Harald Szeemann

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Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss museum director, curator and organizer of exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogues

  • White on White, 1966.
  • Formen der Farbe, Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1967. [1] (German)
  • Friends, 1969.
  • Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information, Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1969. Exh. photographs. (English)/(German)/(French)/(Italian)
  • Happening & Fluxus: Materialien, ed. Hans Sohm, Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1970, [340] pp. Exh. curated by Hans Sohm and Harald Szeemann; held at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 6 Nov 1970-6 Jan 1971. [2] (German)
  • documenta 5. Befragung der Realität – Bildwelten heute, 2 vols., eds. Harald Szeemann, Marlis Grüterich, Katia von den Velden, and Jennifer Gough-Cooper, Kassel: documenta and Bertelsmann, 1972, 64+80 & 740+ pp. (German)
  • Grand-Father, 1974.
  • Le Macchine Celibi / The Bachelor Machines, eds. Jean Clair and Harald Szeemann, Venice: Alfieri Edizioni d’Arte, 1975; repr., New York: Rizzoli, 1975. Curated by Harald Szeemann and Jean Clair. (Italian)/(English)
  • Monte Verita / Mountain of Truth, 1978.
  • Zeitlos. Kunst von heute im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, ed. Harald Szeemann, Munich: Prestel, 1988, 232 pp. Video documentation.
  • LightSeed: Cy Twombly, Wolfgang Laib, Michel Verjux: An Exhibition, Tokyo: Waturi-Um, 1990. Curated by Harald Szeemann.
  • Visionäre Schweiz, ed. Harald Szeemann, Aarau: Sauerländer, 1991. (German)
    • Suiza visionaria, Madrid: Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, 1992. (Spanish)
  • Blut & Honig. Zukunft ist am Balkan / Blood & Honey: Future's in the Balkans, Klosterneuburg: Sammlung Essl, 2003, 287 pp; 2nd ed., 2004. Curated by Harald Szeemann. Interview with curator. [3] [4] (German)/(English)
  • The Real Royal Trip / El real viaje real, ed. Alanna Heiss, New York: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 2003, 325 pp. Curated by Harald Szeemann. (English)/(Spanish)

Publications

  • Zeitlos auf Zeit. Das Museum der Obsessionen, Lindinger & Schmid, 1994, 413 pp. (German)
  • Harald Szeemann: Selected Writings, ed. Doris Chon, Glenn Phillips, and Pietro Rigolo, trans. Jonathan Blower and Elizabeth Tucker, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2018, 424 pp. Review: grupa o.k. (Art Journal). (English)

Interviews

Literature

Documentary films

Retrospectives, recreated exhibitions

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