Roger M. Buergel
Roger Martin Buergel ( born September 26, 1962 in Berlin) is curator, critic and lecturer. Buergel was artistic director of documenta 12, to 23 September 2007 was held from June 16 in Kassel. From 2007-2009 he taught as a visiting professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. Buergel is founding director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich, dedicated to the research and presentation prescribed by the history of global trade routes and its cultural deposits.
Life
Roger Buergel grew up in Berlin and Bremen. From 1983 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and studied at the exhibition organizer John Gachnang at the Vienna Institute for Contemporary Art. Buergel worked from 1985 to 1987 as private secretary to the painter and action artist Hermann Nitsch. At the Vienna University Buergel ranked next to philosophy and economics and worked as a tutor for film studies. Travel and research stays brought him especially to England, France and the United States. Nevertheless, Vienna remained center of his life. Following an exhibition on the subject of historiography in the arts (1997) Buergel began a lectureship associated with a regular collaboration with the Art Space at the University of Lüneburg. For his curatorial work Buergel was awarded in 2002 as the first winner of the Walter Hopps Award - the Menil Collection (Houston ). Buergel lives in Zurich and Berlin.
Publications
Buergel was with Vera Kockot the anthology Abstract Expressionism. Painting between sublimity and vulgarity (1999, Publishing House of Art) out, which was preceded by two exhibitions and a longer research with Michael Leja at MIT. 1999 appeared his monograph on Peter Friedl (1999, Publishing House of Art). In addition to numerous essays on artists (such Lidwien van de Ven, Lina Bo Bardi, Alejandra Riera and Ai Weiwei ), which appeared in various magazines and anthologies, Buergel dedicated on the occasion of the exhibition Barely Something ( 2010) DKM Ai Weiwei Duisburg museum a longer monographic exhibition of the same text in the catalog.
Exhibitions
After a series of exhibitions in private rooms ( loci, 1992-93, with Ruth Noack ) Buergel curated scenes of a theory. The work of art as an agent of cinematic discourse ( Depot Vienna, 1995, with Ruth Noack ), Abstract Expressionism. Painting between sublimity and vulgarity ( art room at the University of Lüneburg, 1997), things we do not understand ( Generali Foundation Vienna, 2000, with Ruth Noack ), governmentality. Art in conflict with the international hyper- bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie international (Alte Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, 2000), The Subject and Power. The Lyrical Voice ( Cha Moscow, 2001), forms of organization ( art room at the University of Lüneburg, Galerija Skuc Ljubljana and gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, 2002-03, with Ruth Noack ), the government ( art room at the University of Lüneburg, MAC Miami, Secession Vienna and Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2003-05, with Ruth Noack ), a thematic series, which was the exhibition Com Volem water governats at MACBA Barcelona preceded where Buergel for the first time in his practice working with an advisory board of was able to test citizens. 2003 Buergel was appointed artistic director of Documenta 12 in 2007. His concept for the documenta 12 was among the three leitmotifs: Is modernity our antiquity, What is bare life? and What to do? , which published its own special issues in advance, issued by Georg Schöllhammer. Buergel even coined the term ' migration of form ' to characterize the cross-cultural nature of the documentation. 2010 Buergel curated a retrospective of Ai Weiwei at the Museum DKM in Duisburg, which systematically dealt with the typical for Ai combination of Chinese and modernist forms. Buergel was then Artistic Director of Busan Biennale 2012 ( Garden of Learning). In the experimental process of exhibition design a board of about 80 Korean citizens have been involved.