Bettina Ruhrberg

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Bettina Ruhrberg (2016)

Bettina Ruhrberg (born February 7, 1958 in Düsseldorf ) is a German art historian , author and since 2006 director of the Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar .

Career

Bettina Ruhrberg is the daughter of Karl and Elfriede Ruhrberg and grew up in Düsseldorf and Berlin. After finishing school in 1977, she began studying art history , Romance languages and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . A DAAD scholarship took her to the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris from 1979 to 1980 . In 1981 I studied language in Perugia. She completed her main studies at the University of Bonn from 1982 to 1985 with a doctorate in 1990 ( Arte Povera. History, theory and works of an artistic movement in Italy ). During her studies, she worked at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Pieroni Gallery in Rome .

After an internship at the Kunstmuseum Bonn from 1991 to 1992, she was assistant director to Christoph Brockhaus at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg from 1992 to 1994 . From 1994 to 1997 she worked as a research assistant at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal a. a. researching the collections of the bankers and patrons of the arts by August and Eduard von der Heydt . From 1997 to 2000 she worked at Taschen Verlag in Cologne as a lecturer for art and photography. As director of the Hans Mayer Gallery in Düsseldorf from 2000 to 2006, she oversaw international trade fair appearances and cooperation projects with numerous art museums. Since 2006 she has been heading the Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar .

Bettina Ruhrberg curated exhibitions of the sponsors of the Goslarer Kaiserring , a. a. David Lynch (2010), Rosemarie Trockel (2011), John Baldessari (2012), Olafur Eliasson (2013), Wiebke Siem (2014), Boris Mikhailov (2015), Jimmie Durham (2016), Isa Genzken (2017) and Wolfgang Tillmans (2018). Furthermore exhibitions of the Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar u. a. on Karin Kneffel (2006), Peter Lindbergh (2008), Jonathan Meese (2011), Adolf Luther (2013), and Anselm Kiefer (2014) or Christo and Wolfgang Volz (2018). She is also responsible for the exhibitions of the Kaiserring scholarship holders, u. a. Jan Albers (2007), Helene Appel (2011), Christiane Feser (2012), Julian Charrière (2016), Matt Copson (2018).

Publications

  • From Henry Moore to Barbara Kruger. 44 years Kaiserring Goslar, in: Kaiserring Art Prize, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819159-3-8
  • Ren Ri , exhibition catalog, (Ed.) Bettina Ruhrberg, Verlag Kerber, Bielefeld-Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0215-2 .
  • Wiebke Siem - A conversation about drawing (together with Michael Krajewski), in: Exhibition catalog Wiebke Siem , (eds.) Söke Dinka, Bettina Ruhrberg and Michael Krajewski, Lehmbruch Museum Duisburg and Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, ISBN 978-3-86206- 448-9
  • Anselm Kiefer: Midsummer Night , exhibition catalog, (eds.) Aeneas Bastian and Bettina Ruhrberg, Distance Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3954760220 .
  • Highlights of Modern Art , (Ed.) Bettina Ruhrberg, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813165-3-7 .
  • From Kirchner to Kippenberger to today. The Bayer AG Collection. 150 Years of Corporate Collecting , in: Exhibition catalog Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin , Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-138-8 .
  • So close, so far. About the role of photography in the work of Cornelius Völker , in: Exhibition catalog Cornelius Völker , Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0534-2 .
  • Crossover avant la lettre. 40 years of Hans Mayer , text Bettina Ruhrberg in: Perfect Painting. 40 years of Galerie Hans Mayer , Langen Foundation , 2005, pp. 8–12
  • Arte Povera. On the genesis of a concept and the reception of a movement , text Bettina Ruhrberg in: Arte Povera. Works and documents from the Goetz Collection 1958 to the present day , catalog for the exhibition Neues Museum Weserbug Bremen, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Vienna, Kunsthalle Göteborg, Collection Goetz Munich, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz 1997, pp. 17-27, ISBN 3-9805267-2-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bettina Ruhrberg, dissertation, 1992, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Arte povera: History, theory and works of an artistic movement in Italy , on worldcat.org
  2. ↑ Sabine Fehlmann (Ed.): Weltbürger - Impulsgeber - Patrons. The von der Heydts and their commitment to modern art , in: Pioniere der Moderne pp. 9–25, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, 1997, ISBN 3-89202-032-9
  3. ↑ Mönchshaus Museum Goslar, Team & Contact: Director Dr. Bettina Ruhrberg , at Mönchshaus Museum Goslar, accessed on October 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ruhrberg, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, author and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf