Karen van den Berg

Karen van den Berg (* 1963 ) is a German art historian and exhibition organizer.

academic career

Karen van den Berg studied art history, classical archeology and Nordic philology in Saarbrücken and Basel, where she worked with the German art historian Gottfried Boehm in 1995 with the work “The Passion to paint. On image perception with Matthias Grünewald ”(as a book: Duisburg / Berlin 1997). She has also been a curator since 1988. From 1993 to 2003 she was a lecturer at the University of Witten / Herdecke , where, together with her husband at the time, Jörg van den Berg , she founded and directed the program area for contemporary art "Art in Dialog" at the Fundamentale course. From 1991 to 1994 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and from 1994–96 together with Jörg van den Berg the Max Imdahl scholarship for art education . In 1994 she was Writer in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa / Texas . In 2003 van den Berg became professor and founding dean of the Department of Culture and Communication Studies at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. There she holds the chair for art theory and staging practice and is the spokesperson for the art program of the Zeppelin University as well as the laboratory for tacit and artistic knowledge.

In addition to various teaching assignments at home and abroad, she was a Fellow at the IKKM in Weimar in the 2016 summer semester and a visiting scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University in January 2017 . Since 2011 she has been a member of the board of trustees and advisory board of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and since 2014 member of the Arts Program of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. From 2007 to 2012 she was on the board of the “Association for Cultural Management”.

Karen van den Berg has two children and has been married to the educationalist Markus Rieger-Ladich since 2010. She is the daughter of the politician Egon Schübeler .

Research priorities and publications

Karen van den Berg's academic work deals with the production conditions of art and situates artistic practice in the context of cultural-scientific discourses. The focus is on modern and contemporary art. Her main research interests are studio research, artistic epistemes, art and politics, theory of staging and exhibiting, museum and educational architecture, artistic activism and art markets. In addition to the thematic focal points, she has written monographs and detailed essays etc. a. dealt with the following artists: Joseph Beuys , Matthias Grünewald , Korpys / Löffler, Mutter / Genth, Arnulf Rainer , Erich Reusch , SANAA , Katja Sander, Richard Serra , Rirkrit Tiravanija , Erwin Wortelkamp , Andrea Wolfensberger and the Center for Political Beauty .

Her most important publications include the volume “Art Production beyond the Art Market?” (2013) and the volume “Politik des Zeigens” (2010), edited together with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht . In 2016, together with Claus Volkenandt, she wrote the volume “Image Reception as Image Production. Selected writings on image theory, art perception and economic culture by Michael Bockemühl ”published.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See also the list of publications and lectures under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on www.zeppelin-university.de, accessed on November 26, 2011
• Literature by and about Karen van den Berg in the catalog of the German National Library