Philipp Kaiser

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Philipp Kaiser (* 1972 in Bern ) is a Swiss exhibition curator and art critic . He was director of the Museum Ludwig from November 1, 2012 to February 28, 2014, succeeding Kasper Koenig . In March 2016, Kaiser was appointed curator of the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 .

Career

After studying art history and German language and literature at the University of Basel and the University of Hamburg from 1994 to 2001 , he received his doctorate in art history in Basel under Gottfried Boehm on the artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler . In 2001, Bernard Mendes Bürgi , then the new director of the Kunstmuseum Basel , appointed him as curator at the branch of the house, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst . Kaiser worked there until 2007. From March 2007 he worked as a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (Moca). Here he worked on exhibitions on Californian conceptual art and presented for the first time a museum solo exhibition by Sterling Ruby and a retrospective by Jack Goldstein .

From 2004 to 2011 he taught art theory and art history at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and in the Art History Department as well as in the MFA Program in the Graduate Program of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a member of the jury that decided on the direction of the sixth Berlin Biennale 2010. Kaiser worked as a catalog author and art critic, since 1998 with numerous articles and reviews on contemporary art in magazines such as Artforum , Camera Austria , Eikon , KUNSTBULLETIN and Parkett .

Kaiser has curated monographic retrospectives, for example, on Johanna Billing , Louise Lawler , Christian Philipp Müller , Bruce Nauman , Daniel Richter , Simon Starling and Amelie von Wulffen . In 2006 he curated the highly regarded group exhibition "Flashback, a revision of the art of the 80s" and recognized the importance of the 80s at an early stage. Kaiser is regarded as a reflective and precise exhibition maker. In addition to Gabriele Schor and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Kaiser was a member of the Verbund Advisory Board of the Verbund Collection from 2005 to 2011 , which was founded in 2004 by Verbund, Austria's largest electricity company and is dedicated to contemporary international art from 1970 to today. In addition to painting and conceptual art, photography and video are among Kaiser's exhibition focuses and areas of interest. In 2007, Kaiser had played a role behind the scenes at the Düsseldorf art fair “Düsseldorf Contemporary” (dc) in 2007 when he was on the selection committee; the fair, which was launched ad hoc, did not get beyond a single edition. Kaiser sat on the jury for the management of the sixth Berlin Biennale 2010, which was proposed to curator Kathrin Rhomberg, who also previously worked in Cologne. At his future place of work, the Ludwig Museum, Kaiser would like to “get all of Pop Art out of the cellar and reorganize it. I would like to use the special features of the museum without letting the collection dictate the program. "

In 2012, Kaiser received a seven-year contract in Cologne with an option to extend it for a further three years. Kaiser is particularly interested in the 1990s, which were largely shaped in Cologne and which he intends to address in his exhibition projects. In February 2014, he resigned from office for family reasons.

Kaiser has been responsible for the exhibition program in the three locations of the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, Paris and London since 2019.

Exhibitions (selection)

Quotes

"I don't believe in the masterpiece"

"There are many artists who still have great works with them, even if they may not currently have a great market value."

Publications

  • Hero together with water. Art from the Verbund Collection , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (exhibition catalog for the exhibition at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art MAK Vienna from May 9 to September 16, 2007), ed. Gabriele Schor, with texts by Yve-Alain Bois, Giovanni Carmine, Thierry de Duve, Briony Fer, Edith Futscher, Gilbert & George, Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Patricia Grzonka, Ursula Pia Jauch, Gabriele Jutz, Philipp Kaiser, Andrea Kroksnes, Peter Noever , Richard Nonas , Mysoon Rizk, Gabriele Schor, Ramin Schor, Walter Seidl, Abigail Solomon-Godeau , Beate Söntgen, Geraldine Spiekermann, Gregor Stemmrich, Philip Ursprung and Jeffrey Weiss.
  • Flashback. A revision of the art of the 80s , ed. Philipp Kaiser, foreword by Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, introduction by Philipp Kaiser, round table discussion with John M Armleder, Benjamin HD Buchloh, Werner Büttner, Isabelle Graw, Philipp Kaiser, Kasper König, Jutta Koether, Thomas Ruff (German / English), Verlag Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1631-9 (on the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst October 30, 2005 to February 12, 2006).
  • together with Miwon Kwon: Ends of the Earth. Land Art until 1974 (exhibition catalog Haus der Kunst, Munich, in English), with a foreword by Okwui Enwezor and Jeffrey Deitch (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) and texts by Germano Celant, Virginia Dwan, Yona Fischer, Laszlo Glozer , Tom Holert, Philipp Kaiser, Miwon Kwon, Julienne Lorz, Jane McFadden, Julian Meyers, Emily Scott, Willoughby Sharp and Seth Siegelaub , including a list of works, annotated chronology 1933–1974 and a selected bibliography 1963–2011, Prestel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-5194-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Palm: Main committee makes important personnel decisions: conclusion of contracts for bosses of Museum Ludwig and Schauspiel decided. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, November 8, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2011 .
  2. ↑ monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben from March 9, 2016: Venice Biennale 2017. Philipp Kaiser curates the Swiss Pavilion , accessed on March 15, 2016
  3. ↑ Note: At that time a financial and banking crisis began in the USA , which later spread to other countries and the real economy and also had a significant impact on the art market.
  4. ↑ Kasper König's successor: Better involve the artists. In: Kölnische Rundschau. created April 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Kultur from December 4, 2013: Director Kaiser leaves Museum Ludwig (ksta) , accessed on December 4, 2013
  6. ↑ monopoly. Magazine for Art and Life from February 7, 2019: Swiss curator. Philipp Kaiser becomes program director of the Marian Goodman Gallery , accessed on February 7, 2019
  7. ↑ Philipp Kaiser ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Kunstbulletin.ch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstbulletin.ch
  8. ^ Homepage Haus der Kunst Munich , accessed on October 16, 2012.
  9. ↑ [Homepage Museum Ludwig Exhibitions: Not Yet Titled. New and forever in the Museum Ludwig ], accessed on October 10, 2013
  10. ^ Homepage Museum Ludwig Exhibitions: Louise Lawler. Adjustet ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-ludwig.de
  11. ^ Museum Ludwig: Generation change with Philipp Kaiser. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. created September 6, 2011.

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SURNAME Kaiser, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss curator and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern