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Alte Nationalgalerie: Anette Hüsch, Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, will succeed Ralph Gleis

Dr Anette Hüsch, currently Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, will take over as Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin on 1 March 2025. She succeeds the current director, Dr Ralph Gleis, who is moving to the Albertina in Vienna at the end of the year. The Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favour of the candidate on Monday. In Anette Hüsch, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has gained an experienced, imaginative and committed museum director for the Alte Nationalgalerie.

Anette Hüsch, born in Hanover in 1972, studied art history and media theory as well as philosophy, aesthetics and visual communication at the State Academy of Art and Design in Karlsruhe. In 2003, she completed her doctorate at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design with a thesis on a topic related to the history of images and media under Prof Hans Belting. After an academic traineeship at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Anette Hüsch worked as a research assistant at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart from 2007 to 2008. Her other professional stations as a freelance curator include national and international exhibition projects for the National Museums in Berlin, including with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as for the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany in Berlin, Bonn and Brussels. She has also advised the art collection of the European Patent Organisation with its locations in Berlin, Brussels, The Hague, Munich and Paris.

Anette Hüsch has been Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel since 2010. She was responsible for several exhibitions there each year and initiated national and international cooperation projects. She significantly expanded the area of cultural education there and extended it to include inclusive and participatory programmes. She set up provenance research at the museum and pushed ahead with the digitisation of the collections. Hüsch has made numerous acquisitions of works of classical modernism and older art as well as international contemporary art with the Kunsthalle's circle of donors and other foundations as well as through third-party donors. She also holds the position of Managing Chairwoman of the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein e.V. (Schleswig-Holstein Art Association).

Anette Hüsch initiated the refurbishment of the listed building ensemble, which has now been closed since 2023 due to construction work, and played a key role in securing the necessary funding.
Anette Hüsch is very well connected at a cultural policy level and is represented on numerous committees and juries at federal, state and regional level, for example as a member of the board of trustees of the Kulturstiftung der Länder (Cultural Foundation of the Federal States) or as Chair of the Cultural Property Expert Committee of the State of Schleswig-Holstein.

Anette Hüsch explains: "I am particularly interested in further developing the Alte Nationalgalerie from a contemporary perspective, precisely because it was founded as a venue for contemporary art. It is important to me to open up the museum further together with the team and to expand the work carried out at the museum to include new perspectives - for example, cross-media issues in which other collections of the foundation can also be integrated. I am very much looking forward to this new task!"

Herman Parzinger: "Dr Hüsch has shown herself to be an extremely integrative personality with great professional expertise. I am very pleased that we have been able to appoint her as Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie and I am sure that she will once again set new accents, especially in the communication of the museum's themes!"

Old National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin:
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From Kassel to the Bode Museum: Antje Scherner becomes the new Director of the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art

Dr Antje Scherner, Head of the Collections of Arts and Crafts and Design, Sculpture and Plastics at Hessen Kassel Heritage, is to become the new Director of the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This was decided on Monday by the SPK Board of Trustees, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth. Ms Scherner succeeds Julien Chapuis, who will leave the museum in 2023.

Antje Scherner, born in Stuttgart in 1966, studied art history, theatre studies and German language and literature at LMU Munich and in Rome from 1986 to 1993. She was awarded a doctoral scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (Bibliotheca Hertziana), where she also worked as a research assistant to the director from 1999 to 2001. She received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 2001 with a thesis on "The Chapel of Monte di Pietà in Rome - Architecture and Relief Decoration in the Roman Baroque".
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rom 2001 to 2006, Antje Scherner worked at the Dresden State Art Collections, specialising in the Green Vault. After several years as a curator in the Applied Art Collection of the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, she took over the management of the current collections of arts and crafts and design, sculptures and sculptures at Hessen Kassel Heritage in 2010.

Antje Scherner reorganised the permanent exhibitions "Turcia" and "From the Treasury of History" at Friedrichstein Castle (Bad Wildungen) and the Hessian State Museum Kassel. Several successful, partly international special exhibitions also bear her signature. Antje Scherner is considered a specialist in early modern Italian sculpture, but has also made a name for herself with her cross-genre exhibition work. She is a recognised expert on sculpture and small sculptures from the Renaissance and Baroque periods as well as on the history of art chambers and the cultural history of objects.

Antje Scherner is a member of various academic bodies, commissions and forums, including the Ivories Studies Group, the Historical Commission of Hesse and the Forum Turcica. She has also lectured at the universities of Dresden, Marburg, Heidelberg and Göttingen and published numerous specialist articles.
For the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art, she plans to initiate cross-collection themes and cross-over projects, for example with the neighbouring museums on Museum Island. Thematic juxtapositions of European and Byzantine art with artefacts from other world cultures could offer new perspectives in the permanent exhibition. She would also like to make the cultural function and significance of the outstanding works of art in the Bode Museum and their anchoring in past living environments more visible. She also plans to build on the museum's excellent reputation as a centre for basic research.

Antje Scherner says: "I not only want to show the wonderful exhibits from the sculpture collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art, but also incorporate the museum's work behind the scenes into the presentation through direct dialogue between scientists and conservators and visitors. In this way, the scientific examination of the works can become more concrete and vivid for a broad audience. It is particularly important to me to also address people with a migrant background."

Hermann Parzinger explains: "With the appointment of Dr Scherner, we are creating the personnel basis for further developing the Sculpture Collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art on the path we have taken so far and positioning them more strongly internationally."

Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art of the National Museums in Berlin:
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