Melitta Kliege

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Melitta Kliege (* 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator.

Live and act

From 1985 to 1991 Kliege studied art history, Japanese studies and comparative religious studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, at the University of Cologne and since 1987 at the Free University in Berlin. She completed her studies with a thesis on Antoni Tàpies . In 1996 she received her doctorate from Werner Busch in Berlin on the concept of participation in the art of the 1960s (using examples of works by Joseph Beuys and Antoni Tàpies). The dissertation was funded by the German National Academic Foundation.

From 1996 to 1998 she was a research assistant at the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In 1998 she was appointed exhibition director for contemporary art at the Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg and has designed numerous exhibitions on contemporary art. Kliege was and is a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .

Kliege designed a series of exhibitions on recent art history. In 2015, the exhibition Faces - A Motif Between Figure Portrait and Mask was awarded the “Special Exhibition 2015” prize by the International Association of Art Critics AICA.

With a focus on curatorial studies and contemporary art, Kliege works at the Institute for Art History at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Kliege is a member of the purchasing commission of the Free State of Bavaria.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 2012: Ranking of the exhibition Ghosts, Magic and Magic among the "10 best exhibitions of the year in Germany", art year 2012
  • 2015: "Special exhibition" by the German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

Publications (selection)

  • Youjin Yi. Fusion , Vienna, 2020 (Ed. With Tanja Pol) ISBN 978-3-903320-72-7
  • "Paloma Varga Weisz", in: Mask - In contemporary art, exhib.cat Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2019 ISBN 978-3-85881-645-0
  • "Ed Atkins, Anastasia Ax, Ulla von Brandenburg, Aleksandra Chaushova, Julia Haller - five positions on drawing", in: International Faber-Castell Prize for Drawing 2015 , exhib.cat. New Museum in Nuremberg in cooperation with Faber-Castell, New Museum in Nuremberg, 2015 ISBN 978-3-903004-33-7
  • Wiebke Siem. Works 1983 - 2013 , Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013 (Ed. With Angelika Nollert) ISBN 978-3-86984-432-9
  • "Sevda Chkoutova, Trisha Donnelly, Sabine Moritz, Paulina Olowska, Jorinde Voigt - five positions on drawing", in : International Faber-Castell Prize for Drawing 2012 , exhib.cat. New Museum in Nuremberg, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86984-365-0
  • “Art as a situation. The environment of the sixties and spaces of art today ”, in: 30 artists / 30 spaces , exhibition cat. Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Institute for Modern Art, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86984-320-9
  • "Franz West", in: Franz West. Sisyphus: Litter & Waste , exhib.cat. Gagosian Gallery, New York 2003 ISBN 1-880154-89-7
  • “Abstract art as furniture. The autonomous sculptures of Franz West ”, in: Dörte Zbikowski (ed.), Franz West , Munich 2002 ISBN 3-88960-059-X
  • Forms of narration. Sculptures of the eighties and nineties, in the context of the series , Verlag für modern art Nuremberg, 2000 ISBN 3-933096-29-4
  • “Color change - the lacquer pictures by Robert Lucander”, in: Robert Lucander Accattone, exhib.cat. Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, 2000 ISBN 3-931355-07-1
  • “The work of art as a sample without value. Eight reading and working pieces by Arthur Koepcke ”, in: Uwe M. Schneede (ed.), Discoveries in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Essays in honor of Helmut R. Leppien , Hamburg 1999 ISBN 3-922909-39-6
  • Functions of the viewer. Models of participation in Joseph Beuys and Antoni Tàpies , Munich, Silke Schreiber Verlag, 1999 ( plus dissertation 1996) ISBN 388960045X
  • “The power of expectation. Rosemarie Trockel's Family Portraits ”, in: Rosemarie Trockel. Cologne, Brussels Paris Vienna I Vienna II Opladen Schwerte Düren Hamburg , exhib.cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1998 ISBN 3-896-11-053-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Functions of the viewer / Edition Metzel. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Homepage of AICA Germany. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Exhibition receives award. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kliege, Melitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf