Graduate Lecture Series: Philipp Kaiser

March 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture Forum
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Philipp Kaiser studied art history and German literature at the Universities of Basel and Hamburg and received his PhD from the University of Basel. From 2001 to 2007 he was curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, where he conceived numerous individual exhibitions with artists such as Louise Lawler, Christian Philipp Müller, Simon Starling, Johanna Billing, and Bruce Nauman, as well as group exhibitions such as Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 80s. In March 2007 he became curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Having realized exhibitions on California conceptual art and the first museum solo show of Sterling Ruby, he is currently co-organizing the large-scale exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1977 with Miwon Kwon, as well a retrospective of Jack Goldstein that will be exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art. Both exhibitions will open in 2012. Kaiser was recently named the new Director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. He will assume the Director role at the end of 2012. In addition to his curatorial projects, Kaiser has written about contemporary art for publications such as Artforum, Kunst-Bulletin, and Parkett, and has taught art history at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe/Germany and in the UCLA Art Department.