Wibke from Bonin

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Wibke von Bonin (2012)

Wibke von Bonin (born April 17, 1936 in Kiel ) is a German cultural historian and journalist. She was a television editor for visual arts and architecture at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR).

life and work

Wibke Anna Rose von Bonin graduated from the Ricarda Huch School (Kiel) in 1957 . She studied, supported by the German National Academic Foundation , the subjects of German , Romance studies and art history in Kiel and Berlin . To prepare for her dissertation, she moved to Paris and did her doctorate with Harald Weinrich. After receiving her doctorate in 1965, she became a research assistant at the State Art Gallery in Baden-Baden . There she organized - together with Harald Szeemann - an exhibition on kinetic art . In 1966 she moved to Cologne for WDR television. There she was entrusted with building up the fine arts editorial team, which she headed until 1996. She then moved to England, married John Mark Essington-Boulton and returned to Cologne after his death in 2001.

During her time at WDR, Wibke von Bonin was responsible for around 50 programs a year. Her focus was on contemporary art , architecture, avant-garde and new media. She went to studio visits and published portraits of many artists from Germany and abroad.

As a freelance culture journalist, she publishes in books, magazines and art catalogs and curates exhibitions on contemporary art. She received several German and international awards, including the Golden Camera for 1000 masterpieces in 1986 and the DAI Literature Prize in 1988 . She is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA) and the DGPh ( German Society for Photography ).

1000 masterpieces

Originally developed as 100 Great Paintings by Edwin Mullins for the BBC , Wibke von Bonin undertook the German implementation of this series between 1981 and 1994 and then continued it as 1000 masterpieces with a different concept. She also translated the accompanying book into German and published other accompanying books herself.

Literature (selection)

Contributions

  • "Notes on the plastic of the younger generation" in: American plastic. USA 20th century. Catalog for the exhibitions in Berlin and Baden-Baden from November 1965 to April 1966.
  • “Surface and space in Hockney's etchings” in: David Hockney. Oeuvre catalog - graphics. Galerie Mikro Berlin, 1968, in collaboration with Petersburg Press, London
  • "Two Photographers Between the World Wars", exhibition catalog August Sander and Dr. Erich Salomon, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn, 1969
  • Jim Dine, Oeuvre directory of graphics, Galerie Mikro, Berlin 1970
  • “Iconoclasm from Übersee” in: Pampered in all eternity, Ed. Werner Höfer, Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-430-14738-7
  • “An Interview with Fernando Botero” in: Fernando Botero, Ed. Germán Arciniegas, Abrams Verlag, New York 1977
  • "Video and television - who needs whom?" In: Video art in Germany 1963-1982., Ed. Wulf Herzogenrath, Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-7757-0172-9
  • “Actually failed ... experiences with video art on television” in: Kunstforum International. Vol. 9-10 / 1985
  • “How to no longer become a television editor today” in: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Annual Report 1985, Bonn 1986
  • “Hans von Marées, self-portrait with a yellow hat” in: The ZEIT Museum of 100 Pictures, Ed. Fritz J. Raddatz, Insel-Taschenbuch No. 1213, Frankfurt / M. 1989
  • "Fascination of Holography" in Holographic Visions. Catalog book for the exhibition of the Museum for Holographie, Pulheim, Verlag Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-89466-015-5
  • “New Media - New Thinking?” In: Culture magazine LIVING 6th year, 1/1993
  • “From artist films to video clips”, in: The actuality of the aesthetic, Ed. Wolfgang Welsch, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7705-2896-4
  • “Art mediation through television?” In: Art and manipulation: the modern age between market and opinion, Volume 68 of the reports and studies of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, 1994, ISBN 3-88795-103-4
  • "Art is not football", Karl Ruhrberg on his 70th birthday, in: The arguable lover. Art seen through a temperament, DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-3393-5
  • "Happy End and other fairy tales" in: Michael Kiernan, Happy End and other fairy tales, Rheinlandia Verlag, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-925551-80-8
  • "US art on the transmitter - television from the studio" in: West Wind, The Americanization of Europe, Ed. Bernd Polster, Verlag DuMont, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-77013591-1
  • "Thoughts of a dropout" in; Believing in art, dreaming of art, Ed. Peter Volkwein, Ingolstadt 1996, ISBN 3-9802827-5-9
  • “Aloha, Otto” in: Otto Piene, Art that flies, Ed. Heiner Stachelhaus, DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7701-4640-9
  • “On Goethe's footsteps in Rome, drawing”, in: Let the eye be light, Barbara Camilla Tucholski, Casa di Goethe, Rome 2005
  • “In the footsteps of time. On the Art of Evgeny Dybsky ”, Museum of Modern Art Moscow 2004, ISBN 5-98833-002-9
  • “On the photographs of Natalia Nikitin”, catalog for the exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz, 2007
  • “The Poetry of the Banal”, on the work of Samuel Henne, catalog gute aussichten 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-9602-1
  • “On Werner Koch's New York Works”, in Werner Koch: Retrospective 1956-2012, Kerber Christof Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-683-7
  • "The colors of the shadows", in: The colors of the shadows, pictures and drawings. Eckard Alker, exhibition in the LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn 2012

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Topic: Experiment on the poetic method of Pierre Reverdy . On the work of the years 1913–1930 , Kiel University, dissertation, 1965
  2. ↑ Der Fischer Weltalmanach , Fischer Bücherei., 1986, p. 1984
  3. ↑ 100 Masterpieces, Vol. 3, Foreword
personal data
SURNAME Bonin, Wibke from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and television editor for visual arts
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel