Marion Ackermann

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Marion Ackermann

Marion Ackermann (* 1965 in Göttingen ) is a German art historian , curator and museum director. From 2003 to August 2009 she was director of the Stuttgart Art Museum . Between September 2009 and October 2016 she was head of the North Rhine-Westphalia art collection . Since November 2016 she has been Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

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Marion Ackermann grew up in Ankara, her parents held lectureships at the university there. After graduating from high school, she studied art history , history and German in Kassel , Göttingen , Vienna and Munich . In 1995 she received her doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen on the autobiographical and theoretical texts of Wassily Kandinsky . She later taught at the Munich Art Academy , the University of Augsburg and the Munich University of Applied Sciences for Photo Design .

From 1995 to 2003 she was a curator at the Städtische Galerie in Munich's Lenbachhaus , where she primarily looked after the graphic collection. Among other things, she curated the exhibitions there: Paula Modersohn-Becker (1997), Rosemarie Trockel (2000), SchattenRisse (2001), Leggerezza (ten Italian artists) (2001), Katharina Grosse (2002) and Unreality practice (2003, with Lovis Corinth , Max Slevogt , Mark Wallinger ) as well as the exhibition series Dialoge zur Drawing (with Ulrich Meister , Alexander Roob , Nanne Meyer , Maria Lindberg , Julian Opie , Matt Mullican , Bethan Huws and Malte Spohr ).

Together with the Goethe-Institut , of which she is a member today, Ackermann developed a CD-ROM on the Blue Rider in 1996 , which was awarded the European MultiMedia Award .

When she took over the directorate at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, at the age of 38 she became the youngest museum director of a large house in Germany. Here she curated the opening exhibition Arrived. The In-House Collection (2005), Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night and Pictograms - The Loneliness of Signs (both 2006). It showed the first comprehensive exhibition with works by Christian Jankowski (2008/2009).

In September 2009 Marion Ackermann took over the management of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf as director.

In the confusion about filling the position of Alfred Pacquement, director of the Musée national d'art moderne (MNAM) at the Center Georges Pompidou , who retired at the end of the year , Marion Ackermann left, although with three other candidates (including Max Hollein ) in the shortlist Wahl, according to an article by Le Monde dated November 16, 2013.

On November 24, 2014, the art historian's contract (limited to 2016) was prematurely extended by seven years. In April 2016 it became known that she would not fulfill this contract and that she was appointed General Director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden for eight years on November 1, 2016 .

She is married to Wolf Tegethoff and has two children.

Literature (selection)

  • Marion Ackermann: Colored walls - on the design of the exhibition space from 1880 to 1930. Published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich. 152 pages, 101 ills. Edition Minerva 2003. ISBN 978-3-932353-79-6
  • Marion Ackermann (Ed.): Pictograms - The loneliness of signs . With an introduction by Marion Ackermann and Pirkko Rathgeber. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-06674-8
  • Marion Ackermann: Shadow cracks. Silhouettes and Cutouts, ed. by Helmut Friedel . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1021-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New head of Dresden art collections . In: Saxon newspaper . April 20, 2016 ( online [accessed April 21, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden ( Memento of the original from September 19, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skd.museum
  3. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: “Retrospectives” - Kandinsky's autobiography in the context of his early writings.
  4. ↑ Press release of the NRW Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport. Retrieved November 27, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen