Bettina Funcke

Bettina Funcke (* 1971 in Münster ) is a German art scholar .

Career

Funcke studied philosophy, art studies and media theory at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe and the Center for Art and Media Technology | ZKM, Karlsruhe. After completing her master's degree, she went to New York.

From 1999 to 2007 she worked as an intern and then as a lecturer at the Dia Art Foundation in New York. Then she was editor for the art magazine Parkett in the USA. In 2007 she became co-founder of the art publisher “The Leopard Press” and a member of the group “Continuous Project”. She gave lectures on aesthetics, art theory and art criticism at Bard College , at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, at Columbia University and at Yale University . At the same time, she wrote her dissertation, which was supervised by Boris Groys and Peter Sloterdijk in Karlsruhe .

As an author for contemporary art, she writes articles for international art magazines such as Artforum , Bookforum, Parkett and texts on art .

Funcke was appointed head of the publications department at dOCUMENTA (13) by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in 2010 and was responsible for the short guide, the catalog and an illustrated book. Together with Chus Martínez , she also oversaw the publication of the series “100 Notes - 100 Thoughts”.

The author and editor lives in New York. She is married and has one daughter.

Fonts

• Pop or Populus - Art Between High and Low. With illustrations by Wade Guyton . König, Cologne ISBN 978-3-86560-288-6 ** English edition Sternberg Press, Frankfurt am Main, 2009 ISBN 978-1-933128-89-4 .
• Fionn Meade, Bettina Funcke, Liz Kotz: Elad Lassry. JRP | Ringier, Zurich, 2011 ISBN 978-3-03764152-1 .
• Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick: Charley. Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, 2002 ISBN 978-1-564660923 .

literature

• Kenneth Goldsmith: Letter to Bettina Funcke : 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts / 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, Documenta (13), 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dia Art Center

Web links

• Bettina Funcke's site
• Literature by and about Bettina Funcke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Does the book still play a role at documenta, Ms. Funcke? . In: Börsenblatt of February 12, 2012
• DOCUMENTA website (13)
• Mark-Christian von Busse: Bettina Funcke heads the publications department at documenta 13 . On: MyDocumenta.de der Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA) from January 4, 2011