Michel Ritter

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Michel Ritter (* 1949 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † May 2, 2007 in Paris ) was a Swiss curator .

Life

Michel Ritter worked as an artist in the 1970s. In 1974 he founded the gallery RB in Freiburg and managed to turn Freiburg into a center for contemporary art . In 1981 he organized the Fri-Art 81 exhibition with avant-garde art in a demolished building . An allegedly obscene and blasphemous painting by Josef Felix Müller shown there even occupied the European Court of Justice. In 1986 he was also the artistic director of the Freiburg cultural festival Belluard Bollwerk International . Michel Ritter was the initiator of the Freiburg art gallery Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain and its founding director from 1990 to 2001.

Since 2002 he has been director of the Center culturel suisse (CCSP) in Paris. He became widely known as the curator responsible for the Thomas Hirschhorn exhibition “Swiss-Swiss Democracy” there, which critically discussed the current state of Swiss politics and questioned the Swiss concept of democracy. The exhibition caused a scandal in Switzerland, especially the performance in which the portrait of Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher was peed on.

For the Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain received the Meret Oppenheim Prize and the Art Prize of Art Frankfurt .

Michel Ritter succumbed to the consequences of cancer.

Quotes

  • "Every artistic act is a political act."

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  1. ↑ Michel Ritter died , Bund , May 4, 2007
  2. ↑ Michel Ritter (1949–2007) ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , World Week , 19/2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltwoche.ch
  3. ↑ Michel Ritter died ( Memento from June 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Tages-Anzeiger , May 3, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Knight, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2007
Place of death Paris