Dr Inka Graeve Ingelmann is director of the newly founded collection for photography and new media at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

Graeve Ingelmann studied art history, German language and literature, theatre science and psychology in Hamburg, Regensburg and Berlin. She completed her PhD with a biography of the photographer Ellen Auerbach. In 1987, Graeve Ingelmann began work as a freelance curator specializing in the history of photography. In 1990, she worked as an assistant at the New Yorker Metropolitan Museum of Art. Graeve Ingelmann has held posts at several institutions including the Berlinische Galerie, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Fundacio la Caixa Barcelona. The exhibitions she curated include:

• “Stationen der Moderne“ (responsible for the photographic exhibition, Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 1988)
• “Sprung in die Zeit“ (Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 1992)
• “Walter Peterhans. Fotografien 1927-1938“ (Museum Folkwang Essen and other places, 1993)
• “Berlin-Moscow 1900-1950“ (responsible for the photographic exhibition, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 1995; Puschkin-Museum, Moscow, 1996)
• “Mechanismus und Ausdruck. Die Sammlung Ann und Jürgen Wilde“ (Sprengel Museum Hannover and other places, 1999)
• ”Les Formes del Món” (Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona, 1999)

In 2002, she took on the directorship for the new collection of photography and new media at the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Since then, she has conceived, among others, the following exhibitions and projects:

• “Wolfgang Tillmans, München Installation“ (Munich, 2006)
• “Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild. Positionen deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart“ (Museum for Modern Art, Tokyo, and other places, 2005)
• “Bernhard Wicki. Fotografien“ (Munich, 2005)
• “Teresa Hubbard und Alexander Birchler“ (Munich, 2005)
• ”Moi Wer, Ci-Contre” (Munich, 2004)
• “Jede Fotografie ein Bild. Siemens Fotosammlung“ (together with Ulrich Bischoff and Thomas Weski, Munich, 2003)
• “Selbstgespräch. Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Moffatt, Sam Taylor-Wood“ (Munich, 2003)

Inka Graeve Ingelmann is author and editor of numerous publications on the history of photography and contemporary photography.