Stephan Berg

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Stephan Berg (* 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German curator and museum director .

Life

Berg grew up in Paris and London . He studied German , English and history in Tübingen, Berlin, Rome and Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1989 with a dissertation on fantastic literature. Since the mid-1980s, Berg has been writing as a freelance journalist in the field of fine arts a. a. for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Kunstforum international , Kunstbulletin and artist . Stephan Berg has been teaching as an honorary professor at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig since 2004 and between 1995 and 2002 had lectureships in art theory and art history in Stuttgart, Freiburg and Hanover. He has published numerous articles and catalogs on contemporary art. Berg is active on various boards and commissions, including as a member of the federal art purchasing committee. Until 2010 he participated as a discussant in the 3sat television series Bilderstreit .

Curatorial work

As head of the Kunstverein Freiburg from 1990 to 2000, he organized monographic exhibitions by, among others, Tracey Moffat, Beat Zoderer, Simone Mangos (1999), Thomas Demand, Matthew McCaslin, Jochen Lempert (1998), Pia Fries, Fritz Balthaus, Richard Wentworth (1997 ), Christopher Muller, Guillaume Bijl , Alexander Roob (1996), Tim Head, Axel Lieber, Erwin Wurm (1995), Daniel Buren and Urs Lüthi (1994).

From 2001 to 2008, Berg was director of the Kunstverein Hannover , succeeding Eckhard Schneider . The first exhibition he showed was Close up , which dealt with image practices from the fields of film, design and advertising and which was still in collaboration with the Freiburg Art Association. Subsequently, he showed, partly in first presentations: Stephan Huber , Dan Peterman (2001), David Reed , Kara Walker , David Claerbout, Peter Pommerer (2002), Luc Tuymans , Mark Dion , Franziska and Lois Weinberger (2003), Leni Hoffmann , Mathilde ter Heijne, Peter Kogler (2004), Georg Herold , Gregory Crewdson , Antje Schiffers (2005), Jörg Sasse , Corinne Wasmuht and Marcel van Eeden (2006). He organized accompanying programs such as talking labels , outside views , blind dates and mise en scene (inside views from the art world) .

Thematic exhibitions dealt with the relationship between architecture , sculpture and model ( Archisculptures , 2001), the theatricalization and theatricality in contemporary art On Stage (2002). Further topics were: The longing of the cartographer (2003/2004), diving trips - drawing as a report (2004), Nightsites - the structure of the uncanny in contemporary art (2005). He presented the regional art scene every two years through autumn exhibitions and arranged two-year young talent grants for two Lower Saxon artists under 35 years of age. Together with Veit Goerner (Director Kestnergesellschaft Hanover) and Ulrich Krempel (Director Sprengel Museum Hanover ) he developed the internationally acclaimed exhibition Made in Germany in 2007 .

Berg has been director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since April 2008, succeeding Dieter Ronte (contract until March 31, 2016). His contract was extended to 2025 in April 2019.

Among other things, he has so far realized exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Bonn with works by the Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov , Julian Rosefeldt , Franz Ackermann , Erwin Wurm and Albert Oehlen ( Turpentin 2012 ).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: Bad times, bad spaces: Time and space structures in the fantastic literature of the 20th century
  2. ^ Bonn: Berg extends contract. In: www.kunstforum.de. April 2, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau