Frank-Thorsten Moll

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Frank-Thorsten Moll (* 1977 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German art historian , art historian and curator as well as director of the IKOB - Museum for Contemporary Art in Belgium .

Life

Born in 1977 in Baden-Württemberg, Frank-Thorsten Moll passed his Abitur in 1996 at the Lender home school in Sasbach .

In Karlsruhe studied Moll from the winter semester 1998 art and media theory as well as a minor in philosophy, aesthetics and media arts at the State Academy of Design (HfG). During his studies he worked from February 2002 to March 2005 as a research assistant at the by the Volkswagen Foundation funded international research project "Global Icons - icons of the global image traffic" under Lydia Haustein at the then University of the Arts in Berlin-Weissensee. At the same time, Moll worked under Okwui Enwezor in the management team of Documenta 11 in 2002 . From 2003 to 2005 Moll was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In March 2005, Moll completed his master's thesis under Hans Belting and Beat Wyss on the subject of Documenta 11 and the postcolonial discourse in the art history department .

From March 2005 to August 2006 Moll worked in the House of World Cultures in Berlin: Entrusted with the organization of conferences and readings, he assisted the acting head of the house, Lydia Haustein. At the same time he taught the seminars “Video Art & Video Clip” and “Temptation through Beauty” at the HDK together with Haustein.

In 2006 Frank-Thorsten Moll went to Hanover , where he curated exhibitions for the Kestner Society from August to November 2009 .

In December 2009 Moll went to Friedrichshafen , where he took over the management of the art department of the Zeppelin Museum . There he was responsible for the permanent collection, for the Andreas Feininger archive as well as the redesign of the art area. The 30 or so temporary exhibitions for which von Moll was responsible included “monographic exhibitions on Otto Dix , Andreas Feininger , Anton Stankowski , Michael Sailstorfer , Ré Soupault and Héctor Zamora , but also thematic presentations such as' New Home - Between the Worlds' or 'The World of above - The bird's eye view in art '".

As the successor to Maïté Vissault , Moll took over the management of the IKOB - Museum for Contemporary Art in the Belgian, but German-speaking town of Eupen south of Aachen on March 1, 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Veit Görner , Hilke Wagner, Frank-Thorsten Moll: Barbara Kruger, desire exists where pleasure is absent. Publication on the occasion of the Barbara Kruger exhibition , Desire Exists Where Pleasure Is Absent in the Kestner Society in Hanover from September 1 to November 5, 2006, Bielefeld: Kerber, 2006, ISBN 978-3-938025-95-6 ; Content text
  • András Masát (Ed.), István Csákány (Ill.): +++ PLUSZ +++ - capitalist friendship. + István Csákány ... , exhibition at the CHB, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin from August 31 to September 20, 2007 in cooperation with the Delta35 Project Gallery Berlin, texts partly in German and partly in Hungarian, Berlin: CHB, 2007
  • Veit Görner, Frank-Thorsten Moll, Roland Meyer: One hundred fish fountain - Bruce Nauman , accompanying document for the exhibition Bruce Nauman, One Hundred Fish Fountain in the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover from September 28 to November 4, 2007, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-64-6 and ISBN 3-939583-64-2
  • Frank-Thorsten Moll (Ed.), Ursula Zeller: Luftkunst , accompanying booklet for the exhibition of the same name from February 4 to May 1, 2011, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen - Technology and Art, 1st edition, Friedrichshafen: Zeppelin Museum, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86136-146-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o.V. : Frank-Thorsten Moll comes from the Zeppelin Museum to the ikob , press release [no date 2016] on the ikob.be page , as a PDF document in the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Ulrich Raphael Firsching: Frank-Thorsten Moll goes to Belgium on kunstmarkt.com [ undated ], last accessed on August 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moll, Frank-Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, art scholar, curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen-Schwenningen