Uta Grosenick, managing editor for DuMont publishers in Cologne, Germany, will speak on the development of commercial art galleries worldwide since 1945.
The talk for the Kemper Art Museum is titled “International Art Galleries: From ‘Living Room’ to ‘White Cube,’ from ‘White Cube’ to ‘Art Adventure.'” The event is free and open to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. March 22 in Brown Hall Auditorium.
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 wrote “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 around the world, from the Betty Parsons Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery in New York to Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo.
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 takes place 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.
For more information, call 935-4523 or visit kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu.