Angelika Nollert

Angelika Nollert (* 1966 in Duisburg ) is a German art historian . From October 2007 to the end of April 2014 she was director of the New Museum in Nuremberg and since May 2014 she has headed Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, a museum of the Free State of Bavaria with main locations in Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne and Nuremberg in the Neues Museum as well as a branch museum in Weiden International Ceramic Museum .

life and work

After training as a bank clerk, Nollert studied art history, archeology and German at the universities of Würzburg and Münster. In 1997 she received her doctorate there with a thesis on the Dutch painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek . In the same year she worked for Kasper König on the major exhibition Sculpture.Projects in Münster. König then brought her to Frankfurt am Main as a curator for the Portikus exhibition hall from 1997 to 2000 . In 2001 she was project manager at Documenta11 in Kassel and from 2002 to 2007 project manager for visual arts at Siemens Arts Program in Munich.

In October 2007 she was appointed director of the Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg as the successor to Lucius Grisebach .

In addition to her work as a curator, Nollert led seminars on art theory and art history at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . She is a member of the university councils of the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, as well as the Advisory Board for Fine Arts of the Goethe Institute .

Angelika Nollert is the author of numerous publications on contemporary art.

Works

• Barend Cornelis Koekkoek 1803-1862. A landscape painter of the Dutch Romanticism . Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2000 ISBN 3-631-36417-2 (also dissertation)

Curated exhibitions

• 2010/2011: VALIE EXPORT : Time and Counter-Time , Lower Belvedere, Vienna and Lentos Art Museum, Linz
• 2010: Claus Bury : Jumps in scale , Neues Museum, Nuremberg
• 2010: Manfred Pernice : Que-Sah , Neues Museum, Nuremberg
• 2005: Collective creativity , Siemens Arts Program with Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
• 2000: Elke Krystufek : Nobody Has To Know , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
• 1999: Andreas Siekmann : From: Society with limited liability , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
• 1998: Daniel Buren : Color transparency , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
• 1998: Thomas Hirschhorn : A work of art, A problem , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
• 1998: Christian Jankowski : My First Book , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

Web links

• Literature by and about Angelika Nollert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Angelika Nollert on kunstaspekte.de
• Goethe-Institut : German curators
• The central theme is the collection in Nürnberger Nachrichten of January 9, 2008