Per Diem: Gerd Metzdorff’s collection

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Thomas Ruff, "Gisela Benzenberg," 1983

photograph transferred to plexiglass, 70 ¾" x 88 ½" Collection of Gerd Metzdorff

Per Diem: Gerd Metzdorff’s collection

Per Diem Guided Exhibition Tours

Aug 21, 2022, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Join Griffin Art Project’s Indigenous Curatorial Assistant, Emmett Hanly, for a series of guided tours of Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, on Sunday afternoons throughout the summer!

Join Griffin Art Projects’ adjunct curator, Dr. Karen Tam and special guests –Roxanne Arsenault and Pascal Desjardins, Dana Claxton, and Jamie Cameron and Christopher Bredt– for an engaging panel discussion focused on art collecting. Drawing on themes explored in Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, this panel explores how collecting art begins, how collections evolve over time and the relationships that develop between artists and collectors. After the presentations, join us for Chats & Chews, an informal post-conference discussion. 

Ranging from drawing, painting, photography, installation and sculpture, Gerd Metzdorff’s collection was drawn together over a period of more than thirty years. Originally derived from Metzdorff’s modest savings of the per diems provided to him by the airline where he was employed as a steward, he purchased work by some of the most important European and Canadian artists working today, often starting at the beginning of their careers and developing lifelong friendships with them.

The collection is presented to the public for the first time at Griffin Art Projects. With the passing of this enigmatic and remarkable Vancouver-based collector who collected art beginning in the 1980s, and with more than 200 works to choose from, this stunning collection features luminaries such as Linda Benglis, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Donald Judd and numerous others.