http://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen
Berlin, Germany
Program YCI 2009 participant (recommended by Christine Macel)
Johannes Fricke Waldthausen (*1975) is a curator for contemporary arts in interdisciplinary frameworks. He worked curatorially at 1st Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Kunst Werke (KW) Center for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Arts, New York and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (1998- 2003). He also worked for Gallery Sprueth Magers with a focus on special exhibitions and research & development (2006-2010). Conceived and curated exhibitions include Ipeg-Image.Sound.Machine (Bethanien, Berlin, 2003), Code Unknown (Palais de Toyko, 2004), Thank you for the Music (Sprueth Magers, 2005), Thank you for the Music - London Beat (Sprueth Magers London, 2006), David Lamelas-early works (Sprueth Magers, 2006), Uneasy Angel- Imagine Los Angeles: 27 Artists from L.A. (Sprueth Magers, 2007), Source Codes: 12 Influential artists from the 60s and 70s (Sprueth Magers, 2009), Rethinking Location (Sprueth Magers, 2010), Home and Away and Internal / External Affairs (U.S Embassy Berlin, DAAD, American Academy (2009- 2011). Since 2007, Johannes is associated to Europe´s leading innovation conference "DLD Conference", where he collaborated on public programs and interdiscplinary panel discussions about new trends in arts, design and architecture. Within "DLD Arts", he curated and realized projects with artists such as Taryn Simon, Cerith Wyn Evans, Pae White, Tobias Rehberger, Olaf Nicolai, Koo Jeong A, John Armleder, Rosa Barba, Julieta Aranda, Lisa Oppenheim, MIT Senseable Citylab and Aaron Koblin, amongst others. Johannes holds an M.A. Communication Management from USC Annenberg, School for Communications, Los Angeles and is currently based in Berlin.