Roland Nightingale
Roland Nachtigäller (* 1960 in Dortmund ) is a German art historian and exhibition organizer . Since the beginning of 2009 he has been the artistic director of the Marta Herford Museum (with an extended contract until 2023).
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Roland Nachtigäller studied art, visual communication, German studies and media education at the Kassel Art College (then Kassel University of Applied Sciences ). After an academic assistant at the newly founded Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel) , he was appointed to the management team of documenta IX in 1991. Then he was involved in numerous projects at home and abroad as a freelance exhibition maker and author.
From 2003 to 2008 he was director of the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn , which he attracted national attention with an internationally oriented exhibition program on contemporary art. He developed various projects on art in public spaces. Between 1998 and 2000 he conceived the sculpture project kunstwegen in the German-Dutch border area together with Martin Köttering . In 2008 he founded its continuation under the title "raumsichten". Nachtigäller was invited as a consultant by the Art Commission for Art in Public Spaces of the State Capital Dresden in 2010. In 2011 he was a member of the jury for the national freedom and unity monument in Leipzig.
Nachtigäller is the successor to Jan Hoet , the founding director of Marta Herford . Here he is responsible for a program with themed exhibitions on contemporary art, design and architecture. These are supplemented by retrospectives for Martin Walde and Olav Christopher Jenssen, for example . The majority of the exhibitions are in-house productions. In 2011 he and his team were awarded the Justus Beer Prize for Curators for the exhibition “We are all astronauts - Richard Buckminster Fuller's universe in the mirror of contemporary art”. In 2014 Marta Herford was named Museum of the Year by AICA, the international association of critics . In autumn 2010 he also realized Dennis Oppenheim's two “Safety Cones” on a Herford crossroads as part of the Marta project “Five Goals / Five Places” .
When he took office in Herford, Nachtigäller announced that he wanted to show that “the periphery is at least as exciting as the big metropolises.” Innovations arise “solely from an artistically shaped social context”, everything else is “technocracy, commerce and intellectual death”; Lack of culture means social “downfall” and “spiritual impoverishment”, according to Nachtigäller.
Roland Nachtigäller lives in Herford .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2015 Mark Dion - Unruly Wilderness , Marta Herford
- 2015 Frida Kahlo - your photos , Marta Herford
- 2014 The Unleashed View - The Rasch Brothers and their Impetus for Modern Architecture , Marta Herford
- 2014 Clemens Krauss - It's time , Marta Herford
- 2014 Friendly takeover - artists show their Marta Herford collection
- 2013 Peace of Mind - Forays into the worlds of collage , Marta Herford
- 2013 Show your colors - what art does , Marta Herford
- 2012 Olav Christopher Jenssen : Enigma - Works 1985–2012 , Marta Herford
- 2012 Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratory of the Senses , Marta Herford
- 2011 Franz Erhard Walther : The memory of form , Marta Herford
- 2011 Nezaket Ekici : Personal Map (to be continued ...) , Marta Herford
- 2011 We are all astronauts - Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller , Marta Herford
- 2010 We are Orient - Contemporary Arabesques , Marta Herford
- 2010 Martin Walde : Unken , Marta Herford
- 2010 Invisible Shadows - Images of Uncertainty , Marta Herford
- 2009 Wide awake present - views of the Marta Collection , Marta Herford
- 2009 Picturesque - New Perspectives on the Landscape , Marta Herford
- 2008 Ad Absurdum - Contemporary Apparatus , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2008 Jürgen Stollhans : We switch back to Rheda-Wiedenbrück , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2007 Turkish Delight , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2006 growths and walling , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2005 Austrias - Alois Mosbacher, Markus Huemer, Clemens Krauss , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2005 Model rooms - stages, playing fields, test arrangements , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2004 At home in a foreign country - foreign in the home , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2004 Andree Korpys / Markus Löffler , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2003 Plastic Plush and Politics - Reflexes of the 1970s in Contemporary Art , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- 2003 Martin Walde: The rain has a pleasant temperature , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
Awards
- 2014: Museum of the year , chosen by art critics of the German section of the international art critics association (AICA)
- 2011: Justus Beer Prize for curators
Publications (selection)
- Obsidian , in: EVA & ADELE - Obsidian, Berlin / Herford 2013, ISBN 978-3954760145 .
- Heimatfilme ohne Heimat , in: Erik Schmidt - Gatecrasher, Bielefeld / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-483-3 .
- Time holes and gaps in space , in: Andreas Gefeller - Photographs, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3775724463 .
- Matthias Bitzer , ed. by Roland Nachtigäller (Author), catalog, Nordhorn / Frankfurt / M. 2008
- Jürgen Stollhans: We're switching back to Rheda-Wiedenbrück , ed. by Roland Nachtigäller (author), catalog, Nordhorn / Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3868280173 .
- Sonja Alhäuser : Always , ed. by Roland Nachtigäller (author), Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3865602565 .
- Kunstwege - follow the Vechte , ed. by Roland Nachtigäller (author), Nordhorn 2005, ISBN 978-3-92230-338-1 .
- Resubmission d5. A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 , ed. by Roland Nachtigäller (author), Friedhelm Scharf (author), Karin Stengel (author), catalog, Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 978-3775711210 .
- Housework - everyday life at home , ed. by Martin Köttering and Roland Nachtigäller (author), catalog, Nordhorn 2001, ISBN 978-3-922303411 .
- Troublemakers in the public interest. The Nordhorn Sculpture Path as an open museum , ed. by Martin Köttering (author) and Roland Nachtigäller (author), Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3879095582 .
- Dan Graham: Two-way mirror pavilions. One-way mirror pavilions. 1989-1996 , ed. by Martin Köttering (author) and Roland Nachtigäller (author), catalog, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, 1996, ISBN 978-3922303213 .
- Vešč Objet Subject, 144-page commentary volume (with Hubertus Gaßner) for the reprint of the same name , Baden / Zurich 1994.
- Roland Nachtigäller: In the workshop of meanings , in: Towards a metalanguage of evil = To a metalanguage of evil, written 1987, re-ed. 1992 by Cady Noland, Kassel / Ostfildern 1992, ISBN 978-3893225187 .
- Gustav Klucis: Retrospective , ed. by Hubertus Gaßner (author) and Roland Nachtigäller (author), catalog, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel / Ostfildern 1991.
Web links
- Homepage of Marta Herford
- Goethe Institute - Curators from Germany: Roland Nachtigäller - Biographical Information
- Raumsichten, founded by Roland Nachtigäller
- Interview of the culture platform Kultiversum with Marta director Roland Nachtigäller about the concept of the exhibition "Richard Neutra in Europe: Buildings and Projects 1960–1970" and the contrast between round museum walls and angular exhibits.
- Roland Nachtigäller, Artistic Director of Marta Herford, is a guest in Thomas Rentmeister's class .
- ARTE interview with Roland Nachtigäller on Marta's ten-year anniversary in February 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goethe Institute: Curators from Germany: Roland Nachtigäller - Biographical Information
- ↑ Dresden Perspectives for Art in Public Space ( Memento of the original from February 24, 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.
- ^ Artistic competition for a freedom and unity monument in Leipzig
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 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.
- ^ Helga Pape Foundation: Prize Winner
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- ↑ Marie-Hélène von Montgelas: Exciting Periphery ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview with Roland Nachtigäller
- ^ Joachim Kreibohm: Roland Nachtigäller in: "Artist. Art magazine", issue 85.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nightingale, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art scholar, exhibition organizer and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |