The Strengths of artproject

The range of artproject mediation schemes reaches from intensive one-to-one conversations for developing a collection concept to intercultural dialogues, like those conducted at international exhibitions. The specific character of this mediation work can best be seen from the hitherto implemented projects.

Art Consulting

  • Schloss Geiersberg, Sesslach:
    Consultation on the new interior design and artistic decoration of an agricultural building from the eighteenth century
    2000–2006
  • GEDO company, Grünwald:
    Consultation on refacing the company building, implemented by the glass artist Bern Nestler
    2005
  • Project development company, Munich district:
    Plans for the artistic design of the company headquarters and arrangement of a collection for a project development company
    artists: Bernd Zimmer, Ruth Kohler, Manfred Bockelmann et al.
    2002–2004
  • Munich:
    art consultation on the artistic decoration of a company building
    artists: Maik and Dirk Löbbert, Sabine Haubitz, and K. A. Steiner
    1999
We are what we
repeatedly do.

[Aristotle]


Bernd Zimmer Bernd Zimmer

Maik and Dirk Löbbert, Feldherrnhalle, 1998 Maik and Dirk Löbbert

Cultural Transfer, Exhibition Organisation

Bauhaus : Dessau – Chicago – New York

Museum Folkwang Essen
2000

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, 1951

Co-author and research assistant:

  • acquisition of the 290 exhibits and handling of the transfer of works on loan from 63 international museums and private collections, especially in the USA
  • research on the lost estate of the Bauhaus artist Xanti Shawinsky
  • artist biographies
  • editorial preparation of the catalogue (illustrations, captions, lists of lenders, credits)

Art for Life’s Sake

Exhibition with 25 masterpieces from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, including works by Joseph Beuys, Man Ray, Picasso, Matisse, Magritte, and Klee, under the auspices of the German ambassador to Japan; exhibition location: Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura; 2000

Ausstellungskatalog, Ausschnitt. Bild: Joseph Beuys, Alarm II, 1983

Coordination and administration of the exhibition:

  • establishing contact between the museums
  • selecting the works on loan
  • negotiating the contracts, and providing curatorial support.

Renoir. Modern Eyes

Travelling exhibition
locations: Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
1999

Assistance to the exhibition:

  • procurement of the 74 works on loan from European collections
  • transport escort
  • trips to European collections with Japanese curators.

67 Meisterwerke aus dem Museum Folkwang Essen
[67 masterpieces from the Museum Folkwang Essen]

Travelling exhibition with works by van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Gauguin, Renoir, Kirchner, Magritte, Dali, Picasso
locations: Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hakodate Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art.
1995–1997


Exhibition poster in the city

Idee und  Realisierung der Ausstellung
(während der Sanierung des Museumsgebäudes in Essen konnten die Bilder auf Reisen geschickt werden):

Idea and implementation of the exhibition (the pictures could go on tour while the museum building in Essen was being renovated):

  • negotiation of the contract for the works on loan; selection of the works on loan
  • pre-selection of the stations (museums) in Japan
  • transport escort and conservation assistance during the tour
  • texts and editorial support of the catalogue.

Fernand Léger 1881-1955

Travelling exhibition under the auspices of the state department for cultural affairs in Japan and the French ambassador to Japan
locations: Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot
1992–1994

Idea, planning, and implementation of the travelling exhibition on behalf of the Japanese museums:

  • procurement of the 120 works on loan from museums and private owners in the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England
  • contract negotiations and coordination between Japanese borrowers and the French cultural authority
  • coordination, planning, and editing of the catalogue

Art Nouveau und Jugendstil
[Art Nouveau and Jugendstil]

Travelling Exhibition in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, and Nara
1990–1991

Planning and organisation of the travelling exhibition:

  • procurement of the 200 works on loan from nine countries
  • planning and editing of the catalogue

Franz von Stuck und seine Schüler
[Franz von Stuck and his students]

Exhibition, Villa Stuck, Munich
1989

 Freelance collaboration and editing of the catalogue

Publications

  • Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, genannt Dietricy, München: Hirmer Verlag, 2012
  • Wahrnehmung. Reise, in: Bernd Zimmer. Wahrnehmung. Bilder. 1986 – 2003, Schloss Cappenberg, 2004
  • Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. Artikel in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Leipzig: K.G.  Saur, 2000
  • Künstlerbiographien, in: Költsch, G.-W., Tupitsyn, M. (Hrsg): Bauhaus: Dessau – Chicago – New York, Ausstellungskatalog Museum Folkwang Essen, Köln: DuMont, 2000.
  • H. Graf v. Brühl, C.W.E. Dietrich, C.H. v. Heineken, H. Sedlmayr Artikel in: The Dictionary of Art in 34 Bänden, London: Macmillan Publishers, 1997
  • Esther-Maria Dornier-Haupt 1933-1977, Leipzig: Seemann, 1993
  • Manfred Bockelmann. Das Blau der Erde. Fondation Vasarely, Aix- en - Provence, 1992
  • C.W.E. Dietrich – Ein Raphael der Landschaftsmalerei, in : Weltkunst, 59 Jg., Nr. 17, (1989)
  • C. W. E  Dietrich (1712 – 1774) und die Problematik des Eklektizismus (Diss.), München: Mäander, 1984