Florian Waldvogel

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Florian Waldvogel (born May 21, 1969 in Offenburg ) is a German exhibition curator .

biography

Waldvogel studied art education at the State Academy of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt and was from 1993 to 1998 there assistant and protégé of Kasper König . From 1998 to 2000 Waldvogel was project manager of InBetween, the official art project of EXPO 2000 , Hanover , and from 2001 to 2003 together with Marius Babias artistic director of the project contemporary art and criticism in the coking plant Zollverein in Essen .

In 2001 and 2002 he was visiting professor for art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 2004 he curated Nizza Transfer , a project in public space on the banks of the Frankfurt Main, in which artistic activities, urban discourse, skateboarding and youth culture came together. Waldvogel was co-curator of exhibitions such as Just Do It! -The subversion of characters from Marcel Duchamp to Prada Meinhof in the Kunstmuseum Linz 2005, Manifesta 6 in Nicosia , Cyprus (2006) or - for the soccer world championship - of “The Big Piece of Lawn” in the public space between the main train station and the castle in Nuremberg (2006).

From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a curator under Nicolaus Schafhausen at the Witte de With - Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. From 2009, Waldvogel was director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, succeeding Yilmaz Dziewior . In the same year he was elected to the board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine . In 2013, after internal quarrels, he resigned as director of the art association. His successor was Bettina Steinbrügge .

Waldvogel was in 2015 at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (Academy of Fine Arts) with a theme for the exhibition practices of Kasper König to Dr. phil in art. PhD.

On April 1, 2019, he will be the new head of the art history collections from 1900 at the Tyrolean State Museum .

Quote

"A painting is a mirror, if a monkey looks into it, no apostle can look out ..."

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018: together with Marius Babias : A 37 90 89 - The Invention of the Neo-Avantgarde ( Neuer Berliner Kunstverein nbk)
  • 2013: John Bock - Der Pappenheimer (Kunstverein Hamburg)
  • 2012: Kiki Kogelnik - Have Seen the Future (Kunstverein Hamburg)
  • 2011: Evelyne Axell - La terre est ronde (Kunstverein Hamburg)
  • 2010: Tobias Zielony - Story / No Story ; Michael Riedel - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog (Kunstverein Hamburg)
  • 2010: together with Marius Babias: Freedom of Speech (Kunstverein Hamburg)
  • 2009: Where's the wind when it's not blowing? - Political picture stories from Albrecht Dürer to Art Spiegelman (Kunstverein Hamburg)

Publications

  • (Ed.) Who let the dogs out (on the occasion of the exhibition Current Positions in Visual Art in Public Space ), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2001 ISBN 978-3-928071-53-6
  • Libretto for a possible art association. Libretto fo a Possible Kunstverein. Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2010 ISBN 978-3-94222804-6
  • "Aspects of the curatorial using the example of Kasper König's practice" . Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 2016 ISBN 978-3-88960-155-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Jansen: Hanging in the shaft . In: taz of March 11, 2004
  2. ↑ Hajo Schiff, Petra Schellen: In the commercial . In: taz from June 5, 2013
  3. ↑ Something new for Hamburg . In: Magazin Monopol from May 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Topic of the dissertation published in 2016 in an expanded version: Florian Waldvogel, aspects of the curatorial based on the example of Kasper König's practice , Silke Schreiber, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-88960-155-1
  5. ↑ New director for Tyrolean state museums . In: tirol.ORF.at of March 29, 2019
  6. ↑ spike ART QUARTERLY, Vienna, August 2006
  7. ↑ With this he changes an aphorism by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , who wrote: A book is a mirror, if a monkey looks into it, no apostle can look out
personal data
SURNAME Waldvogel, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg , Germany