Beate Engel

Beate Engel (*1964) has been the director of the Stadtgalerie Bern since 1999 and has organized a programme with guest curators there for the last two years. Since 2004 she is the director and curator of the PROGR_Zentrum f?¼r Kulturproduktion in Bern, a studio house which gives working opportunities for more than 100 artists from different fields. The PROGR runs a lively exhibition and events programme, and also offers a artists in residence programme partly in collaboration with Pro Helvetia. (www.progr.ch) After finishing (1993) her master-degree at the University of Cologne with Frau Prof. Antje von Graevenitz with her thesis on ???Bruce Nauman und Samuel Beckett??, Beate Engel worked as an art critic for Radio DRS, WoZ, Kunstbulletin and produced a diverse range of contributions to catalogues. She finished her master studies in arts management at the University in Basel in 2003. As a guest curator Beate Engel curated the group show ???Larger than Life?? - living installations by 15 Swiss artists, Kunsthalle Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow, Poland (2001) and the one man show of Christoph B?¼chel: Shelter II, OK-Centrum f?¼r Gegenwartskunst Linz, Austria (2002). Engel was a member of the research group on the DORE-Project ???Performance and Space?? at the University in Basel in 2003 and 2006. She is a member of the art commission of the city of Bern. She won the federal prize for art in 2004.

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