Rupert Pfab

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Rupert Pfab (* 1964 in Bayreuth ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator.

Life

Pfab studied art history and history in Würzburg , Bologna and Berlin and received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin under Eberhard König .

Since the mid-1990s he has been a curator for contemporary art and photography in various museums and exhibition halls, including the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

Pfab has published numerous texts on contemporary art and has curated exhibitions, including the first retrospective by Andreas Gursky in 1998 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (together with Marie Luise Syring ). A year later he also curated at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, the comprehensive exhibition City of Beat Streuli , which subsequently also in the Zurich Kunsthaus was shown. He was curator of the two-part exhibition today until now. Contemporary photography from Düsseldorf , in which 34 artists took part and which was shown in 2002 at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. In December 2005 he founded the Rupert Pfab gallery in Düsseldorf , since then Pfab has been a gallery owner. Rupert Pfab has been a member of the Advisory Board for Fine Arts in Düsseldorf and the jury of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (2009, 2010, 2011) since 2010 and was on the juries of the AT Kearney Prize (2009, 2010) and the Epson Art Award (2007, 2008) .

Fonts

  • The look that has become a picture. Cityscape and cityscape in the photographic work of Thomas Struth . Düsseldorf, 1995
  • Boris Becker. Constructions . On the occasion of the Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis , Städtisches Museum Zwickau 1995
  • Discover the light. On the photographic work of Rolf Sackenheim . In: Paul Good (ed.), Organon and Harp. The artist Rolf Sackenheim , Düsseldorf 1996
  • Silent form and color. The industrial architecture of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the still life of Claus Goedicke and Thomas Ruff . In: Masafumi Fukagawa (ed.), Kawasaki City Museum, 1996
  • Silke Leverkuehne. Cloud images . In: Silke Leverkühne. Cloud images. Landscapes , Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal 1997
  • Perception and communication. Thoughts on new motifs by Andreas Gursky . In: Andreas Gursky. Photographs 1984 to today , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1998, ISBN 978-3-88814-822-4 (with Marie L. Syring)
  • The lyricism of the pictures. Elger Esser's vedute and landscapes . In: Elger Esser, Vedute and Landscapes , Kunstverein Siegen 1998
  • Photographs of modern life . In: Beat Streuli: City . Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Zürich 1999 (with Boris Groys)
  • Magic of places . In: Elger Esser, Vedute and Landscapes . Schirmer Mosel Verlag, Munich, 2000
  • Plurality of styles in Düsseldorf art. Works and concept of the exhibition . At: 2356 km. Art from Düsseldorf in Moscow . Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (ed.), New Manege Moscow, 2000
  • Studies in Düsseldorf photography. Bernd Becher's early academy students . Publishing house and database for the humanities Weimar 2001
  • Art and Artists in Düsseldorf. Reflections on an international phenomenon . In: Ex (o) DUS. Andreas Bunte, Katharina Fritsch, Ralf Gemein, Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Katja Kloft, Michael van Ofen, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Schütte, Thomas Struth, Jens Ulrich, Jan Wagner, Stefan à Wengen . Haifa Museums, Haifa Museum of Art 2001
  • Between home and heaven. New trends in Düsseldorf photography . In: today until now. Contemporary photography from Düsseldorf , museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Volume 2, 2002, as well as about Laurenz Berges, Natascha Borowsky , Nina Pohl, Lois Renner
  • today until now. Contemporary photography from Düsseldorf . museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Volume 1, about Dunja Evers, Andreas Gursky, Mischa Kuball, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth. ISBN 978-3-9808208-1-3
  • busy harvest . In: Christopher Muller, Seeing things . Municipal gallery Nordhorn u. a. 2002
  • Living pictures. The sculptures and installations by Luka Fineisen . In: Debut: Luka Fineisen , Kunstverein Offenburg / Mittelbaden 2002
  • A poem of reality . In: Lois Renner 1991–2003 , Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz 2003
  • The riddle of the cities. Thomas Struth's recordings from Brazil . Distrito 4 Gallery, Madrid, 2003
  • Portraits in Photography. Reflections on a puzzling phenomenon . In: A Clear Vision. Photographs from the FC Gundlach collection . Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2003
  • Non-events ?. Photographs by Simone Nieweg and Laurenz Berges, street level photoworks , Goethe Institute Glasgow 2004
  • Lois Renner / modus Potsdam
  • Simone Nieweg. In: Lois Renner . In: 26th Biennale de Sao Paulo , Brazil and in: Contrabandistas 2005
  • Paradigm and Discourse . In: The Helsinki School. Photography by TaiK . Timothy Persons (ed.), Ostfildern 2005

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation on the subject of studies in Düsseldorf photography . The early academy students from Bernd Becher's class
personal data
SURNAME Pfab, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth