Stefanie Kreuzer

Stefanie Kreuzer (* 1966 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is an art historian and curator for contemporary art .

Career

From 1985 to 1988 Kreuzer studied German and Romance studies at the University of Mannheim and then art history and Romance studies at the Terza Università degli Studi di Roma and the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). She did her doctorate at the Free University on "The catastrophe as a mode of transition of cultural systems in the 20th century and the phenomenon of transition in Wolfgang Max Faust". During her studies she worked as a research assistant at the NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin) and the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin). She completed her academic traineeship at the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf.

From 2005 she was director of the NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, until in 2007 she moved to the Morsbroich Museum in Leverkusen as curator of the main painting and sculpture collection and as exhibition curator . Since 2011, Kreuzer has been the main curator at the Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen.

Curated exhibitions

• 2005: Kris Martin
• 2005: Michael Stevenson . The Gift. The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
• 2006: Simon Dybbroe Moeller
• 2006/2007: After Cage. Pablo Zuleta Zahr - Casino Social
• 2008: Cavalier start 1978–1982. Departure into the art of the 80s
• 2009: Revolutions of the everyday. Contemporary Latin American art
• 2010: Albrecht Schäfer . A day
• 2010/2011: New Rhineland. The post-ironic generation
• 2011: women. Sara Barker, Karla Black, Carol Bove , Thea Djordjadze , Isa Genzken , Kitty Kraus, Tatiana Trouvé
• 2011/2012: Christopher Williams . For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 15)
• 2012: Maison de Plaisance. Rosemarie Trockel / Paloma Varga Weisz
• 2016/17 with Markus Heinzelmann and Fritz Emslander: Drama Queens. The staged collection , Museum Schloss Morsbroich , Leverkusen
• 2019/20 Francis Alÿs. The Private View

Fonts

• “The Transition into Being”, in: Immediate Past - Interrupted Careers. Three cultural mediators from the eighties - Christian Borngräber, Wolfgang Max Faust, Manfred Salzgeber, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 1999.
• Catastrophe as a mode of transition of cultural systems in the 20th century and the phenomenon of transition in Wolfgang Max Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2002, (Diss.)
• "Sentimental ambient ..." or "Filling the house with a pink waltz", in: Exh. Cat. Des Deux Côtés du Rhin, K21 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2005.
• "Depraved Sons, Failed Daughters", in: Exh. Cat. Kavalierstart 1978–1982 Departure into the art of the 80s, Museum Morsbroich, 2008.
• “Counter-Speech - Irony” and “Dive - Color World”, in: Exh. Cat. New Rhineland. The post-ironic generation, Museum Morsbroich 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefanie Kreuzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stefanie Kreuzer with "Curators from Germany" at the Goethe-Institut
• Stefanie Kreuzer at kunstaspekte.de