Eva Kraus (art historian)
Eva-Christina Kraus (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German art historian and museum director. Since 2020 she has been the director of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn.
life and work
After the bilingual Abitur in 1990 at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in Munich, Kraus studied from 1990 to 1995 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and completed his Magistra artium in 1995 .
She then did an internship at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. In 1999 she returned to Vienna and built the museum of the Austrian Friedrich and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation . In 2007 she founded Steinle Contemporary, a gallery in Munich, which she managed until 2012. With a dissertation on the exhibition practice of the Surrealists, she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 2011 she was visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . From 2012 to 2014 she was a freelance curator and about 2013 directed the annual project “A Space Called Public - Hopefully public” with interventions of art in public space , which Elmgreen and Dragset had designed for the city of Munich, as well as an exhibition in Espace Louis Vuitton , Tokyo .
In July 2014, Kraus was appointed by the Bavarian Minister of Culture Ludwig Spaenle - as successor to Angelika Nollert - as the new director of the New Museum in Nuremberg . Kraus has been the Artistic and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany since August 1, 2020 .
Fonts
- (Ed.): Out of Order, Works from the Haubrok Collection , Part 1 and Part 2 , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2020 ISBN 978-3-903320-53-6 .
- (Ed. Together with Daniel Koep, Petra Roettig ): KP Brehmer . Art ≠ Propaganda , König, Cologne, 2019 ISBN 978-3-96098-459-7 (German), ISBN 978-3-96098-460-3 (English).
- (Ed.): Boris Lurie - Anti-Pop , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2017 ISBN 978-3-903153-52-3 .
- (Ed.): Faces - A motif between figure, portrait and mask , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2015 ISBN 978-3-903004-04-7 .
- (Ed.): WeTransform - Art and Design to the Limits of Growth , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2016 ISBN 978-3-903131-26-2 .
- (Ed.): Ross Bleckner - Bilder Paintings 1985–2018 , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2019 ISBN 978-3-903320-14-7 .
literature
- Literature by and about Eva Kraus in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
- Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art: Art Minister Ludwig Spaenle appoints Dr. Eva-Christina Kraus as director of the New Museum in Nuremberg , press release from July 25, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topic of the dissertation: “Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme. Display and curatorial practice with Marcel Duchamp, André Breton and Friedrich Kiesler "
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Judge should fix it , November 13, 2014, p. R22
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 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.
- ↑ Die Welt: "Museum is kind of a favorite place of mine" , July 26, 2014
- ↑ The Federal Government Press Release 421: '' Eva Kraus will be the new director of the Bundeskunsthalle. Minister of State for Culture Grütters: "Highly qualified cultural manager secures reputation of the house" '' , accessed on December 13, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kraus, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraus, Eva-Christina (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |