Helmut Schuster (curator)

Helmut Schuster (born November 18, 1958 in Mannheim ) is a German curator , art critic and filmmaker . He lives in Berlin and Miami .

Training and exhibitions

Helmut Schuster studied social work, psychology and art history in Fulda and Frankfurt. Helmut Schuster gained his first professional experience as a consultant in asylum procedures in cooperation with Pro Asyl Germany and in educational work with young people as the head of international youth art projects. In 1990 Helmut Schuster and his wife Claudia Schuster founded the now internationally renowned Galerie Schuster . Since 1990 the gallery has looked after exhibition galleries in Gelnhausen, Offenbach, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Miami and Potsdam. During the Schuster Gallery in Frankfurt, Helmut Schuster was the spokesman for the IG der Galleries in Frankfurt and a member of the editorial team of the art magazine "art Kaleidoskope". During this time he began working as a journalist for national and international art magazines, which continues to this day. "Artpulse" in Miami or the German art magazine "Kunsttermine" are examples here.

Curatorial activity and art projects

Helmut Schuster has curated countless art exhibitions and organized national art events since 1990. The spectrum ranges from a complete thematic block with a total of 10 exhibition locations for the Frankfurt Book Fair , through solo exhibitions in museums and art halls (e.g. Markus Lüpertz for Neuffer am Park) to the Helmut Newton Show in Miami for WEAM . In 1999 Helmut Schuster produced the art talk show Artpersonality together with ZDF presenter Ulrich Kienzle. The pilot broadcast was recorded in the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Helmut Schuster has been organizing art events and art prizes since 1990. One example is the SCA Art Prize. In response to the disaster in Haiti, Helmut Schuster organized the benefit auction Berlin helps Haiti in cooperation with the City of Miami, the German Consulate General Miami and with donations from museums and artists from Berlin. Helmut Schuster was in charge of designing the exhibition halls for Berlin and was, among other things, a juror for the architectural competition for the project. He was both a jury member at international art fairs (e.g. Scope New York) and a juror for art and cultural festivals such as the F: Stop Festival in Leipzig. In 2011 Helmut Schuster designed a 2000 m² exhibition hall for the American millionaire and collector Michael Dezer. He was responsible for both the interior design and the conception of the hall. As a curator, Helmut Schuster devised the first major exhibitions in the new hall. He showed the first retrospective of Bunny Yeager and then an overview exhibition of young Berlin art in collaboration with the UDK Berlin . In 2012 Helmut Schuster was appointed Artistic Director of WEAM in Miami. His first curated exhibition was a solo exhibition with photographs by Helmut Newton in collaboration with the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg . At the same time Helmut Schuster was the artistic director of the art fair “Artafrikamiami” in 2012.

Movie

In 2011 the documentary Scissors & Glue was the first directorial work by Helmut Schuster in the cinemas and for broadcast on American television channels. The film is about the cultural city of Miami. The relevance of art and culture for the social cohesion of a city is questioned as an example. The film was financed by the Berlin / Munich production company Zuckerfilm and supervised as producers by Daniel Krauss and Antoine Monot . Scissors & Glue immediately made it into the festival program of the Fort Lauderdale international film festival FLIFF and was broadcast several times on the American PBS . The film was the opening film of the O Cinema in Miami.

Web links

• GallerySchuster.org
• Zuckerfilm.com
• Helmut Schuster in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Project description ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Germanworldonline, accessed on February 13, 2013.  
2. ↑ movie description , german-films.de, accessed on February 13, 2013.