Christiane Kuhlmann

Christiane Kuhlmann (* 1967 in Essen ) is a German art historian and curator for photography and contemporary art. She has been a curator for photography and media art at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg since 2016 .

Christiane Kuhlmann on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Hannes Schmid - Real Stories” at the Kunstmuseum Bern

Life

Christiane Kuhlmann was born in Essen in 1967. After graduating from high school in 1987, she enrolled at the University of Mainz in the subjects of art history, ancient and modern history. She continued her studies in art history at the University of Bochum - among others with Max Imdahl , history and romance studies, and received her master's degree there in 1997 on "Dance photography as a mirror of the avant-garde". In 2001 she received her doctorate under Katharina Sykora in the subject of art history as a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk on "Medial entanglement of photography and dance in the 1920s".
Since then she has worked as a journalist for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and as a freelance curator for photography and contemporary art in museums and exhibition halls in Europe. In addition, Kuhlmann is the author of publications and lectures on the theory and history of photography. After a teaching position in the history of photography at the University of Bochum, she was appointed in 2011 as a member of the team of experts to set up the "Camera Arts" course at the University of Design and Art in Lucerne.
In addition to the presentation of the photography course of the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academy 2009 at the Venice Biennale, the exhibition “A Star Is Born” was one of her great successes as a curator. Developed in collaboration with Ute Eskildsen, this was the most successful photo exhibition to date in the Folkwang Museum . The catalog published in connection with this was recognized as the best "music book" of the year by The Guardian magazine in the USA . In 2013, Kuhlmann curated the Hannes Schmid exhibition "Real Stories" at the Kunstmuseum Bern . 2009-2015 Kuhlmann chairman and curator of the Kunsthaus Essen and taught at this time as a lecturer Theory and History of Photography at the Department of Design at the Fachhochschule Dortmund . Since 2014 she has also worked for Roland Angst's gallery Only Photography in Berlin. In 2015 she worked in the Berlinische Galerie as part of the Thomas Friedrich grant for photography research for the photographer Erich Salomon . Christiane Kuhlmann has been curator for photography and media art at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg since 2016 .

Scholarships and Awards

1998–2001 graduate scholarship from the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Foundation

2004–2005 Hanna and Manfred Heiting Scholarship, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

2005 Agnes Gaetz Prize

2015 Thomas Friedrich grant for photography research, Berlinische Galerie

Exhibitions and projects as a curator

Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg

2019 images of man. New purchases of the federal photo collection
2018–2019 Lisl Ponger. Professione: fotografa
2018–2019 Camera Austria International. Photography and theory laboratory
2018 Austria: Photography 1970–2000
2018 Response from Exil
2018 I-Photo Japanese Photography 1960–1970
2017–2018 space & photography with works by Wolfgang Tillmans , Isa Genzken , Hito Steyerl and 32 other artists
2017 Auf / Bruch - Four artists in exile with works by Ellen Auerbach , Grete Stern , Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Elly Niebuhr
2016–2017 Robert Frank - Books and Films, 1947–2016

Free projects

2013 Hans Hansen - Fascination Glass, for 2013/14
2012/13 Kunstmuseum Bern, curator of the exhibition: Hannes Schmid - Real Stories
2011/12 Museo Picasso , Málaga, conception / curator: The trace of the grotesque
2011 Concepts of Photography at European Art Schools, 54th Venice Biennale
2009 Rietveld Arsenale, 53rd Venice Biennale
2009 Johannes Gramm: REMIX
2007 Hellen van Meene , Portraits 1995–2006, C / O Berlin
2007 - today research and conception of the photo book project: Maria Aurora. The private picture and its dedication.
2005–2006 scientific research on the cultural memory of the Ruhr area in connection with the redesign of the Ruhr Museum Essen
2005 Branch Art No2, Forum Art and Architecture, Essen
2004 RWE AG project with Thomas Böing for the 'Pool' exhibition in the RWE tower
2001–2003 Organization and management of the photo festival: Folkwang Festival of the Arts for Photography, Essen
1991–1998 Ruhrlandmuseum exhibition assistant: Transit Bruges - Novgorod - A road through European history , Have fun , bear harvest and Schliemann's Troy
2004–2005 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , National Photo Collection / Research Fellowship for the first nature photographer in the Netherlands Richard Tepe

Photographic collection in the Folkwang Museum, Essen

2008–2010 A Star Is Born, photography and rock since Elvis, Museum Folkwang, Kunstmuseum Leipzig, 2012.
2005 Hellen van Meene - Portraits 1995-2006
2003 Photo - Dance - Projections
2008 Covering the Human Being, Int. Photography 1900–1950, Museo Picasso, Málaga; Assistance
2008 Covering the Human Being, Int. Photography 1950-today, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Assistance
2007 Rockers Island, Olbricht Collection; Assistance
2007 Oskar Dawicki - Every mistake has a hidden meaning / RWE Turm; Assistance
2006 Darren Almond - Day Return; Assistance
2006 Speaking with Hands, The Buhl Collection; Assistance
2006 Ken Ohara, Advanced Portrait Studies; Assistance
2005 Jitka Hanzlova - Forest; Assistance
2005 Useful, Süss and Museal, The photographed animal; Assistance
2005 Diane Arbus , Revelations; Assistance

Kunsthaus Essen

2014 What we perceive, What we perceive - Alexander Hagmann, Marie Köhler, Heide Prange, Marcus Simaitis, Marina Rosa Weigl
2014 Umimachi 1997 - Koji Onaka
2013 Uncomfortably close - Diana Rattray
2013 “Territoires” in collaboration with the Center Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais
2013 Most Popular of all time / Clare Strand and Gordan McDonald
2013 November Jens Liebchen - Tsukuba-Narita 2011/03/13
2012 pictures after pictures - young painterly positions
2012 drama baby! International video art by Greta Alfaro, Mels van der Mede, Tony Tasset and Kris Verdonck
2012 Hiraki Sawa, Dwelling
2011 Franz Burkhardt, available hour
2011 Flashmob - The art and the street / Laura Paperina, Katja Stuke, NUG, Suzanne Posthumus, Christopher Daniels
2011 Young film from Lucerne / Jan Buchholz “Eigenbrand” and Manuel Wiedemann “ Störffekt ”
2011 A lot helps a lot ... Timm Rautert and Carl Emanuel Wolff
2010 nextOne - discussing photography / Mirko Martin, Jason Evans, Mark Neville
2010 There will never be problems again / Axel Braun
2008 New Visions - Rietveld Academie Class Johannes Schwartz and Paul Kooiker
2004 18? Now I want to see everything! Painting and video works by Johannes Gramm

Fonts

Erich Salomon . Master of Self-Staging - BG Research Report 2, Thomas Friedrich Scholarship 2015, editor and publisher: Berlinische Galerie and The Heiting Library Trust 2016, ISBN 978-3-940208-45-3
You have to decide on certain things - Ute Eskildsen as exhibition organizer, ed. by Christiane Kuhlmann u. Museum Folkwang, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-598-1 .
A Star Is Born, Photography and Rock since Elvis, ed. by Ute Eskildsen u. Christiane Kuhlmann, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86930-192-1 .
Johannes Gramm , If I dig my ears, it still smells a bit like a party, ed. by Christiane Kuhlmann, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-931201-31-9 .
See Show, Ute Eskildsen on her 60th birthday, ed. by Christiane Kuhlmann et al., Göttingen 2007; therein: Images of man to the work of Koos Breukel
Richard Tepe, Photography of Nature in the Netherlands 1900–1940, ed. by Manfred Heiting / Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Zwolle 2007, ISBN 978-90-8689-019-4 .
Charlotte Rudolph , photographer of modern dance, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-86521-045-7 .
Moving body - mechanical apparatus. On the media entanglement of dance and photography in the 1920s, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-51669-X .

Articles and essays in magazines and edited volumes

Forever Young, in: Joseph Sterling. Adolescence Comedy, Berlin / Chicago 2015.
Manifestos. Photographers as writers, catalog review, in: Photonews magazine for photography December / 14 - January / 15
New times in the Rijksmuseum. The Amsterdam Museum presents its photography collection, in: Photonews Magazine for Photography November 2014.
Almost Paradise, in: Kosuke Ohara, Almost Paradise, Berlin 2014.
Johan van der Keuken, in: Manifestos! Another History of Photography, ed. from Museum Folkwang, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Göttingen 2014.
Missing Images, in: Wolfgang Kleber. Strange Beauty, Dortmund 2014.
The view from the outside, On the work of the Koblenz city photographer Hanna Becker, Berlin 2014.
Paris Mortel Rétouché. Johan van der Keuken, in: Photonews. Photography magazine, March 2014.
Ückendorf scans by Kurt Hörbst, Ruhr area pixel project, December 2013.
Epilog to: Marie Köhler - Make yourself a picture, photographs of children from Christoph Schlingensief's opera village in Burkina Faso, Dortmund 2013.
Koos Breukel - People of Time, in: Photonews. Photography magazine, September 2013.
Dance photographs are like angels, in: Tanz- Jahresheft, September 2013.
Hannes Schmid - Real Stories. About the exhibition, in: monograph of the same name, ed. by Matthias Frehner / Kunstmuseum Bern et al., Zurich March 2013, JPR-Ringier
Eye to eye with Gilian Waering, in: Cahiers, ed. from the FH Dortmund, April 2013.
November tout l'année, in: Stéphane Duroy “Guardian of Time”, ed. by Roland Angst, Berlin 2012, only photography
Who are you and who do you want to be? / Who are you and who do you want to be? / Quien eres y quien querrias ser? In: «Exit» 46. En el Studio / In the Studio / im Studio, May 2012.
You can see those in the dark. Transit of Venus by Lorenz Schmid, in: Verso. Behind glass by contemporary Swiss artists, ed. from VitroMusée Romont, 2012.
The sound makes the music, in: The courtship - self-staging and documentary cult, ed. from Balz Isler, Essen 2012.
Books on the wall - a bird's eye view, in: Photonews. Photography magazine, May 2012.
Eleven to Liverpool Street - Katja Stuke , ed. by BöhmKobayashi, 2012.
How quiet can a still life be? On the work of Felix Dobbert, (German / English) in: surfaces, ed. from the Museum am Ostwall, Bielefeld 2012.
Dear Robert Knodt, in: Photonews. Magazine for Photography, Dec./Jan. 2011.
Paul Kooiker - Sunday, in: Photonews. Journal of Photography, June 2011.
Interviews with Jill Furmanovsky and Kevin Westenberg in: A Star Is Born. Photography and rock since Elvis , ed. Ute Eskildsen et al. Christiane Kuhlmann, Göttingen 2010
Hellen van Meene, in: Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Fotografie, ed. from the Prentenkabinet Leiden, 2010.
Richard Tepe, in: Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Fotografie, ed. vom Prentenkabinet Leiden, 2009 (with Mattie Boom)
Swetlana Heger. Smoke. Abstraction 2008–2009, in: landscape format. Contemporary, Art, Popular Culture, No. 2, 2009.
Natalie Czech, Slawomir Elsner , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Juul Hondius, Ulrike Lienbacher, Mirko Martin, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Catrin Val, in: Images Recalled. Catalog 3rd Fotofestival Mannheim / Ludwigshafen / Heidelberg, ed. by Esther Ruelfs et al., Heidelberg 2009
Neeltje Flipse-Roelse en de documentaire photography in Nederland, in: Voor Later. Neeltje Flipse-Roelse - photographer 1921–2008, Vlissingen 2008
To Spain and back, as a courier with valuable photographs on the road, in: Subject supplement photography as an object, Photonews. Journal of Photography, October 2008.
Grete Stern, in: New German Biography, ed. v. Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich (published in 2013)
New Visions - Photographic Strategies in the 1920's and 1930's, in: On the Human Being. International Photography 1900–1950, ed. from Museo Picasso, Málaga 2008.
This is how you live in the Ruhr area , not only - but also, in: Photonews. Photography newspaper, April 2008
The new flagship of the Dutch photo museums, Nederlands Fotomuseum in the Las Palmas building, in: Photonews. Photography newspaper, June 2007.
Jacob Holdt , United States 1970-1975, in: Photonews. Photography newspaper, May 2007
Hellen van Meene - Portraits, Interview, in: Photonews. Photography newspaper, December 2006.
I err through forest, Zu Hilde Doepp's publication 'Dreams and Masks' 1926, in: Photographic Passions, ed. by Katharina Sykora , Ludger Derenthal, Marburg 2006.
Darren Almond - Das Unheimliche, in: Accompanying publication to the exhibition at Museum Folkwang, October 2006.
Blind Date, a look at the series 'Cosmetic View' by Koos Breukel and 'Die Blinden' by Oliver Sieber , in: Photonews. Photography newspaper, September 2006.
Exhibition companion: Speaking with Hands. The Buhl Collection, Museum Folkwang, May 2006.
The woman behind the camera, in: Art Bulletin of the Bureau des Arts Plastique, n ° 20, Berlin, summer 2006.
Modern still life - plucked poultry decapitated savoy cabbage, Irving Penn and James Ensor , in: Museum Guide Museum Folkwang, Munich 2005
Diane Arbus - Revelations, in: Schwarzweiss 47, Das Magazin für Fotografie, August 2005.
Museum Handbook Ruhr Area, Art, Culture and History, ed. by Heinrich Theodor Grütter, Essen 2003.
Avant-garde and tradition, Folkwang and the beginnings of dance theater in Essen, in: Dance reading. A history of dance in Essen, Essen 2000.
Photo synthesis, On the 'dancing light images' by Charlotte Rudolph, in: Tanzdrama, No. 49, 1999.

Individual evidence

↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Master's degree and doctorate

↑ Publication for the 2009 Biennale

^ Photography books of the year - The Guardian

↑ http://fototexte.de/vita.html CV of C. Kuhlmann

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personal data
SURNAME	Kuhlmann, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat

[1] Archive link ( Memento from June 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Master's degree and doctorate

[3] Publication for the 2009 Biennale

[4] Photography books of the year - The Guardian

[5] ttp://fototexte.de/vita.html CV of C. Kuhlmann