Curators Study Collection

This collection contains documentation of select international curators and some of the significant contemporary art exhibitions they have curated.  Access is by appointment only.

Jean-Christophe Ammann

 

  • Exhibition history of MMK from 1991-2001
  • Views from Abroad (Whitney Museum & MMK, 1996-1997)

 

Wim Beeren

 

  • Op Losse Schroeven: situaties en cryptostructuren (Stedelijk Museum, 1969)
  • Sonsbeek 71: buiten de perken (Park Sonsbeek, Arnheim, 1971)

 

Lynne Cooke

 

  • Dia:Beacon / Dia: Chelsea / 1991 Carnegie International / 10th Biennale of Sydney (1996)
  • On Kawara (DIA, 1993)
  • Ann Hamilton (DIA, 1994)
  • Alighiero e Boetti & Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (DIA, 1995)
  • Diana Theater (DIA, 2002)
  • Bruce Nauman (DIA, 2002)

 

Rudi Fuchs

 

  • Lawrence Weiner (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1976)
  • Stanley Brown (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1976)
  • DonaldJudd (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1979)
  • De Statua (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1983)
  • Uit het noorden [From the north]. Munch, Horn, Kirkeby (Van Abbemuseum, 1984)
  • Don Giovanni. Een operae voor het oog (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1985)
  • The iron window (Van Abbemuseum, 1986)
  • Views from Abroad. European Perspective on American Art 1. Amerikaanse Perpectieven. Europese Visies op Amerikaanse Kunst 1. Rudi Fuchs & Adam Weinberg (Whitney Museum of American Art & Stedelijk Museum, 1995-1996)
  • Munch en na Munch (Stedelijk Museum, 1996)
  • Walter Puchler (Stedelijk Museum, 1998)
  • Georg Baselitz (Stedelijk Museum, 1999)

 

Jan Hoet

 

  • Chambres d’Amis (Gent, 1986)
  • Open mind (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, 1989)
  • Documenta IX (Kassel, 1992)

 

Walter Hopps

 

  • New Painting of Common Objects (Pasadena Art Museum, 1962)
  • Robert Rauschenberg (The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1977)
  • Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective (Guggenheim Museum NYC & Bilbao, 1998-99)
  • Comprehensive CV, ppp, interview conducted by Nina Felshin

 

Pontus Hulten

 

  • Bewogen beweging / Rörelse i Konsten / Movement in Art / Mouvement dans l’art / Bewegung in der Kunst. (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1961; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark, 1961)
  • The Machine, as seen at the end of mechanical age (MoMA, 1968/69)
  • Poetry must be made by all! Transform the world (Traveling exhibition, 1969-1971)
  • Paris-New York 1908-1968 (Centre Pompidou, 1977)
  • Paris-Berlin. Rapports et Contrastes France-Allemagne, 1900-1933 (Centre Pompidou, 1978)
  • Paris Moscou, 1900-1930 (Centre Pompidou, 1979)
  • Paris-Paris 1937-1957 (Centre Pompidou, 1981)

 

Billy Klüver

 

  • Documentation on Billy Klüver and E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology)

 

Kasper König

 

  • Skulptur Projekte Münster (Münster, 1977, 1987, 1997)
  • Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, co-curated (Messehalle, Cologne, 1981)
  • von hier aus (Messegelände, Düsseldorf, 1984)
  • 9 exhibitions that took place at the Portikus in Frankfurt between 1987 and 1990
  • Der zerbrochene Spiegel (Wien, Hamburg, 1993-1994)

 

Vasif Kortun

 

  • Number 50: Memory/recollection II (Istanbul, 1993)
  • Exhibited (CCS, Bard College, 1994)
  • One Special Day (Istanbul Contemporary Art Project, 1998)
  • Mixed Show (Galatea Art Gallery, Istanbul, 1999)
  • Becoming a Place (Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001)
  • Under the Beach: the Pavements (Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002)
  • Here / Buruda (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2003)
  • Undesire (Apex Art, NYC, 2003)
  • Making Space / Mekan Yaraatmak (Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul, 2003)
  • Lastwinterspringnevercame, co-curator (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2004)
  • Placebo Effect (Sparwaaser HQ, Berlin, 2004)
  • Normalization Series (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2005)
  • 9th International Istanbul Biennial, co-curator (2005)

 

Joseph Kosuth

 

  • Zero & Not (Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, 1989)
  • Das Spiel des Unsagbaren. Ludwig Wittgenstein und die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (Wiener Secession, Vienna and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1989 and 1990)
  • The Play of the Unmentionable (The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NYC, 1990)
  • Finger – Readers Profile (Apex Art, NYC, 1998)

 

Jean-Hubert Martin

 

  • Magicians de la Terre (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1989)

 

Kynaston McShine

 

  • Primary Structures (The Jewish Museum, NYC, 1966)
  • Yves Klein (The Jewish Museum, NYC, 1967)
  • Information (The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1970)
  • Marcel Duchamp (The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1973)
  • Joseph Cornell (The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1980)
  • An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture (MoMA, NYC, 1984)
  • Andy Warhol: A Retrospective (The Museum of Modern Art, 1989)
  • The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect (The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1999)

 

Ivo Mesquita

 

  • 24 CAC. Artistas Contemporaneos no Engenho Central (Engenho Central, Piracicaba, 1991)
  • X Mostra da Gravura (Museu de Gravura, Cidade de Curitiva, 1992)
  • Cartographies (Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, 1993)
  • Das Américas II; Corpo & Espaco (Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 1995)
  • Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Museu da Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, 1995)
  • Fotogramas: Art e Cinema na Colecao Marieluise Hessel (Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, 1997/1998)
  • Stills: a selection from the Marieluise Hessel Collection (CCS, Bard College, 1998)
  • InSITE 2000 (San Diego, Tijuana Border Region, 1998-2000)
  • F[r]icciones (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2000-2001)

 

Pierre Restany

 

  • Première manifeste du Nouveau Realisme (Centro Apollinaire, 1960)
  • A 40° au-dessus de DADA. Deuxième Manifesta du Nouveau Réalisme (Gallerie J, Paris, 1961)
  • Le Nouveau Réalisme à Paris et à New York (Galerie Rive Droîte, Paris, 1961)
  • Les Nouveaux Réalistes (Neue Galerie im Künstlerhaus München, 1963)
  • Nouvea Réalisme 1960-1970 (Galeria Bonino, 1970)
  • Art Concepts from Europe (Galeria Bonino, 1970)
  • 72. douze ans d’art contemporain en France (Grand Palais, Paris, 1972)

 

Willem Sandberg

 

  • Dylaby: Dynamic labyrinth (Stedelijk Museum, 1962)

 

Paul Schimmel

 

Photographic documentation of the following exhibitions:

  • American Narrative/Story Art: 1967-1977 (Houston, Texas: Contemporary Art Museum, 1977/78)
  • Action/Precision (Newport Beach, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1984)
  • The Interpretive link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism: works on paper, 1938-1948 (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988)
  • Flemish Expressions: Representational Painting in the Twentieth Century (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1986/87)
  • Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988)
  • Objectives: the new sculpture (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990)
  • Tony Cragg, sculpture 1975-1990 (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990)
  • Helter Skelter: L.A. art in the 1990s (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992)
  • Hand-painted Pop: American art in transition, 1955-62 ( LA MoCA, 1992/93)
  • Focus Series (LA MoCA, 1994)
  • Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish (LA MoCA, 1995/96)
  • Robert Gober (LA MoCA, 1997)
  • Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979 (LA MoCA, 1998)
  • Charles Ray (LA MoCA, 1988/99)
  • Public Offerings (LA MoCA, 2001)

 

Harald Szeemann

 

  • 50 Jahre Kunsthalle Bern. 12 Environments (Kunsthalle Bern, 1968)
  • When Attitudes Become Form: Live in Your Head (Berne, Krefeld, London; 1969)
  • Pläne und Projekte als Kunst (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969)
  • Happening and Fluxus (Kölnischer Kunstverein; Cologne, Stuttgart; 1970/71)
  • Documenta 5 (Kassel, 1972)
  • Grosscater – ein Pionier wie wir (Toni Gerber Gallery, Bern 1974)
  • Junggesellenmaschinen (traveling exhibition, 1975-77)
  • Monte Verità (traveling exhibition, 1978-80)
  • Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk (traveling exhibition, 1983/84)
  • A-Historische klanken (Boymans van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, 1988)

 

Marcia Tucker

 

  • Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969)
  • Robert Morris (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1970)
  • Richard Tuttle (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975/76)
  • Choices: Making an Art of Everyday Life (New York: New Museum, 1986)
  • Bad Girls (New Museum, 1994)
  • A Labor of Love (New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996)
  • The Time of our Lives (New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999)

 

Elayne H. Varian

  • Art in Process. The Visual Development of a Painting (Finch College, NYC, 1965)
  • Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure (Finch College, NYC, 1966)
  • Art in ProcessL The Visual Development of a Collage (Finch College, NYC, 1967)
  • Art in Series (Finch College, NYC, 1967-68)
  • Art in Process IV (Finch College, NYC, 1969/70)
  • Art in Process V (Finch College, NYC, 1972)
  • The Private Collection of Martha Jackson (Finch College, NYC, 1973)

 

Edy de Wilde

 

  • franse religieuze kunst [French religious art] (Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1951)
  • kompas. Schilders uit parijs. 1945-1961 [Compass. Painters fro Paris. 1945-1961] (Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1961-62)
  • Yves Klein (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1965)
  • Jean Dubuffet (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1966)
  • Cy Twombly (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1966)
  • Willem de Kooning (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1968)
  • Barnett Newman (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1972)
  • Robert Ryman (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdan, 1974)
  • Jim Turrell (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1976)
  • Ellsworth Kelly. Schilderijen en beelden 1963-1979 (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1980)
  • 60’80’ attitudes/concepts/images (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982)
  • La Grande Parade. Hoogtepunten van de schilderkunst na 1940 [Highlights in Painting after