Biographical Information
Dr Marion Ackermann, born in 1965 in Göttingen, has been director of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf since September 2009.
Ackermann studied art history, German and history in Kassel, Göttingen, Vienna and Munich. She wrote her PhD on the subject of autobiographical and theoretical texts by Wassily Kandinsky. She worked from 1995 to 2003 for the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. From 1995 to 2009 she was director at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
Ackermann developed a CD-Rom about the artists’ group Der Blaue Reiter (1996, awarded with the European MultiMedia Award) in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and wrote a book entitled “Farbige Wände” (Minerva, 2003). She taught at the Kunstakademie München, the Universities of Augsburg and Stuttgart and the Fachhochschule für Fotodesign München.
Exhibitions (selected)
- “Joseph Beuys. Parallel Processes“, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2010 (cooperation with Isabelle Malz)
- Christian Jankowski, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2008
- “Pictograms – the loneliness of signs”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2006
- “Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2006
- “Angekommen. Die Sammlung im eigenen Haus", Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2005
- “Lovis Corinth und Max Slevogt - Unwirklichkeit üben“, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2003
- Katharina Grosse, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2002
- “Leggerezza (ten Italien artists)“, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2001
- “SchattenRisse“, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2001
- Rosemarie Trockel, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2000
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1997
