Dorothea von Hantelmann

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Dorothea von Hantelmann (* 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian , author and freelance curator. From 2013 to 2015 she held a visiting professorship at the University of Kassel on the history and importance of documenta .

life and work

Von Hantelmann studied art history, German and ethnology in Berlin and worked as a scientist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At the Freie Universität Berlin she worked on the research project “Cultures of the Performative”, which deals with performativity in art and questions its political, critical and participatory potential. Dorothea von Hantelmann conducts research on the topic of “Aesthetic experience in the context of the dissolution of boundaries in the arts”, examining the interactions between artistic practice and everyday life. She was the curator and co-curator of various exhibitions and projects, such as “Wahlverwandschaften”, an interdisciplinary art and theater project for the Vienna Festival in 1999, “I like theater & theater likes me” for the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and “I promise it's political “For the Museum Ludwig in Cologne 2002.

Articles published by Hantelmann on artists such as Daniel Buren , James Coleman , Jeff Koons and Pierre Huyghe. In her dissertation How to Do Things with Art. On the Significance of the Performativity of Art , following John Austin's linguistic act theory , she investigates the question of how art functions and can become meaningful in relation to its social impact. Like language, art can create reality; it has a performative power. Von Hantelmann does not start from the question of what the artist wants to tell us. Starting from the object as such and by virtue of its integration into a conventional and institutional framework, she asks what art does. Contrary to the intentions of the avant-garde, she follows Judith Butler's thesis that art cannot become effective by breaking with conventions, but only by acting within the conventional framework. She demonstrates this using four contemporary artists - James Coleman , Daniel Buren, Tino Sehgal and Jeff Koons.

Dorothea von Hantelmann is married to the artist Tino Sehgal, with whom she has two children. The family lives in Berlin.

Fonts

  • art moving politics. In: Angelika Stepken (Ed.): Reading book. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2001.
  • Showing Art Performing Politics. In: Dorothea von Hantelmann (Ed.): I promise it's political. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2002.
  • Production of Space - Space of Production. In: Michael Elmgreen , Ingar Dragset: Spaced Out. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • I promise it's performative. In: Marijana Erstić (Ed.): Media, Avant-Garde, Performativity. Transcript, 2005.
  • How to Do Things with Art. On the Significance of the Performativity of Art. Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-03734-009-7 .
  • ed. with Carolin Meister: The exhibition. Ritual of politics. Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-090-5 .
  • ed. with Karin Gludovatz , Michael Lüthy and Bernhard Schieder: Kunsthandeln. Diaphanes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-110-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New professorship on the history and significance of the documenta at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Till Briegleb: The curse of excessive demands . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 29, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  3. ^ The Question Artist . In: The New Yorker . ( newyorker.com [accessed October 7, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Dumbbell man, Dorothea von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, freelance curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg