The Curatorial Roundtable: Eva Kraus (Bonn)

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Dr. Eva Kraus, director of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn since August 2020. Previously, Kraus was artistic director and managing director of the Neues Museum-Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nuremberg, founder and director of Galerie Steinle Contemporary in Munich and director of the Friedrich Kiesler in Vienna. Her most recent exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle, which closed at the end of January, was “Everything at Once: Postmodernity 1967-1992,” a massive survey of design objects, artworks and artifacts from the dawn of the information society through the end of the Cold War. Along with her curatorial work there, Kraus has curated numerous exhibitions among others in her early career at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York and the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna. Her expertise and curatorial practice focus mainly on the fields of applied arts, design, fashion, architecture and contemporary art, with an emphasis on ecologically and socially sustainable working methods. Kraus is in the midst of professionalizing sustainability at the Bundeskunsthalle. She lives in Bonn and Munich.
In this talk, Kraus will focus on the making of “Everything at Once: Postmodernity 1967-1992.”
The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.