Ludger Hünnekens

Ludger Hünnekens (born July 15, 1953 in Münster ) is a German classical archaeologist and cultural manager .

Life

education

Hünnekens obtained his Abitur in 1974 at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck in Goch ( Lower Rhine ). From 1977 to 1987 he studied classical archeology, art history , history and philosophy at the University of Freiburg . In 1984 he received a DAAD scholarship for Athens. 1985–1987 he received a doctoral scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg. He received his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Freiburg.

Professional background

From 1987 to 1990 Hünnekens was a scientific volunteer at the Badisches Landesmuseum , Karlsruhe, connected with excavations in Greece. This was followed by a research stay at the Villa Giulia in Rome. From 1990 to 1996 he was an executive officer of the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe and in this position a. a. Organizer of “MultiMediale”, employee in the construction of the Museum of New Art and responsible for public relations. As managing director of the cultural group of the German economy in the Federal Association of German Industry eV and managing director of the working group cultural sponsoring , Cologne and Berlin, which he co-initiated , Hünnekens worked from 1996 to 2000 and during this time u. a. responsible for the traveling exhibition "Ars Viva".

From 2000 to 2004, Hünnekens was a managing member of the board of trustees of the newly founded Allianz Kulturstiftung in Munich and was responsible for numerous international artist funding projects and a. Co-curator of the exhibition “Dissimile - Prospection: Young European Art” (2003). When he took office in October 2004, a person who did not belong to the university's faculty took over the post of rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart for the first time . In this function, he was able to obtain an amendment to the State University Act, with the result that the two-tier curriculum with BA and MA degrees was not used for the fine arts courses, but the single-stage study structure with diploma was retained. After the responsible university bodies did not approve a second term of office, Hünnekens resigned from the academy's employment relationship in 2010. Since November 2005 he has been honorary professor at the Ludwigsburg University of Education at the Institute for Cultural Management. This appointment was made due to his diverse academic and professional experience in cultural management in Germany. From October 2010 to September 2012 he was director of the Museum Frieder Burda and managing director of the Frieder Burda Foundation, Baden-Baden . He then worked as a freelance art and culture consultant with a focus on foundations, museums, corporate communications and cultural administration. After an election by the city council of Darmstadt, Hünnekens took up the position of cultural advisor Darmstadt and at the same time the first manager of the in-house cultural institute in February 2015 .

Honorary positions

• Board member of the Peter Klöckner Foundation , Duisburg
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Applied Cultural Studies and General Studies at the University of Karlsruhe
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Erich Schelling Architecture Foundation , Karlsruhe
• Member of the advisory board of aed, Association for the Promotion of Architecture, Engineering and Design, Stuttgart
• Member of the board of trustees of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg gGmbH, Stuttgart
• Extraordinary member of the German Association of Artists, Berlin
• Member of the jury for the Austrian Art Sponsoring Prize, “Maecenas”, Business for Art, Vienna
• Member of the Board of Triennial Small Sculptures, Fellbach

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludger Hünnekens in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hünnekens homepage on the PH Ludwigsburg website