Gregor Jansen
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)
- 2020: International Lantz'scher Sculpture Park Lohausen, with u. a. Julia Bünnagel / Patrick Rieve , Bogomir Ecker , Rita McBride , Gesine Grundmann , Martin Pfeifle , Christian Odzuck , Peter Schwickerath , Lantz'scher Park Düsseldorf
- 2020: SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHEIN RUHR, with u. a. Otto Steinert , Arno Jansen , Detlef Orlopp , Astrid Klein , Candida Höfer , Timm Rautert , Joachim Brohm , Andreas Gursky , Thomas Struth , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Ralph Goertz, Dana Bergmann)
- 2019/20: Carroll Dunham / Albert Oehlen BÄUME / TREES Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Cornelius Tittel)
- 2019: Affective-Imagoism Art: Sang Huoyao , Long Museum , Shanghai
- 2019: d-polytop. Art from Düsseldorf, with u. a. Christine Erhard , Bianca C. Grüger , Andreas Fischer , Heinz Hausmann , Ulrich Hensel , Ralf Werner , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Dana Bergmann, Raphael Nocken, Jörg Schlürscheid)
- 2018/19: The Power of Multiplication, MARGS - Art Museum of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre; Hall 12 factory show, Leipzig cotton spinning mill
- 2018/19: Joseph Beuys for: Lettres du Voyant: Beuys x Paik, HOW Art Museum , Shanghai
- 2017: KRIWET curated by_Gregor Jansen, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
- 2017: Economic values / museum values, with u. a. Art & Language , Bernd & Hilla Becher , Joseph Beuys , Daniel Buren , Tony Cragg , Hanne Darboven , Imi Knoebel , Panamarenko ; an exhibition for the 50th anniversary in cooperation with the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , SMAK, Gent, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2016: Schaf und Ruder / Wool and Water, with u. a. Lili Dujourie , Isa Genzken , Astrid Klein , Aron Mehzion , Reinhard Mucha , Elaine Sturtevant , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2016: Rita McBride . Society. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2016: Wrap around the Time. with Isabella Fürnkäs , Raphaela Vogel , Nam June Paik Art Center , Seoul (co-curator)
- 2015: Song Dong . Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2015: Cody Choi . Culture Cuts, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2014: Thomas Ruff . Lichten, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2014: ABOUT ECK, with u. a. Ralf Berger , Bianca Grüger , Heinz Hausmann , Bernd Kastner , Jörn Kruse , Friderieke Schardt , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Jörg Schlürscheid)
- 2014: BLENDED GENERATIONS, with u. a. Georg Herold , Benjamin Houlihan , Harald Klingelhöller , Jörg Gelbke , Henry Staschik , Tal R , Ali Altin , Jochen Goerlach , Chris Reinecke , Mareike Foecking , Katharina Sieverding , Pola Sieverding , Pia Stadtbäumer , Max Frisinger , Natalia Stachon , 701 e. V., Kö-Bogen , Düsseldorf (with Pia Witzmann)
- 2014: Marijke van Warmerdam . Nearby in the distance, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2013: Living with Pop . A reproduction of capitalist realism . Manfred Kuttner , Konrad Lueg , Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter . With a contribution by Christopher Williams , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Elodie Evers, Magdalena Holzhey, Susanne Rennert) // 2014 in Artists Space , New York
- 2013: Michael Kunze (painter) . Halcyon days, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2012: Yin Xiuzhen , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2012: Tal R . Man overboard, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2011: Chris Martin. Staring into the Sun, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2011: Stefano Cagol. CONCILIO, 54th Venice Biennale, Chiesa di San Gallo (Venezia)
- 2011: THE GROUP 1965 - We are boys !, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Inka Christmann)
- 2011: KRIWET - yester 'n' today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2010: From the real present. Marcel Broodthaers today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia (with Vanessa Joan Müller and Elodie Evers)
- 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2008: Once in a Lifetime - Formalismus heute, Karlsruhe (with Lukas & Sebastian Baden, Max Mayer)
- 2008: Familiar Terrain - Current Art in and about Germany, ZKM - Museum for New Art (Karlsruhe) (with Thomas Thiel)
- 2007: Paul Thek . Work exhibition in the context of contemporary art, ZKM - Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe (with Roland Groenenboom, Harald Falckenberg , Peter Weibel )
- 2007: Imagination becomes Reality, ZKM - Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe (with Ingvild Goetz, Stephan Urbaschek)
- 2006: total city. Beijing case, ZKM - Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe
- 2005: Light art from artificial light, ZKM - Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe (with Peter Weibel )
- 2005: Informal City ?, 0-Field / 798 Art Space, Beijing
- 2002: Media City Seoul, Biennale (co-curator)
- 2000: Continental Shift - A Journey Between Cultures, Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen (Co-Curator), with u. a. Cody Choi , Jun Hasegawa , Ik-Joong Kang , Suchan Kinoshita , Takashi Murakami , Yoshitomo Nara , Chino Otsuka , Tsuyoshi Ozawa , Navin Rawanchaikul , Peter Robinson , Keiko Sato , Chiharu Shiota
- 1991: from equal to equal, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen (co-curator)
Web links
- Literature by and about Gregor Jansen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gregor Jansen on kunstaspekte.de
- Curators from Germany on: Website Goethe-Institut / Deleted?
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- ↑ Iconoclash ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Familiar Terrain ( Memento from March 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jansen, Gregor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and curator |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nettetal |