Ingvild Goetz
Ingvild Goetz collects contemporary art and is especially known for film, video and media installation, buying since the mid-1980s. She gave 375 media works and her Munich museum building to the State of Bavaria from 2014 and lent more than 5,500 other works long term.
Artists named in the collection
Rineke Dijkstra, Ryan Trecartin, Jeff Wall, Sterling Ruby, Giovanni Anselmo, Laurie Simmons
On record
- The 1993 building in Oberföhring was designed by Herzog and de Meuron and is now permanently closed.
- Exhibitions from the collection now run at the Schaufenster space in central Munich, including a Jeff Wall show from November 2026.
Institutional roles
- Adviser to the state-owned Sammlung Goetz
Questions
What does Ingvild Goetz collect?Ingvild Goetz collects contemporary art and is especially known for film, video and media installation, buying since the mid-1980s. She gave 375 media works and her Munich museum building to the State of Bavaria from 2014 and lent more than 5,500 other works long term.
Which artists are in the Ingvild Goetz collection?Cited sources name works by Rineke Dijkstra, Ryan Trecartin, Jeff Wall, Sterling Ruby, Giovanni Anselmo, Laurie Simmons.
Can the public see the collection of Ingvild Goetz?Yes. Works are shown at Sammlung Goetz in Munich, Germany.
Sources
- Donation, Sammlung Goetz
- Collector Ingvild Goetz strikes a deal with Bavaria over video installation collection, The Art Newspaper, 2013
- Sammlung Goetz home page, Sammlung Goetz, 2026
Last verified 2026-10-31.
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