Wulf Herzogenrath
Wulf Herzogenrath (born 23 March 1944, Rathenow, Province of Brandenburg), Germany is a German art historian and curator. He is a leading expert in Video art.
Early life and education
Herzogenrath studied art history, archaeology und ethnology in Kiel, Berlin and Bonn. 1967 - 1968 he edited the exhibition catalog "50 Jahre Bauhaus“. He received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on Oskar Schlemmer murals.[1]
In 1973 the 28-year-old Herzogenrath was hired to be the youngest ever director of a German Kunstverein (Art Society) in Cologne, Germany.
From 1989 he was the chief curator of the National Gallery (Berlin), entrusted with the Hamburger Bahnhof division for contemporary art. Herzogenrath left in 1994 to lead the Kunsthalle Bremen until his retirement in 2011. He relocated to Berlin in 2013.
Since 2012 he is the director of the visual arts section of the German Academy of Arts, Berlin.[2]
Curatorial work
In 1976 he organized the first European one man show of Nam June Paik at the Kölnischer Kunstverein. He curated the video section of Documenta 6 (1977) with Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell, and was part of the Documenta 8 (1987) curatorial team.
in 2006 he initiated 2006 40jahrevideokunst.de a collection of 59 seminal video art works from 1963 to 2006. The resulting exhibition series was shown simultaneously in five German museums. A DVD set documents the exhibition and all video works.
Honors
- He was awarded the "Bremer Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" (2011)
Publications
- 50 jahre bauhaus. Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1968.
- with Johann-Karl Schmidt (Hrsg.): Dix. Zum 100. Geburtstag 1891–1991. Cantz, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-7757-0335-2.
- with Andreas Kreul: Nam June Paik. There is no rewind button for life. Dumont, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-7780-5.
- with Andreas Kreul: Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves. University of Washington Press, Seattle 2002, ISBN 978-0-2959-8274-8.
- with Andreas Kreul, Uwe Goldstein und Katarina Vatsella: Tomma Wember. 3 Worte nur oder vier. Katalog, Hauschild, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-89757-159-5.
- with Edith Decker: Video-Skulptur retrospektiv und aktuell 1963–1989. DuMont, Ostfildern 1989, ISBN 978-3-7701-2313-1.
- Wulf Herzogenrath: Videokunst der 60er Jahre in Deutschland, Kunsthalle Bremen, 2006, (No ISBN).
- Rudolf Frieling & Wulf Herzogenrath: 40jahrevideokunst.de: Digitales Erbe: Videokunst in Deutschland von 1963 bis heute, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1717-5.
References
- ↑ "KuratorInnen aus Deutschland". Goethe Institute. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ↑ "Short Biography". Academy of the Arts, Berlin. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
External links
- Literature by and about Wulf Herzogenrath in the German National Library catalogue
- Biography of Wulf Herzogenrath on website of Kunsthalle Bremen
- Schriftlicher Vorlass: Akademie der Künste Berlin, Archiv Bildende Kunst: Wulf-Herzogenrath-Sammlung