Markus Heinzelmann (curator)

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Markus Heinzelmann (* 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian, curator and museum director.

Life

Heinzelmann grew up in Frankfurt am Main. In 1984/85 he completed his general studies at the Leibniz College in Tübingen. 1985 to 1987 he did his community service at the Tübingen Association for Social Therapy for Children and Adolescents eV / Tübingen Youth Housing Groups. Heinzelmann studied art history, political science, medieval and modern history at the University of Münster , where he in 1997 in art history with a thesis on "Landscape painting of New Objectivity and its reception at the time of National Socialism" doctorate was.

From 1997 to 1999 Heinzelmann worked as a research assistant at the Sprengel Museum Hannover . From there he moved to Munich and worked as a project manager for fine arts at the Siemens Arts Program. From May 2006 to February 2018 he headed the Morsbroich Museum in Leverkusen.

Curatorial work

Heinzelmann specializes in the art of classical modernism and the present. In 1999 he reconstructed the rescue of Emil Nolde's work from being seized by the National Socialists by the Hanoverian factory owner and art collector Bernhard Sprengel . The year before, he had researched Ernst Schwitters' collection and was able to present it for the first time under the title The Great Dadagluten (Hanover, Ishøj, Santiago de Compostela, Lisbon, Madrid 1998/1999) .

A particular focus of Heinzelmann's curatorial work is photography. He was responsible for exhibitions such as Albert Renger-Patzsch / Thomas Struth: Photographs from Münster (Münster 1996/1997), The Photographer's Contract (Berlin, Leverkusen 2006/2007), Gerhard Richter. Overpainted photographs (Leverkusen, Geneva, Madrid 2008/2009), Projects: Done. An exhibition by Candida Höfer with Kuehn Malvezzi (Leverkusen, Vigo, Sevilla 2009/2010) or Michael Schmidt. Groceries (Leverkusen, Innsbruck, Berlin 2012/2013).

From 2007 to 2011 Markus Heinzelmann worked on the project to set up a collection and research center in the Museum Morsbroich Wolf Vostell and the Fluxus movement in North Rhine-Westphalia. Due to financial difficulties and disagreement between Heinzelmann and the Wolf Vostell heirs, this project could not be realized. Originally, Rolf Wedewer was the initiator of this project.

In the field of contemporary art, Heinzelmann is known for his thematic exhibitions, with which he repeatedly worked on pressing social issues. Plug-in. Unity and Mobility (Münster 2001) thematized the reception of the modular architectural visions of the 1960s in the present; At your own risk (Frankfurt 2003), devoted to the topic of risk; Against the grain. New forms of drawing (Baden-Baden 2004) showed the dissolution of traditional generic terms; Return to Space (Hamburg 2005) once again addressed the question of the reception of utopian ideals in a negotiated society. With his inaugural exhibition at the Museum Morsbroich Personal Affairs. New forms of intimacy (Leverkusen 2006/2007), Heinzelmann focused on the crisis in public communication. Slow Paintings (Leverkusen 2009/2010) showed paintings whose decelerated reception is related to a particularly complex process of creation. Heinzelmann's monographic exhibitions include u. a. Atelier van Lieshout - Modular multi-female beds (Hanover 1998/1999), Markus Schinwald: Tableau Twain (Frankfurt 2004), Ann Veronica Janssens - An den Frühling (Leverkusen 2007), Bernard Frize. And How and Where and Who (Leverkusen 2010).

With the exhibition Ceramic Rooms. Lucio Fontana, Norbert Prangenberg, Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel, Markus Karstieß , Heinzelmann researched the extraordinary history of the reception of Lucio Fontana's art in the Rhineland in 2014. This was followed by calm before the storm. Post-minimalist art from the Rhineland in 2015 with the processing of American Minimal Art by artists such as Joseph Beuys , Isa Genzken , Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter , Rosemarie Trockel , which led to a joint development of postmodern art in New York and the Rhineland around 1977 .

Awards

  • 2008: Exhibition of the year in NRW for Gerhard Richter. Overpainted photographs .
  • 2009: The Morsbroich Museum was voted “Museum of the Year in Germany” by the International Association of Art Critics (aica).
  • 2010: Justus Beer Prize for curators (together with Doreen Mende) for the exhibition Projects: Done. An exhibition by Candida Höfer with Kuehn Malvezzi in the Museum Morsbroich.
  • 2015: Election of the annual program of the Museum Morsbroich as the best program of all art museums in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from March 1, 2018: Morsbroich Castle: Heinzelmann leaves the museum , by Bert-Christoph Gerhards , accessed on March 2, 2018
  2. ^ Emil Nolde and the Sprengel Collection. History of a friendship , Hanover 1999.
  3. ↑ Schwitters Foundation
  4. ↑ Die Welt - Fluxuszone-Ehrgeizige-Plene-in-Leverkusen.Retrieved on March 6, 2018
  5. ↑ Article about Susanne Wedewer-Pampus in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018
  6. ^ [1] , Personal Affairs. New forms of intimacy.
  7. ↑ http://www.museum-morsbroich.de/index.php?id=archiv&no_cache=1&tx_mbausstellungen_pi1%5Bexhibition%5D=71
  8. ↑ http://www.museum-morsbroich.de/index.php?id=archiv&no_cache=1&tx_mbausstellungen_pi1%5Bexhibition%5D=78
  9. ↑ Exhibition of the year 2008
  10. ^ Museum of the Year 2009 ( Memento from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Exhibition opening and Justus Beer Prize 2010
  12. ↑ ho: art world loves world art. In: welt.de . December 13, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Heinzelmann, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main