Stephan Berg

Stephan Berg, born in 1959 in Freiburg in Breisgau, has been director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since April 2008.

Berg completed his studies of German, English and history in Tübingen, Berlin and Freiburg in 1989 with a PhD in German language and literature. In his position as director of the Kunstverein Freiburg from 1990 to 2000, he organized, for example, monographic exhibitions by Tracey Moffat, Beat Zoderer, Simone Mangos (1999), Thomas Demand, Matthew McCaslin, Jochen Lempert (1998), Pia Fries, Fritz Balthaus, Richard Wentworth (1997), Christopher Muller, Guillaume Bijl, Alexander Roob (1996), Tim Head, Axel Lieber, Erwin Wurm (1995), Daniel Buren and Urs Lüthi (1994).

From 2001 to 2008, Berg was director of the Kunstverein Hannover. In Hannover, the artists he exhibited include: Stephan Huber, Dan Peterman (2001), David Reed, Kara Walker, David Claerbout, Peter Pommerer (2002), Luc Tuymans, Mark Dion, Franziska & Lois Weinberger (2003), Leni Hoffmann, Mathilde ter Heijne, Peter Kogler (2004), Georg Herold, Gregory Crewdson, Antje Schiffers (2005), Jörg Sasse, Corinne Wasmuht und Marcel van Eeden (2006). His thematic exhibitions have dealt with themes such as the relationship between architecture, sculpture and models (“Archisculptures”, 2001), the theatricality and stage-like settings in contemporary art (“On Stage”, 2002) or a cartographer’s longing (“Die Sehnsucht des Kartographen” 2003/2004).

Stephan Berg has been a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2004. As a freelance publicist, he has written for newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and magazines such as Kunstforum International or Artist since the mid eighties. He has published numerous essays and catalogues on the theme of contemporary art. Berg is also a member of a variety of different boards of directors and committees, including the board of directors for Kunstfonds Bonn and the working group Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschen Kunstvereine (AdKV). He is also a member of the advisory board for the Bundesakademie für kulturelle Weiterbildung Wolfenbüttel (State academy for cultural further education in Wolfenbüttel) and the Kunstkommission Niedersachsen (Art committee in Niedersachsen).