Andrea Jahn

Andrea Jahn (* 1965 in Neu-Ulm ) is a German art historian and director of the Saarbrücken City Gallery . On July 1, 2020, she became the art and cultural studies director of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation and thus director of the Saarland Museum .

Life

Jahn studied German, English and art history in Tübingen, Munich, New York and Trier and received his doctorate in 1997 in art history from the University of Trier with a dissertation on Louise Bourgeois - subversions of the body: the art of the 1940s to 1970s . She started out as an exhibition curator at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart . Until 2005 she was curator and deputy director of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart , then director of the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen . On September 1, 2012, she took over the management of the Stadtgalerie in Saarbrücken. On July 1, 2020, she became chairwoman of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation, taking over the management of the Saarland Museum.

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• Louise Bourgeois - Subversions of the Body: The Art of the 1940s to 1970s . At the same time dissertation at the University of Trier (1997), Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-496-01185-9

As editor

• Chiharu Shiota: The Way into Silence . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, 2003, ISBN 978-3-88423-211-8
• Martin Walde - Hallucigenia: fiction from facts . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0359-3
• In the cut: the male body in feminist art . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7356-0514-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Barbara Grech: Andrea Jahn becomes the new museum director , Saarländischer Rundfunk, June 15, 2020
2. ↑ Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: Andrea Jahn makes giant career leap , Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 15, 2020