Moritz Wesseler

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Moritz Wesseler (* 1980 in Bremerhaven ) is a German art historian and curator . From 2013 to 2018 he was director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein . Since November 1, 2018, Wesseler has been director of the Fridericianum Museum in Kassel.

biography

Wesseler, born as the son of the surveyor Jürgen Wesseler, who has been responsible for the cabinet for contemporary art in Bremerhaven since 1967 , studied art history and business administration in Mainz and Paris .

Moritz Wesseler gained his first experience in the field of conception and implementation of exhibitions in Bremerhaven, where from 2003 he regularly held solo exhibitions with artists such as Cathy Wilkes , Martin Boyce, Ceal Floyer , Anri Sala , Manfred Pernice , Luc Tuymans and Gregor Schneider curated.

Together with the curator Mario Kramer and the artist Gregor Schneider, he organized the Double exhibition series at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main from spring 2009 to autumn 2010 . Historical exhibition projects were reconstructed within a room by Gregor Schneider and thus transferred from the past to the present.

As part of his academic traineeship at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Wesseler oversaw exhibition projects by Michael Sailstorfer and Kris Martin in the K20 Grabbeplatz, Jordan Wolfson in the Schmela Haus and Tomás Saraceno in the K21 Ständehaus.

Until the summer of 2013, Wesseler worked as the artistic director of Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch in Donaueschingen and Heiligenberg - an institution that was founded in 2011 by Christian and Jeannette zu Fürstenberg and serves to promote and convey contemporary art. The activities of “Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch” are divided into the awarding of scholarships, the organization of exhibitions in the “Princely Fürstenberg Collections” in Donaueschingen and the development of a contemporary art collection. At the center of his work for the institution were collaborations with artists such as Dirk Bell, Julian Göthe, Petrit Halilaj, Dorota Jurczak, Gareth Moore or João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva.

In addition to his work as a curator, Moritz Wesseler published regularly on contemporary art.

On May 21, 2013, Wesseler was appointed as the new director by the board of the Kölnischer Kunstverein with the support of a selection committee, and on July 1, 2013, he took up his position as the successor to Søren Grammel . Since November 1, 2018, Wesseler has been director of the Fridericianum in Kassel.

Publications (selection)

  • Ed .: Gregor Schneider ~ N. Schmidt, 2001-2003 , Bremerhaven 2006.
  • Palermo. Well-known facts and some new insights into his person , in: Palermo , ed. by Ulrike Groos, Vanessa Joan Müller and Susanne Küper, exhibition catalog Düsseldorf, art gallery and art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia 2007, Cologne 2007.
  • Ed .: Luc Tuymans ~ Ende , with a conversation between Udo Kittelmann and Luc Tuymans, a statement by Anri Sala, Luc Tuymans and an introduction by Moritz Wesseler, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-389770303-2 (documentation of the exhibition of the same name in the Cabinet for Current Art, Bremerhaven, 9 September - 18 November 2007) (German / English, translation by Stephen Reader and Corinna Dirting).
  • with Mario Kramer (eds.): Andreas Slominski and Gregor Schneider ~ Hochzeit , Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • (Ed.): Anri Sala. Title Suspended , with essays and an interview by Moritz Wesseler with Anri Sala (on the occasion of the presentations by Anri Sala in the Kabinett für Gegenwart Kunst in Bremerhaven and in the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main), Salon Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978- 3-89770-367-4 (in English).
  • Gregor Schneider ~ physically / mentally , in: Neues Rheinland. The post-ironic generation , ed. by Markus Heinzelmann and Stefanie Kreuzer, exhibition catalog Museum Schloss Morsbroich Leverkusen 2010–2011, Berlin 2010.
  • From big to small (and back) , in: Werkstatt. Matthias Weischer , ed. from the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Munich / London / New York 2011.
  • Cloud Cities , in: Tomás Saraceno , ed. by Marion Ackermann, Daniel Birnbaum, Udo Kittelmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist, cat. exhib., Berlin and Düsseldorf {Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart and K21 Ständehaus} 2011–2012, Berlin 2011.
  • together with Stefan Kalmár, Jordan Wolfson and Valerie Malsburg: Jordan Wolfson (September 8, 2011 to January 15, 2012, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 K21, Düsseldorf, Schmela-Haus), German / English (translation by Lance Anderson and Uta Grosenick), Distance-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-48-5 .
  • (Ed.): Program. Christopher Williams , Cologne 2012.

literature

  • Melanie Weidemüller: After all, we don't do the exhibitions for ourselves, Weißer Rauch over the Kölnischer Kunstverein: In July Moritz Wesseler becomes the new director in: Stadtrevue . The monthly magazine for Cologne , 07-13 (July 2013), p. 59.
  • An exciting region . Moritz Wesseler, the new director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, in conversation; the interview was conducted by Michael Kohler. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger No. 163, July 17, 2013, p. 21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben from September 7, 2018: Kassel: Moritz Wesseler becomes director of the Fridericianum accessed on September 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wesseler, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven