Gaensheimer, Susanne

LC control no.	n 99023799
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Gaensheimer, Susanne *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Affiliation	Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Städtische Galerie München
Profession or occupation	Art museum directors Art historians
Found in	Anthony Cragg, 1998: t.p. (Susanne Gaensheimer) Artforum, via WWW, April 27, 2017 (March 8, 2017 edtion; Susanne Gaensheimer, current director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, will succeed Marion Ackermann as the new artistic director of the Kunstsammlung NRW (NRW Art Collection) in Düsseldorf; Ackermann was previously appointed the head of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Dresden State Art Collection) in November 2016; Gaensheimer has been director of the MMK since 2009, when Udo Kittelmann left to become the director of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin; before that, she directed the collection for contemporary art in the Städtische Galerie at the Lenbachhaus in Munich; Gaensheimer is known for promoting the U.S. conceptual artist Bruce Nauman and is a recognized contemporary art historian; in 2011, Gaensheimer curated a Christoph Schlingensief exhibition for the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which won the Golden Lion; Schlingensief, an admired and controversial German director and artist, was asked to design the pavilion but passed away before his plans could be realized; his work was finished posthumously by Gaensheimer and Schlingensief's wife, Aino Laberenz) <https://www.artforum.com/news/id=67029>
Associated language	eng