Claudia Banz became a new director in February 2025

The KHM Museum Association was founded by Claudia Banz on February 1, 2025 and has a new scientific director of the World Museums Vienna.

Claudia Banz (b. 1966 in Mannheim) is a long-standing, interdisciplinary working museum sculptor. He studied art history, Romanesque and archaeology at the University of Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on the courtly maze of the Habsburgs in Brussels.

In June 2017, Claudia Banz is curator for Design and Outreach at the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin, where during the Zahlreiche the beach project one of the new positions of the home furnishing and the new Besucher*innengruppen gewinnen konnte. This is the Ausstellung Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design, the discursive platform More than human. Design after the Anthropocene or the Reihe Design Lab with international purchasing partner*innen.

From 2011 to 2017, the collaboration with art and design of modern art and the museum in Hamburg began, with innovative Ausstellungen with Food Revolution 5.0 and Fast Fashion. The Treasures of Fashion curated. From 1999 to 2011, Banz was released as a free Kurator in a renowned Häusern wie dem Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, the Museum Folkwang in Essen or the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. You will realize the project in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf with the international exhibition production Africa Remix. Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents (2003 tot 2004), kuratierte am Deutschen Hygiene-Museum Dresden von 2006 tot 2008 gemeinsam met dem afrikanischen Künstler Meschac Gaba die Ausstellung Glück – welches Glück and realizes those Ausstellung Unresolved Matters. Social utopias revisited for the Utrecht Manifesto 2009.

The profiling of museums as a participatory culture and the critical analysis of collections with a global networking perspective are the focus of Claudia Banz with the overarching museum taxonomy. Guided by the question “Who do we want to live?” they are developing and expanding projects with themes such as resilience and biodiversity or the shape of the Gesellschaft and enabling other applications.

“It is a great honor and joy, the Weltmuseum Wien in February 2025 as director of the history of history. The house is one of the most innovative ethnological museums, it is a great collection of stories and how it has an innovative national concept in recent years internationally a strategic new positioning of the team with the renewed team can strengthen the possibilities of programmatic development and the historical development of a time commitment with the collections in the postcolonial perspective for the transformation of the context of the KHM museums. of the most influential player in the international cultural world, the Weltmuseum Wien in Engem Austausch mit extern Akteur*innen and Besucher*innen can be active as an offerer of the Reflexion, Verhandlung and des Austauschs for a diverse Gesellschaft übernehmen”, says Claudia Banz annlässlich ihrer Bestellen.

Sabine Haag, General Director of the KHM-Museumsverbands, sich über die Bestellung der kostenlose Wissenschaftlichen Direktorin im Weltmuseum Wien: “With Claudia Banz übernimmt erierte Museumsexpert in the Direktion im Weltmuseum Wien. Nach der Neubesetzung des Theatermuseums is die gewige Personalentscheidung des designierten Generaldi rack Towers Jonathan Fine, über die mich sehr freue.”

“I am very happy that Claudia Banz, who has a great understanding of the environment at the time, is welcome in the World Museum and whose innovative, more orientated approach to the museums is always appreciated,” said Jonathan Fine, the Designer General Director of the KHM Museums Association. , zur Ernennung seiner Nachfolgerin im Weltmuseum Wien.

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Phone: +43 1 525 24 – 4021
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Original report: https://www.presseportal.de/pm/176466/5873253