Gabriele Muschter

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Gabriele Muschter (born October 6, 1946 in Oranienbaum ) is a German art historian , journalist and curator . Her main focus is on East German art after the Second World War .

biography

Muschter studied art studies / aesthetics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1974 to 1979 . Since early youth, she has been engaged in visual arts through accessible literature , exhibitions and catalogs. After graduating from high school , she completed a traineeship as a culture editor and from 1970 to 1974 published the "Mitteilungen" of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (an internal information magazine), which appeared six times a year.

After completing her studies, in 1979 she took over the management of the Galerie Mitte in Dresden, which existed in the 1980s . From 1984 to 1987 she was an aspirant at the Humboldt University on the subject of photography from the 1970s and 1980s in the GDR . Muschter has been a freelance art historian / art educator since 1987 . From May to October 1990 she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture of the GDR (first democratically elected and last GDR government). Since 1990 she has been providing cultural advice to federal and state authorities as well as companies such as Philip Morris , AEG , Ostdeutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband , Gaedeke Group, Procter & Gamble .

From 1990 to 2010, Muschter was director of the New Culture Foundation and chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Haus Europa cultural foundation. (KHS), since 2010 she has been a board member of KHS. She was also a member of the KulturBrauerei's management from 1994 to 1998 . In 2001 she took part in the founding of the company VISTA - culture, advice, mediation and worked from 1998 to 2002 as a partner for Berlin, head of Central and Eastern Europe. From 2002 to 2006 she advised the coordinator of the governing mayor for Central and Eastern Europe and the manager of the MOE club. From 2006 she worked as a freelance art scholar, curator, author, editor and lecturer .

Exhibitions / events

  • Project series Wall in the head , ideas competition, discussions with two exhibitions Wall in the head and dialogue in the Bodemuseum (1993 together with Klaus Biesenbach )
  • Gundula Schulze / Nan Goldin : Separate Worlds / Separate Worlds, Catalog Kunst-Werke 1992 (together with Klaus Biesenbach)
  • Christo in Berlin (1993 in the Marstall )
  • Artists dream Berlin (1994 in the Marstall)
  • Westchor Ostportal (1994 together with Klaus Honef, Marstall Berlin , then Kunsthalle Dresden and Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn )
  • Standard is hard - new work by ARPenck (1995 Kunsthalle Dresden)
  • Berliner Salon in the Schauspielhaus (1991–1993 together with Barbara Barsch and Frank Schneider )
  • Series of talks on Deutsche Lebenslauf e (1998–2000), together with Barbara Barsch
  • Exhibition “Closed Society” in the Berlinische Galerie (2013), together with Ulrich Domröse, TO Immisch and Uwe Warnke
  • In another country, film interviews with over 50 artists on the topic: Transformation processes using examples of contemporary visual arts in Germany (2014–2016), together with Uwe Warnke

Solo and group exhibitions

Marina Abramovic , Jörg Immendorff , Olaf Metzel , Lutz Dammbeck , Strawalde , Horst Bartnig , Kurt Buchwald, Christo, Carlfriedrich Claus , Thomas Florschuetz , Michael Jastram , Manfred Paul , Eberhard Göschel , Moritz Götze , Helge Leiberg , ARPenck, Dieter Tucholke, Ulay , Claus Weidensdorfer , Eliaz Slonim, Marcus Lüpertz , Cornelia Schleime , Carsten Nicolai , Sabine Herrmann , Klaus Killisch , Annette Gundermann, Franz John , Elke Daemmrich, Gerhard Altenbourg , Sabina Grzimek

Projects / concepts

Art concepts / reports

for the Federal Chancellery - on the cultural situation in the new federal states (1990 together with Karin Thomas) for Stiftung NEUE KULTUR, KULTURBRAUEREI gGmbH, Kulturstiftung Haus Europa

Art and cultural policy conferences / events

  • Being a stranger in Germany (1992, art auction with Peter Raue as auctioneer)
  • Private initiative for culture (1992),
  • Hiddenseer Talks - on the situation of art criticism (1994, NEUE KULTUR Foundation)
  • Enterprise culture series - culture enterprise (1997 and 1998, Kulturbrauerei)
  • Changing values (2000/2001 Kulturbrauerei / Foundation New Culture)

Books and catalogs (selection)

  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed.) Photographing GDR women , ex pose Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-925935-09-1 .
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed. Together with Rüdiger Thomas) Jenseits der Staatskultur , Hanser Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-446-17059-9 .
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed. Together with Rupert Graf Strachwitz), private initiative for culture , Maas-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-929010-07-7 .
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed. Together with Barbara Barsch) German CVs - Conversations between East and West , Bostelmann & Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-934189-51-5 .
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed. Together with Rupert Graf Strachwitz and Victoria Strachwitz) No special incidents? , Contemporary witnesses report on the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stapp Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87776-233-2 .
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed. Together with Klaus Honeff) Westchor Ostportal 12 positions of contemporary art in Germany, catalog for the exhibition in Berlin, Bonn and Dresden, Berlin 1995
  • Works by Jörg Immendorf - AR Penck, Lutz Dammbeck - Olaf Metzel, Michael Morgner - Felix Droese, Pina / Via Lewandowsky - Michel Francois, Olaf Nicolai - Heribert Ottersbach, Thomas Florschuetz - Thomas Ruff, NEUE KULTUR Foundation, Berlin 1994
  • Gabriele Muschter, Faces and Faces - new works by Claus Weidensdorfer, catalog for the exhibition in the Kulturbrauerei, Berlin and Magdeburg 1996
  • Album , painting by Eliaz Slonim, Tel Aviv, catalog for the exhibition in the KulturBrauerei Berlin December 2002 and in the documentation center Prora 2003, Berlin Foundation NEUE KULTUR 2002
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed. Together with Rüdiger Thomas) Women in Germany , Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2015
  • Gabriele Muschter (Ed.), Klaus Werner: For Art , with contributions by Barbara Barsch, Eugen Blume, Julia Blume, Arend Oetker, Herbert Schirmer, Klaus Staeck, Barbara Steiner, Heidi Stecker, Klaus Werner and many artists, König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-599-3 .

Publications in anthologies / art guides (selection)

  • Stations of a Path , Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin, 1988
  • No man's land magazine between cultures , Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin - several articles 1987/88
  • Art in the GDR , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990
  • Photo attack - four generations of East German photographers , EASeemann Verlag, Leipzig 2001

Voluntary work in committees / organizations

  • AICA (International Association of Art Critics) since 1990
  • Inter Nationales - Member of the General Assembly and Advisory Board from 1991 to 1998, Chair of the General Assembly from 1995 to 1998
  • Institute for Foreign Relations - Advisory Committee 1991–1995
  • New Culture Foundation - Board of Directors, 1990–2010
  • Kulturstiftung Haus Europa - Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees since 1991–2011, Board member since 2012
  • Deputy Chairwoman of the Documentation Center Prora eV 2012–2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Secretaries | German unity 1990 . In: German Unity 1990 . ( deutsche-einheit-1990.de [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Kulturstiftung Haus Europa In: klaus-heinrich-standke.de , accessed on September 25, 2017 (PDF; 4 kB)
  3. ↑ a b Wall in the head In: stiftung-neue-kultur.de , accessed on September 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ Westchor Ostportal In: stiftung-neue-kultur.de , accessed on September 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ Berliner Salon In: stiftung-neue-kultur.de , accessed on September 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Exhibitions Berlin: Closed Society | Berlinische Galerie In: berlinischegalerie.de , accessed on September 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Interview films / transformation processes | uwe warnke In: uwewarnke.wordpress.com , accessed on September 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Muschter, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Oranienbaum