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Dr. Yilmaz Dziewior to Become the New Director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz
At its session on April 28, the Supervisory Board of the Vorarlberger Kulturhäuser-
Betriebsgesellschaft unanimously appointed Dr. Yilmaz Dziewior to the position of Director of the
Kunsthaus Bregenz. During the past weeks and months detailed negotiations have been
conducted with qualified candidates recommended by an international, high-profile hearing
commission, and following intense consultation the decision was finally made.
Landesstatthalter Wallner comments that as a top expert and representative of the younger
generation Dr. Dziewior possesses ideal qualifications for taking on this challenging position as
the Director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz. His international reputation, the great respect he enjoys
among artists, and his outstanding talent for conveying contemporary art in an innovative and
unpretentious manner promise a future of exciting development for the KUB in the years to
come.
Dziewior will take over as Director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz on October 1, and will immediately
begin work on the 2010 program. He was born in Bonn in 1964, studied art history in London
and Bonn, and received his doctor title “summa cum laude” with a dissertation on Mies van der
Rohe. In addition to his many catalogue contributions on artists such as Thomas Demand, Sarah
Lucas, Paul McCarthy, and Rosemarie Trockel, he has also written regularly for renowned
international art journals.
After serving as Assistant Director and Curator at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, he headed
the Kunstverein in Hamburg from 2001 to 2008 and held a professorship at the University of
Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK). Among his activities he has realized exhibitions and projects with
Andrea Fraser, BodyIsek Kingelez, Louise Lawler, and Cildo Meireles. He recruited Diedrich
Diederichsen as the so-called “Vereinsdenker 2007” and introduced a number of other new
models for art education. His group exhibitions include “Andere Räume,” “Zusammenhänge
herstellen,” “Bühne 03,” “Gesellschaftsbilder.Zeitgenössische Malerei.”
Dziewior served on the jury of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and is a member of the
Ankaufskommission der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. The new Director considers the
Kunsthaus Bregenz to be one of the worldwide major institutions for contemporary art. He is
excited to be in a position to continue the KUB’s already very successful programming. In
addition to its large-scale solo exhibitions, he wants to introduce new interdisciplinary and
process-oriented presentation formats.
The Kunsthaus Bregenz will soon be scheduling a special press conference at which Mr.
Dziewior will be available for questions and answers.
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