Eva Meyer-Hermann

Eva Meyer-Hermann (* 1962 in Cologne ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator. She published numerous writings on modern art .

life and work

Eva Meyer-Hermann began her studies at the State Art Academy in Stuttgart in 1981 and moved the following year to the University of Bonn to study art history, classical archeology and urban planning. She received her doctorate with distinction (“summa cum laude et egregia”) with Eduard Trier in 1991 with a thesis on the floor sculpture phenomenon .

From 1992 to 1995 Eva Meyer-Hermann worked as a curator at the Krefeld art museums Haus Lange and Haus Esters . She then became vice director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg and a little later also director (until 1998).

1999–2001 she was the founding director of the private Hauser and Wirth collection in the St. Gallen Lokremise. At the same time, she was the curator / director of the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Zurich. In 2002 she was offered a position at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , where she worked for four years as a senior curator.

She has been a freelance journalist and curator since 2005. Her office cakesmeyer / Independent Exhibitions Makers is located in Berlin / Kreuzberg. Eva Meyer-Hermann received Andy Warhol from the Dutch department of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art for her exhibition and publication . Other Voices, Other Room s the Dutch AICA Award 2008. In 2009 her concept for the exhibition Mike Kelley.Themes & Variations from 35 Years at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was awarded the Turing Art Grant.

Exhibitions (selection) and publications

• 1996 Carl Andre Sculptor in the museums Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld and at the same time in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Next stop: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
• 1998 First retrospective by Jason Rhoades. The Purple Penis and the Venus in the Kunsthalle in Nuremberg and at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
• 1999 Paul McCarthy Dimensions of the Mind . Overview exhibition in the Lokremise in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• 2003 Martin Kippenberger After Kippenberger . Comprehensive retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna and in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
• 2004 Lucy McKenzie, Deathwatch . Production of a site-specific installation in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
• 2004 Paul McCarthy Brain Box Dream Box . Retrospective at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Further station: CAC Málaga.
• 2005 EindhovenIstanbul in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Retrospective from 18 years of the Istanbul Biennale with a total of 40 artists.
• 2006/2007 Allan Kaprow Art as Life . Retrospective in the Haus der Kunst, Munich and in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Further stations: Kunsthalle Bern, Villa Croce in Genoa. MOCA in Los Angeles.
• 2007/2009 Andy Warhol Other Voices, Other Rooms . Comprehensive retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Further stations: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Hayward Gallery, London and Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH.
• 2011 Kippenberger Meets Picasso , Málaga.
• 2013 Zvi Goldstein retrospective , The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Meyer-Hermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Eva Meyer-Hermann
• Videos from and about the Andy Warhol Other Voices, Other Rooms exhibition at Wexner Center, Ohio
• Trailer for the exhibition Andy Warhol Other Voices, Other Rooms at MM, Stockholm
• Curators from Germany. Goethe Institute