Wo stehen wir und wo wollen wir hin? Kunstmuseen und ihre aktuellen wie künftigen Herausforderungen

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What is it all about?

The "future of museums" is currently being discussed everywhere. The exhibition "Museum of Museums. A journey through the history of exhibiting and viewing" reviews the history of showing and viewing art over the past 500 years. This show is therefore not least a self-examination and self-assurance of an institution that always has to look back at its own time and no less forward, into the future.

What about the traditional tasks of collecting, preserving and researching? What about large special exhibitions in the future? What new topics will the institutions be faced with? For example, are the "digital museum" or the demand for sustainability in museum work and much more challenges or opportunities? And what role should museums play in society?

These and other questions will be discussed: Dr. Marion Ackermann, Dr. Marcus Dekiert, Dr. Felix Krämer, Dr. Ulrike Lorenz & Wolfgang Ullrich, moderated by Stefan Koldehoff

Who are our guests?

Dr. Marion Ackermann (*1965) has been General Director of the Dresden State Art Collections since 2016. She completed her doctorate in 1995 on the autobiographical and theoretical texts of Wassily Kandinsky. From 2003 to 2009, she was Director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. From 2009 to 2016, she was director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Among other things, she curated "Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian - the white abyss of infinity" (2014) and three editions of the "Children's Biennale" (2018/2021/2024) in Dresden, as well as initiating numerous other projects with international contemporary artists. From 2019 to 2023, she was deputy chair of the Bizot Group and is active in various national and international committees in the fields of art, culture and science. She has been an honorary professor of art history at TU Dresden since 2017. In July 2024, she was appointed President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. She will take office on June 1, 2025.

Dr. Marcus Dekiert has been Director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud since 2013.

Dr. Felix Krämer (*1971) has been General Director and Artistic Director of the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf since October 2017. In addition to the museum, the institution also includes the Robert Schumann Hall, a concert hall with 800 seats, and, since the beginning of 2020, the NRW Forum exhibition space for photography, pop and digital culture. With its innovative program, the Kunstpalast presents temporary exhibitions for a wide audience and houses a collection of more than 130,000 objects. Following a thorough renovation and modernization of the Kunstpalast, the exhibition collection curated by him opened, bringing together exhibits from all genres spanning eleven centuries and making connections to current themes. Felix Krämer holds a doctorate from the University of Hamburg. From 2004-2008, he worked in various roles at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and as a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. From 2008-2017 - until he took up his post in Düsseldorf - he was responsible for the modern art collection at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

Dr. Ulrike Lorenz has been President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar since 2019. With more than 20 museums (including the Goethe National Museum and the Bauhaus Museum), a historical research library and the oldest literary archive in the world as well as architectural and garden monument preservation in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the foundation is one of the most complex cultural institutions in Germany. From 2009-2019, she was Director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim and realized a pioneering new building with a dynamic museum concept and digital strategy. An art historian trained at the University of Leipzig, she was director of the Gera Art Collection from 1990-2004 and headed the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, until 2008. She is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Her work focuses on the art and architecture of classical modernism and contemporary art as well as museum development and cultural management.

Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich (*1967in Munich) has lived in Leipzig since 2015 as a cultural scientist and freelance author, and was previously Professor of Art Studies and Media Theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung. He publishes on the history and critique of the concept of art, sociology of images and digital image cultures (including as co-editor of a book series of the same name published by Klaus Wagenbach). Most recent book publication: Identification and Empowerment. Art for the seriousness of life (2024).

Admission: Free of charge for members of freunde. Guests pay €4, students €2.

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