Katja Aßmann

Katja Assmann ( born May 28, 1971 in Warstein ) is a German arts administrator and curator. She studied architecture at the University of Bochum and art history at the Ruhr- University Bochum. Since 2012, she is the Artistic Director of Urban Arts Ruhr.

Professional career

Katja Assmann in 1999 became Head of Art and Culture of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park. Before that, she was still working while studying as a freelancer for the publicity and the Department of Art, Culture, Architecture of the IBA Emscher Park.

After several years working as a freelance curator and cultural manager Assmann, in 2004 the project management in the field of art, culture and events of Local 2006. Subsequently she managed projects of the state initiative StadtBauKultur NRW within which it, inter alia, the event series " Building Culture Salon" established.

In 2007, she was the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 for project and program manager appointed, where they focus on developing the projects in the field of architecture, urban design and visual arts and realized.

In early 2012 Katja Assmann Artistic Director of Urban Arts Ruhr, a new program column Kultur Ruhr GmbH, which was established as part of the sustainability of the Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010 to life. Assmann developed the artistic conception of Urban Arts Ruhr and curated own and co-productions with regional and international artists and collectives.

Projects

As Head of the IBA Emscher Park and then as a freelance arts manager Katja Assmann has, inter alia, The following projects and curated jointly responsible for:

  • The Wall exhibition of Christo and Jeanne- Claude, Gasometer Oberhausen
  • Exhibition Art makes its mark in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen
  • Exhibition sun, moon and stars in the coking plant Zollverein Essen
  • Vitra exhibition "The world of Charles and Ray Eames "
  • Exhibitions " city light light art ", " View of the Modernist " and " Chronicle Wilhelm LehmbruckMuseum " Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg
  • Construction of the Centre for International Light Art Unna
  • ENTRY2006 exhibition in collaboration with MoMA, Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Vitra Design Museum in the coal washing plant, Zeche Zollverein Essen

Publications (selection)

  • Experiment with a future. European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010. In: Soke Dinkla / Peter Greulich / Karl Janssen ( ed.): Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain. A landmark in Duisburg by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth. Ostfildern 2012, pp. 23-28, ISBN 978-3-7757-2822-5.
  • Give a face to change. City of Possibilities (together with Karl -Heinz Petzinka ). In: RUHR.2010 GmbH (ed.): RUHR.2010. The Impossible Capital of Culture. Chronicle of a metropolis in the making. Essen 2011, pp. 28-39, ISBN 978-3-8375-0363-0.
  • Park motorway A42. Experience street in the Emscher Landscape Park (edited together with Jörg Dettmar ). , 2011.
  • The " dawn redwood " and " Learning to See ". Building culture dialogue and urban experiments (together with Ulrike Rosenbach ). In: Polis. Magazine for Urban Development 01/2011, 70-73, ISSN 0938-3689.
  • Art and urbanity (together with Karl -Heinz Petzinka ). In: MAP Markus Ambach Projects / StadtBauKultur NRW (ed.): B1 | A40. The beauty of the great road. Berlin 2010, pp. 152-157, ISBN 978-3-86859-077-7.
  • European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010. A city is reinventing itself (together with Karl -Heinz Petzinka ). In: Florian Matzner / Karl -Heinz Petzinka / Jochen Stemplewski (ed.): EMSCHERKUNST.2010. An island for the arts. Ostfildern 2010, pp. 23-36, ISBN 978-3-7757-2663-4.
  • About water walking. Art at the Seseke and its tributaries ( co-edited with Billie Erlenkamp and Oliver Scheytt ). 2010, ISBN 978-3-9814036-2-6.
  • Culture of the park (along with Marion Dove ). In: Projekt Ruhr GmbH (ed.): Masterplan Emscher Landscape Park 2010 Essen 2005, pp. 180-205, ISBN 3- 89861-476 -X..
  • In streams. An exhibition about the rain, the river and the time ( co-edited with Henry Beierlorzer ). , 2006.
  • Culture of the park (along with Marion Dove ). In: Projekt Ruhr GmbH (ed.): Masterplan Emscher Landscape Park 2010 Essen 2005, pp. 180-205, ISBN 3- 89861-476 -X..

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