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Udo Kittelmann
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Udo Kittelmann (62) is the new artistic director at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden.
There he is responsible for the exhibitions "Margaret and Christine Wertheim: The Institute for Figuring" and "The Painters of the Sacred Heart" planned for the coming year, the museum announced.
"It will connect us to the contemporary with a strong curatorial signature - and also seek interdisciplinary dialogue," said Henning Schaper, Museum Director and Chairman of the Frieder Burda Foundation.
Kittelmann, honored as "European Cultural Manager of the Year" in 2013, headed the Nationalgalerie Berlin for twelve years from 2008.
As early as August 2019, it was announced that he would not extend his contract as director, which would expire in October 2020.
According to the mediation, Kittelmann said of his new role: "This house in its specific context seems to me to be the ideal way of further exploring the perspectives of contemporary and historical art - its limits, but also its possibilities for crossing borders."
The highlight of this year at the Museum Frieder Burda will be the exhibition “Russian Impressionism.
Awakening to the Avant-garde ”, which was created in cooperation with the Barberini Museum in Potsdam and is to be seen first in Baden-Baden.
The planned start is currently March 27th.
Until August 15, 2021, dozens of works by Russian artists who were inspired by the themes and painting style of the French Impressionists at the end of the 19th century will be shown.
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