Gregor Jansen

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Gregor Jansen (* 1965 in Nettetal ) is a German art historian and exhibition organizer. Since January 2010 he has been the director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .

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Jansen studied art history, architectural history and philosophy at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate in 1998 on the painter Eugen Schönebeck . He has been working as an exhibition manager, curator, lecturer, art critic and publicist since 1991. From 1995/2002 to 2005 he taught media theory, cultural and visual studies at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and the Maastricht Art Academy (ABKM). From the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2009 Jansen was director of the Museum for New Art in Karlsruhe. From 2006 to 2007 he was given a teaching position in the field of museology / exhibition practice at the HfG Karlsruhe and from 2011 to 2013 he was visiting professor at the Art Academy in Münster .

In 1996 he organized the series of talks "Netzkultur <en>", supervised the exhibition "Entropy at Home" of the collector Wilhelm Schürmann in Aachen in 1998 and in 2000 curated the Japan / Korea section for the transnational exhibition "Continental Shift" in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2001, with the New Aachen Art Association , he organized the science symposium “About super strings, vibration modes and other vibration states”. He then worked as a project manager for the Iconoclash exhibition with Bruno Latour (2002) at the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Technology . In 2002 Jansen was co-curator for the second media art biennial "media_city seoul" in South Korea. Gregor Jansen was appointed curator of the BEIJING CASE scholarship program, which was carried out jointly by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Goethe-Institut Peking in 2005 to research international urban developments in megacities. The project and the concluding exhibitions “INFORMEL CITY?” (798, Beijing 2005) and “totalstadt. beijing case ”(ZKM, Karlsruhe 2006) deal with the explosive growth of the city and its influence on urban culture in the field of tension between tradition and modernity. His mediating activity considers the diversity of international contemporary art and related contemporary discourses, for which he develops innovative formats for exhibiting and communicating. Since 2018 he has been a specialist curator for the art collection of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Collection (LBBW).

He has published books, catalog articles as well as essays and articles in catalogs and art magazines such as springerin, Kunst-Bulletin, Metropolis M, Parkett or Blitzreview. In 2010 Jansen gave the laudation for the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei , who was awarded the Kassel Citizen Prize Das Glas der Vernunft there , in 2012 laudation for Echo Ho and in 2018 for Anna Vogel (Zonta Cologne Art Award), in 2013 for Florian Meisenberg ( Art Prize young west ), 2014 on Wang Shugang Ernst Barlach Prize .

Gregor Jansen is married and has three children.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

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  1. ↑ Iconoclash ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Familiar Terrain ( Memento from March 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Jansen, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Nettetal