Mateo Kries

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Mateo Kries (* 1974 in Müllheim (Baden) ) is a German art historian , curator and author . Since 2011 he has been director of the Vitra Design Museum .

Live and act

Mateo Kries was born in 1974 in Müllheim / Baden and lived from 1978 to 1983 in Madrid , where he attended the German school. He is married to the designer and illustrator Nadine Schemmann , who works under the stage name Lulu *. The two have two children and live in Freiburg and Berlin.

Mateo Kries studied art history and sociology in Hagen and Berlin .

In 1996 he began working as a curator of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. From 2000 to 2006 he was responsible for setting up and managing the Vitra Design Museum Berlin. During this time, Kries initiated the Designmai festival together with other members of the Berlin design scene - including designers Werner Aisslinger and Vogt & Weizenegger - which continued under a different name from 2008. From 2007 to 2010 Kries was chief curator of the Vitra Design Museum. Since 2011 he has been co-director of the Vitra Design Museum with Marc Zehntner and is responsible for the museum's program and content.

As a curator, Kries has designed numerous exhibitions on design, architecture and related topics since 1996. Among them was the first retrospective on the work of the founder of anthroposophy in 2009 with “ Rudolf Steiner - The Alchemy of Everyday Life” . The exhibition was also shown in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and other museums.

In 2010, Kries published the book Total Design - Die inflation Moderne Gestaltung , in which he deals with the increasing importance and commercialization of design . In it Kries speaks of the "design society" and pleads for a more critical awareness in dealing with design. Kries also dealt with the role of design in society in other publications, for example in 2013 in an article on the future of the design museum in the German edition of domus magazine.

Since Kries has been running the Vitra Design Museum, the museum has expanded its program from 2 - 3 to up to 8 exhibitions a year and organizes extensive event programs. In addition to large monographic exhibitions, current themed exhibitions such as “Lightopia” (2013), “Making Africa” (2015) with Okwui Enwezor as guest curator or the exhibition “Das Bauhaus #allesistdesign” (2015), in which artists like Olaf Nicolai , Adrian Sauer and Joseph Grima participated.

Publications

  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Furniture and buildings in Stuttgart, Barcelona, ​​Brno. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1997, ISBN 3-931936-16-3 .
  • Design Berlin: New projects for a city in transition. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-931936-44-9 .
  • Design City: Design for Urban Space and the Design City Discussion. Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89955-170-9 .
  • Le Corbusier: Study of the German applied arts movement. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2008, ISBN 978-3-931936-29-7 .
  • Rudolf Steiner - The Alchemy of Everyday Life. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2010, ISBN 3-931936-85-6 .
  • Total Design - The inflation of modern design. Nicolai, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89479-581-8 .
  • Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2015, ISBN 978-3-945852-00-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicole Swengley: Mateo Kries' Berlin. In: How to Spend it. Financial Times Internet Magazine, December 28, 2012.
  2. ↑ Eva Kalwa: Design Mai, monitoring and nesting. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 20, 2008.
  3. ↑ Oliver Junge: Wolfsburg shows Steiner. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ Nora Reinhardt: Design Critical Book: Schröder's Hair and Merkel's Raute. In: Spiegel online. June 1, 2006.
  5. ↑ Jasmin Jouhar: Interview with Mateo Kries: "Mateo Kries has entered the design society". In: designlines. May 25, 2010.
  6. ↑ Mateo Kries: Future Workshop Design Museum. In: domus. 01 May / June 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kries, Mateo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Muellheim (Baden)