Holger Kube Ventura

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Holger Kube Ventura (born August 21, 1966 in Dreieich ) is a German art historian and curator .

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Kube Ventura studied art and English from 1987 to 1994 , as well as art history and education at the University of Kassel . From 1994 he was involved as a curator or employee in various exhibition projects and festivals, including the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (1994, 1997, 2004 and 2007), Monitoring (1997), Sub Fiction (1998) and Falster Versuchsgelände (1999 ). From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a freelance curator of the Kassel Art Association in the Fridericianum . In 1996 and 1997 he worked as an art educator in the documenta X . From 1997 to 2000 he was a curator on the board of the Kasseler Kunstverein and a doctoral candidate at the University of Konstanz . In 2001 he received his doctorate with the study “Political Art Terms - in the 1990s in German-speaking countries” .

From 2001 to 2003 Holger Kube Ventura was the artistic director and managing director of Werkleitz Gesellschaft - Center for Artistic Image Media Saxony-Anhalt . In this context, he curated the 5th Werkleitz Biennale in 2002. From 2004 to 2009, Kube Ventura was program and project coordinator at the Federal Cultural Foundation in Halle (Saale) before becoming director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein in April 2009 . He left there at his own request in November 2014; his successor was Franziska Nori . From March 2016 to September 2017, Kube Ventura was artistic director of the Tübinger Kunsthalle before Nicole Fritz took over this position. In November 2017 he took over the management of the newly created collection for concrete art in the city of Reutlingen .

Publications

  • Holger Kube Ventura u. a. (Ed.): Deconstruction & Video , Filmladen, Kassel, 1994
  • Bernhard Balkenhol, Holger Kube Ventura (ed.): Surfing Systems: The Favor of the 90s - Positions of Contemporary Art , Kasseler Kunstverein im Fridericianum, Stroemfeld 1996, ISBN 3878775768
  • Holger Kube Ventura: Political Art, Terms in the 1990s in German-speaking Countries , Edition Selene, 2001, ISBN 978-3852661735
  • Holger Kube Ventura u. a. (Ed.): Theory - Politics, self-reflection and politicization of cultural-scientific theories , Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002, Tübingen, ISBN 978-3823357117
  • René Zechlin , Sabine Schaschl , Holger Kube Ventura (eds.): About the metaphor of growth , Merian, 2011, ISBN 978-3856165345
  • Frankfurter Kunstverein (ed.): Art stories in the stone house , Kehrer, 2013, ISBN 978-3868283921
  • Holger Kube Ventura, Kunsthalle Tübingen Foundation (ed.): Capital flow , Wasmuth, 2017, ISBN 978-3803033895
  • Holger Kube Ventura, Kunsthalle Tübingen Foundation (ed.): Shirin Neshat. Women in Society , Wasmuth, 2017, ISBN 978-3803033918
  • Holger Kube Ventura: Working from a system. Concrete Art 1954-2011 , Wasmuth, 2018, ISBN 978-3803034007
  • Holger Kube Ventura: Painting Konkrethochdrei. Vom Bild zum Raum , Kerber, 2019, ISBN 978-3735605825
  • Holger Kube Ventura (Ed.): Ignacio Uriarte: Verwaltungstakte , Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, 2019, ISBN 978-3939775737
  • Holger Kube Ventura: Photography of the Present , Edition Cantz, 2019, ISBN 978-3947563623

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Paul Burkhardt : New start with a bang . In: Reutlinger Nachrichten. City and district of Reutlingen. February 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Siegmund Kopitzki: “There will always be good art”. Founding director Nicole Fritz is leaving the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg at the end of the year and taking over the Kunsthalle Tübingen - a new challenge . In: Südkurier. Culture. September 5, 2017. p. 13.
  3. ^ Reutlingen: Kube Ventura goes to Reutlingen . In: SWR Aktuell . October 16, 2017 ( swr.de [accessed October 18, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Matthias Reichert: Now it's getting specific for Kube Ventura. Change: The former artistic director of the Tübinger Kunsthalle is going to Reutlingen in mid-November - as head of the new municipal collection at Eberhardstrasse 14 . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt. Regional culture. 17th October 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kube Ventura, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dreieich