Founded in 1827 the Württembergische Kunstverein is based on the commitment of its approximately 3,000 members, of which nearly half are artists. Württembergischer Kunstverein is a venue for an open examination of the manifold approaches and practices of contemporary art – and their far-reaching social and political fields of reference. Here, open implies above all to activate multilayered and contradictory readings and re-readings of contemporary art and its discourses.