Yilmaz Dziewior

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Yilmaz Dziewior (* 1964 in Bonn ) is an art historian and curator for contemporary art . He is director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

life and work

Yilmaz Dziewior studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Bonn and in London . In the early 1990s, Dziewior worked as an art critic for the Bonner Rundschau . In 1998 he started his doctoral project under the title Blick durch den Spiegel. Glass as a space-defining element in Mies van der Rohe's work . With this thesis it was in 2005 Tilmann Buddensieg on Art History at the Humboldt University in Berlin doctorate .

In 1997 he curated a project with Sarah Lucas at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne   , where he was again responsible for part of the exhibition in 1999. From 2001 to 2008 he was the director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg and also worked as a freelance curator . In 2003 he was also appointed professor for art history (part-time) at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , where he taught until 2009. Between 2009 and 2015 he directed the Kunsthaus Bregenz . In 2015 Dziewior curated the Austria Pavilion for the Biennale di Venezia . Before working in Bregenz, he was director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg for eight years and, at the same time, taught as a professor of art theory at the local University of Fine Arts.

On February 1, 2015, Dziewior succeeded Philipp Kaiser and the acting director Katia Baudin as director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne . From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a freelancer for the Museum Ludwig . In 1997 he realized a project there as a curator with the artist Sarah Lucas and in 1999 was responsible for the contemporary part of the exhibition Kunstwelten im Dialog. From Gauguin to the global present .

At the beginning of 2018, Dziewior announced a scientific reassessment of the American holdings of the Museum Ludwig, which “mainly owned art by white, heterosexual, male Americans”. The aim is to reassess the contents and history of the collection; in relation to aspects of postcolonial , gender and queer studies . Dziewior said: “It's not about a new story, but a parallel narrative.” The art-historical canon of values ​​should also be questioned in order to identify the hierarchies between cultures. There are also plans to update the history of the collection with a view to art from South America, Africa and Asia and to strengthen female positions.

Dziewior's work is characterized by a decided interest in social issues, whereby in this context his preoccupation with identity-political and cultural attributions should be emphasized. Yilmaz Dziewior pursues an interdisciplinary approach that is particularly evident in exhibitions and projects on architecture ( Arno Brandlhuber , raumlabor Berlin, Kuehn Malvezzi , Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz ) as well as theater and dance ( René Pollesch , She She Pop , Yvonne Rainer ). A basic premise of his approach is the analysis of the respective context, which is expressed both in his experimental formats for the KUB Arena in Bregenz and in his insert series for the Hamburger Kunstverein . At the beginning of May 2020, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas appointed Dziewior as curator of the official German contribution to the 59th Venice Biennale in 2021.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • WADE GUYTON : TWO DECADES MCMXCIX – MMXIX (curatorial project management: Leonie Radine), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, November 16, 2019 - March 1, 2020.
  • Haegue Yang . ETA 1994-2018. Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2018 (Curatorial Assistant: Leonie Radine), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, April 18 - August 12, 2018.
  • James Rosenquist . Immerse yourself in the picture. (together with Stephan Diederich), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, November 18, 2017 - March 4, 2018, further station: ARoS Aarhus Art Museum , Aarhus, Denmark.
  • We call it Ludwig. The museum turns 40! (together with all curators of the Museum Ludwig), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, August 27, 2016 - January 8, 2017.
  • HERE AND NOW at the Museum Ludwig. Heimo Zobernig (Curatorial Assistant: Leonie Radine), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, February 20 - May 22, 2016.
  • Danh Võ .Ydob eht ni mraw si ti, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, August 1 - October 25, 2015.
  • Who, if not we? (together with Gregor Schneider ), Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, 1999.

Publications (selection)

  • WADE GUYTON MCMXCIX – MMXIX ZWEI DECADEN MUSEUM LUDWIG , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne. ISBN 978-3-96098-707-9
  • Museum Ludwig. Art. 20./21. Century. Painting, sculpture, new media (inventory catalog), Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2018. ISBN 3-96098-120-1
  • Haegue Yang. ETA 1994-2018. (Catalog of works), Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2018. ISBN 3-96098-357-3

Web links

Commons : Yilmaz Dziewior  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochschulnachrichten 2005 - German Universities and Research Institutes ( Memento from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and Hochschulnachrichten 1998 - German Universities and Research Institutes ( Memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Sarah Lucas - Car Park in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. June 25 - August 24, 1997. Catalog published by Oktagon-Verlag, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-89611-034-9 .
  3. Art Worlds in Dialog. From Gauguin to the global present in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. November 5, 1999 to March 19, 2000. Catalog published by DuMont, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-7701-5045-7 .
  4. ^ Kunsthaus Bregenz: Biography of Yilmaz Dziewior. (PDF) Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  5. ^ "Kunsthaus Bregenz: Yilmaz Dziewior becomes new director" , derStandard.at of April 29, 2009
  6. ^ “Dziewior curates Austria Pavilion” ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), art-magazin.de from April 11, 2014
  7. ^ A b c Museum Ludwig: Curriculum Vitae Yilmaz Dziewior. Retrieved December 9, 2019 (2019-12-09).
  8. Yilmaz Dziewior becomes director of the Cologne Museum Ludwig wdr.de, May 13, 2014 ( Memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. Frank Frangenberg: Art Worlds in Dialogue "From Gauguin to the Global Present" Museum Ludwig, Cologne, November 5, 1999 - March 19, 2000. In: www.kunstforum.de. KUNSTFORUM, December 9, 2019, accessed on December 9, 2019 .
  10. ^ A b Catrin Lorch: Museums in Germany: Agents of a New Era. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. February 5, 2018, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  11. ^ Kunsthaus Bregenz: KUB Arena. Kunsthaus Bregenz, accessed on December 9, 2019 .
  12. Federal Foreign Office press release of May 4, 2020: Foreign Minister Maas appoints Yilmaz Dziewior as curator of the official German Biennale contribution 2021 , accessed on May 4, 2020