Julian Heynen

Julian Heynen (* 1951 in Krefeld ) is a German art historian and curator.

Career

Heynen studied art history from 1970 to 1971 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and until 1976 art and literary history, architecture and building history at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RHTW). He received his doctorate on Barnett Newman's texts on art, studies on art history . Heynen volunteered at the Museum Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne from 1977 to 1978 , from 1978 he worked as a curator at the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg. In 1979 he received a teaching position at the RHTW in Aachen.

Curatorial work

From 1981 he was exhibition director, then until 2000 deputy director of the Krefeld state museums ( Haus Lange, Haus Esters, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum ). In 2001 Heynen was appointed artistic director of the K21 art collection in North Rhine-Westphalia . Since April 2002, the art of the 21st century in the NRW art collection has its own domicile, the “K21” in the converted Düsseldorf Ständehaus , the former state parliament in the south of the city center.

In 2003 and 2005 Heynen was commissioner of the German pavilion at the 50th and 51st Venice Biennale . In 2003 he presented Candida Höfer and (posthumously) Martin Kippenberger , in 2005 Thomas Scheibitz and Tino Sehgal . In 2008 he was co-curator of the Shanghai Biennale.

Heynen turned down an appointment to head the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in May 2009. From September 2009 to July 2016 he was "Artistic Director for Special Tasks" at the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf . As a guest curator, he curated the special exhibition of the Turner award winner Richard Deacon Drawings and Prints 1968 - 2016 at Museum Folkwang , which presented his drawings for the first time at the center of an exhibition.

Heynen is one of the four participants in the discussion on the art programs "Bilderstreit" broadcast by German television and 3sat .

Curated exhibitions

• 1994 Gregor Schneider : Three works
• 1998 Zvi Goldstein , To Be There
• 2000 Gerhard Richter, pictures 1999 ; Gregor Schneider: Old house slut
• 2002 Katharina Fritsch
• 2003 Daniel Richter; Heimo Zobernig; Rodney Graham; Julian Opie
• 2005 Luc Tuymans; Darren Almond
• 2006 Juan Muñoz: Rooms of My Mind
• 2007 Gregor Schneider: White Torture ; Jeroen de Rijke - Willem de Rooij; Joe Scanlan, Passing Through
• 2008 Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
• 2009 Jorge Pardo; Wilhelm Sasnal
• 2010 Evaluation of the flight data : Art of the 80s. A Düsseldorf perspective

Fonts

• Barnett Newman's Texts on Art , Olms, Hildesheim – New York, 1979 ISBN 978-3-4870-6754-4
• with Sabine Röder: Arnulf Rainer. Works from the 1950s to 1980s , Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, 1988 ISBN 978-3-9265-3032-5
• Gerhard Richter, Pictures 1999 , König, Cologne, 2000 ISBN 978-3-8837-5425-3
• Darren Almond. 50 Moons at a Time , König, Cologne, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8837-5900-5
• with Brigitte Kölle: Gregor Schneider: White Torture / Weisse Folter , König, Cologne, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8656-0216-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Julian Heynen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Julian Heynen at "Curators from Germany" at the Goethe Institute
• Julian Heynen's private website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alain Bieger, Ute Thon: The search goes on , in: Art, Kunstgagazin, May 8, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2012 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. 
2. ↑ SWR website: Bilderstreit