About the Curator: Susanne Gaensheimer

Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer is an art historian. She studied in Munich and Hamburg before completing the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and going on to be awarded a doctorate from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for a thesis on Bruce Nauman. Since 2009 she has been Director of Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt/Main. From 2002 until 2008 she was manager of the Collection of International Contemporary Art and curator in Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, prior to which she headed the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster (1999 – 2001). In late 2009 she was appointed Commissioner for the German Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

Portrait of Susanne by Mauricio Guillén.