Rita Kersting
German art historian and curator
Rita Kersting (born 1969) is a German art historian and curator.
Life and work
Born in Goch, Kersting studied history of art at the University of Cologne and completed a curatorial training at De Appel centre for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam. From 2000, she worked as a curator at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld.[1] From 2001 to 2006, she was director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen [de] in Düsseldorf. In 2012, she was appointed head of Contemporary art at the Israel Museum of Jerusalem,[2] where she worked until 2016.
From 2014, Kersting was[3] until 2018[4] a member of the Supervisory Board of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She is fellow of the International Curatorial Institute at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has been deputy director of the Museum Ludwig[5][6][7] in Cologne since September 2016.
References
- ^ Rita Kerstin at kunstaspekte.de
- ^ Sabine Brandes: Künstlerische Verbindung at juedische-allgemeine.de, 27 May 2013
- ^ Rita Kersting new member of the Supervisory Board at stedelijk.nl, 19 November 2014
- ^ Three members of the Stedelijk Museum Supervisory Board step down at parool.nl, 12 June 2018
- ^ Rita Kersting on curatorialleadership.org
- ^ Rita Kersting to Take Over as New Deputy Director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne
- ^ Rita Kersting on artnexus.com
External links
- Literature by and about Rita Kersting in the German National Library catalogue
- Rita Kersting at kunstaspekte.de
- Curriculum Vitae von Rita Kersting at museum-ludwig.de
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