Vanessa Joan Müller
Vanessa Joan Müller (* 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator . She is the author of numerous publications on contemporary art .
Life
Müller studied art history and film studies at the Ruhr University Bochum and received his doctorate in art history. From 2000 to 2006 she was a curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main, where she collaborated with Nicolaus Schafhausen in the exhibitions New Heimat (2001), non-places (2002) and Adorno. The possibility of the impossible (2003) curated. From 2006 to 2007 she was the scientific director of the European Kunsthalle project in Cologne , which examined the perspectives of institutions in contemporary art in theory and practice. An example of this happened in the exhibition Models for Tomorrow (2007).
From 2007 to 2011 she was director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, where she organized solo exhibitions with Gerard Byrne , Ulla von Brandenburg , Henrik Plenge Jakobsen , Isabelle Cornaro, Florian Pumhösl , Nicole Wermers , as well as numerous group exhibitions. Projects conceived together with the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf were the exhibitions Palermo (2007) and Von realer Gegenwart. Marcel Broodthaers today (2010). In September 2011 she was followed by the Berlin art critic and curator Hans-Jürgen Hafner .
In 2011/2012 she was a lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe in the department of exhibition design and curatorial practice. Since 2013 she has been head of the dramaturgy department at the Kunsthalle Wien .
Müller is a member of the board of the IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art . In 2014 she curated the 55th October Salon in Belgrade together with Nicolaus Schafhausen . She is curator of the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017, in which the work "Occurrence in Present Tense" by Leonard Qylafi is shown.
Curated exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Peter Friedl . Theater. Kunsthalle Wien, with Anne Faucheret
- 2018: Antarctica. Kunsthalle Vienna
- 2017: Florian Hecker. Hallucination, perspective, synthesis. Kunsthalle Vienna
- 2008: Ian Wallace - A Literature of Images , Kunsthalle Zürich (also: Witte de With, Rotterdam, Kunstverein Düsseldorf)
- 2008: Palermo , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2007: Models for Tomorrow , European Kunsthalle, Cologne
- 2006: Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier , Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal; Under Construction , European Kunsthalle, Cologne
- 2005: Parallel Life , Frankfurter Kunstverein
- 2004: Deutschland sucht , Kölnischer Kunstverein; Adorno - for his 100th birthday , Frankfurter Kunstverein
Web links
- Literature by and about Vanessa Joan Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vanessa Joan Müller on kunstaspekte.de
- Curators from Germany at: Goethe-Institut website
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Heimat on Kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Vanessa Joan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |