Renate Goldmann

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Renate Goldmann (born March 25, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German art historian and curator for international contemporary art. From January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2017, she was director of the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren and the Düren Paper Museum .

Live and act

Training in Cologne and projects

After studying art history, classical archeology and German philology at the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn , which she completed with a master's thesis on Francis Bacon , Renate Goldmann became a scientific consultant and curator in the cultural group of German business in the Federal Association of German Industry in 1995 There she was responsible for the “ Ars Viva ” award, the maintenance and inventory of the collection as well as for the “art projects in the House of German Business” in Berlin. In addition, she worked on the establishment of the gallery for contemporary art in Leipzig.

This was followed by activities at the University of Cologne from 2000, initially as a research assistant at the chair for art history in the 20th and 21st centuries and then as an assistant with a teaching assignment in this very area.

In 2004 Renate Goldmann completed her doctoral examination with a dissertation on Peter Fischli and David Weiss and began working for the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) at the same time . Since 2000 she has curated and supervised the international touring exhibition "Come-in" in collaboration with Professor Volker Albus . Interior as a medium in contemporary art ”. Stations included Seoul, Singapore, Melbourne, Curitiba and Istanbul.

From 2006 to 2009 Renate Goldmann worked as artistic director for the Cologne Sculpture Park , which became the Sculpture Park Cologne Foundation in 2008.

Renate Goldmann worked as a freelance curator for the Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e. V., Art Cologne (Sculpture Project 2009, Global EurAsia 2008, Sculpture Project Palma 2007 and 25 m² - 25 Years 2005) and the Art Station Sankt Peter Cologne .

Director of the Leopold Hoesch Museum and Paper Museum Düren

From 2010 to the end of 2017 Renate Goldmann was head of the Leopold Hoesch Museum & Paper Museum Düren. At the beginning of her work there was the conception of the reopening of the comprehensively renovated Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in 2010, which was greatly expanded to include the “Peill-Forum” annex. The public appearance and the design language of the museum were fundamentally renewed. On the occasion of the reopening, Otto Piene permanently staged a unique light space, Claus Föttinger designed the museum café and Ulrich Rückriem installed a monumental outdoor sculpture on the newly designed Hoeschplatz.

She set accents in the area of ​​new acquisitions for the museum and the cataloging and scientific processing of the holdings. For the museum collection, Renate Goldmann succeeded in bringing the Cologne Frerich Collection with 453 self-portraits by artists, a large group of works by the German sculptor Ulrich Rückriem and the sculpture "Crazy Bird" by Niki de Saint Phalle, along with numerous other donations, to the house. The collections were recorded digitally for the first time and published as inventory catalogs (four volumes “Our Values”). In addition, she proactively initiated the scientific provenance research at the house , which was carried out with the exhibition “Our values? Provenance research in dialogue. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne “attracted national and international attention. There were a total of 183 restitution cases that could be scientifically processed and clarified.

Goldmann was responsible for 150 thematic and monographic exhibitions on modern and contemporary art. In addition, she has published 34 publications. In addition, Renate Goldmann gave important impulses to redesign and expand the Düren Paper Museum. When she took office, a dual museum concept was introduced that reflects the history and entrepreneurial tradition of the paper city of Düren.

Further focal points of her work were the euregional cultural policy in the country triangle Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and the national and international activities of the in-house foundations such as the Hubertus Schoeller Foundation, the Günther Peill Foundation , the Dahlmann Foundation and the Museum Association Düren eV, including the Very Contemporary project.

The termination of Renate Goldmann's activities as director of the Hoesch and Paper Museum was preceded by a local political discussion about the number of visitors to the house.

Van-Ham Art Estate

Since 2018 Renate Goldman has been the head of the Van-Ham Art Estate, a department of the Cologne auction house Van-Ham that manages the estate of artists.

Publications (selection)

  • Our values. Frerich Collection / Our Values: The Frerich Collection (Leopold Hoesch Museum & Paper Museum Düren). Wienand, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-195-1 .
  • I hate Paul Klee. Works on paper and artist's books from the Speck / Works on Paper and Artist's Books Collection. Snoeck, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-940953-94-0 .
  • KölnSkulptur 5: Reality Check. Exhibition catalog. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-639-6 .
  • Andreas Slominski . Benedictio. Art Station Sankt Peter, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025588-5 .
  • KölnSkulptur 4: 10 Years / 10 Years Sculpture Park Cologne. Exhibition catalog. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-213-8 .
  • Peter Fischli, David Weiss. Excursions, work, exhibitions. An open index. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-86560-019-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of the Hoesch Museum stops at the end of the year. In: Aachener / Dürener Zeitung. September 1, 2017, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Eckhard Hoog: "Detective" investigates looted art 177 times . In: Aachener Zeitung . ( aachener-zeitung.de [accessed September 4, 2017]).
  3. ^ German Loss of Cultural Property Center - Publications - Periodical »Provenance & Research« (1 | 2017). Retrieved September 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ LHM press release of September 1, 2017 on the departure of Dr. Renate Goldmann. (PDF) Retrieved October 6, 2017 .
  5. ^ Hoesch Museum: Instead of 20,000, just 5672 visitors. In: Aachener / Dürener Zeitung. February 21, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Van-Ham press release. (PDF) Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Goldmann, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator for international contemporary art
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne