Annelie Pohlen
Annelie Pohlen (* 1944 in Bernkastel-Kues ) is a German art historian , author and exhibition curator .
life and work
Annelie Pohlen studied Romance studies, history and art history in Bonn and Paris. In 1973 she received her doctorate with a topic on medieval history. Pohlen was socialized around Sigmar Polke and Joseph Beuys, Blinky Palermo and Reiner Ruthenbeck. From 1973 to 1986 she was a freelance art critic for daily newspapers such as the Bonner Generalanzeiger , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the radio stations ORF and Sender Freies Berlin , as well as various art magazines such as today Kunst / Flash Art , Kunstforum International and Artforum . For Kunstforum she gave the cover stories for the editions Erotik in der Kunst heute (vol. 46), Situation Schweiz (vol. 63/64), painting - z. B. Landscape (Vol. 70) and Sculpture '85 (Vol. 79).
Since 1980, at the same time as her work as a critic, she was a freelance curator at the Bonner Kunstverein . In 1986 she became Margarethe Jochimsen's first full-time director. In the rooms of the Kunstverein on August-Macke-Platz she showed over 200 exhibitions, most of which were accompanied by publications. Christina Végh was her successor as director .
In monographic exhibitions, Pohlen exhibited works by Christa Näher (1983), Kiki Smith (1992), Katharina Sieverding and Marlene Dumas (1993), Alighiero e Boetti (1992) and Thomas Ruff (1991), Heimo Zobernig (1998), John Bock (2001) or Mark Dion (2002).
In themed exhibitions she showed Brennpunkt Wien (1988), The Great Opera or the Longing for the Sublime (1988), the four-part series with the titles Über-Leben (1993), The Predictability of the World (1996), Rewind to the Future. Media art from the 1960s to today (1999) and Un-built Cities (2003/2004).
Since 2004, in addition to her work on university commissions and juries, she has continued her mediation work as an author and journalist with catalog texts, essays and art reviews. She is a member of the German section of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA).
Together with her colleague Renate Puvogel , Annelie Pohlen received the traditional Rhineland thaler on July 10, 2018 at the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach . In the laudation, her many years of work for contemporary art in the Rhineland and its regional and international importance was recognized.
Fonts (selection)
- Edited with Stephan Berg : Fund for good prospects. Art Fund 1980–2010. Verlag für Moderne Kunst 2011, ISBN 978-3-86984250-9 .
- Adriana Czernin. Revolver, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-86588182-3 .
- Exhibition literature for the Bonner Kunstverein
- Alternating currents. Contemplation, expression, construction. Wienand, 1987, ISBN 3-87909168-4 .
- as editor: Urs Lüthi . Ritter, Klagenfurt 1993, ISBN 978-3-85415122-7 .
- To survive. Bonner Kunstverein, 1993
- It is so green ... Nobuyoshi Araki, Carsten Holler, Thomas Struth, Olaf Nicolai and others Bonner Kunstverein, 1997.
- Rewind to the Future. Bonner Kunstverein, 1999.
- Jean-Jacques Rullier. Bonner Kunstverein, 2001.
Web links
- Literature by and about Annelie Pohlen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Kleemann: “In art I don't like anything nice or nicely meant!” In: Bonner Generalanzeiger from May 23, 2003, accessed on May 25, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ AICA website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.moenchengladbach.de/de/aktuell-aktiv/newsroom/news/verleihung-des-rheinlandtalers-an-die-kunstkritikerinnen-dr-annelie-pohlen-und-renate-puvogel/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohlen, Annelie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, author and exhibition curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernkastel-Kues |