Jörg van den Berg

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Jörg van den Berg (* 1965 in Duisburg ) is a German exhibition maker and art scholar . Since 2018 he has been director of the Museum Große Kunstschau Worpswede .

Life

1986 to 1992 studied art history , philosophy and modern history at the universities of Gießen, Basel and Bochum with Max Imdahl and Gottfried Boehm . Both were decisive impulses not only for his art-historical thinking, but also for his self-image as an exhibition organizer. While studying in Basel, he curated his first group exhibition Artefact together with his future wife Karen van den Berg . In 1992 the two curators founded the program area for contemporary art art in dialog at the private University of Witten / Herdecke , which they headed until 2003.

After more than ten years at the University of Witten / Herdecke, they both moved to Friedrichshafen as members of a four-person team to found the Zeppelin University . After the separation from Karen van den Berg and the Zeppelin University, Jörg van den Berg took over the Columbus Art Foundation in Ravensburg . From October 2006 he was director of the Kunsthalle Ravensburg / Columbus Art Foundation. Under his direction, the Columbus funding project for academy graduates, the exhibition and collection policy were conceptually and structurally redeveloped, and a three-year guest performance (2008-2010) by the Columbus Art Foundation in Hall 14 on the grounds of the Leipzig cotton spinning mill was realized. During this time, van den Berg also became the founding board member of the local association HALLE14, on whose board he remained active until the beginning of 2019. His involvement with the Columbus Art Foundation ended in 2012 because the Columbus Group closed the Columbus Art Foundation following the institutional partnership between Columbus and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine , which have since jointly awarded the sponsorship prize, which was conceived by van den Berg and which continues to this day . From 2013 to 2016 van den Berg was responsible for the exhibition for the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen; 2013 and 2014 also curator in residence at Magazin 4 - Bregenz Art Association, where he realized the experimental two-year project ›six memos for the next ...‹ with Wolfgang Fetz and the artists Sandra Boeschenstein, Schirin Kretschmann and Tilo Schulz as well as the author Barbara Köhler . In addition to these activities, van den Berg accompanied the Im Tal (sculpture park) facility founded by the artist Erwin Wortelkamp in the Westerwald for more than twenty years - most recently as curator of the im Tal Foundation Wortelkamp . From 2016 to 2018 he worked as a curator for the Federkiel Foundation in Munich. Since 2016 he has been responsible for the ›Quill Room for Art, Education, Ecology and Enjoyment‹ in the Luitpoldblock. In April 2017, the Worpswede museums appointed him the external artistic director of their activities as part of the 800th anniversary of the town's foundation in 2018. The anniversary exhibition was entitled ›Kaleidoskop Worpswede. Work of art, landscape, place of life ‹. Jörg van den Berg has been Artistic Director and Chairman of the Great Art Show Worpswede since January 2018 .

Scholarships

• writer in residence at the Chinati Foundation founded by Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, 1994
• Winner of the Max Imdahl Scholarship for Art Education of the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation , 1994–1996
• Work grant from Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation , 1996/1997

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

2018

• Kaleidoscope Worpswede. Work of art, landscape, place of life . With works by Etel Adnan , Heike Kati Barath , Manon de Boer , Mary Heilman , Bernhard Hoetger , Per Kirkeby , Maria Lai , Thomas Locher , Antje Majewski / Pawel Freisler, Leberecht Migge , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Otto Modersohn , Giorgio Morandi , Olaf Nicolai , Gabriela Oberkofler , Richard Oelze , Jens Risch, Antje Schiffers, Marilou Schultz, Tilo Schulz , Jessica Stockholder , Ana Torfs, James Turrell , Bram van Velde , Gitte Villesen, Heinrich Vogeler u. a .; Great art show Worpswede, Barkenhoff, Haus im Schluh, Worpsweder Kunsthalle
• ›I hear the wings of a barn owl that never belonged, And find my way in a starless night.‹ With works by Droog Design , Rémy Markowitsch, Muller van Severen, Kostas Murkudis , Olaf Nicolai , Steven Parrino , Ôtagaki Rengetsu, Gitte Schäfer, Tilo Schulz , David Semper and Günter Umberg ; Quill pen room for art, education, ecology and enjoyment, Munich

2017

• structurally sensual with works by Nevin Aladağ , Gordon Matta-Clark , Richard Allen Morris , Manfred Pernice , Platino, Tata Ronkholz , Tilo Schulz , David Semper u. a. Quill pen room for art, education, ecology and enjoyment, Munich
• Ghost in the Machine. Rading Room, Materials. Selected by Carsten Nicolai . Quill pen space for art, education, ecology and enjoyment; Munich
• Haleh Redjaian - in sequence I and II , quill pen space for art, education, ecology and enjoyment; Munich
• in the valley - the German Bomarzo , Magazin4 - Bregenz Art Association; Quill pen space for art, education, ecology and enjoyment; Munich

2016

• the gift (part I, II & III with Judith Albert and others), DG Gallery of the German Society for Christian Art, St. Paul, Munich & Magazin 4 - Bregenz Art Association
• non profit. Useless usabilities beyond utility. Group exhibition. Friedrichshafen Art Association and Zeppelin Museum

2015

• Beat Streuli Kl, Kids II , wallpaper installation on Luitpoldblock / Maximiliansplatz, Munich

2014

• She reached into the tomato salad and shoved a piece of red into her mouth . Group exhibition. Häusler Contemporary, Munich
• six memos for the next ... , Vol. 6-9. Magazine 4 - Bregenz Art Association

2013

• oneteen, two thirteen, thirteen. Artistic research between intuition and research . Four duets. Group exhibition. Annual exhibition series at the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen
• Matthias Wermke, Mischa Leinkauf: Grenzgänger , solo exhibition in the Columbus funding project; Heilbronn Art Association
• other orders . Group exhibition. House for Art, in the valley - Wortelkamp Foundation , Hasselbach in the Westerwald
• six memos for the next ... , Vol. 0-3. Magazin4 - Bregenz Art Association.

2012

• Mo (ve) ment. Silvia Bächli , Heinz Breloh , Anna Huber and David Reed ; Magazin4 - Bregenz Art Association
• remember to see. Group exhibition. In the valley - Wortelkamp Foundation

2011

• Room content (3) - and / and . Group exhibition. In the valley, Hasselbach in the Westerwald,
• Weird thing. Shifts from the classic . Group exhibition. Ravensburg art gallery
• politics: I-I-we . Group exhibition. Ravensburg art gallery
• Anna Witt. constantly rebel . Solo exhibition at the end of the Columbus funding project, Magazin4 - Bregenz Art Association

2010

• Room content (2) - noli me tangere . Group exhibition. In the valley, Hasselbach in the Westerwald,
• squatting. remember, forget, occupy . Group exhibition. Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin , curated with Tilo Schulz

Publications (selection)

• six memos for the next ... , Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903004-87-0 .
• The work of art and its society. Book for the exhibition series ›die zeiten: More Than Fifteen Minutes‹ , Friedrichshafen / Leipzig 2015
• Mo (ve) ment, Silvia Bächli, Heinz Breloh, Anna Huber, David Reed , Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-86984-549-4 .
• Wermke Leinkauf , exhibition cat. Heilbronn Art Association. Snoeck, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86442-056-6 .
• Book series on Erwin Wortelkamp , Salon Verlag Cologne: Leaves, Trees - maybe (2016, ISBN 978-3-89770-473-2 ), Figure, Form, Landscape (2015, ISBN 978-3-89770-458-9 ), Das untranslatable measure, distances and repetitions between art and religion (2012, ISBN 978-3-89770-430-5 ), Body.Politics.We. (2012, ISBN 978-3-89770-411-4 )
• Gabriele Oberkofler, the places that saw you stayed , columbus books / Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86895-152-3 .
• Anna Witt. Works 2002-2011 , columbus books / Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-149-3 .
• squatting. remember, forget, occupy , exhib.cat. Temporary art gallery, Berlin. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031144-4 .
• Tensions. Art from nine centuries in the OEW collection , columbus books / Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86895-016-8 .
• Heike Kati Barath, untitled. , columbus books / Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86895-011-3 .
• No end. Sculpture projects at Jewish country cemeteries by Christine Borland , Stefan Kern, Jörg Lenzlinger / Gerda Steiner, Thomas Locher and Richard Serra. (with Karen van den Berg & Sebastian Manhart). Kadmos Kulturverlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931659-41-0 .
• Erwin Wortelkamp. Papers ... sculptures ... spaces ... contexts (with Christoph Brockhaus & Karen van den Berg), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0955-X .
• Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl) (with Karen Schübeler, Stefan Gronert, Thomas Jansen, Carina Plath), Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-928762-12-5 .