Renate Wiehager - English
In the background: Sculpture from Auke de Vries "landed", 2002 - Collection DC, Potsdamer Platz Berlin - Foto: Steffen Jänicke, Berlin
Dr. Renate Wiehager, b. 1959 in Bremen, studied art history, theology, literature, philosophy. 1988 doctorate with a monograph on Richard Oelze. 1988-91 academic assistant at the Stadtgalerie Kiel, 1991 to 2000 director of the Villa Merkel in Esslingen. From January 2001 director of the DaimlerChrysler Collection and the DaimlerChrysler Contemporary exhibition gallery in Berlin.
Member of the administrative board of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden.
Key research and exhibition themes since 1991 include: "Esslingen International Photo-Triennale" exhibition series 1992 - 2001, 4 exhibitions on "Zero International" 1992 - 1999, thematic exhibitions on international contemporary art: "Neue Möbel für die Villa" ("New Furniture for the Villa"), 1994; "Fort!Da! Contemporary artists in dialogue with the contemporary art collection at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart", 1996; "Kunst mit Architektur" (Art with Architecture"), 1999; "Electronic Images. Video art 1965-2000", 2000;
exhibition series since 2001: "Minimalism and After", "Photography, Video, Mixed Media", "Private/Corporate. International private collections in dialogue with the DaimlerChrysler Collection".
2003 to 2005: touring exhibition featuring 200 works from the DaimlerChrysler Collection (Karlsruhe, Detroit, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town. In preparation: Singapore, Tokyo).
Major individual exhibitions of classical Modern artists (including Rolf Nesch, Adolf Fleischmann, Otto Baum) and exponents of contemporary art, including Joseph Kosuth, Franz Erhard Walther, Max Uhlig, Rudolf Schoofs, Marcel Odenbach, Gia Edzgveradze, Roman Signer, Christian Marclay, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, John M Armleder, Jane Alexander, Georg Winter, Sylvie Fleury, Peter Land, Thomas Rentmeister, Gerold Miller, Simone Westerwinter, Eran Schaerf, Greg Bogin.
Over a hundred book and catalogue publications on international contemporary art and essays on 20th century art in specialist magazines, anthologies and catalogues
