Mahret Ifeoma Kupka

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Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (2017)

Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (born 1980 in Hanau ) is a German art historian , curator and author . Since 2013 she has been a curator for fashion, body and performatives at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

Mahret Ifeoma Kupka grew up near her native Hanau in the Main-Kinzig district . Her parents met in Hamburg, where her mother came from Nigeria to study. She has a younger brother.

After graduating from high school in 1999, Kupka studied German literature , art history and political science at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 2000 to 2001 and then moved to the University of Stuttgart until the intermediate examination in 2003 . For the main course, which she finished with a diploma in 2008 , she went to the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe , where she studied art studies and media theory , philosophy and exhibition design. At the same time - from 2003 to 2006 - she studied economics as a minor at the University of Heidelberg .

From 2006, at the same time as her studies , she was one of the first fashion bloggers in Germany with her blog F & Art (fnart.org), later modekoerper.de . The world listed her as one of the top 20 fashion bloggers in 2008. Her Twitter account, also opened in 2008 under the name modekoerper , has around 13,000 followers. From 2008 to 2010 she also wrote for the fashion blog of the mail order company Otto twoforfashion.de, thereby professionalizing her work. Because of her fame as a blogger, she was asked as a guest author by various national media, such as The European , FAZ , Indie, Blonde, Qvest and J'n'C.

In 2008 she moved to Berlin. From 2010 to 2011 she was a lecturer in fashion sociology at the Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin in the fashion design course and from 2012 to 2013 lecturer for fashion theory at the AMD Akademie Mode & Design . At the same time, she did her doctorate from 2010 in Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Ullrich and Elke Gaugele ( Vienna Art Academy ). In 2012 she was already a guest curator for contemporary fashion at the Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt am Main, before moving to a permanent position there in 2013. There she realizes exhibitions on contemporary fashions and style phenomena. In 2014 she submitted her dissertation on “They want to be the next Anna Wintour” - about fashion blogs and the revolution in fashion ; she completed the doctoral process in 2015.

Journalistic activity

Mahret Ifeoma Kupka is a member of the Advisory Board of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) and, thanks to her commitment against racism as well as for feminism and the decolonization of the art and culture industry, is repeatedly asked as an interview partner in national media, as well as a speaker and author of comments, essays and statements .

In numerous interviews, for example at the Humboldt Forum , she discusses questions of restitution and the visibility of post-colonial perspectives in art and aesthetic practice. Central to her work is a critique of the museum's representational practice, that is, the way in which museums exhibit objects and who they address with them. As a curator, she works on such questions by making the political, economic and emancipatory function of fashion visible.

In 2019, Kupka was the project coordinator of the Contemporary Muslim Fashions show , which had previously been shown in San Francisco. The exhibition was discussed very controversially, especially in Germany, as Manuel Almeida Vergara writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau , in particular “by political actors of the right-wing spectrum”, but “also by advocates of an outdated old feminism”. This controversy was met with incomprehension in the international press, said Vergara.

In 2020, Kupka took part in the photo project This is what a feminist looks like - in Frankfurt by the photographer Katharina Dubno, which was exhibited in the Galerie Heussenstamm from March 11th to April 9th, 2020 on the initiative of the women's department of the city of Frankfurt.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013 together with Matthias Wagner K: Outside in the dark. Carry on according to fashion .
  • 2014 as Exhibition Director: The Weather Diaries. 3rd Nordic Fashion Biennale .
  • 2015 Fashion Moves Image. The Fashion Film Effect .
  • 2017 together with Christine Nippe, Juliane Duft, Matthias Wagner K: SUR / FACE. Mirrors .
  • 2018 Lara protects me. A Georgian Story .
  • 2019 together with Matthias Wagner K as coordinator: Contemporary Muslim Fashions .
  • 2020 Life doesn't frighten me. Michelle Elie wears Comme des Garçons .

Quotes

“The common goal must be to recognize and overcome racism. To do this, however, it must be brought to the surface from the unconscious turns and scratched out of the structures. He cannot be individually argued away or hushed up. "

- Mahret Ifeoma Kupka : Show your colors (2020)

Publications

Editorships

Essays (selection)

  • The skinny jeans as the uniform of the skinny . In: Diana Weis (Ed.): Look cool. Fashion and youth cultures . Hirnkost Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943774-00-9 .
  • Beyond fashion lies silence. About the impossibility of thinking the unthinkable . In: Rainer Wenrich (ed.): The mediality of fashion. Clothing as a cultural practice. Perspectives for a fashion science . Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2559-2 , pp. 59-71.
  • #teamMe . In: Olga Blumhardt and Antje Drinkuth (eds.): Traces: Fashion & Migration . Distance Verlag , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95476-197-5 .
  • Latent discomfort. The Schirn Kunsthalle deals with colonialism ... In: Frankfurter Rundschau, November 10, 2018, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  • Colonial looted art . In: Der Freitag , issue 48/2018, from November 29, 2018, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  • Show your colors . In: Deutschlandfunk.de , Series Identities (6/7), January 12, 2020, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  • We need new ways of thinking . In: Der Freitag , edition 25/2020, from June 19, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maria Wiesner and Timo Steppat: .AZ podcast “At the bar”: “Suddenly you have a huge family”. In: faz.net - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 12, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Fashion is always also political - that's Mahret Ifeoma Kupka. In: watson.de. Ströer Next Publishing, March 3, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Anne Goebel: Gladly different . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 170 . Munich July 25, 2020, p. 54 .
  4. ^ Anne Ackermann: Kale in Hessian. In: magazin.wirmachendas.jetzt. wearedoingit eV, February 8, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Mahret Kupka: Why "lean" is chic. In: theeuropean.de. December 9, 2009, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ now-editorial: And now? Today: The one from the interface. In: Jetzt.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 22, 2009, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ ras: The 20 Most Important Blogs About Fashion. In: welt.de. July 6, 2008, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/modekoerper. Retrieved July 29, 2020 . Status: July 2020.
  9. ↑ Madlen Uhlemann: The wages of work: blogs and careers. In: modabot.de. modabot Fashion Perspectives, April 23, 2009, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Michelle VanderVeen: Museum blog vs exhibition catalog. An interview with Dr. Mahret Kupka. In: museumsglueck.wordpress.com. January 4, 2016, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  11. ^ Daniel: Interview with journalist and blogger Mahret Kupka. In: dizzneeland.blogspot.com. July 1, 2009, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Mahret Kupka: With your own head. In: fluter.de. Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), August 20, 2015, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Andreas: Looks cool. Interviews with authors. In: coolaussehen.de. Archive of Jugendkulturen Verlag, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Annabella Kittel: Fashion Blogger: In a class of its own. In: Zeit Magazin. July 2, 2015, accessed June 8, 2020 . No. 27/2015.
  15. ↑ Mahret Kupka: "They want to be the next Anna Wintour" - of fashion blogs and the revolutionization of fashion . ( dnb.de [accessed on July 23, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Gregor Quack: An imposition, a tasteless provocation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . No. 29 , 19 July 2020, p. 37 .
  17. ^ A b Géraldine Kortmann: Dr. Mahret Ifeoma Kupka: "The Humboldt Forum maintains an outdated Eurocentric narrative". In: rosa-mag.de. October 15, 2019, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  18. ↑ dpa: Controversial symbol - cross placed on Berlin city palace. In: zdf.de. May 29, 2020, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Asal Dardan: "There is a hierarchy of cultures". In: What would if - space for new ideas www-mag.de. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Ulrike Wagener: "Michelle Elie always attracts attention". In: neue-deutschland.de. August 3, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Laura Sodano: Michelle Elie wears Comme des Garçons. In: faz.net. May 24, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  22. ^ Exhibition "Contemporary Muslim Fashions" "The focus is on 'self-determined'". Mahret Ifeoma Kupka in a conversation with Ulrich Biermann, Deutschlandfunk, April 3, 2019
  23. ↑ Manuel Almeida Vergara: "Contemporary Muslim Fashions": View of a controversial show. In: Frankfurter Rundschau - fr.de. April 6, 2019, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  24. ↑ This is What A Feminist Looks Like - in Frankfurt. Frankfurt portraits. In: Frauen-macht-politik-ffm.de. Women's Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Show your colors . In: Deutschlandfunk.de , series Identities (6/7), from January 12, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kupka, Mahret Ifeoma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kupka, Mahret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museum curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau