Andreas Hapkemeyer

Andreas Hapkemeyer (born August 23, 1955 in Osnabrück ) is a Germanist , art historian and museum expert living in South Tyrol .

biography

Hapkemeyer grew up in Bolzano since 1967 and studied art history and German studies in Innsbruck from 1974 to 1981 . From 1981 to 1982 he was a teaching assistant for German language and literature at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. From 1983 to 1988 he worked as a lecturer in German language and literature at the University of Messina . Since 1992 he has been teaching at the institutes for art history and German studies at the University of Innsbruck, and later also in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Bozen. In 1995, Hapkemeyer's habilitation in modern German literature took place. After an assistantship from 1988 he was director of the Museion , the museum for modern and contemporary art in Bolzano from 2000 to 2006 . He has worked on exhibitions with, among others, Lawrence Weiner, Maurizio Nannucci, Heinz Gappmayr, Hamish Fulton, Matt Mullican, Raymond Pettibon and new drawings on the subjects of photo-text, horizontals, art and advertising. From 2007-08 he was coordinator of Manifesta 7, the European Biennial for Contemporary Art (Bolzano / Trient). From 2006 to 2013 he was a board member of the International Foundation Manifesta (Amsterdam). Since 2010 he has been responsible for research / teaching at the Museion (focus on image-text relationships).

Works (in selection)

• The linguistic theme in Ingeborg Bachmann's late prose. Types of death and forms of language, Europäische Hochschulschriften 496, Frankfurt (Lang) 1982.
• Ingeborg Bachmann. Pictures from her life, Munich (Piper) 1983.
• Nie, Piesport / Bozen (Ottenhausen Verlag - Edition Spatia) 1988.
• Transformations. On the word Nie Piesport / Bozen (Ottenhausen Verlag - Edition Spatia) 1989.
• Ingeborg Bachmann. Lines of development in life and work, Vienna (publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) 1991.
• Slide show. Studio su Dürrenmatt, Milan (Guerini) 1991.
• Hell and devil. A complex of motifs from Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Innsbruck Contributions to Cultural Studies 1995.
• Language in Art. Linguistic structures in contemporary art. Examples from the Museion - Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Bozen, Regensburg (Lindinger + Schmid) 2004.
• ... and that's supposed to be poetry. Studies on the 'new language' in poetry and art since the 1950s, Würzburg (Königshaus & Neumann), 2012.
• Hans Glauber. Pictures from the mechanical city, Bozen / Vienna (Folio), 2013.
• Experience art in South Tyrol. From grimaces, frescoes and facades, Bozen / Vienna (Folio) 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Hapkemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita and publications from the University of Bolzano
• Review of "Language in Art "