Udo Kittelmann
Udo Kittelmann (born March 15, 1958 in Düsseldorf ) is a German curator and has been the director of the Nationalgalerie Berlin since November 2008 .
Live and act
After graduating from university, Kittelmann completed an apprenticeship as an optician and practiced this profession until 1988. Then he began to arrange and organize exhibitions. After managing the Ludwigsburg Art Association, he took over the post of director of the Cologne Art Association from summer 1994 until 2001. At the 2001 Venice Biennale , he showed Gregor Schneider's Totes Haus ur as commissioner of the German pavilion , which was awarded the Golden Lion for the best national contribution has been. From 2002 to 2008 Kittelmann was director of the Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main , his successor being Susanne Gaensheimer . Since November 2008 he has been the director of the Nationalgalerie Berlin and is responsible for five houses under this roof. These are the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Scharf - Gerstenberg Collection and the Heinz Berggruen Museum. Kittelmann is leaving the Nationalgalerie in October 2020 at his own request.
Kittelmann is curator of many exhibitions at home and abroad and publisher and author of numerous non-fiction books and other publications on contemporary and modern art . In addition, Kittelmann worked, among other things, on the Advisory Board for Fine Arts of the Goethe Institute .
Kittelmann curated the Russian pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2013, making him the first non-Russian commissioner of the pavilion. He showed Vadim Zakharov .
Publications (selection)
- as editor together with Steven Parrino : Angela Bulloch . Mud Bath. Edition The Green Box, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-908175-38-4 .
- What's new, Pussycat? The new acquisitions 2002–2005 / Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-936711-99-2 .
- 276 pages. In art, around art and around art. Lindinger and Schmid, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-929970-53-8 .
- A day with Picasso. August 12, 1916. Cantz, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-89322-527-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Udo Kittelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Udo Kittelmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Video clips answers to questions about art on documenta-dock.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz News of August 21, 2019: Udo Kittelmann is leaving the Nationalgalerie in October 2020 at his own request , accessed on August 21, 2019
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. monopoly. Magazine for Art and Life Kunstticker, October 2, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kittelmann, Udo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German curator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |