DIALOGIC TOUR
WITH DR. NICO ANKLAM (Director Kunsthalle Recklinghausen)
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 7 pm
DIALOGIC TOUR
Since 2021, Dr. Nico Anklam has been responsible as Director of the Municipal Museums and Head of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen for the program of one of the 21 Ruhr art museums, including solo exhibitions by Marianne Berenhaut, Flo Kasearu, Ângela Ferreira, and Judy Chicago. His scholarly and curatorial work repeatedly engages with central questions of exhibiting, collecting, and presenting, subjecting them to new interpretations.
In the exhibition Stringing Beads by Mariana Castillo Deball, he will, together with Rebekka Seubert, Artistic Director of the Dortmunder Kunstverein and curator of the exhibition, discuss, among other topics, the artistic engagement with museum collections, which is also reflected in the artist’s work.
Nico Anklam’s curatorial approach was shaped early on by René Block and his several years of work at Block’s Fluxus Kunsthalle in Denmark. As an art educator at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin and New York, he worked for many years in audience-focused mediation. Following his studies and doctoral work (including in London, Berlin, New York, and Greifswald), he contributed academically at various art schools, teaching foundational courses at UdK Berlin and serving as a guest lecturer at the Art Academy of the Arctic University in Tromsø.
His practice combines curatorial, scholarly, and teaching work—through conferences such as Inventing the Pictorial North or Herkunft – Besitz – Verantwortung and seminars like The White Cube – History and Relevance of a Spatial Concept. Central questions of exhibiting form the consistent thread throughout his work.
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