Ina Grätz

Ina Grätz (* 1983 in Aurich ) is a German art historian and curator with a focus on design and contemporary art .

Career

Ina Grätz studied art history , cultural anthropology , Protestant theology and museum management at the University of Hamburg and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen . In Hamburg she completed a master's thesis on organic forms in plastic seating furniture (1940–1960) . After her traineeship at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg , she worked there as a curator for design in the Moderne collection.

Villa Schöningen in Potsdam

In 2011 Ina Grätz curated the exhibition “Stylectrical. About electrical design that makes history ”, for which she worked for a year and a half. It is the world's first overall Apple exhibition. It comprised around 400 exhibits, with the focus on the design by Jonathan Ive for Apple .

Ina Grätz has been heading the private museum Villa Schöningen in Potsdam since January 2012 . Since then she has curated the exhibitions Grenzzüge with works by Olafur Eliasson , Tobias Rehberger , Katharina Grosse and Anselm Reyle ; Walls , an installation by the object artist Andreas Slominski in the garden of the Villa Schöningen, and the special show “from time”, which showed abstract and informal art of post-war modernism , including works by Hans Arp and Willi Baumeister .

Curated exhibitions

• 2010: Participation in the exhibition Ideas for Sitting - 50 Years of Chair Design , Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg
• 2010: Made in USA - industrial design by Albrecht Graf Goertz , Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg
• 2011/2012: Stylectrical. From electrical design that makes history , Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
• 2012/2013: Andreas Slominski - WALLS , Villa Schöningen
• 2012: Border crossings , Villa Schöningen
• 2013: “from time”, Villa Schöningen

Publications

• (with Sabine Schulze ) Ed .: Apple Design . Accompanying publication to the Stylectrical exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2011/2012. With an introduction by Ina Grätz. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3010-5 (editions also in Japanese and Chinese translation)

• Art to hear. Apple design . (Audio guide) Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3203-1

• (with Mathias Döpfner ): Georg Baselitz - Berlin Years , catalog for the exhibition in the Villa Schöningen, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037289-6 (text in English and German)
• (with Sabine Schulze) Ed .: Verner Panton . The Spiegel canteen . Catalog for the permanent exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3321-2 .

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Ina Grätz at perlentaucher.de
• Apple design. The exhibition "Stylectrical" , interview with Ina Grätz. Spiegel TV , October 10, 2011
• Apple's design strategy: seduction with method . Abridged excerpt from the book "Apple Design", edited by Sabine Schulze and Ina Grätz, Hatje Cantz Verlag. Spiegel Online, November 6, 2011
• Website Villa Schöningen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ina Grätz. Curator of the modern collection at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Study of art history, protestant theology, German studies, and cultural anthropology in Hamburg and Groningen. Thesis on “Organic Form in Seating Furniture Made of Plastic (1940-1960)” (Organic Form in Seating Furniture Made of Plastic, 1940-1960). In 2007, head of the project “Value creation: art · company · port” within the framework of the project competition “Entrepreneurship Challenge” of the Foundation of German Business and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation. In: Apple design . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011, p. 8 ( excerpt in pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )  
2. ↑ Evelyn Runge: One button for everything. An overview of the Apple design in Hamburg . THE TIME Nº 35/2011. Online August 25, 2011
3. ^ Art historian: Jobs shaped modern culture , Berliner Zeitung, October 6, 2011
4. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: Apple in the museum: Don't worry, it just wants to save! , Spiegel online , 23 August 2011
5. ↑ Klaus Irler: A question of philosophy , taz of August 26, 2011
6. ↑ Interview with Ina Grätz, the curator of the Hamburg exhibition "Stylectrical", Berliner Zeitung, November 6, 2011
7. ^ Daniel Völzke: Apple retrospective in Hamburg. End of the Steve Jobs era . Interview with Ina Grätz . In: Monopol (magazine) , August 25, 2011
8. ↑ art . The art magazine. March 25, 2013 ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 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. 
9. ^ Border crossings , Villa Schöningen ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Andreas Slominski: WALLS. Curated by: Ina Gratz. ArtSlant
11. ^ Against walls in the head , Berliner Zeitung, June 6, 2012
12. ↑ “Finally they could paint freely”. Curator Ina Grätz on the exhibition “from time” in the Villa Schöningen , Potsdamer Latest News, March 8, 2013
13. ↑ The "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reviews the book "Die SPIEGEL-Kantine" published by Sabine Schulze and Ina Grätz . Review note, DER SPIEGEL 50/2012
14. ↑ "mirror" -Kantine. Lunch in a style icon (picture gallery), Zeit Online