The Board of Bonner Kunstverein has announced Viktor Neumann as its new director.
Since 2022, Neumann has been curator of the Berlin exhibition space Between Bridges, recent projects for which include a solo exhibition of Karol Radziszewski, and retrospectives of Ioana Nemeș and Juan Pablo Echeverri. Prior to Between Bridges, Neumann was cocurator of the 5th Kyiv Biennial in 2024, of the Romanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and the 2019 Bergen Assembly. Neumann has also published and taught internationally, most recently as Guest Professor for Curatorial Studies at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.
Neumann will succeed Fatima Hellberg, who is set to helm MUMOK in Vienna.
‘Neumann’s ongoing research into emancipatory traditions and contemporary body politics will inform a participatory process of inquiry at the Bonner Kunstverein into the questions of which bodies have access to what is considered public space and under what conditions, and in turn, what concepts of the public sphere might be imagined inside art spaces’, the board chair Anke Schierholz said in a statement.
Neumann will take up his new position on 1 March 2025.
