Kathrin Baumstark

Kathrin Baumstark (* 1983 in Filderstadt ) is a German art historian and religious scholar and has been the artistic director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum since 2019 .

Life

Kathrin Baumstark studied art history, religious studies and modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing her master's thesis on “The changed concept of work in the visual arts based on the model of Studio Olafur Eliasson”, she became a research assistant and lecturer at the LMU's inter-faculty study program in 2011. In 2015 she received her doctorate in the subjects of religious studies and art history with the title “Death and the Maiden. Eroticism, sexuality and dying in the German-speaking area between the late Middle Ages and early modern times ”. She has been the curator of the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg since 2016 , and in June 2019 Kathrin Baumstark took over the artistic direction of the exhibition house. At the Bucerius Kunst Forum she curated the exhibitions “Max Pechstein. Modern artists ”,“ Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Expressive, magical, strange ”and“ World in transition. Art of the 20s ”as well as the opening exhibition of the newly opened house on Alten Wall“ Here We Are Today. The Image of the World in Photo & Video Art ”.

Exhibitions as a curator / co-curator

• Venice. City of Artists, Bucerius Kunst Forum, October 1, 2016 - January 15, 2017
• Paula Modersohn-Becker . The Path to Modernism, Bucerius Kunst Forum, February 4, 2017 - May 1, 2017
• Max Pechstein . Modern artists, Bucerius Kunst Forum, May 20, 2017 - September 3, 2017
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff . Expressive, magical, strange, Bucerius Kunst Forum, January 27, 2018 - May 21, 2018
• World in transition. Art of the 20s, Bucerius Kunst Forum, February 9, 2019 - May 19, 2019
• Here We Are Today. The Image of the World in Photo & Video Art, Bucerius Kunst Forum, June 7, 2019 - September 29, 2019

Publications

• K. Baumstark, A. Hoffmann, FW Kaiser, B. Maaz (eds.): Here We Are Today. The Image of the World in Photo & Video Art, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2019 ISBN 978-3-7774-3228-1
• K. Baumstark, A. Hoffmann, FW Kaiser, U. Pohlmann (eds.): World in transition. Art of the 20s, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2018 ISBN 978-3-7774-3227-4
• K. Baumstark, FW Kaiser, M. Moeller, C. Remm (eds.): Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Expressive, magical, strange, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2018 ISBN 978-3-7774-3013-3
• K. Baumstark, FW Kaiser (ed.): The birth of the art market. Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and the Artists of the Golden Age, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-7774-2907-6
• K. Baumstark, FW Kaiser, M. Moeller (Ed.): Max Pechstein. Modernist artists, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-7774-2752-2
• K. Baumstark, UM Schneede (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker . The way to modernity, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-7774-2749-2
• K. Baumstark, FW Kaiser (ed.): Venice. City of Artists, Auss.-Cat. Bucerius Kunst Forum Hamburg, Hamburg 2016 ISBN 978-3-7774-2607-5
• K. Baumstark: Decisions - Virtues and Vices, In FW Kaiser, M. Philipp (Ed.): Inverted world. The Century by Hieronymus Bosch, Auss.-Kat. Bucerius Kunst Forum Hamburg 2016 ISBN 978-3-7774-2566-5
• K. Baumstark (Ed.): Death and the Maiden. Eroticism, sexuality and dying in the German-speaking area between the late Middle Ages and early modern times, Berlin a. a. 2015 ISBN 978-3-643-13182-9
• K. Baumstark: Imagination of ignorance: On the Hubble Space Imagery and the figurations of the beautiful universe between science, art and religion, In A. Wilke, L. Traut (Ed.): Religion - Imagination - Aesthetics: Worlds of imagination and meaning in religion und Kultur, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-54031-2
• K. Baumstark (Ed.): Olafur Eliasson and the new concept of work in the visual arts, Saarbrücken 2011 ISBN 978-3-639-33152-3

Web links

• "Death and the Maiden."
• Website of the Bucerius Kunst Forum