Anja Dorn

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Anja Dorn , formerly Anja Nathan-Dorn, (* 1971 in Cologne ) is a German curator , art critic and current director of the Leopold Hoesch Museum and the Paper Museum in Düren .

Dorn is professor for curatorial studies and dramaturgical practice at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe .

After studying art history, theater, film and television studies and economics in Cologne and Florence , the De Appel Curatorial Training Program followed in 1997/98 to train curators in Amsterdam . As part of a guest professorship at the Hessian Theater Academy, she has the Festival of Young Talents! curated on the Bockenheim campus in Frankfurt am Main , which takes place every 2 years.

From 2007 to 2011 she was director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein together with Kathrin Jentjens and has had solo exhibitions with Alexandra Bircken , Simon Denny , Omer Fast , Melanie Gilligan, Michael Krebber , Mark Leckey , Seth Price , Stephen Prina , Nora Schultz , Boris Sieverts and many others realized. These were supplemented by group exhibitions such as Concepts of Love , 2008, Lecture Performance , 2009, or Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television , 2010, some of which were developed together with artists (Simon Denny and Judith Hopf ). From 2000 to 2005, Anja Nathan-Dorn worked as a freelance curator and art critic at Galerie Christian Nagel and was co-curator of the April project space in Cologne.

On August 1, 2018, Anja Dorn succeeded Renate Goldmann as director of the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren and the Paper Museum .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • September 27th to 30th, 2012: The Festival of Young Talents !, Städelschule Frankfurt
  • April 14, 2012: The urban congress - StadtLabor Cologne The urban congress, Cologne
  • 25 September to 19 December 2012. Forbidden love: Art in the wake of television, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  • August 23 to September 28, 2008: Many Challenges Lie Ahead in the Near Future, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  • April 17 to June 8, 2008: Mark Leckey: Resident, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  • February 9th to March 30th: Concepts of Love, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  • November 3, December 23, 2007: Élégance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  • July 17 to September 19, 2004: Deutschland sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

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personal data
SURNAME Dorn, Anja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nathan-Dorn, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museum director and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne