Soke Dinkla

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Söke Dinkla (* 1962 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German art historian , curator and director of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg .

Life

She studied art history, literary studies, folklore and biology in Kiel, Hamburg and Bielefeld. In 1990 she was a curator at the Siemens cultural program in Munich. In 1996 she received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on the history and aesthetics of interactive art. Since then she has been working as a curator for contemporary art with a focus on art in public spaces and new media.

From 1996 to 1997 she worked as a freelance curator, from 1998 to 2000 as a permanent curator at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. During this time she curated projects like InterAct! Key Works of Interactive Art (1997) and Connected Cities. Art processes in the urban network (1999). From 2000 to 2007 she was the curator for the Akzente culture festival in Duisburg and curated exhibitions and projects with Jenny Holzer , Duane Michals , Les Levine and others. a. From 2005 to 2007 she was a mentor for Public Art when Essen applied for the Ruhr Area as European Capital of Culture 2010. In 2007 she took over the management of the Capital of Culture office RUHR.2010 in Duisburg and was then responsible for art in public space at the city of Duisburg. She curates both temporary and permanent projects in urban space, such as most recently the large walk-in sculpture Tiger and Turtle - Magic Mountain by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth in Duisburg. In May 2013, she took over from Raimund Stecker on an interim basis in the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. On December 20, 2013, the Board of Trustees of the Lehmbruck Museum Foundation appointed her to the Board of Directors of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation and as the director of the museum. She is married, has one son and lives with her family in Essen.

Dinkla is a signatory of the nationwide campaign NRW Declaration of the Many from November 2018, which promotes cohesion in art and culture as part of civil society engagement against right-wing populist and nationalist movements.

Works (selection)

  • with Karl Janssen: Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain. Hatje Cantz 2012, ISBN 3-775-72822-8 .
  • with Karl Janssen, Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Oliver Scheytt: Twilight Zone. International light art project on the Ruhr, Hatje Cantz 2010, ISBN 3-775-72754-X .
  • with Karl Janssen: Paradoxes of the Public. The self-organization of the public. Duisburg, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2008, ISBN 3-940-74846-3 .
  • with Nina Hülsmeier, Robert Bosshard, Holger Bergmann, Andreas Broeckmann: PubliCity. Constructing the Truth. Art in public space. Duisburg, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2006, ISBN 3-939-73811-5 .
  • Jenny Holzer. The power of the word. Hatje Cantz Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-775-71579-7 .
  • Duane Michals. The Theater of Real Life. Klartext Verlag 2004.
  • Under the skin. Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag 2001.
  • Connected cities. Art processes in the urban network. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag 1999.
  • InterAct! Key works of interactive art. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint of the Lehmbruck Museum. Retrieved December 24, 2013 .
  2. ^ Imai Foundation Board of Trustees. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 19, 2014 ; Retrieved September 5, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.imaionline.de
  3. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Lehmbruck Museum pulls the rip cord. Retrieved December 25, 2013 .
  4. ↑ du2010.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 26, 2013 ; Retrieved December 25, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.du2010.de
  5. ^ Rp-online: Board of Trustees confirms Dinkla as head of the museum. Retrieved December 25, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Kulturserver-nrw.de: NRW Declaration of the Many , accessed on March 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dinkla, Soke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and director of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven