Beatrice von Bismarck
Beatrice von Bismarck (Leipzig/Berlin) is professor at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig for Art History, Visual Culture and Cultures of the Curatorial. Main curator of 20th century art at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt from 1989 to 1993, she has then co-founded and directed the project-space “Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg”, associated with Lüneburg University (1993-1999). She is also co-founder of the project-space “/D/O/C/K-Projektbereich” (2000) and initiator of the MA program “Cultures of the Curatorial” (2009). Her current research interests are the curatorial, the modes of cultural production connecting theory and practice, the effects of neoliberalism and globalisation on the cultural field, and postmodern concepts of the “artist”. (2018)
Publications
- editor, with Diethelm Stoller and Ulf Wuggenig, Games, Fights, Collaborations. Das Spiel von Grenze und Überschreitung - Art und Culture Studies in the 90ies, Hatje Cantz, 1996, 244 pp. [1] (German)/(English)
- editor, with Jörn Schafaff and Thomas Weski, Cultures of the Curatorial, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Leipzig: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, 2012, 376 pp. [2]
- co-editor, Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting (Cultures of the Curatorial 2), Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Leipzig: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, 2014, 396 pp. [3]
- editor, with Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Hospitality: Hosting Relations in Exhibitions (Cultures of the Curatorial 3), Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015, 220 pp. [4]
- editor, with Heike Munder and Peter J. Schneemann, Now-Tomorrow-Flux: An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich: JRP Ringier, and Zurich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2017, 280 pp. [5]
- editor, with Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Curatorial Things (Cultures of the Curatorial 4), Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020, 368 pp, [6]
- The Curatorial Condition, Berlin: Sternberg Press, forthcoming, 304 pp. [7]
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