Simona Mehnert

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Simona Mehnert (* 1956 in Ostrava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech exhibition curator and art journalist.

Life

Mehnert studied art history and history at the University of Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin .

She has lived in Berlin since 1981. In 1988 she organized her first exhibitions there, in which she presented current Czech art (Jan Kotík, Rudolf Valenta , Václav Boštík , Adriena Šimotová and others). She published texts on Czech art in exhibition catalogs and magazines and gave lectures at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin , the Ostkolleg of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the New Berlin Art Association . She also curated exhibitions of German art in the Czech Republic.

In 1994, in collaboration with the documenta archive in Kassel and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, she organized the exhibition “Agitation for happiness. Soviet Art of the Stalin Era ”in the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague.

Since 1997 she has been a member of "Sdružení výtvarných kritiků a teoretiků" (Association of Art Critics and Theorists in Prague).

From 1995 to 2012 she worked as a speaker for exhibitions in the gallery of the Czech Center in Berlin . There she curated numerous exhibitions of current Czech art and photography (Jiří Kolář, Antonín Střížek , Ivan Pinkava , Viktor Kolář, Míla Preslová, Petr Nikl and others) and showed more than 150 exhibitions on Czech art, architecture, design and political-historical topics that were prepared in Prague and a. from Jiri Svestka Gallery, Academy of Arts, Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Decorative Arts Museum, National Archives. In addition, around forty exhibitions were held in other institutions in Berlin (Deutsches Architekturzentrum, Designmai / DMY, Month of Photography, Paul Löbe House of the German Bundestag, educational center of the Stasi authorities, etc.).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Women in Czech Photography. Tereza Vlčková, Míla Preslová, Dita Pepe. Kleisthaus , Berlin 2010 (catalog).
  • Intercity Berlin-Praha: 07 photography. Hynek Alt / Aleksandra Vajd, Julia Christe, Sibylle Fendt , Tereza Janečková / Pavlína Míčová, Viktor Kopasz, Alena Kotzmannová, Jens Liebchen , Wiebke Loepper, Guido Mieth, Ondřej Přibyl, Sabine Schründer, Wolfgang Stahr, Michaela Thelenovahá, Duš. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague 2005. Co-curator for Prague: Helena Musilová, Exhibition Palace of the National Gallery , Prague (catalog).
  • Fiction Berlin. Current positions in the Berlin art, photo and techno scene. Eve Herford, Kai-Olaf Hesse, Veronika Kellndorfer, Maix Mayer, Dirk Plamböck, Christian von Steffelin, Till Vanish, Martin Zeller. Gallery of Critics, Adria Palace, Prague 2002.
  • insideout. Prague - Berlin - New York. Fifth Festival of New Art. Erika Bornová, Veronika Bromová, Krištof Kintera, Míla Preslová, Silver, Štěpánka Šimlová stepanka-simlova.com, Franz John, Tatsumi Orimoto, Iris Schieferstein, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Jun Shibata, Marina Vassileva, Ayreen Anastas , e-Xplo, Omer Fast, John Menick , Michael Rakowitz, Nadine Robinson, bunker on Reinhardtstrasse, Berlin 2002. Co-curator for Berlin: Johann Nowak, aktions galerie e. V., Co-Curator for New York: Eva Scharrer. One of the exhibition openings of kunstherbst berlin> 02 (catalog).
  • Ivan Kafka, ifa gallery (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), Berlin 1998 (catalog).
  • Miloš Šejn , ifa gallery (Institute for Foreign Relations), Berlin 1995 (catalog).

Publications (selection)

  • Vojtěch V. Sláma: Krasohled / Schönbildschauer. In: 3rd European Month of Photography Berlin. Exhibition catalog, Kulturprojekte Berlin, Berlin 2008, p. 142, ISBN 978-3-940231-04-8 .
  • Antonín Kratochvíl: Broken Dream. Štěpánka Stein / Salim Issa. In: 2nd European Month of Photography Berlin. Exhibition catalog, Kulturprojekte Berlin, Berlin 2006, pp. 71–72, ISBN 3-930929-23-6 .
  • Line jako barevná dynamická interference. In: Petr Kvíčala. Line / barva / rytmus. Line / color / rhythm. Exhibition catalog, Exhibition Palace of the National Gallery, Prague 2002.
  • Miloš Šejn Art as an existential experience of nature. In: From the Eckardt Collection. Duplication of images in space, exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth 2001, pp. 63–65, ISBN 3-935880-02-2 .
  • Ivan Kafka. In: 7th Triennial of Small Sculpture 1998. Contemporary Sculpture Europe Africa, exhibition catalog, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, pp. 154–155, ISBN 978-3-89322-449-4 .
  • Current trends in Poland and Hungary, in the Slovak and Czech Republic. In: AGAINST. ReligionMemoryBody in Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalog, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, pp. 139–143, ISBN 978-3-89322-332-9 .

literature

  • Annibel Cunoldi: Interview with Simona Mehnert. In: extended transformation. natura naturans 5, exhibition catalog, Verlag Graphart, Trieste 2000, pp. 103-109.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agitation for happiness. Soviet art of the Stalin era: the documenta archive art memory of the city of Kassel
  2. ↑ Sdružení výtvarných kritiků a teoretiků
personal data
SURNAME Mehnert, Simona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech exhibition curator and art journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrava , Czechoslovakia