Portfolio Reviews

 

Caroline von Courten / b. 1983 / She works around the (image) frame of photography. / With a background in Visual Culture Studies (BA) and Photographic Studies (MA) she is currently working on her dissertation on the theoretical connotations and implication of the photographic surface. / She has curated exhibitions on paper (Foam Magazine) and in space (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Goethe-Institut, and the Dutch Culture Centre Shanghai), organizes and moderates discussions, gives lectures internationally, writes essays, and judges diverse photographic work for competitions, graduations and portfolio reviews. / Caroline von Courten grew up in the Bavarian countryside and made her way via Utrecht, Berlin, and Melbourne to Amsterdam, where she now lives with her fiancé and two daughters.

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Curators, Art Historians, Newspaper, Gallery, Museum

https://carocou.com/

 

Matthias Harder / Born 1965 / Studied art history, classical archaeology and philosophy / M.A. from Universität Kiel / 2002 Awarded Ph.D. at FU Berlin / 1995 to 1999 Curator at nGbK / 1996 to 1999 Founder and head of an experimental exhibition space for installations (empty rooms) / 1999 to 2002 Guest curator at the photography museum in Stadtmuseum in Munich, curated Herbert List and Stefan Moses retrospectives / 2002 to 2004 Head of Kunstverein Glückstadt (PAK) / Since 2004 Head curator of Helmut Newton Stiftung, Berlin / Guest curator at Deichtorhallen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Glyptothek, Fundación “la Caixa”, Tokyo Art Museum and elsewhere / Contributions to periodicals including Photonews, Aperture and Art in America and articles and essays in books and exhibition catalogs / Worked in Germany and abroad as a docent, juror, advisor and speaker / Matthias Harder lives and works in Berlin.

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Curators, Art Historians, Museum

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

Nathalie Herschdorfer worksa curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. / Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland, where she has organized many shows, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vik Muniz, Todd Hido, Garry Winogrand and Henri Cartier-Bresson. / She has been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), specifically on projects dedicated to fashion photography and for several further institutions, most recently for the Photographers’ Gallery in London for the retrospective of Alex Prager. / Author of several publications, among them Body: Contemporary Photography of the Human Form (2018), Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive (2018), The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography (2015), Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography (2012), Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past, and New Swiss Architecture (2011)

Photo: © François Wavre Rezo

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Curators, Art Historians, Museum

http://www.mbal.ch/

 

Kim Knoppers / b. 1976 / She is an art historian (University of Amsterdam), and curator at Foam / Since 2011, she has worked on solo exhibitions, including those by Melanie Bonajo, Broomberg & Chanarin, JH Engström, Anne de Vries and Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs and group exhibitions, most recently Collectivism. Collectives and Their Quest for Value (2016) and Back to the Future. The 19th Century in the 21st Century (2018) / She has contributed to various magazines including Foam Magazine, Unseen and Aperture and has written catalogue texts for Jaya Pelupessy and Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, amongst others. She is also a lecturer on the MA Photography at ECAL in Lausanne where she initiated and developed the course Do Not Disturb – Curating in Progress.

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Curators, Art Historians, Professors, Museum

http://www.kimknoppers.nl/

 

Christina Leber / Born 1966 / Studied Catholic theology and education at various universities in Germany and abroad, completing her studies with a PhD / 1992 to 1999 worked freelance in various corporate art collections including at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Tetra Pak and DG BANK / 1999 to 2001 director of the 2nd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art / 2003 to 2011 curator of the DZ BANK art collection / 2008 published a book on art collections in German corporations between the years 1965 and 2000 / Seit 2011 director of the DZ BANK art collection / Christina Leber lives and works in Frankfurt. 

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Festival makers, Gallery, Museum

http://www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de/

 

Franziska Schmidt / Studied art history and German at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle/Wittenberg / Worked as a researcher, curator, writer, lecturer, specialist, assessor, and manager / Regularly took part in international juries and symposia / Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V. / 1994–2000 Freelance member and curator at the photography collection of Kunstmuseums Moritzburg, Halle/Saale / 2000–2001 Received “Museum Curator for Photography” scholarship from Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung / 2005–2007 Artistic director and managing director of Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig / 2002–2005 Director of Galerie Berinson, Berlin / 2007–2017 Head and expert for Grisebach Auctions’ photography division, Berlin.

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Curators, Professors, Museum

Photo: © Loredana Nemes

 

Dr. Christiane Stahl / Born1963 / Studied art history, theater and film studies at École du Louvre Paris and Freie Universität Berlin / Since 2002 Head of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung / Talks, publications, jury member and lecturer with a focus on modern and contemporary photography.

 

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Art Historians, Professors, Gallery, Museum

http://www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de/

 

Anna Tellgren / Born 1964 / PhD / Curator of Photography at Moderna Museet in Stockholm since 2004 / She has curated numerous exhibitions including Arbus, Model, Strömholm (2005), Lars Tunbjörk. Winter/Home (2007), Moderna Museet Now: Inta Ruka (2008) and her exhibition Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel (2015) is touring internationally / In 2011 she was responsible for the project Another Story. Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection, a major presentation of photography in the entire museum / Previously, she has worked as researcher and lecturer at the Department of Art History at Stockholm University / Tellgren was the editor of The History Book. On Moderna Museet 1958–2008 (2008) and is associate editor of Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History.

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Curators, Newspaper, Museum

http://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en