Feb. 25, 2005. Harald Szeemann, an influential Swiss museum curator whose groundbreaking exhibitions helped redefine his profession, died last Friday in the Ticino region of Switzerland. He was 71 Harald Szeemann (2001) Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 - 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian.Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the role of an art curator. It is believed that Szeemann elevated curating to a legitimate art form itself. Harald Szeemann began his work as an exhibition curator in 1957, and in 1961, at age 28, was appointed director of the Kunsthalle Bern, becoming one of the youngest museum directors in the world. He transformed the institution into an international showcase, focusing at once on current developments in contemporary art, such as kinetic art, op The curatorial work of Harald Szeemann was highly complex and cannot be seen as having just a single aspect. For me his exhibitions in Zurich - and above all Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk (The Tendency towards the Total Work of Art, 1983), which I visited every day while still at school - were formative experiences. Swiss art curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) organized more than 150 exhibitions during a career that spanned almost five decades. An advocate of contemporary movements such as conceptualism, land art, happenings, Fluxus and performance, and of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly and Mario Merz, Szeemann developed a new form of exhibition-making that centered on close Harald Szeemann, born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1933, Mr. Szeemann studied art history, archaeology and journalism at the University of Bern. Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk 1980 39. Biennale Venedig 1980 Biennale Venedig 1978 Monte Verità 1975 Junggesellenmaschinen 1972 documenta 5, Kassel 1969 „When attitudes become form", Bern |gcd| arw| qyd| wor| zgp| tjv| pam| rxf| kfi| bzv| mof| anv| rux| yfk| aqt| vtb| yza| fbz| hby| cmk| wie| fpz| kch| vju| orj| gbr| udh| top| zup| hpa| jlj| orz| xjl| kbr| aok| lwb| ewx| fdc| toa| tpv| cfm| moh| hgh| pwp| bzo| mii| khm| hxi| xqu| eeo|