Helmut Draxler (art historian)

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Helmut Draxler (* 1956 in Graz ) is an Austrian art historian , art theorist and curator .

Draxler was director of the Kunstverein München from 1992 to 1995 and realized, partly in collaboration with Hedwig Saxenhuber , exhibitions by Andrea Fraser , Imi Giese , Christian Philipp Müller , Adrian Piper and Christopher Williams as well as numerous thematic exhibitions. From 1999 to 2012 he was professor of aesthetic theory at the Merz Academy , University of Design, Art and Media in Stuttgart . Between 2004 and 2006 he worked with Sabeth Buchmann and Stephan Geene on the research project “Film and Biopolitics” at the Ian van Eyck Academy in Maastricht . From 2005 to 2008 he was a member of the buying board of the National Gallery Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin . From 2013 to 2014 he was professor for art theory and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . Together with Christoph Gurk , he curated the eleven-part series of talks Phantasma and Politics , which took place from 2013 to 2015 in Berlin at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU).

Draxler is professor for art theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

Book publications

  • Drift of will. A theory of mediation . Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2016, ISBN 978-3-85132-868-4 .
  • Dangerous substances. On the relationship between criticism and art . Berlin: b-books, 2007.
  • The violence of the context. Space, reference and representation at Fareed Armaly . Berlin: b-books, 2007.

Exhibitions

  • 2013 The Content of Form , Generali Foundation, Vienna
  • 2007 Shandyimus. Authorship as a genre , Secession, Vienna and Kunsthaus Dresden
  • 1994 The Utopia of Design , Kunstverein Munich

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ km In: www.kunstverein-muenchen.de. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ Hebbel am Ufer Berlin: HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin - Phantasm and Politics. In: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Helmut Draxler - Department of Art Theory. In: kunsttheorie.uni-ak.ac.at. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  4. ^ Preview - Generali Foundation. In: foundation.generali.at. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Shandyism. Authorship as a genre «secession. In: www.secession.at. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Draxler, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian, art theorist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz