Christian Zott

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Christian Zott (2018)

Christian Zott (born February 21, 1960 in Oberammergau ) is a German entrepreneur and art collector. He is the owner and managing director of a consulting firm in the field of supply chain management with headquarters in Munich and was the initiator of the art project “ KAIROS. The right moment “known to the general public.

Life

Christian Zott completed his first degree in industrial engineering in 1986 and a second degree in 2018 as a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. At the age of 27 he founded mSE Solutions GmbH and built the company into a globally operating company with locations in Europe, Asia and North America. In 2011 Christian Zott withdrew from the day-to-day operations of his company and spent seven months hiking across Europe from Cabo de São Vicente to the Bosporus . On this trip he met the Italian photographer Mauro Fiorese , with whom he realized his first art projects after his return. Christian Zott lives today in Munich and Unterammergau. In 2018 he published the illustrated book “Heimat? Ammertal! - A matter of opinion ”published. He has been promoting Byzantine Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich since 2018 .

Entrepreneurship

MSE Solutions GmbH was founded in 1987 by Christian Zott. The company initially concentrated on the planning and control of production processes. In the course of globalization, Christian Zott focused more on optimizing supply chains. Today mSE Solutions is considered to be an innovator in the field of supply chain management. The German Logistics Prize of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik was awarded twice because of optimizations by mSE Solutions, in 1993 to Siemens and 1999 to Dräger . The first prize of the Swiss Logistics Awards 2002 to Georg Fischer goes back to such a collaboration. In 2017, mSE Solutions entered into a strategic partnership with Kinaxis, one of the world's leading providers of logistics software.

Art projects

In 2014 Christian Zott founded the art platform ZOTT Artspace with locations in Singapore and St. Kassian . The first exhibition projects followed with Konstantin Sotnikov, Beth Moon, Lois Anvidalfarei , and Mauro Fiorese. In cooperation with the Museion (Bozen) , the exhibition “Phantasma” was realized in 2017 with works by Vera Comploj and Cornelia Lochmann. In 2016 Christian Zott initiated the art project “ KAIROS. The Right Moment ”with paintings by Wolfgang Beltracchi and photographs by Mauro Fiorese. The project was scientifically accompanied by the art historian Rainer Metzger and the Byzantinist Sergei Mariev . The exhibition opened on October 4, 2018 in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Further stations were the Barlach Halle K in Hamburg and the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien. In Unterammergau in October 2019 opened the mSE Kunsthalle, in the collection of Christian Zott to the public is made available.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorit Kowitz: Really wrong . In: Brandeins. No. 4, 2017
  2. ↑ mSE Solutions: About us . MSE Solutions homepage (accessed October 26, 2018)
  3. ↑ SWR1 - people (broadcast on July 26, 2017).
  4. ↑ Bayern2 - One to One. The Talk (broadcast on April 17, 2018)
  5. ↑ Christian Zott (Ed.): Heimat? Ammertal! - a matter of opinion . ZOTT Media, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3945236000 .
  6. ^ BR Abendschau - The South (broadcast on August 17, 2018)
  7. ^ Clemens Grosse: Funding for Byzantine Studies. Experience a great empire. In: Münchner Uni Magazin. No. 2, 2019
  8. ↑ Bundesvereinigung Logistik: German Logistics Prize (accessed on September 17, 2018)
  9. ↑ GS1 Switzerland: Swiss Logistics Award (accessed on September 17, 2018)
  10. ↑ Kinaxis: Press release of October 8, 2017 (accessed October 26, 2018)
  11. ↑ ZOTT Artspace: About us . Homepage of ZOTT Artspace. (Accessed October 26, 2018)
  12. ↑ ZOTT Artspace: "Phantasma" - between dream world and reality (accessed on September 17, 2018)
  13. ↑ Thilo Komma-Pöllath: Ingenious crook . In: FOCUS magazine. No. 43, 2017.
  14. ↑ ORF2 - Culture Monday. (Broadcast on February 5, 2018) . (Accessed September 5, 2018)
  15. ↑ ZOTT Artspace: Scientific Advisory Board . Homepage of ZOTT Artspace. (Accessed September 5, 2018)
  16. ↑ Kairos-exhibition.art | A project by Christian Zott. Retrieved January 16, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier: love of country . The entrepreneur and art collector Christian Zott is building an innovation center with an art hall, sculpture garden, hotel and restaurant. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Online. (Accessed September 5, 2018)
  18. ^ Lui Knoll: Topping-out ceremony in the art gallery Unterammergau . BR homepage. (Accessed October 26, 2018)
  19. ↑ mse art gallery. Retrieved January 16, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Zott, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau