Biographical Information
Dr Brigitte Franzen, born in 1966, is director of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen.
Brigitte Franzen studied art history, German, sociology and cultural anthropology in Karlsruhe, Marburg and Vienna. From 2005 to 2008, she worked as conservator for contemporary art at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum in Münster. In 2007, she was curator of the "sculpure projects muenster".
Franzen is author of the books “Die Siedlung Dammerstock in Karlsruhe 1929. Zur Vermittlung des Neuen Bauens” (1993) and “Die vierte Natur. Gärten in der zeitgenössischen Kunst” (2000) and has also written numerous texts about art, architecture, photography, and film in the context of contemporary art and cultural scientific theory. Since the early 1990s, she has worked as a curator in institutions and non-institutional contexts. One of the main focuses of her scientific and curatorial work is the relationship between art, landscape, architecture and the public. From 2003 to 2006, she directed, together with the landscape architect Stefanie Krebs, the interdisciplinary research project “Mikrolandschaften – Studien zu einer dynamisierten Kultur der Landschaft” (“Microlandscapes. Landscape culture on the move”), which was financed by the Volkswagen Foundation. As a lecturer, Brigitte Franzen has taught at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Graz University of Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
