René Zechlin

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René Zechlin with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's “Judgment of Paris”, 1913

René Zechlin (* 1974 in Würzburg ) is a German art historian , curator , author and publisher as well as director of the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Life

After graduating from high school, René Zechlin studied art history, business administration and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart . After working as a curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein , he took over responsibility for the exhibition program at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork , Ireland, from 2004 .

From 2008 to 2014 René Zechlin was director of the Kunstverein Hannover . During this time, from 2011, he was also chairman of the German Art Association.

René Zechlin has been director of the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein since 2014 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI - international art in Germany . Joint project by the Sprengel Museum Hannover , the Kestnergesellschaft and the Kunstverein Hannover .
  • 2011: About the metaphor of growth . Kunstverein Hannover in cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunsthaus Baselland , Muttenz / Basel
  • 2009: Oppositions Dialogues . Art Association Hanover
  • 2007: Overtake - The Reinterpretation of modern art . Lewis Glucksman Gallery.
  • 2006: Embodied Time - Art Video, 1970 to the present . Lewis Glucksman Gallery
  • 2006: Cooling out - on the paradox of feminism . Lewis Glucksman Gallery in collaboration with Kunsthaus Baselland , Muttenz / Basel and Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg. A project by Sabine Schaschl-Cooper, Bettina Steinbrügge and René Zechlin.
  • 2005: Blake & Sons-Alternative lifestyles and mysticism in contemporary art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery and Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo (with catalog).

Solo exhibitions and projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Petra Kaltenmorgen . (= Contemporary art from Lower Saxony. Volume 72). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3028-3 . Catalog for the exhibition Stand der Dinge from April 1 to July 16, 2017 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover.
  • MADE IN GERMANY TWO. International Art in Germany (in German and English), Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984-334-6 .
  • René Zechlin (Red.): Hernan Bas - the other side (English / German), on the exhibition of the same name from February 18 - April 29, 2012 at the Kunstverein Hannover, with texts by René Zechlin and Michele Robecchi, Berlin: Distance, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-75-1 .
  • On the metaphor of growth (= On the metaphor of growth ) (German / English), for the exhibition of the same name from April 16 - June 26, 2011 at the Kunstverein Hannover; at the Kunsthaus Baselland from May 20 to July 10, 2011; in the Frankfurter Kunstverein from May 27th - July 31st, 2011, ed. by René Zechlin, Basel: Christoph-Merian-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85616-534-5 .
  • Siegfried Neuenhausen. The citizens of B., Sprengel-Museum Hannover, Kleine Welten, Kunstverein Hannover (German / English), on the exhibition Siegfried Neuenhausen, Kleine Welten at the Kunstverein Hannover from July 6, 2011 to August 14, 2011 and The citizens of B. in the Sprengel-Museum Hannover from July 6th 2011 to October 9th 2011, with texts by René Zechlin and Ulrich Krempel, Hannover: Kunstverein; Hanover: Sprengel-Museum, 2011, ISBN 978-3-934421-22-6 .
  • Timm Ulrichs. Do not enter the exhibition! Works from 1960 to 2010, published by Kunstverein Hannover and Sprengel Museum Hannover, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2794-5 .
  • Charles Avery. Onomatopoeia: The Port, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-840-6 .
  • David Schnell. Hour / Hour / Uur, Ed. Kunstverein Hannover, GEM Museum voor actuele Kunst, The Hague, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2620-7 .
  • Jason Dodge. I woke up. There Was A Note In My Pocket Explaining What Had Happened. Edited by Friederike Schönhuth, Kunstverein Hannover and La Galerie, Center d'art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, foreword by Marianne Lanavère and René Zechlin, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2618-4 .
  • David Thorpe - veils and shelters or sparkles of glory or perfume against the sulphurous stinke of the snuffe or the light for smoak (German / English), for the exhibition of the same name from August 29 to November 8, 2009 at the Kunstverein Hannover, ed. René Zechlin, Hannover: Kunstverein Hannover, 2009, ISBN 978-3-934421-18-9 .
  • Friedrich Kunath - "Home wasn't built in a day" (German / English), for the exhibition of the same name from November 28, 2009 to January 24, 2010 at the Kunstverein Hannover, ed. by René Zechlin, Hannover: Kunstverein Hannover; Berlin / New York, NY: Sternberg Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-933128-92-4 .
  • João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva - About the presence of things , for the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstverein Hannover, ed. by René Zechlin, Hannover 2009: Kunstverein Hannover, ISBN 978-3-934421-17-2 .
  • Simon Dybbroe Møller, Compendium (German / English), on the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstverein Hannover from March 14th - May 17th, 2009 and the Appendix exhibition in the Frankfurter Kunstverein from March 27th - May 31st, 2009, ed. by René Zechlin and Katja Schroeder, Berlin 2009: Sternberg Press, ISBN 978-1-933128-68-9 .
  • The splash is bliss. Claudia Kapp (German / English), on the exhibition Jacqueline Doyen, Claudia Kapp - Prize of the Kunstverein Hannover from January 31st - March 1st 2009 at the Kunstverein Hannover, ed. by René Zechlin, 1st edition, Berlin 2009: evolver Publ. by VVV, ISBN 978-3-86895-025-0 .
  • Leigh Bowery. beautified provocation (German / English), for the Leigh Bowery exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover from August 31 to October 26, 2008, an exhibition project as part of “Hannover Goes Fashion”, ed. by René Zechlin, with contributions by Nicola Bowery a. a., Heidelberg 2008: Kehrer, ISBN 978-3-86828-041-8 and 978-3-86828-033-3 Weblinks

Web links

Commons : René Zechlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information given in the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ^ Wilhelm-Hack-Museum introduces future director. Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ NN: Rene Zechlin on the page kunstaspekte.de [o. D.]; last accessed on August 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ NN: René Zechlin becomes the new head ... (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Zechlin, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, author and editor, director of the Kunstverein Hannover
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg