Art historian and curator Nikola Dietrich has been appointed curator of KölnSkulptur #11. Dietrich comes to KölnSkulptur from another institution in Cologne, the Kölnischer Kunstverein, where she has been the director since 2018. Before that she was curator at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main from 2004 to 2007 and head curator at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel from 2008 to 2013, where she curated survey exhibitions of artists such as Monica Bonvicini / Tom Burr and Robert Gober, as well as as Tell it to my heart. Collected by Julie Ault, among many others shows.
Skulpturenpark Köln, now in its 11th edition, is dedicated to exhibiting contemporary artists’ outdoor works in the heart of Cologne. Previous iterations have shown contemporary artists including Louise Bourgeois, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Jenny Holzer and Rosemarie Trockel. The exhibition takes place in a public park in Cologne located between the Rhine River, Cologne Zoo and the Flora and Botanical Garden Cologne. For the biannual sculpture exhibition, the curator invites artists to create new works that respond to the show and the context of the park, interposing urban life and nature. Former editions of KölnSkulptur were curated by Tobias Berger (2020), Chus Martínez (2017), Thomas D. Trummer (2015), Friedrich Meschede (2013, 2011) and Renate Goldmann (2009).
