- Klaus Ottmann
Klaus Ottmann (born 1954 in
Nuremberg, Germany ) is an independentcurator and writer based in New York. He received a M.A. in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Division of Media and Communications at theEuropean Graduate School , Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he is Chairperson of the Department of Cultural Studies and Søren Kierkegaard Professor.Ottmann has curated over forty exhibitions, which have appeared at the [http://hirshhorn.si.edu Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden] , Washington, D.C.; the
Dallas Museum of Art ; the [http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de Schirn Kunsthalle] , Frankfurt; the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; and the [http://www.hausderkunst.de Haus der Kunst] , Munich, among others.His current curatorial projects include the Sixth International [http://www.sitesantafe.org SITE Santa Fe] Biennial (on view through January 7, 2007) and the 2007 Open [http://www.eva.ie ev+a] exhibition to be held city-wide in Limerick, Ireland (March 31– June 24, 2007).
A former member of the board of directors of the American Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Ottmann has written extensively on contemporary art and art theory for numerous publications, including "Flash Art, Arts,
Domus , C Magazine, Art On Paper, Sculpture," and "Artnews."He is also Editor-in-Chief of [http://www.springpublications.com Spring Publications] , a small press owned by the archetypal psychologist
James Hillman , which publishes books on archetypal psychology, symbolic imagination, art and the philosophy of art, phenomenology, the philosophy ofpsychology ,religion ,mysticism , andgnosis .Books
* "
Wolfgang Laib : A Retrospective," ISBN 3-7757-0944-4
* "The EssentialMark Rothko ," ISBN 0-8109-5826-0
* "James Lee Byars : Life, Love, and Death," ISBN 3-7757-1368-9
* "The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and thePostmodern Condition," ISBN 0-88214-575-4
* "Thought Through My Eyes: Writings on Art, 1977–2005," ISBN 0-88214-578-9External links
* [http://www.klausottmann.net Klaus Ottmann]
* [http://www.springpublications.com Spring Publications]
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