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, currently living in Berlin. His curatorial practice focuses on conceptual Arts and Culture in interdisciplinary frameworks. Between 1998 and 2003 he obtained curatorial practice 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 Le Pavillion-Laboratoire de Creation Contemporain,Palais de Tokyo(Paris). He conceiveda public program on arts and music for 1st Berlin Biennale (Berlin, 1998),and he conceived and collaborated on exhibitions such as Ipeg.Image.Sound.Machine (Berlin, 2003), Code Unknown (Paris,2004) Thank you for the Music (Munich, 2005),Thank you for the Music - London Beat (London, = 2006), David Lamelas- Early Works (Munich, 2006), Uneasy Angel- Imagine Los Angeles: 27 Artists from L.A. (Munich,2007) or Source Codes: Influential artists from the 60s and 70s (Berlin, 2009). Since 2004, he is associated with Sprueth Magers for curatorial projects. From 2007-2009, he has served as curatorial advisor for Arts and Culture at DLD Digital- Life-Design, an interdisciplinary conference addressing innovation in Digital Development, Science and Culture. In this context, he collaborated on panel discussions about current trends in Arts, Design and Architecture and realized projects with a number of artists, such as Julieta Aranda, John Armleder, Miltos Manetas, Markus Miessen, Lisa Oppenheim, Pae White, Tobias Rehberger, or Taryn Simon. Johannes holds a Diploma in Arts Management from University for Applied Sciences, Berlin and an M.A. Communication Management from USC Annenberg, School of Communication, Los Angeles.