Oliver Zybok

Oliver Zybok (* 1972 in Wuppertal ) is a German art historian and has been the director of the Lübeck Overbeck Society since 2015 .

Life

Oliver Zybok studied art history, history, new German literature and philosophy at RWTH Aachen University and the Universities of Cologne and Bonn after graduating from high school in Wuppertal Am Kothen and doing community service . In May 1998 he graduated from Aachen with a master's degree . Also in Aachen in 2003 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1997 to 1999 he worked as a freelance curator at the National Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Art Museum in Kaunas . This was followed by positions as curator at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen (1999 to 2001), at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (2001–2002) and the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf from 2002 to 2007.

From 2003 to 2005 he was visiting professor of art theory at Helsinki University of the Arts . From 2006 to 2009 he taught as a professor for art theory of the 20th and 21st centuries at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts .

In 2008 he was the curator of the Prague Triennale and the initiator and curator of the Yüksel Arslan traveling exhibition . Artures , which was shown in the Kunsthalle Zürich , the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunsthalle Wien from 2011 to 2013 , and 2012/13 guest curator of Visions. An Atmosphere of Change at Marta Herford .

Since 2004 he has worked for the magazine Kunstforum International and since 2007 artistic director of the Remscheid City Gallery .

Since January 1, 2015, he has been the artistic and commercial director of the Lübeck Overbeck Society.

Works

• Bootstrap - deviation from the obvious. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, dissertation, 2003 ( full text )
• as well as 58 catalogs (see DNB)

Web links

• biographical information
• Interview on taking office in Lübeck in the Lübecker Nachrichten