Axel Lapp

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Axel Lapp
NationalityGerman
Occupation curator, art historian and publisher

Axel Lapp (born 1966 in Konstanz, West Germany) is a German curator, art historian and publisher, who is based in Memmingen. He is director of MEWO Kunsthalle [1] as well as of Strigel- and Antoniter-Museum in Memmingen. From 2005 until 2013, he was publisher of The Green Box, an art book publisher in Berlin. [2]

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Biography

Axel Lapp studied museology and art history in Marburg, Essex and Manchester. [3] He was Henry Moore Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (1998–2000) and Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sunderland (2009–2010). From 2002 until 2012, he worked as an art critic for Art Review and Art Monthly, and as a freelance curator for contemporary art. [4]

For the art publisher The Green Box, which he directed from 2005 until 2013, [5] he edited numerous books on contemporary art and curating. [6]

Since 2012, Lapp is Director of MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen. His first exhibition there, in March 2013, was 'CINEMA and the cinematografic gaze', [7] with works by Omer Fast, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Ming Wong and many others.

Publications (selection)

Exhibitions

Footnotes

  1. "MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen :: Über uns". Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  2. "Publishers | the Green Box".
  3. "CRUMB - News Detail". www.crumbweb.org. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  4. "Contributor - Axel Lapp". Archived from the original on 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  5. "Publishers | the Green Box".
  6. "Axel Lapp | the Green Box".
  7. "MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen :: Kino und der kinematografische Blick". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  8. "MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen — Alles Maskerade!". mewo-kunsthalle.de. Retrieved 2020-12-20.

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