Team

Director of
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Dr. Gregor Jansen

In November 2009, the supervisory board and general meeting of the Kunsthalle gGmbH appointed Gregor Jansen director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He assumed his duties in January 2010. He studied art history, building history, philosophy, sociology, and political science at the RWTH Aachen and completed his doctorate in 1998 on the subject “Eugen Schönebeck. A German Legend.” He subsequently worked as curator, art critic, and free-lance author, and lectured in image science and media theory at a number of universities in Germany and the Netherlands. From 2005 to the end of 2009, Gregor Janson headed the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, where the exhibitions he curated included “Light Art from Artificial Light” (with Peter Weibel), “totalstadt.beijing case. Cultural Aspects of the High-Speed Urbanization in China,” “Michael Kunze,” and “Vertrautes Terrain. Contemporary Art in & on Germany” (with Thomas Thiel).

Managing Director

Ariane Berger
+49 (0)211 89 962 49

Assistant to the Artistic Director, Education

Claudia Paulus
+49 (0)211 89 962 43

Curatorial Team

Dana Bergmann
+49 (0)211 86 39 34 53

Alicia Holthausen
+49 (0)211 86 39 34 54

Raphael Nocken (Assistant Curator)
+49 (0)211 52 09 95 94

Press and Communication, Education

Dirk Schewe
+49 (0)211 – 52 09 95 95

Luise Oebel (Assistant Press and Communication, Education)
+49 (0)211 – 86 39 34 55

Administration

Lumnije Sturr
+49 (0)211 89 962 44

Technic

Jörg Schlürscheid
+49 (0)211 89 962 51

Dennis Galle
+49 (0)211 89 962 45

Service

Bozena Folak
Alvaro Grisales Parra
Bernd Oßwald
Marion Schulze
Zhenfeng Sun
Silke Voigt