Christoph Doswald

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Christoph Doswald (born 1961) is a Swiss publicist, curator und university lecturer.

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Life and work

Doswald spent his childhood and youth in Wettingen and his birthplace, Baden. From 1981 to 1989, he studied history, art history and political science at the University of Zurich, interrupted by relatively long stays in Spain and Latin America.[ citation needed ]

In the mid-1980s, he began to work as a publicist, writing about themes and exhibitions of contemporary art, e.g. for Kunstforum International, [1] [2] [3] [4] Parkett, neue bildende kunst, Artis, Eikon, SonntagsZeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, [5] Weltwoche und Tages-Anzeiger. Under the pseudonym Dr. Kuno, Doswald wrote a weekly lifestyle column from 1991 to 2000, first for SonntagsZeitung, then in Schweizer Illustrierte.[ citation needed ]

In 1998, together with Monica Glisenti, he conceived the cross-culture magazine "cashual" for the publisher Ringier. This monthly magazine combined artistic and journalistic strategies, e.g. hiring Nan Goldin as a photojournalist and Pipilotti Rist as a model, but was already discontinued after just six issues. From 2002 to 2008, Doswald headed the Society section of the Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung. [6]

Together with Paolo Bianchi in 1985/86, Doswald managed a space for ephemeral art projects in their shared flat in Baden – an artist-run space "avant la lettre". In this informal setting, they exhibited the works of befriended artists and organised performances. From 1988 to 1992, Doswald was a member of the board (and chairman on an interim basis) at Zurich's Shedhalle, where curator Harm Lux ran an ambitious exhibition programme, e.g. with projects by Jordi Colomer, Francesca Woodman, Christian Marclay, Sylvie Fleury, Christopher Williams, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Hirschhorn and Daniele Buetti.[ citation needed ]

In parallel, from the mid-1980s onwards, Doswald curated exhibitions, e.g. at Kunsthaus Graz, Villa Arson in Nice, Kunstmuseum Bern, Centre Pasquart Biel and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 2001 to 2007, he was a member of the "Comité technique", the purchasing committee at Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC PACA) in Marseille, [7] where he realised various exhibitions, e.g. with Ugo Rondinone and Maria Marshall. [8]

Doswald has been the chairman of the City of Zurich's Work Group for Art in Public Spaces (AG KiöR) 2009 until late 2020. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] </ref> He is responsible for the Art in Public Spaces programme and curated ART AND THE CITY (2012), [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] as well as Art Altstetten Albisrieden (2015). The KiöR project zürich – transit – maritim, commonly referred to as "Hafenkran" (harbour crane), attracted a lot of attention. This temporary art intervention at Limmatquai was hotly debated on the Zurich City Council, among the general public and in the media between 2009 and 2016. [19] [20] [21] [22] He has also spoken about art in the public space in lectures, such as "Kampfzone öffentlicher Raum" (Battle Zone Public Space). [23] [24]

Doswald has held various teaching positions and guest professorships, e.g. at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, [25] where he replaced Christian Jankowski while Jankowski was curating Manifesta 11 in Zurich. Since 2012, Doswald has been a member of the board at visarte.schweiz, the professional association of Switzerland's visual artists. Here, he is in charge of art-in-architecture and art in the public space. In this role, he launched the Prix Visarte awards. [26] He has been president of the foundation Kulturweg Limmat [27] since 2016.] [28] In 2023 he curated, together with Swizz curator Paolo Bianchi, „Landscapes of Desire“, the 4th Industrial Art Biennale (IAB) in Labin, Raša, Pula and Rijeka (Croatia). [29] [30] [31]

His life partner is the German curator and art historian Dorothea Strauss. Doswald lives in and near Zurich.

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References

  1. ↑ Christoph Doswald: „Kunst ist paradoxerweise oft die Speerspitze urbaner Transformationsprozesse“. Globalisierte Sprachlichkeit trifft auf lokale Prozesse, Kunstforum International, volume 212, 2011, title: res publica 2.0, p. 136.
  2. ↑ Christoph Doswald: Flankierende Maßnahmen, emotionale Kampagnen. Beobachtungen zum Werk „Mae West“ von Rita McBride u.a., Kunstforum International, volume 214, 2012 title: Prozent Kunst, p. 110.
  3. ↑ Christoph Doswald: ART AND THE CITY. Über die Wechselwirkungen von Kunst und Stadt, Kunstforum International, volume 218, 2012, title: Der urbane Blick, p. 48.
  4. ↑ Zur Lage der Kunstkritik. Grundlagen, Befragungen, Vertiefungen. Edited by Paolo Bianchi and Christoph Doswald, Kunstforum International, volume 221, 2013, title: Zur Lage der Kunstkritik, p. 30.
  5. ↑ Christoph Doswald: Multifunktionaler Kakaosack., Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 March 2001.
  6. ↑ N.N.: Christoph Doswald nimmt den Hut SonntagsZeitung, 6 May 2008.
  7. ↑ de:Regionalfonds für zeitgenössische Kunst [ circular reference ]
  8. ↑ Website Maria Marshall.
  9. ↑ „Urs Bühler: Im Dienst des Hafenkrans und der Skelette. Christoph Doswald hat sich als Leiter der Züricher Arbeitsgruppe für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum für kontroverse Projekte starkgemacht“, Neue Zürcher Zeitung vom 18. Januar 2021.
  10. ↑ Dialogangebote im urbanen Leben. Gabrielle Spiller über die Kunst im öffentlichen Zürcher Raum, Kunstzeitung of October 2017.
  11. ↑ https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/departement/medien/medienmitteilungen/2009/juli/090727a.html Press release from the City of Zurich, Department of Civil Engineering and Waste Disposal (TED), 27 July 2009.
  12. ↑ N.N.: Kunst und öffentlicher Raum, Website der Stadt Zürich, Tiefbau- und Entsorgungsdepartment, last accessed on 10 December 2017.
  13. ↑ Interview with Christoph Doswald by Urs Steiner: "Wir wollen Kunst zu den Menschen bringen", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 May 2011.
  14. ↑ "Artandthecity.info | Hallo, diese Domain wurde gerade bei Hostpoint gekauft". Archived from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  15. ↑ Timm Engster: Zürich pflanzt Kunst in die Stadt, TagesWoche, Basel, 6 June 2012.
  16. ↑ Iwona Eberle: Kunst für den Westen. Interview with Christoph Doswald, Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, 20 June 2012.
  17. ↑ Jürg Rohrer: Vierkantrohre sind tiefgründig. Das Zürcher Freiluftfestival Art and the City ist zu Ende; es hat einem nachhaltig die Augen geöffnet., Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, 1 October 2012.
  18. ↑ VernissageTV: Art and the City: Public Art Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, huffpost, 6 October 2012.
  19. ↑ Urs Bühler: «Kunst ist in der Regel nicht mehrheitsfähig». Interview with Christoph Doswald, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 18 December 2009.
  20. ↑ Paolo Bianchi: Der Hafenkran oder: Wie Kunst Geschichten ins Gedächtnis der Menschen brennt. An email dialogue with Christoph Doswald, Chairman of the City of Zurich's Work Group for Art in Public Spaces, Kunstforum International, volume 226, 2014, Kunstforum-Gespräche, p. 326.
  21. ↑ N.N.: Die Heftigkeit überraschte alle, Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, 14 January 2015.
  22. ↑ Urs Siegrist (Moderator): Christoph Doswald - Hafenkran oder Hafenkäse?, Radio SRF, 14 April 2014.
  23. ↑ Vortragsankündigung der Muthesius Kunsthochschule, N.N.: "Kampfzone öffentlicher Raum", lecture by Christoph Doswald, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, 26 November 2015.
  24. ↑ Christoph Doswald: Kampfzone öffentlicher Raum, oökulturquartier, Linz, November 2015.
  25. ↑ "Home". abk-stuttgart.de.
  26. ↑ Prix Visarte, Die Jury, accessed on 8 December 2017
  27. ↑ Infopage of Stiftung Kulturweg Limmat [http://kulturweg-limmat.ch/info.html Archived 11 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  28. ↑ Ursula Burgherr: Stiftungs-Präsident Christoph Doswald: «Topkunst gibt es auch an der Peripherie», az Aargauer Zeitung, 16 November 2016.
  29. ↑ Susanne Koeberle: Wenn Blicke Landschaften erzeugen. Swiss Architects Magazine 25 May 2023
  30. ↑ Sabine B. Vogel: Sehnsucht nach Golfspielen im Skulpturenpark. Vienna: Die Presse, 10. Dezember 2023
  31. ↑ https://www.industrialartbiennale.eu/iab_04/iab04-guide/
  32. ↑ Sibylle Egloff: «In Krisenzeiten ist ein regionales Kulturangebot wichtig». Christoph Doswald betreut für die Regionale Projektschau das Projekt «Art Flow», welches das Limmattal künstlerisch neu beleben soll. Limmattaler Zeitung vom 15. Januar 2022
  33. ↑ "Münsterhof in Zürich: Neuer Stadtpark blüht auf, für kurze Zeit".
  34. ↑ "Wir sind erschöpft von Krisen und Katastrophen. Und das Paradies ist sowieso verloren. | NZZ".

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