Thomas Köhler (art historian)
Thomas Köhler (* 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian , curator and director of the Berlinische Galerie since 2010 .
Life
Thomas Koehler concluded in 1994 with a degree in art history , classical archeology and romance languages in Frankfurt and received his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis on American Minimal Art Artists Donald Judd Dr. phil. at the University of Darmstadt .
After graduating in 1994, he was initially a research assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main, then curator in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, program director at documenta X in Kassel and acting director of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg . From 2008 he headed the collections and the exhibition program of the Berlinische Galerie - State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture - as deputy director , before he was appointed director there in 2010 as the successor to Jörn Merkert .
Since then, Thomas Köhler has curated exhibitions by Nan Goldin , Boris Mikhailov, Franz Ackermann, Bernard Frize, Björn Dahlem and Erwin Wurm. In 2016, under Köhler's management, the State Museum recorded a record number of visitors: with almost 190,000 guests, it was the most popular year since the institution, founded in 1975, moved to Alte Jakobstrasse 124–128 in 2004 . Exhibitions such as “ Max Beckmann and Berlin”, Erwin Wurm's “At Mutti”, “ Dada Berlin”, Jeanne Mammen Retrospective, “The Art of the November Group” and many more were very popular
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Köhler: Future laboratory instead of museum - should the new building academy really become a museum? In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 24, 2016, accessed on October 16, 2017.
- Berlinische Galerie has more than earned its own exhibition budget: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/bedarf-nach-festen-ausstellungsetats-berliner-landesmuseen-brauchen-sicherheit/20708640.html
- Berliner Zeitung, portrait of Ingeborg Ruthe, March 26, 2019: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/kunst/thomas-koehler-das-kunstspiel- geht-in-die-verlaengerung-32281126
- Berliner Morgenpost from May 12, 2019: Berlin walk: Thomas Köhler is a networker in the name of art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Köhler becomes the new director of the Berlinische Galerie. art in berlin , March 31, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |