Brigitte Kölle

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Brigitte Kölle (* 1967 in Tübingen ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator .

Career

Kölle studied cultural sciences at the University of Hildesheim and completed a postgraduate program in Museum Studies at New York University from 1992 to 1993 . In 2005 she received her doctorate from Josef Nolte in Hildesheim. During her studies she worked in Konrad Fischer's gallery .

Act

In 1992, Kölle was an assistant at the Museum Fridericianum . From 1993 to 1994 she was in charge of the Froehlich Collection in Stuttgart, one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in Germany. Kölle was recommended in 1994 by Konrad Fischer to the Frankfurt Städelschulrekor Kasper König (who became a reviewer for her dissertation in 2005) for the Kunsthalle Portikus in Frankfurt am Main , of which she was director until 1998. During this time she curated over 25 exhibitions, including early solo exhibitions by Andreas Gursky (1995), Wolfgang Tillmans (1995), Marlene Dumas , Models (1995), Andreas Slominski , Ayşe Erkmen , Zuspiel (1996), Sarah Lucas (1996), Tobias Rehberger , Sugestion from the vistors of Shows # 74 and # 75 , Gregor Schneider , totes haus ur 1985 97 (1997) and Steve McQueen (1997) and edited the accompanying exhibition catalogs.

From 1999 to 2003, Kölle was a curator at the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and was responsible for numerous exhibitions by young European artists, including Manfred Pernice .

Afterwards, Kölle was a freelance curator for MoMA PS1 and the Goethe House in New York, the Frankfurter Kunstverein , the Kunsthalle Wien , the Venice Biennale (Canadian Pavilion) and the Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus , Munich. In 2008 she presented the Gregor Schneider exhibition with Julian Heynen . White torture in the K21 of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf. In 2009 she curated the subvision. art. festival. off in Hamburg.

In 2011, Kölle acted as artistic director of the Arthur Boskamp Foundation in Hohenlockstedt , where she oversaw exhibitions by, among others, Alexandra Bircken, Jochen Lempert, Eva von Platen, Nevin Aladag and Peter Piller. Brigitte Kölle and Petra Roettig (curator for graphics ) have been running the Galerie der Gegenwart at the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 2012 and are responsible for painting, sculptures, objects and installations. The first exhibition she curated there was Louise Bourgeois: Passage dangereux .

Kölle lives and works in Hamburg.

Fonts

  • Louise Bourgeois: Passage dangereux , Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2011, ISBN 978-3-938002-39-1
  • Moving forward: Art of the 80s: a Düsseldorf perspective , K20K21 art collection North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf (exhibition catalog), Prestel, Munich, 2010 ISBN 978-3-94177304-2
  • Okey dokey Konrad Fischer . König, Cologne, 2007
  • Gregor Schneider , exhibition Totes Haus Ur 1985–97 . Municipal Museum Abteiberg, 1997
  • Thomas Bayrle. Graphics from 1967–72 and animated graphics from 1979–94 . König, Cologne, 1995, ISBN 978-3-88375220-4
  • Boris Michajlov , Kunsthalle Zurich. Oktagon, 1995 ISBN 978-3-89611001-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The Art of Exhibiting. Investigations into the work of the artist and art mediator Konrad Lueg / Fischer (1939–1996)
  2. ↑ Kaspar König: 10 years of Portikus Frankfurt am Main , In: Brigitte Kölle (Ed.): Portikus Frankfurt am Main, 1987–1997 ISBN 3-928071-34-3 , p. 2
  3. ^ The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors, 2009
  4. ^ Brigitte Kölle: Infrastructure: Manfred Pernice , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Institute of Visual Arts, König, Cologne, 2003 ISBN 978-3-88375772-8
  5. ^ Website of the Federal Cultural Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Kölle, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen