Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe

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Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe (* 1970 in Essen ) is a German art historian , exhibition maker and author. Since 2005 she has been chairman of the Situation Kunst foundation , which is associated with the Ruhr University Bochum .

Life and work

Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe studied art history , modern history and Romance studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . There she obtained the degree of Maîtrise en Histoire de l'Art in 1994 with a thesis on Claude-Nicolas Ledoux . In 2007 she received her doctorate with the dissertation Experiences of Confrontation and Coexistence in the Work of Lee Ufan with Angeli Janhsen at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . The dissertation was awarded the whetstone price.

She has been married to Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe since 1996, with whom she worked until 2003 in the Galerie m Bochum , which he founded in 1969 . Since then, they have realized numerous exhibition projects as a freelancer, mostly in cooperation with museums in Europe. One focus of their joint work is the further development of the Situation Kunst project (for Max Imdahl ), which is an essential part of the art collections of the Ruhr University Bochum. To this end, they realized museum buildings in several development steps (expansion / 2006, cube / within the framework of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 and museum underground / 2015) and developed collection and exhibition concepts, e.g. B. for the permanent exhibition Weltsichten. Landscape in art since the 17th century in the underground museum of Situation Kunst as well as for numerous special exhibitions.

Publications

Monographs

Publication (selection)

  • Color lugs. Color in modern art, ed., Exhib.-cat. Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Bochum 2019, ISBN 978-3-941778-15-3 , therein the articles "Color impulses, food for thought" (with Maria Spiegel), pp. 6-11, as well as "The color of things", Pp. 47-63.
  • apparently: nothing. Image worlds by Qui Shihua in dialogue, ed., Exhib.-cat. Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Bochum 2018, ISBN 978-3-941778-13-9 , in it the article “Endless, ortlos, weightless. Fleeting imagery by Qiu Shihua ”, pp. 7–26.
  • Upheavals. Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher , Joachim Brohm, Jitka Hanzlová and Rudolf Holtappel, Bochum 2017, ISBN 978-3-941778-11-5 , including the article “Remembrance work. The Ruhr Area Photographs by Rudolf Holtappel ”.
  • "Nice art". Art and politics in National Socialism / Compliant Art. Art and politics in the National Socialist era, ed. (With Jörg-Uwe Neumann and Agnes Tieze), exhib.-cat. Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl) et al., Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0288-6 as well as series of publications by the Federal Agency for Political Education , vol. 1798, Bonn 2016, in each of which the article “Artige Kunst” - an introduction, p 10–16, as well as various short texts.
  • Abbas Kiarostami . The generation of visibility, ed. (With Oliver Fahle), Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung 50, Marburg 2014, in it the article “On the way between photography and film: Roads of Kiarostami (2005)”, pp. 81-97.
  • Abbas Kiarostami . Still and Moving Images / Images, Still and Moving, Ed. (With Alexander Klar and Ingrid Mössinger ), exhib.-cat. Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3436-3 , in it the article “Between Stille and Movement. On the photographs and videos by Abbas Kiarostami ”, pp. 93–105 /“ Between Stasis and Motion. Reflections on Abbas Kiarostami's Photographs and Videos ”, pp. 106–117.
  • Worldviews. Landscape in Art since the 17th Century, Ed. (With Volker Rattemeyer), exhib.-cat. Situation Art (for Max Imdahl), Kunsthalle zu Kiel , Museum Wiesbaden , Chemnitz Art Collections , Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Bochum / Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-941778-01-6 ; therein the article: “In a state of emergency. Experiences of withdrawal and visualization in current landscape art ”, pp. 257–265.
  • Only appearances are not deceptive. Seeing as an interactive process, Ed., Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-212-9 , in it the article “Only appearances don't deceive. Considerations following Josef Albers ' distinction between factual fact and actual fact ”.
  • Situation art (for Max Imdahl). The extension 2006, ed. (With Friederike Wappler), Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-937572-86-4 ; therein the articles: “Resonances. The Works of Lee Ufan ”and“ Propaganda in the best sense of the word. Richard Serra's 'Stop Bush' poster ”.
  • balance précaire - precarious balance. A conversation with Kurt Flasch , Stefan Germer , Reinhard Hoeps and Hans Mommsen , eds. (With Alexander von Berswordt), Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-923791-25-9

Articles (selection)

  • Marginal notes / marginalia, in: Alexander Klar , Jörg Daur (eds.), Richard Serra . Props, Films, Early Works, Exh. Cat. Museum Wiesbaden , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2884-0 , pp. 88-105.
  • Lee Ufan, Relatum - Response, in: Annegret Bergmann et al., (Ed.): Elegant gathering in the learned garden. Studies on East Asian art in honor of Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch / Elegant Gathering in a Scholar's Garden. Studies in East Asian Art in Honor of Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Weimar 2015, pp. 262-267.
  • Volatility and concretion. The painting of Qiu Shihua - with regard to the Bernward door , in: Überzüge / Transitions. Gotthard Graubner - Bernward Door - Qiu Shihua, exhib.-cat. Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim , Hildesheim 2014, pp. 48-57.
  • Between presence and absence. On the landscape painting by Qiu Shihua / Between presence and absence. Qiu Shihua's landscape painting, in: Qiu Shihua, exhibition cat. National Gallery Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof et al., Düsseldorf 2012, pp. 10-45.
  • At the threshold of (in) visibility. The 'White' Landscape Paintings by Qiu Shihua, in: Birgit Hopfener, Franziska Koch, Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Juliane Noth (Eds.): Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, conference proceedings Freie Universität Berlin / House of World Cultures , Weimar 2012, pp. 87-97.
  • No End Neon. La lumière artificielle et le néon dans l'œuvre de François Morellet , in: Serge Lemoine, Alfred Paquement (ed.): François Morellet. Réinstallations, exhibition cat. Center Georges Pompidou , Paris 2011, pp. 174-183 (French and English).
  • Resonance Spaces, in: Kat. Lee Ufan Museum, Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation , Naoshima 2010, pp. 24-39 (Japanese and English).
  • Philosophy in action. A possible dialogue between Lee Ufan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty , in: Antje Kapust, Bernhard Waldenfels (ed.), Art, Image, Perception, View. Merleau-Ponty zum Hundertsten, Munich 2010, pp. 219-226.
  • Dialogues, in: Lee Ufan, exhib.-cat. Pace Wildenstein, New York 2008, pp. 5-13.
  • Because nothing is certain. On the Identical Paintings by Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro, in: Álvarez Plágaro. Cuadros Iguales - Identical Paintings, exhibition cat. Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz 1999 (German, English, Spanish, Basque).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sharpening Stone Awards - Art History Institute. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Exhibitions - Situation Art. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Berswordt-Wallrabe, Silke von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, exhibition organizer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH eat