Dialogic Tour

DIALOGIC TOUR

with Dr. Nico Anklam (Director of the Municipal Museums of the City of Recklinghausen) and Rebekka Seubert (Artistic Director, Dortmunder Kunstverein) on the exhibition Stringing Beads by Mariana Castillo Deball.

Since 2021, Dr. Nico Anklam has been Director of the Municipal Museums and Head of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, where he is responsible for the program of one of the 21 RuhrKunstMuseen. Under his leadership, international solo exhibitions have been realized, including those by Marianne Berenhaut, Flo Kasearu, and Ângela Ferreira. In 2025, he brought the first museum solo exhibition of Judy Chicago to Recklinghausen, in cooperation with the Serpentine London. Through targeted acquisitions, the collection of the Kunsthalle has been expanded to include significant non-male positions and, for the first time, video works. A state-funded research fellowship is also dedicated to critically examining the collection history of the institution’s first decade.

His curatorial practice was shaped early on by René Block and his many years at Block’s Fluxus Art Hall in Denmark. As an art educator at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin and New York, he worked for many years in audience engagement. Following his studies and doctorate (in London, Berlin, New York, and Greifswald, among others), he taught at various art schools, including the foundational studies program at the UdK Berlin and as a guest lecturer at the Art Academy of the Arctic University in Tromsø.

His practice combines curatorial, academic, and teaching work – for example through conferences such as Inventing the Pictorial North oder Herkunft – Besitz – Verantwortung as well as seminars such as The White Cube – History and Topicality of a Spatial Concept. Central questions of exhibition-making run as a common thread throughout his work.

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