Dirk Luckow

Dirk Luckow (born September 24, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian and curator .

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Luckow studied art history, archeology and ancient history at the Free University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1996 under Thomas W. Gaehtgens on Joseph Beuys. He was a research assistant at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and in Stuttgart at the Württembergischer Kunstverein . He then went to Munich and was a curator, then project manager for the visual arts of the Siemens Art Program. In 2002 he and the former Deichtorhallen director Zdenek Felix conceived the exhibition “Art & Economy”, at which German companies presented their art concepts. In July 2002 Luckow was appointed director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel - as the successor to Hans Werner Schmidt - and he was thus also the executive chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association in Kiel. From 2007 to 2009 he was a member of the Artistic Advisory Board of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin . He is a juror at the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin, a juror at the KÖR - Art in Public Space, Vienna - and a member of the boards of trustees of the Nordmetall Foundation and the Herbert Gerisch Foundation / Sculpture Park Neumünster.

Since October 1st, 2009, Luckow has been the director of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, succeeding Robert Fleck , who was appointed director of the art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn .

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Luckow wrote scientific articles on Richard Artschwager , Cecilia Edefalk , Hans-Peter Feldmann and Poul Gernes, edited publications such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen: Cities of the 21st Century (2000) and published numerous texts a. a. in Art + Text (Sydney) and the Journal of Contemporary Art (New York).

• Joseph Beuys and the American Anti Form Art , Mann, Berlin, 1998 ISBN 978-3-786122654 .
• See histroy 2003 , Christians, 2003, ISBN 978-3-76721425-5 .
• with Hans Werner Schmidt, Hans Hartung: Spontanes Calculus , Kerber, 2006.
• Hans-Peter Feldmann. The unsettling muses , König, Cologne, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86560080-6 .
• Kunsthalle zu Kiel , Dumont, 2007, ISBN 978-3-83219011-8 .
• Privatissimo: Art from the Schleswig-Holstein nobility , Dumont, 2009, ISBN 978-3-83219263-1 .
• Anselm Reyle - Mystic Silver , exhibition catalog. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-18-8 .

Curated exhibitions

• 2011 Two collectors - Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
• 2011 Gilbert & George - Jack Freak Pictures, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
• 2010 I Want To See How You See - Julia Stoscheck Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
• 2010 Poul Gernes, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
• 2009 Allora & Calzadilla, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
• 2009 Privatissimo. Art from the Schleswig-Holstein nobility, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• 2008/2009 Heavy Metal - The inexplicable lightness of a material, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• 2008 True Romance, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, (cooperation project with the Kunsthalle Wien and the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich)
• 2006 Ballermann, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• 2005 Christian Rohlfs - The Encounter with Modernism, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• 2002 Painting without painting, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig, Siemens Arts Program, Munich
• 2000 Art & Economy, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (cooperation project with the Siemens Arts Program, Munich)
• 1999 Dream City, Munich (cooperation project of the Siemens Arts Program, Munich with kunstraum muenchen, Kunstverein Munich and the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Luckow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Luckow on the Hamburg website
• Report about Luckow in the magazine art, June 2009
• Website of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topic: Joseph Beuys and the American Anti Form Art: Influence and interaction between Beuys and Morris, Hesse, Nauman, Serra , Volume 10 of Berliner Schriften zur Kunst, Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-78612265-4