- Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz is the curator of contemporary art and art historian in Dresden. She is artistic and managing director of the Kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art in Dresden since 2003. Kunsthaus Dresden is a publicly funded art institute hosting exhibitions and educational projects dedicated to current trends and discourses in international contemporary art. As a curator, writer and art historian, Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz was head of numerous exhibitions of international contemporary art reaching from classical exhibitions to advanced interventions in the rural and urban space. Her curatorial approach states art as a medium of cultural discourse, encompassing vital issues in art, politics and culture. Recent exhibitions and exhibition series have focussed on art and the history of art education, as well as processes of history telling and commemoration in a global context and interrelations between art and media technologies. She initiated a number of conferences on art in public space, as well as art and education and launched numerous series of lectures and events in order to accompany and support the thematic focus of her exhibitions.
Selected projects:
Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2006
Walden, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2007
Walden, Rathausgalerie München, 2009
Notes from the Empire, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2009
Lines, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2011
Vot ken you mach - Art, Films, Concerts, Readings, Talks, Comics on Jewish Identities in Europe Today, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2014
- Silke Wagler is an art historian and head of the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, which is the lending institution of the german historian works in the exhibition in Dresden. She is in charge of extensive holdings of art aquired from the former East Germany as well as the contemporary art collections and responsible for the conception, planning and organization of exhibitions and publications. She is also a jury member for public art and architecture competitions and has lectured and published specialist works on the Art Fund collection, contemporary art, the art of East Germany and methods of approaching this art, as well as art in public space.
The collection of the Kunstfonds (Art Fund) of the Free State of Saxony of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is one of the most important collections of post-1945 Saxon art. It holds more than 25,000 works of all fine-art genres, including painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, arts and crafts, concept, video and installation art, as well as public art.
