Dorothea Strauss

Dorothea Rose Strauss (born December 21, 1960 in Braunlage ) is a German art historian . She was director of the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich .

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Dorothea Strauss studied art history, theater / film and television as well as classical archeology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1982 to 1988 . She then worked as a curator at the Museum of Non-Objective Art in Otterndorf until 1991. In 1991 she returned to Frankfurt and until 1995 headed the office of the German Werkbund Hessen. In addition, she and the art critic Konstantin Adamopoulos organized a highly acclaimed free exhibition space for young art in the backyard of Schulstrasse 48 in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen. The two curators showed projects by Thomas Hirschhorn , Imi Knoebel (Das Kindersternprojekt ) and Enno Schmidt , among others .

In 1996, Strauss accepted her first engagement in Switzerland as director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen . Until 2001 she showed exhibitions there by, among others, Cosima von Bonin , Rirkrit Tiravanija , Tamara Grcic , Monika Baer , Thomas Bayrle , Gerald Domenig , artists with whom she was already familiar from her time in Frankfurt. In addition, she worked from 1998 to 2005 as a lecturer for art theory and art practice at the Zurich University of Art and Design (HGKZ). In 2000, Strauss received the Federal Curator's Prize from the Federal Office for Culture in Bern.

In 2001, Strauss - succeeding Stephan Berg - became director of the Kunstverein Freiburg , where she drew attention to herself with exhibitions and exhibition catalogs by Dirk Skreber , Stephan Melzl , Daniele Buetti , Hanspeter Hofmann , Erik Steinbrecher , Nader Ahriman and Matti Braun, among others . In 2005 she organized as curator - stepping in for the late Harald Szeemann - the much-noticed Berlin exhibition on the soccer world championship Rundlederwelten in the Gropius building .

In 2005 Strauss returned to Switzerland and took over as director of the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich. She founded the Zurich Art Prize and presented artists such as Carsten Nicolai (Zurich Art Prize 2007), Alex Katz , Anna and Bernhard Blume , Mariana Castillo Deball (Zurich Art Prize 2012), max bill 100 + Olaf Nicolai, Tino Sehgall (Zurich Art Prize 2009), Charlotte Posenenske , Peter Roehr , Mai-Thu Perret (Zurich Art Prize 2011), Ryan Gander (Zurich Art Prize 2010). Strauss defined for himself “new exhibiting” in an institutional framework ” … as a synonym for the demand for a lively and at the same time conscientious handling of intimacy, the public, practice and theory in the relationship network between art / artist - space / place / cultural space - individual / society . ”

In 2013 she handed over the management of the museum to her successor Sabine Schaschl and became head of the Corporate Social Responsibility department of the Swiss insurance company Die Mobilar in Bern. She manages a budget of 25 million francs there.

From 2006 to 2009, Strauss was chairwoman of the working group on art in public spaces (AG KiöR) of the city of Zurich. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hermann and Margrit Rupf Foundation in Stallikon since 2016 . She is the editor and author of numerous publications on contemporary art.

Fonts

• Hot Spot Istanbul: Ekrem Yalcindag , Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2013 ISBN 978-3-86828-438-6
• (Ed.) In concrete terms: Museum Haus Konstrukti v, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-7757-2840-9
• Nelly Rudin - Open Space , Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-273-3
• Francois Morellet - Senile Lines and others , Van der Koelen, Mainz, 2006 ISBN 978-3-926663-35-1
• Thomas Müllenbach - Ganz normal , modo, Freiburg ISBN 978-3-937014-09-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorothea Strauss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katja Bromberg: Flowing, lively transition . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 28, 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter von Becker: Before shot on goal . In: Der Tagesspiegel from October 18, 2005
2. ↑ Internet site Kunstmuseum Thurgau ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ The Mobilar website
4. ^ Sabine Altorfer: From art to the insurance industry: Will never again live in a time with fewer problems . In: Aargauer Zeitung of May 5, 2019