Klaus Ottmann
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Klaus Ottmann (born 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany) is an independent curator and writer based in New York. He received a M.A. in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Division of Media and Communications at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he is Chairperson of the Department of Cultural Studies and Søren Kierkegaard Professor.
Ottmann has curated over forty exhibitions, which have appeared at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; and the Haus der Kunst, Munich, among others.
His current curatorial projects include the Sixth International SITE Santa Fe Biennial (on view through January 7, 2007) and the 2007 Open ev+a exhibition to be held city-wide in Limerick, Ireland (March 31– June 24, 2007).
A former member of the board of directors of the American Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Ottmann has written extensively on contemporary art and art theory for numerous publications, including Flash Art, Arts, Domus, C Magazine, Art On Paper, Sculpture, and Artnews.
He is also Editor-in-Chief of Spring Publications, a small press owned by the archetypal psychologist James Hillman, which publishes books on archetypal psychology, symbolic imagination, art and the philosophy of art, phenomenology, the philosophy of psychology, religion, mysticism, and gnosis.
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- Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective, ISBN 3-7757-0944-4
- The Essential Mark Rothko, ISBN 0-8109-5826-0
- James Lee Byars: Life, Love, and Death, ISBN 3-7757-1368-9
- The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition, ISBN 0-88214-575-4
- Thought Through My Eyes: Writings on Art, 1977–2005, ISBN 0-88214-578-9
