Christoph Grunenberg

Christoph Grunenberg (* 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian and has been the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen since November 2011 .

Life

Christoph Grunenberg studied art history , classical archeology and English literature in Mainz , Berlin and London . It was in 1994 at the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London with a thesis on the "dawn of the modern museum and exhibition industry in New York of the 1930s" doctorate . His previous professional positions, most of which he completed in English-speaking countries, include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC , the Kunsthalle in Basel , the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Tate Gallery in London. From 2001 until October 2011 he was director of Tate Liverpool in the English Liverpool .

Grunenberg curated numerous exhibitions on contemporary art , but also on Gustav Klimt and in 2011 on René Magritte . In 2007 he was chairman of the jury for the renowned Turner Art Prize .

Since November 1, 2011, Grunenberg has been the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen , which was reopened in August 2011 after extensive extensions. He succeeded Wulf Herzogenrath , who retired in September 2011. Grunenberg has been honorary professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen since October 2013 .

Publications (selection)

Editing

Summer of love. Psychedelic art of the 60s. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1670-X ( exhibition catalog ).
Shopping. 100 years of art and consumption. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1213-5 (exhibition catalog; ed. With: Max Hollein ).

Authorship

The uncanny. By Mike Kelley , artist. International edition. König, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88375-798-5 (English, exhibition catalog; with: Mike Kelley, John C. Welchmann).
The uncanny. By Mike Kelley, artist. Expanded edition with German addendum. König, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88375-809-4 (German and English, exhibition catalog; with: Mike Kelley, John C. Welchmann).

Web links

Literature by and about Christoph Grunenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Christoph Grunenberg - his vita in the Hamburger Abendblatt from October 31, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ Comment: The original title of the English-language dissertation is: The politics of presentation. Museums, galleries, and exhibition in New York, 1929–1947. (See entry in the dissertation catalog of the University of London; accessed on July 1, 2015.)
↑ ^a ^b Peter Groth: New Director of Liverpool. From November 1, 2011, Christoph Grunenberg will be in charge of the Bremen art gallery / first workstation in Germany . In: Weser-Kurier of July 13, 2011, p. 23 (and p. 1).
↑ Hendrik Werner: Christoph Grunenberg is the new director of the Bremen art gallery. “I want to raise uncomfortable questions” . In: Weser-Kurier from November 1, 2011; Retrieved November 18, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Grunenberg, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Comment: The original title of the English-language dissertation is: The politics of presentation. Museums, galleries, and exhibition in New York, 1929–1947. (See entry in the dissertation catalog of the University of London; accessed on July 1, 2015.)

[WK-13-07-2011-2] Peter Groth: New Director of Liverpool. From November 1, 2011, Christoph Grunenberg will be in charge of the Bremen art gallery / first workstation in Germany . In: Weser-Kurier of July 13, 2011, p. 23 (and p. 1).

[3] Hendrik Werner: Christoph Grunenberg is the new director of the Bremen art gallery. “I want to raise uncomfortable questions” . In: Weser-Kurier from November 1, 2011; Retrieved November 18, 2011.