avant-garde artist.
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