Mario Kramer

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Mario Kramer (* 1956 in Karlsruhe ) is a German art historian , museum curator and collection manager at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

Kramer grew up on Lake Constance and was inspired by a contemporary art teacher at an early age. He studied art history, archeology and empirical cultural studies at the University of Freiburg . Kramer continued his studies in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Hamburg . Since then he has been working as a freelancer at the Hamburger Kunstverein and co-authored an exhibition catalog about Andy Warhol .

After completing his master's thesis in 1985, Joseph Beuys: Das Kapital Raum 1970-77 , Kramer received his doctorate from Martin Warnke in 1995 with a dissertation on the musical aspect of the work of Joseph Beuys . Among other things, he dealt with the analysis and development history of action-related installations such as Deer Monument for George Macunias (1982), Infiltration Homogen für Konzertflügel (1966) and Konzertflügenjom (Bezirkjom) (1969). Since then, Kramer has been a well-known expert on Beuys' work.

In 1990, Kramer was appointed curator of the collection by Jean-Christophe Ammann at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main. He was already involved in the construction phase of the museum, which was completed with the opening of the museum on June 6, 1991. Kramer then conceived and organized the mediation activities through guided tours and lectures. As head of the collection, he looks after and catalogs the house's collection, the Peter Roehr archive and the Ammann archive . At his instigation, the museum's series of works “ On Kawara , Date Paintings, 1966–2000 ” was completed in 2014 . In 2018 he acquired Joseph Beuys' key work Boxing for Direct Democracy from 1972 for the Museum .

Since the summer semester of 1993 he has been teaching seminars on contemporary art at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and since October 1999 has been a guest lecturer at Bennington College , Vermont. Kramer curated numerous exhibitions and published mainly on topics of contemporary art. Kramer lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Curated exhibitions

Fonts (selection)

  • Joseph Beuys, Das Kapital Raum 1970–77, studies on the genesis of the installation, Crex Collection, Halls for New Art , Schaffhausen. Department of Cultural History, Hamburg, 1985 (Master's thesis)
  • Joseph Beuys, Das Kapital Raum 1970–1977 , Edition Staeck, Heidelberg 1991 (revised and expanded version of the master's thesis)
  • Sound & sculpture: the musical aspect in the work of Joseph Beuys , Häusser, Darmstadt, 1996 ISBN 978-3-89552008-2 (dissertation)
  • Joseph Beuys:> Auschwitz Demonstration <(1956–1964) . In: Eckart Gillen (Ed.) Pictures of Germany. Art in a divided country , Martin-Gropius-Bau Dumont, Cologne ISBN 978-3770138692 , pp. 293-303
  • The lucid evidence: Photography from the collection , MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 978-3-86984147-2
  • Joseph Beuys and the contemporary John Cage: in dialogue with Marcel Duchamp, Eric Satie and James Joyce. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2010 ISBN 978-3-86984147-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Egon Vester (ed.) Janis Hendrickson, Mario Krämer (authors): Andy Warhol: I recognized that everything I do is related to death , Kunstverein Hamburg, 1987 ISBN 978-3-92203580-0
  2. ↑ Expanded as: Mario Kramer: Joseph Beuys “Das Kapital” Raum 1970– 1977 - Studies on the History of the Development of the Room Installation , Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, 1991 ISBN 978-3-88243163-6
  3. ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Votes for the purchase of Beuys artwork . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from June 6, 2018
  4. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: A picture confuses more than a thousand words . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe