CV

Silke Opitz is an Art Historian, Writer, Lecturer and Independent Curator based in Weimar.

*PhD Bauhaus University Weimar 2000

*MA Art History, Modern German Literature and Media at Phillips University Marburg 1995

*University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) 1991/92

*2009-2010 guest curator Kunstverein Ludwigsburg 

*2009/2010 curatorial residencies in New York (ISCP) and The Hague

*2002-2008 Assistant Professor at Bauhaus University Weimar, Department of Visual Arts

*2000-2001 Consultant for Cultural Affairs at JENOPTIK AG, Jena

*1999-2000 Writer, Catalogue raisonné of drawings and pastels by Otto Dix commissioned by Otto Dix Foundation, Vaduz

Silke's writings, publications, exhibitions and main interests of research are basically focussing on contemporary art concentrating thematically on Identity and History as items and terms of construction and

Social Cultural Phenomena caused by the so-called transformation process in the east European countries. Concerning genre, form and/or artistic strategies Silke is interested in the History of (extended) Sculpture in relation to traditional theories and positions, "Cross Over" in terms of "High" and "Low" as Visual Arts/ Design-Art. Within some of her recent exhibitions she is also focussing on contemporary positions reflecting and referring to Land, Conceptual and Performing Art of the 60's/70's.

Unique locations outside the (museums') artworld are always very welcome to conceive site specific exhibitions and fringe programs.