Susanne Gaensheimer

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Susanne Gaensheimer in the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, 2017

Susanne Gaensheimer (born April 9, 1967 in Munich ) is a German art historian and curator .

Career

Gaensheimer was born as the daughter of the chemist Josef Gänsheimer (* 1930). She is the niece of the art historian Helmut Friedel . Gaensheimer studied art history in Munich and Hamburg . From 1995 to 1996 she completed the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York . In 1997 the theme was “Sexuality and Destruction. Aspects of Violence in the Works of Bruce Nauman ” at the University of Munich . From 1998 to 1999 she completed an academic traineeship at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich. From 1999 to 2001 she was director of the Westphalian Art Association in Münster .

In 2001 she returned to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus as curator , where she headed the collection for international contemporary art until 2008. In January 2009 she became director of the Museum for Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main .

Susanne Gaensheimer curated the German pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2011, which was originally to be designed by Christoph Schlingensief . The pavilion set up by Gaensheimer received the "Golden Lion", the highest award at the Biennale. In 2013 she curated the German contribution to the 55th Biennale, where she showed works by the artists Ai Weiwei , Romuald Karmakar and Santu Mofokeng , among others . Under her leadership, the Museum of Modern Art was expanded to include MMK 2 in the Taunusturm . Gaensheimer has been an honorary professor at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main since 2016 . On September 1, 2017, Susanne Gaensheimer took over the management of the North Rhine-Westphalia art collection .

Gaensheimer is married and has two children.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Destruction and Sexuality. Aspects of violence in the work of Bruce Nauman . Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-8288-0417-9 (also dissertation)
  • (as Ed.): Olaf Nicolai ... fading in, fading out, fading away ... . Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-925047-48-4 .
  • (as ed.): Maria Eichborn: Restitutionspolitik. Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88375-848-5 .
  • with Nicolaus Schafhausen, Zoë Gray, Gianfranco Maraniello, Andrea Viliani, Susanne Gaensheimer, Sophie von Olfers (eds.), Sarah Morris: Beijing , exhib. Kat., MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Cologne 2009
  • with Sophie von Olfers (ed.), Not in fashion , exh. Cat., MMK Museum for Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Kerber, Bielefeld 2010
  • with Mario Kramer: Gregor Schneider - Double , MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, König, Cologne
  • (as ed.): Christoph Schlingensief , exhibition catalog, German Pavilion 2011, 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011
  • with Klaus Görner (ed.), Douglas Gordon , exhibition catalog, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Kerber, Bielefeld 2011 ISBN 978-3-86678-628-8
  • with Eva Huttenlauch (ed.), Carsten Nicolai, unidisplay , exhibition catalog, MMK Museum for Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2013
  • (as ed.): Ai Wei Wei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh , German Pavilion 2013, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2013 ISBN 978-3-89955-500-4
  • with Peter Gorschlüter (ed.), Kostas Murkudis , exhibition catalog, MMK Museum for Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Prestel, Munich / London / New York, 2015 ISBN 978-3-79135475-0
  • with Klaus Görner (Ed.), Kader Attia. Sacrifice and Harmony , exhibition catalog, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Kerber, Bielefeld / Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-7356-0255-8
  • with Anna Goetz, Christa Linsenmaier-Wolf (eds.), Food - Ökologie des Alltags / Food - Ecologies of the Everyday , exhibition catalog Stadt Fellbach, Triennale Kleinplastik - Kulturamt, Kerber, Bielefeld / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-73560229-9
  • with Fanni Fetzer (ed.), Laure Prouvost - Hit Flash Back , exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Luzern, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Mousse Publishing, 2016 ISBN 978-88-6749-233-6
  • with Klaus Görner, Willem de Rooi (ed.), Willem de Rooij - Entitled , exhibition catalog, MMK Museum for Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 2016
  • with Susanne Meyer-Büser (Ed.), Carmen Herrera - Lines of Sight. Works 1948 - 2017 , exhibition catalog, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne 2017
  • (as ed.): Raqs Media Collective . Everything else is ordinary , exhibition catalog, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kerber, Bielefeld / Berlin 2018
  • with Doris Krystof, Falk Wolf (Eds.): Ai Weiwei . Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia and Prestel, Düsseldorf and Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5905-2 . (German book trade edition and catalog for the exhibition in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 18 to September 1, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: The early completion . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 6, 2017 ( fr.de [accessed March 7, 2017]).
  2. ↑ New director of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection. In: We in NRW. The state portal. Ministry of Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport, March 7, 2017, accessed March 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gaensheimer, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich