Ralf Beil

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Ralf Beil (* 1965 in Kobe , Japan ) is a German art historian , curator and art critic . He is General Director of the World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte .

Life

Ralf Beil studied art history, German and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau . He acquired his maîtrise d'histoire del'art et d'archéologie at the University of Paris IV and received his doctorate from the University of Essen on the subject of "Food as an art material. Food for the head and stomach". From 1990 to 1998 he worked as a freelance exhibition curator and art critic for Artefactum, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Art Bulletin, and Kunstforum International. From 1999 to 2003 he was exhibition curator and curator of the painting and sculpture collection at the Kunstmuseum Bern , 2004/2005 curator and exhibition curator for the 20th and 21st centuries at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne . From 2006 to 2015 he was director of the Mathildenhöhe Institute in Darmstadt . In 2015 he became director of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , but received notice of termination in 2018. Beil has been General Director of the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site since May 1, 2020 .

Bodies

As a member of the university, Ralf Beil is a member of the university council of the Braunschweig University of Art from 2015 to 2022 .

Awards

Ralf Beil and Peter Kraut received A House full of Music in 2012 for the project and as editors of the exhibition catalog . Strategies in Music and Art, the Justus Bier Prize , which is awarded to outstanding technical and linguistic publications in connection with exhibition projects from German-speaking countries.

Exhibitions and publications (selection)

2018

2017

  • Hans Op de Beeck . Out of the ordinary
  • Never Ending Stories. The loop in art, film, architecture, music, literature and cultural history

2016

  • Wolfsburg Unlimited. A city as a world laboratory
  • In the cage of freedom
  • This was tomorrow. Pop Art in Great Britain

2015

  • Dark Mirror. Latin American art since 1968

2014

  • Martin Kasper. Echo chamber
  • The sting of the scorpion. A Cadavre Exquis based on Luis Bunuel's L'Âge d'or

2013

  • La Broyeuse de chocolat. Art gallery Marcel Duchamp at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
  • Georg Büchner . Revolutionary with pen and scalpel

2012

  • A House Full of Music. Strategies in Music and Art

2011

2010

  • Joseph Maria Olbrich 1867–1908. Architect and designer of early modernism
  • Total work of art Expressionism. Art, film, literature, theater, dance and architecture 1905–1925

2009

  • Masks. Metamorphoses of the face from Rodin to Picasso
  • Nedko Solakov . Emotions (without masks)

2008

  • Andreas Gursky . architecture
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach. Education for abstraction. The architectural images
  • Russia 1900. Art and culture in the empire of the last tsar

2007

2006

2005

  • Bernard Voita. Trax
  • Didier Rittener. Eccentric Society

2004

  • Albert Oehlen . Peintures / painting 1980–2004. Self-portrait with 50 million times

speed

2003

  • Le monde selon François Dubois

2002

  • Time Machine. Or: the museum in motion

2001

  • Black box. The black space in art

2000

  • Ilya Kabakov . 50 installations
  • Ice age. Contemporary art from Bern collections

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hbk-bs.de/imperia/md/content/hbk/hbk/hochschule/organisation/kommissionsgremienplan/vita_dr_ralf_beil.pdf
  2. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunstmuseum-wolfsburg-entlaesst-direktor-ralf-beil-15948027.html
  3. ↑ Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site: Ralf Beil is the new manager of the former coal and steel works , SWR 2, May 5, 2020
  4. ↑ https://www.hbk-bs.de/hochschule/organisation/hochschulrat/#a_0_32
personal data
SURNAME Beil, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe