Uta Grosenick to lecture for Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum March 22

Uta Grosenick, managing editor for DuMont publishers in Cologne, Germany, will speak on the development of commercial art galleries worldwide since 1945 for Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

The talk, titled “International Art Galleries: From ‘Living Room’ to ‘White Cube,’ from ‘White Cube’ to ‘Art Adventure,'” will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22. The event is free and open to the public and will take place in Brown Hall Auditorium, located near the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Chaplin Drive.

For more information, call (314) 935-4523 or visit kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu.

Grosenick has worked as exhibition manager at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, and was curator at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. She has edited numerous volumes on contemporary art, including Art Now (2002) and Art Now Vol. 2 (2005), which profile dozens of today’s most influential figures. Other books include Art at the Turn of the Millennium (1999), Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century (2001) and 14 volumes in the series “Art Movements of the 20th Century.”

Most recently, Grosenick edited International Art Galleries: Post-War to Post-Millennium (2006), the first comprehensive history of the modern gallery system and its impact on aesthetic discourse. The lavishly-illustrated book profiles more than 75 influential galleries from around the world, ranging from New York’s Art of This Century, Betty Parsons and Leo Castelli to Galerie Iris Clert in Paris, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and kurimanzutto in Mexico City.

Forthcoming volumes include China Art Book, which highlights 80 of today’s most important Chinese artists; and Photo Today, a survey of 120 young photo artists written in collaboration with Thomas Seelig, curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.

Grosenick’s visit is held in conjunction with the exhibition Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, on view at the Kemper Art Museum through April 29. The museum is located just east of Brown Hall, near the intersection of Forsyth and Skinker boulevards. Regular hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays; and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The museum is closed Tuesdays.