KunstBewusst-Podium: Making-of: Museum der Museen

What is it all about?

How do you design a journey through time through the art of exhibiting and seeing, a topic that seems almost inexhaustible? Anne Buschhoff, Wulf Herzogenrath, Ricarda Hüpel and Marie-Louise von Plessen report on the initial idea for the "Museum of Museums", the intensive conception phase of the exhibition and its thematic connection to the Cologne collector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf and today's museum landscape in Cologne. An illuminating insight behind the scenes of the ambitious project, which brought with it many a challenge.

Who are our guests?

Dr. Anne Buschhoff was born in 1967 and studied art history in Münster and Bonn. Doctorate on the love emblematics of the Rubens teacher Otto van Veen. 1999 traineeship at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Curator of the Print Cabinet there since 2002, responsible for art from 1800 onwards. Numerous exhibitions and publications on prints and paintings from the 19th to 21st centuries, including projects on Paul Klee at the Bauhaus, Paula Modersohn-Becker in Paris, Romanesque and contemporary landscape drawing and Hans Christian Andersen as a silhouette artist. Head of the Graphic Art Collection at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, since 2019. Monographic presentations, for example on Rembrandt, Edvard Munch and Max Klinger, as well as thematic exhibitions on love and the school of drawing.

Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath (born 1944) completed his doctorate in 1970 on the murals of Oskar Schlemmer; edited the catalog "50 years of bauhaus" (touring exhibition 1968-1971); curator of the exhibition "bauhaus utopias" (1988 in Budapest, Madrid and Cologne). Many individual publications on 20th and 21st century art, with a focus on Bauhaus, media art and art education. 1973-1989 director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein; 1989-1994 chief curator of the Nationalgalerie Berlin; 1994-2011 director of the Kunsthalle Bremen. Collaboration on documenta 6 and 8. Since 2006 member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2012-2021 head of the Fine Arts section; until 2022 jury chairman of the Kaiserrings Goslar and curator of the series "im Atelier Liebermann" in Berlin. He lives in Berlin and Cologne.

Dr. Ricarda Hüpel born 1989, studied French, art history and museum and exhibition management in Osnabrück, Paris and Bern. Worked at the German Historical Museum in Berlin and the Museum Tinguely in Basel. Internship at the Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt in Mönchengladbach from 2016-2018 and subsequent collaboration in the research project "Weltbunt" from 2018-2020. Part-time doctorate on "Feldgrau im Ersten Weltkrieg. Textile Colorfulness between War Economy and Fashion" at the Technical University of Dortmund with graduation in 2021. Since 2019 working at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud. First as exhibition manager and now as scientific advisor to the director.

Dr. Marie-Louise Countess von Plessen. 1974 Doctorate in history, art history and sociology at the LMU Munich. Author (concept and catalogs) of transnational exhibitions and lectures on cultural, art and political history in major European museums. In 1977, together with Daniel Spoerri, she realized the prototype of the Musée Sentimental in the opening year of the Centre Pompidou Paris, followed by the Musée Sentimental de Cologne in 1979 and the Musée Sentimental de Prusse in Berlin in 1981.

Admission: Free of charge for members of freunde. Guests 4 €, students 2 €.