Roger M. Buergel (born 1962) is a writer and curator. He was born in Berlin (West).
Buergel received his education at the Institute of Contemporary Art (under Johannes Gachnang) at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
History
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...
and subsequently worked as private secretary to Viennese actionist
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (29 August 1938 – 18 April 2022) was an Austrian contemporary artist and composer. His art encompassed wide-scale performances incorporating theater, multimedia, rituals and acted violence. He was a leading figure of Viennese Ac ...
. Since the 1990s Buergel has mounted numerous exhibitions, often in collaboration with his partner
Ruth Noack, including
documenta 12 in 2007. Throughout his career, Buergel held various teaching posts, most recently as Visiting Professor of Art History at the Art Academy Karlsruhe (2007–09). He served in the years 2012–21 as the Founding Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in
Zurich, an exhibition space and research institution dedicated to the cultural residue of global trade routes.
Books
*Barely Something, exhibition catalogue; Garden of Learning, exhibition catalogue
Articles
*“‘This Exhibition Is an Accusation’: The Grammar of Display According to Lina Bo Bardi” in Afterall, no. 26 spring 2011
Exhibitions
Among the first exhibitions Buergel and Noack organized was in 1995 “Scenes of Theory”
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Vienna
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), an intertextual exploration of cinema, film theory and art.
*2000 Things we don't understand,
Generali Foundation
The Generali Foundation was established in 1988 by the Generali Group Austria as a private and non-profit-making art association for the promotion of contemporary art. Situated in Vienna, Austria, it is one of the important museums specialised in ...
Vienna (with Noack)
*2000 Governmentality. Art in conflict with the international hyper-bourgeoisie and the national petty bourgeoisie, Alte Kestner-Gesellschaft (Hannover)
*2001 The Subject and Power (the lyrical voice), (CHA) Moscow
*2004 Com volem ser governats? MACBA Museu d’art contemporani, (Barcelona)
*2002–05 The Government,
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*2003–07 documenta 12, Kassel
*2010 Barely Something (a retrospective of Ai Weiwei), Museum DKM, Duisburg
*2012 Garden of Learning/Busan Biennale
*2018 Mobile Worlds or The Museum of our Transcultural Present, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, https://mobile-welten.org/en/exhibition/
References
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1962 births
Living people
German curators
German art curators
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