Roger Martin Buergel
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Roger M. Buergel was appointed Artistic Director of Documenta 12 in December, 2003. This major event of contemporary world art, based in the German city of Kassel, took place between June 16 and September 23, 2007. In the 1980s, Buergel studied culture, philosophy and economics in Vienna. He began his career as a university professor in 1990, being the tutor of Cinema Theory at the History Department of the University of Vienna. He develops research and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in modern and contemporary art. He was a visiting researcher at the MIT and at the University of California between 1997 and 1999. Since 2013 he is the director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich.
Main curatorships: 2016 - The Transcultural Classroom - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Germany
2012 - Garden of Learning - Busan Biennale, South Korea
2010 - Barely Something (a retrospective of Ai Weiwei), Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany
2003 - Die Regierung (The Government), traveling exhibition promoted by the Art Gallery of the University of Lüneburg, Germany. Co-curated by Ruth Noack. It was hosted by the following European institutions: Macba (Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona), Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Secession Vienna (until 2005). Guest artists: Ibon Aranberri, Maja Bajevic, Graciela Carnevale, James Coleman, Alice Creischer, Maya Deren, Ines Doujak, Patrick Faigenbaum, Andrea Geyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Dmitry Gutov, Sanja Ivecovic, Emily Jacir, Rainer Oldendorf, Florian Pumhösl, Alejandra Riera, Dierk Schmidt, Allan Sekula, Andreas Siekmann, Simon Wachsmuth.
2003 - Formen der Organization (Organization Forms), Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Co-curated by Ruth Noack. Guest artists: Simon Wachsmuth, Latifa Echakhch, Lisl Ponger, Andrea Geyer / Sharon Hayes, Ines Doujak, Peter Friedl, Dirk Schmidt, Andreas Siekmann.
2001 - The Subject and Power (the lyrical voice) at the CHA in Moscow, Russia. Guest artists: Eleanor Antin, Songül Boyraz, Alexander Brener / Barbara Schurz, Alice Creischer, Ines Doujak, Róza El-Hassan, Peter Friedl, Andrea Geyer, Dmitry Gutov, Tatiana Hengstler, Matthias Herrmann, Franz Kapfer, Max Karakulov, Anataloy Osmolovsky, Kirill Preobrazhensky, Alejandra Riera, Dierk Schmidt, Allan Sekula, Andreas Siekmann, Imogen Stidworthy, Caecilia Tripp, Simon Wachsmuth, Olivier Zabat.
2000 - Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen (Things we don't understand), Generali Gallery, Vienna. Co-curated by Ruth Noack. Guest artists: Eleanor Antin, Ines Doujak, Harun Farocki, Peter Friedl, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Nina Menkes, Alice Ohneland, Alejandra Riera.
Main publications: Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen (Things we don't understand), Exhib.Cat., Vienna 2000
Abstrakter Expressionismus. Konstruktionen ästhetischer Erfahrung. An anthology about American post-war painting with contributions by Leo Bersani / Ulysse Dutoit, Marcia Brennan, Roger M. Buergel, Anna C. Key, Don deLillo, Elaine de Kooning, Michael Leja, John O'Brian, Fred Orton, Deirdre Robson , Parker Tyler and Anne Wagner.
Roger M. Buergel was appointed Artistic Director of Documenta 12 in December, 2003. This major event of contemporary world art, based in the German city of Kassel, took place between June 16 and September 23, 2007. In the 1980s, Buergel studied culture, philosophy and economics in Vienna. He began his career as a university professor in 1990, being the tutor of Cinema Theory at the History Department of the University of Vienna. He develops research and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in modern and contemporary art. He was a visiting researcher at the MIT and at the University of California between 1997 and 1999. Since 2013 he is the director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich.2016 - The Transcultural Classroom - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Germany2012 - Garden of Learning - Busan Biennale, South Korea2010 - Barely Something (a retrospective of Ai Weiwei), Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany2003 - Die Regierung (The Government), traveling exhibition promoted by the Art Gallery of the University of Lüneburg, Germany. Co-curated by Ruth Noack. It was hosted by the following European institutions: Macba (Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona), Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Secession Vienna (until 2005). Guest artists: Ibon Aranberri, Maja Bajevic, Graciela Carnevale, James Coleman, Alice Creischer, Maya Deren, Ines Doujak, Patrick Faigenbaum, Andrea Geyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Dmitry Gutov, Sanja Ivecovic, Emily Jacir, Rainer Oldendorf, Florian Pumhösl, Alejandra Riera, Dierk Schmidt, Allan Sekula, Andreas Siekmann, Simon Wachsmuth.2003 - Formen der Organization (Organization Forms), Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Co-curated by Ruth Noack. Guest artists: Simon Wachsmuth, Latifa Echakhch, Lisl Ponger, Andrea Geyer / Sharon Hayes, Ines Doujak, Peter Friedl, Dirk Schmidt, Andreas Siekmann.2001 - The Subject and Power (the lyrical voice) at the CHA in Moscow, Russia. Guest artists: Eleanor Antin, Songül Boyraz, Alexander Brener / Barbara Schurz, Alice Creischer, Ines Doujak, Róza El-Hassan, Peter Friedl, Andrea Geyer, Dmitry Gutov, Tatiana Hengstler, Matthias Herrmann, Franz Kapfer, Max Karakulov, Anataloy Osmolovsky, Kirill Preobrazhensky, Alejandra Riera, Dierk Schmidt, Allan Sekula, Andreas Siekmann, Imogen Stidworthy, Caecilia Tripp, Simon Wachsmuth, Olivier Zabat.2000 - Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen (Things we don't understand), Generali Gallery, Vienna. Co-curated by Ruth Noack. Guest artists: Eleanor Antin, Ines Doujak, Harun Farocki, Peter Friedl, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Nina Menkes, Alice Ohneland, Alejandra Riera.Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen (Things we don't understand), Exhib.Cat., Vienna 2000Abstrakter Expressionismus. Konstruktionen ästhetischer Erfahrung. An anthology about American post-war painting with contributions by Leo Bersani / Ulysse Dutoit, Marcia Brennan, Roger M. Buergel, Anna C. Key, Don deLillo, Elaine de Kooning, Michael Leja, John O'Brian, Fred Orton, Deirdre Robson , Parker Tyler and Anne Wagner. |
