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Peter Gorschlüter
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Peter Gorschlüter (born 30 September 1974 in Mainz) is a German art historian and curator. He was deputy director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main from 2010 to 2018 and has been director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen since July 1, 2018. In 2021 Gorschlüter was awarded an honorary professorship for "Art and the Public" at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Peter Gorschlüter was born as the son of Hans-Peter Gorschlüter (1939-1992), head of the department of culture of the city of Koblenz, and Vittoria Spani Molella (* 1941), an Italian scholar of German studies. He is a German and Italian citizen.
From 1994 to 1998 he studied theater, film and television studies at the University of Cologne, as well as German studies and philosophy. This was followed by studies in art history and media theory at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe from 1998 to 2003. During his studies, he was a staff member of the Bonn Biennale '96 and '98 and worked as an assistant director. In Cologne, Gorschlüter curated exhibitions of works by young artists in private spaces.
From 1999 to 2001 Gorschlüter worked as an employee of the Karlsruhe gallery Meyer Riegger. In 2001 and 2002, he curated his own exhibition space there, "c/o Peter Gorschlüter," and showed exhibitions by Armin Boehm, Rosa Barba, and Zilla Leutenegger (30 Minuten vor Abfahrt), among others, as well as by Benita Liebel, Yasmin Müller, and Ulf Neumann and by Lee Taylor.
From 2002 to 2007 Peter Gorschlüter worked as curator and assistant director at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf under Ulrike Groos. He curated exhibitions on art and music, e.g. in 2002 for the reopening of the Kunsthalle the exhibition "Back to Concrete - The Beginnings of Punk and New Wave". In 2007, he conceived the festival "düsseldorf sounds." In the same year, together with Groos, he curated a project with art in public space in Wuppertal entitled "SICHT WEISEN - Kunst auf der Talachse" [Ways of Viewing - Art on the Valley Axis].
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