Portfolio Reviews

Nadine Barth / Studied philosophy, literature and art history in Hamburg / Worked for many years as a journalist and art dealer / 2006 founded the barthouse culture concepts agency for art and communications / Editor of diverse publications on photography and fashion including Vanishing Landscapes and Traumfrauen (both 2008), Traummänner, Amazonen and German Fashion Design (all 2011), Daniel Josefsohn: OK DJ (2014), Anatol Kotte: Iconication and Martin Roemers: Metropolis (both 2015), Andres Serrano: Salvation and BerlinRaumRadar (both 2016) / Curator of exhibitions including for the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, MAMM in Moscow, Puma in Singapore and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin / 2013 to present: consulting editor for photography art books at Hatje Cantz / Nadine Barth lives and works in Berlin.

 

Photo: © Dorothea Tuch

Categories:

Curators, Publishing house, Gallery

Anne-Marie Beckmann / 1989 to 1997 Studied art history in Frankfurt/Main / 1999 to present: curator of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse a collection of contemporary photography featuring approx. 1600 works by over 100 international artists / 1999 to 2015 Director of the Deutsche Börse cultural program / Curator of photography exhibitions at Deutsche Börse and at various art institutions / Jury member for awards and scholarships including the C/O Talents Programme and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize / 2000 to 2015 published five collection catalogues, XL Photography 1-5 / 2015 to present: lecturer in photography at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach/Main / 2015 to present: director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation / Anne-Marie Beckmann lives and works in Frankfurt/Main. 

Categories:

Curators

http://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/

Rein Deslé / Born 1981 / Studied contemporary history and cultural studies / 2004 to 2010 collaborator at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography at the University of Leuven / Since 2010 curator and editor at FotoMuseum Antwerp (FoMu) in Belgium / Curator of exhibitions including Imaging History, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Shooting Range and Show Us the Money, and solo shows for Gert Jochems, Charles Fréger, Rinko Kawauchi, Jan Rosseel and Jan Hoek / Editor of FoMu magazine’s EXTRA and .tiff / Frequent juror of photography competitions / Rein Deslé lives in Brussels.

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper

http://www.fotomuseum.be/

Marcel Feil / Born 1968 / 1994 BA in history of art at the University of Amsterdam / 1994 to 1998 worked at the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture / 1998 to 2002 staff member at the Amsterdam Centre for Photography / 2002 to 2010 curator at the Foam museum of photography in Amsterdam, organizing a wide range of historical and contemporary exhibitions / Since 2010 deputy director, artistic affairs at Foam, as well as an editor of Foam, the museum’s international photography magazine / 2012 published A Book of Beds: A Selection of Foam Magazine Talent Photographs / 2014 curated the William Klein retrospective at Foam / Marcel Feil lives and works in Amsterdam.

 

Photo: © Oscar Anjewierden: Marcel Feil at the Opening Araki Exhibition at Photomuseum FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 18, 2014 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/duosphoto/) 

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper, Museum

http://www.foam.org/home

Nina Grundemark / Born in 1967 / Studied IT and history of art, specializing in photography / 2007 opened her first photographic gallery in Stockholm / 2010 to present: founded the Grundemark Nilsson Gallery (formerly the Swedish Photography Gallery) in Berlin as managing director with Dorothee Nilsson as gallery director / As managing director presents 5 to 6 exhibitions a year in Stockholm and Berlin featuring a new generation of contemporary photo-based artists with a strong connection to Sweden as well as established artists like Christer Strömholm and Dawid / Grundemark Nilsson Gallery also participates regularly in art fairs including Paris Photo, Unseen Amsterdam, Photo Basel and AIPAD New York / Freelance curator of exhibitions including for the Nobel Prize Award in Sweden (2010), Nordic Embassies in Germany (2011) and Pingyao Photo Festival in China (2012) / Nina Grundemark lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.

 

Photo: http://sfoto.se/f/nyheter/vad-sag-du-fotografi-i-malmo-reviewer [05.08.2016/15:00]

Categories:

Curators, Gallery

http://www.grundemarknilsson.se/

Matthias Harder / Born 1965 / Studied history of art, classical archaeology and philosophy / MA from Kiel University / 2002 PhD from Freie Universität, Berlin / 1995 to 1999 curator at nGbK in Berlin / 1996 to 1999 founder and director of ‘empty rooms’ experimental exhibition space for installation art / 1999 to 2002 guest curator at the Fotomuseum, Munich, organizing Herbert List and Stefan Moses retrospectives / 2002 to 2004 director at Kunstverein Glückstadt (PAK) / Since 2004 chief curator at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin / Guest-curator at institutions incl. Deichtorhallen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Glyptothek, Fundació ‘la Caixa’, Tokyo Art Museum / Contributor to international journals including Photonews, Aperture and Art in America / Author of articles and essays for books and catalogues / Also works as an international lecturer, jury member, consultant and public speaker / Matthias Harder lives and works in Berlin.

 

Photo: http://www.zeitakademie.de/seminare/die-schoenen-kuenste/fotografie [05.08.2016/14:55] 

Categories:

Curators, Art Historians, Museum

http://www.helmut-newton.de/informationen/

Markus Hartmann / Born1962 / Studied at the Stuttgart Media University / Trained in publishing sales / 1990 to 2013 publishing director of photography and contemporary art at Hatje Cantz Publishers in Ostfildern / 2013 started Hartmann Projects, his own company for curating, exhibition organization and occasional writing (blogs and magazines) / 2016 co-founded Hartmann Books / Curated shows for the Rencontres d’Arles with Markus Brunetti (2015) and Alfred Seiland – Imperium Romanum (2016) / Organizing upcoming exhibitions with Peter Bialobrzeski, Alfred Seiland, Ingar Krauss / Markus Hartmann lives and works in Stuttgart.

Categories:

Curators, Publishing house

http://www.hartmannprojects.com/

Maren Lübbke-Tidow / Born 1968 / Studied art history and political science in Marburg and Vienna / 1994 to 1996 intern and exhibition assistant at mumok/20er-Haus, Vienna / Since 1996 closely connected to Camera Austria (Graz) as author, editor and curator / 2001 to 2009 director of the Berlin editorial office / Since 2013 editor-in-chief / Recent exhibitions: 2016 Friedl Kubelka: Atelier d’Expression (Dakar), Camera Austria, Graz; 2015 Sven Johne: Anomalien des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts. Einige Fallbeispiele, Arbeiterkammer Wien / Recent texts include: Fülle und Leere…, cat. KunstHausWien; Annette Kelm: Wir wissen eigentlich nicht, was wir sehen… in: Camera Austria International (Graz/Berlin); Love Stories with Politics: Marlene Dumas, in: Kunstbulletin (Zurich) / Lecturer at Berlin’s Technische Kunsthochschule, University of Cologne and at Schule für Künstlerische Photographie, Vienna / Maren Lübbke-Tidow lives and works in Berlin and Graz.

Interested in:

Works that explore the human image and questions of history and identity, documentary projects, conceptual practices, artists’ books, and photography in the Web 2.0 era.

Categories:

Curators, Professors, Newspaper

Lesley A Martin / Born 1970 / 1991 PhD from Miami University / creative director, Aperture Foundation, and publisher of PhotoBook Review / Editor of numerous photobooks, including by Takashi Homma, Rinko Kawauchi, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and recent books by Richard Misrach and Gregory Crewdson / Worked on The Chinese Photobook, contributing editor to Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s, and The Latin American Photobook / 2012 cofounded the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards / Curator of national and international travelling exhibitions incl. Ubiquitous Image (2008), Aperture Remix (2012) and Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs (2016) / Writing on photography published in Aperture, FOAM, Ojo de Pez, and Lay Flat, among others / Currently teaches graduate course on the photobook at the Yale University School of Art / Lesley A Martin lives and works in New York City.

 

Photo: http://www.powarts.org/events/2015/2/23/colleagues-and-friends-breakfast-julia-joern [05.08.2016/14:50]

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper, Publishing house

Joachim Naudts / Born 1982 / 2012 started working for FOMU (museum of photography) in Antwerp / Curator of over 20 exhibitions, including Power! Photos! Freedom! (2013), Broomberg & Chanarin – Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (2014), and Mijn vlakke land (My Flat Land, 2015) / chief-editor of the FOMU magazines Extra and .tiff / Since 2008 actively involved in the organization and planning of the non-profit organization Punctum focusing on contemporary photography / As of 2012 board member of Scherptediepte – Depth of Field, a network for researchers, curators and critics in the field of photography and media culture in the Low Countries / Regularly invited as a jury-member, speaker, writer or guest teacher in the field of contemporary photography / Joachim Naudts lives in Brussels and works in Antwerp.

Categories:

Curators, Professors, Newspaper, Museum

http://www.joachimnaudts.be/

Timothy Persons / 1982 to present: adjunct professor and director of the Professional Studies Program at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, where he is the principle architect and leader of the Helsinki School / 1995 founded Gallery Taik Persons in Helsinki; the gallery relocated to Berlin in 2005 / As well as holding around eight solo and group exhibitions per year, Gallery Taik Persons also works actively with independent publishing houses including Hatje Cantz and Kehrer Verlag to create limited-edition art books / 2006 to present: board member of Paris Photo / Curatorial advisor to Kulturhuset, Stockholm; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art and National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen / Persons has curated more than 40 international photography exhibitions, written numerous books, and exhibited his own work worldwide / Timothy Persons lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Curators, Professors, Gallery

http://gallerytaikpersons.com/

Katia Reich / Born 1969 / 1989 to 1992 assistant manager in the art business / 1999 Master’s in art history, classical archaeology and modern history / 1999 to 2005 curator with the working group for photography at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (nGbK) / 2000 to 2004 director of the gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin / 2003 and 2005 project manager for the German entries to the Venice Biennale / 2005 to 2012 project manager of the Berlin Biennale at KW Berlin, responsible for more than 300 projects / In 2007 published Die deutschen Beiträge zur Biennale Venedig 1895–2007 together with Ursula Zeller (DuMont Verlag) / 2009 and 2010 co-curated Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin / 2012 appointed curator of the 5th European Month of Photography / Published catalogue of 5th European Month of Photography (Kerber Verlag) / Katia Reich lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Curators, Art Historians, Gallery

Inka Schube / Born 1961 / Studied classical archaeology, cultural theory and history of art in East Berlin / 1987 to 1990 freelance curator and assistant at the Gallery of Young Berlin Artists, (now Podewil) / 1990 co-founded the Kunst und Kulturzentrum Brotfabrik, Berlin / Curated exhibitions there including Mikhailov, Goldin and Greenaway solo shows and Heimat (Home,1994), which also showed at the Photo Biennale Rotterdam / 1997 Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation scholarship for museum practice and photography / 1998 to 2001 member of various project groups affiliated to the nGbK in Berlin / 2000 curated Here and Now for the Photo Biennial Rotterdam / Since 2001 director of photography and media-art at Sprengel Museum, Hanover / Shows curated at the Sprengel include Social Creatures: How Body Becomes Art, Photography Calling and solo shows by Bernard Fuchs, John Gossage, and Viktor Kolář / Inka Schube lives and works in Berlin and Hanover.

Categories:

Curators, Art Historians

http://www.sprengel-museum.de/

Aaron Schuman / Born 1977, USA / 1999 BFA in photography and art history at NYU’s Tisch School / 2003 MA in humanities & cultural studies, London Consortium / Exhibited photography at Tate Modern, ICA (London) and Hauser & Wirth Somerset / Author of FOLK (2016) / Written texts for Alec Soth: Gathered Leaves (2015), Vision Anew (2015), and The Photographer’s Playbook (2014) and more / Contributes to magazines such as Aperture, Frieze, Foam, Hotshoe, TIME, etc. / Curated exhibitions such as Mixtape (2016), In Appropriation (2012), Other I: Alec Soth, WassinkLundgren, Viviane Sassen (2011) and Whatever Was Splendid… (2010) / Curator of Krakow Photomonth 2014: ‘Re:Search’ – featuring exhibitions by Taryn Simon, Trevor Paglen, Jason Fulford, Clare Strand, Walker Evans & David Campany, etc. / Senior lecturer at University of Brighton and UWE / Founder/editor of SeeSaw Magazine / Aaron Schuman lives and works in London.

 

http://photo7293.rssing.com/chan-35200218/all_p15.html [05.08.2016/14:30]

Categories:

Curators, Artist, Photographer, Professors

http://www.aaronschuman.com/