Picturing Law. Talking with artists

(recht im bild. Ein Künstlergespräch mit Stephan Berg und Werner Gephart sowie Marcel Odenbach)

Event in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn with Stephan Berg, Werner Gephart and Marcel Odenbach

Stephan Berg

Stephan Berg studied German and English language and literature studies as well as history at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Freiburg. He obtained his doctorate degree in German language and literature studies. He works as a freelance journalist in the field of visual arts, inter alia for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Kunstforum International. From 1990 to 2000, he was director of the Kunstverein Freiburg. From 2001 to 2008, he was director of the Kunstverein Hannover. Since 2004, he holds an honorary professorship at the Braunschweig University of Art. Since 2008, he is the director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, has held numerous exhibitions and published extensively on contemporary art. He lives and works in Bonn.

Werner Gephart

Sociologist, legal scholar and painter. Studied law at the University of Bonn and sociology at the University of Cologne. He obtained his doctorate degree at the faculty of law of the University of Göttingen and his habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf with a venia legendi for Sociology. Since 1992, he is professor for sociology at the University of Bonn. He has held numerous exhibitions since 1988, including in Paris, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, St. Louis, Houston, Bloomington, Minneapolis, Tunis, New York and, most recently, New Delhi. In 2010, he founded the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”, of which he is the director.

Marcel Odenbach

Marcel Odenbach studied architecture, art history and semiotics at RWTH Aachen. From 1992 to 1997, he was professor for media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From 2001 to 2010, he was professor for media art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has had feature exhibitions inter alia in the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, as well as the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia.