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She was the director and founder of the Gdańsk City Gallery (2009–2015), and, in 2017, the director of the Stadtgalerie in Kiel (Germany). She is the organiser of over 20 individual and collective exhibitions in Poland and internationally and is a co-creator of major artistic events in public spaces. She is the author of publications on contemporary art and curatorial practice. Among others, she published: “Günter Uecker in Polen. Der Nahe/Ferne Osten”, in: Günter Uecker. Porträt Mensch, hrsg. von Dirk Blübaum, Gerhard Graulich, Moritz Jäger, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Ludwigslust, Güstrow 2016; “Abakanowicz in Wrocław” in: Magdalena Abakanowicz. Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, ex.-cat. Tate Modern, London 2022.

There, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Annette Menting (HTWK Leipzig), she is leading the DFG-funded research project Architektur und Raum für die Aufführungskünste since 2017. She is the initiator and co-editor of the online journal media – archive – performance MAP (www.perfomap.de).

Last published: Barbara Büscher and Franz Anton Cramer: Bewegen, Aufzeichnen, Aufheben, Ausstellen. Archivprozesse der Aufführungskünste. Ein Arbeitsbuch, Leipzig & Berlin 2021.

She then worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Art History at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf – initially in the project Das Anthropozän sichtbar machen. Natur zwischenKunst, Ethik und Wissen. Her work includes texts on Otto Piene, Yayoi Kusama, Oskar Holweck, Frida Orupabo, Ha Chong-Hyun and exhibitions such as HIER und JETZT in the Museum Ludwig. Dynamische Räume and Ein Kleid, monochrom. ZERO und Mode (with Leonard Merkes).

Participation in the selection committee of the German Music Council for the CD project Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 (incl. publication of CD anthologies on studio technology and contemporary historical references of electroacoustic music). 1999-2005 Chairman of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt. Author of numerous radio broadcasts on contemporary composers.

Eugen Gomringer studied economics and art history in Berne and Rome (1946-1950). He is regarded as the founder of concrete poetry. In the 1950s, together with Dieter Roth and Marcel Wyss, he founded the magazine Spirale and assisted Max Bill at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm. In the 1960s he published the book series konkrete poesie – poesia concreta, was a member of the documenta council, headed the Swiss Werkbund and the advertising department of an industrial company, and was a consultant to Rosenthal AG (until 1985). In the early 1970s he founded the Archive for Concrete Poetry at Schloss Erkersreuth. From 1977 to 1990 he was Professor for Aesthetic Theory at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, in 1986 Visiting Professor for Poetics in Bamberg, and in 1988 Director of the International Forum for Design in Ulm. His extensive collection of concrete art and poetry forms the basis of the Museum Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, which opened in 1992.

Dipl. Rest. Martina Kerkhoff (born 1978) studied conservation and restoration of paintings and moulded sculpture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (now CICS TH Köln). She has been a self-employed restorer with her own studio in Bochum since 2006. Together with her colleague Diana Vogel, she works for various museums, private clients and in monument conservation in the Ruhr region.

Since 1984 he has been teaching History of Contemporary Art at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan. In 1986 he was commissioner for the Rome Quadrennial and curator of the Iran pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. As an independent curator, since 1979 he has curated or presented more than two hundred exhibitions of modern or contemporary art. He is on the scientific committee of the official archives of Mario Schifano, Vincenzo Agnetti, Marcello Morandini, Letizia Battaglia, Ugo La Pietra, and Nanda Vigo (until 2023), and chairs the Gio’ Pomodoro Archive.

 

Previously, she has been a junior professor for art history and the art market at the same institution. Her research and teaching area is the young, emerging field of art market research. Interdisciplinary doctorate on the topic of Art & Marketing. Self-Marketing of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the Düsseldorf Marketing System 1826-1860. She has been a member of the Class of Arts in the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2021 and is a member of the advisory board of the Coordination Office for Provenance Research in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2022.

 

Nicole Reds (born 1992) completed her bachelor’s degree at the Cologne Institute for Conservation and Restoration Science (CICS) in 2016, specialising in paintings, sculptures and modern art. Since 2020, she has been working as an employee at the restoration studio Kerkhoff + Vogel in Bochum. She will complete her master’s degree at CICS in 2024 with a thesis on the conservation and presentation of kinetic light sculptures by Otto Piene, which were created in the context of a multimedia opera.

Sophia Sotke completed her Master’s degree in History and Art History at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in 2014. In 2020, she wrote her Doctoral thesis on Heinz Mack‘s Sahara project in the international context of ZERO and Land Art. Her book Mack – Sahara was published by Hirmer in the spring of 2022. Sophia Sotke publishes and speaks on the topics of ZERO and Heinz Mack in international publications and museums.

 

Professor emeritus for cultural policy/management at the University of Music and Theatre, Hamburg, further teaching commitments in Germany and abroad (e.g. Belgrade, Dijon, Dresden, Tallinn). In addition to research activities, over 50 publications on the professional and social situation of artists/publicists (including Der Künstler-Report in 1975), on political, economic and legal issues in the cultural and media sector, on cultural education/training or on European developments in cultural policy, the arts and cultural heritage.

 

Numerous publications on art and culture as well as on the history of Judaism. Chairman of the board of the Max Ernst Foundation, board member of the ZERO Foundation. Honorary professor at the Heinrich-Heine-University.