Eugen Blume

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Eugen Blume (* 1951 in Bitterfeld ) is a German curator and art historian . From 2001 to 2016 he was director of the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin.

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From 1972 to 1974, Blume studied German and art education at the Erfurt University of Education . He then worked in the theater department of the city of Leipzig until 1976 .

As a result, Blume studied art history , archeology , aesthetics and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1981 , from which he graduated with a diploma on the concept of art under Joseph Beuys . At the same time he worked as an intern in the gallery of the state art trade "Arkade", directed by Klaus Werner . In 1979 the first official performance of the GDR took place there with Gregor-Torsten Schades The Black Breakfast . Blume wrote: "The 'performance' staged black on black in the black-clad shop window turned into a Biedermeier magic piece ..."

From 1981, Blume worked at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (GDR), initially as a research assistant in the East Berlin Kupferstichkabinett , from 1990 on in the collection of drawings in the Nationalgalerie and finally in the collections of the Kupferstichkabinett from East and West Berlin, which were combined in 1993.

Since the early 1980s, Blume has been the protagonist of the “ extended concept of art ” introduced by Joseph Beuys in the GDR, an art that not only included traditional forms of representation, but also action and installation art .

Blume was involved as the theoretical head in the unofficially operated East Berlin "Action Space Sredzkistraße 64" in Prenzlauer Berg , the repurposed studio of the painter Erhard Monden . In June 1989 he was one of the organizers of the permanent art conference , which took place at Sredzkistraße 64 with numerous activities and lectures. Among other things, Via Lewandowsky's ritual operation Trichinen on a cruise was shown .

Under the ironic title “Art. What is that supposed to mean? ”Invited Eugen Blume together with Klaus Staeck and Christoph Tannert to the 3rd Bitterfeld Conference in the Kulturpalast Bitterfeld from May 1st to 3rd, 1992 . "The talks a critical assessment of the associated in the past with the name Bitterfeld expectations, mistakes and disappointments and an intense discussion about the tension art and society beyond all ideological deadlocks with which this issue was often burdened enough ..." This was preceded by the official conferences of the Bitterfelder Weg .

As a result, in 1993, on a topic about Ludwig Justi , Harald Olbrich became Dr. phil. PhD . From that year on, Blume finally headed the establishment of the Joseph Beuys media archive, and two years later he moved to the National Gallery in Hamburger Bahnhof, which he headed from 2001 to 2016. Teaching assignments at various universities followed.

In 2011 he was awarded an honorary professorship in the art studies department at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . In 2015 he curated the exhibition “Black Mountain” in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart.

Blume works as a speaker at the Institute for Continuing Education, the Career College of the UdK Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Blume: In the open air - The artist group Clara Mosch and their pleinairs . In: Art Documentation SBZ / GDR 1945–1990 . Articles, reports, materials. Günter Feist, Eckhart Gillen and Beatrice Vierneisel (eds.). DuMont, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-77013846-3 , pp. 728-741.
  2. ↑ Curators from Germany: Eugen Blume , accessed on November 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ History of the Kupferstichkabinett ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 16, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smb.museum
  4. ↑ Eugen Blume: Room rg, Sredzkistraße 64 . In: Klopfzeichen: Art and Culture of the 80s in Germany , Faber & Faber, Leipzig, pp. 54–55. Note rg stands for "red-green"
  5. ↑ Constanze von Marlin (Ed.): Order through disturbance: Auto-Perforations-Artistik , Dresden University of Fine Arts, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2006, p. 38
  6. ^ The self-help and producer gallery "rg" Sredzkistraße 64 website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education from September 6, 2012
  7. ↑ AR Penck, Ein Protokoll ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Edition Staeck  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edition-staeck.de
  8. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: Ludwig Justi and Classical Modernism in the Museum der Gegenwart using the example of the collection of drawings in the Nationalgalerie in Berlin between 1919 and 1933. A contribution to the biography of Ludwig Justi and the history of the Nationalgalerie , Humboldt University, Berlin. Published in 1994.
  9. ↑ Internet site of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts , accessed on November 16, 2015
  10. ↑ Making-of: Interview with Eugen Blume , accessed on November 15, 2015
  11. ↑ Further education at ziw.udk-berlin.de. Retrieved November 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Blume, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitterfeld