Selected Exhibitions
Groninger Museum
Groningen, Netherlands
Curated exhibitions
The Art of Hipgnosis
2023
- With Aubrey Powell.
David LaChapelle. Good News for Modern Man
2018
- With Johnny Byrne.
Chihuly
2018
- With Britt Cornett.
Romanticism in the North – Friedrich to Turner
2017
- With David Jackson and Ruud Schenk.
The Myth of the Electrical Guitar
2015
- With Luc Henzig and Oliver Jordan.
Marilyn Manson – Masquerade
2014
- With Brigitte Schenk and Barbara Salesch.
Natural Beauty. From Fra Angelico to Monet
2013
- With Oliver Kornhoff.
Organised exhibitions
How Van Gogh Came to Groningen
2024
- Curated by Mariëtta Jansen and Belle de Rode.
Children's Biennale II
2024
- Curated by Ellis Hendriksen et al.
The Rolling Stones – Unzipped
2023
- Curated by Ileen Gallagher.
Gianni Versace Retrospective
2023
- Curated by Karl von der Ahé and Saskia Lubnow.
Bitterzoet Erfgoed – Zwart in Groningen
2022
- Curated by Lieuwe Jongsma.
JR: Chronicles
2021
- Curated by Sharon Matt Atkins (The Brooklyn Museum).
Children's Biennale I
2021
- Curated by Sander Daams et al.
Mondo Mendini
2019
- Curated by Alessandro Mendini.
Rodin – Genius at Work
2016
- Curated by Nathalie Bondil et al. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal).
David Bowie Is
2016
- Curated by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Het geheim van Dresden – Van Rembrandt tot Canaletto
2014
- Curated by Maike Hohn (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister).
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Cologne, Germany
Curated exhibitions
Panoptikum. Die geheimen Schätze des Wallraf
2011
- With Ludmila Piters-Hofmann.
Alexandre Cabanel
2011
- With Sylvain Amic.
The Moon
2009
- Also shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Rembrandt, Ein Jugendtraum. Niederländische Malerei aus der Sammlung Kremer
2008
- Also shown at Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
Tierschau. Wie unser Bild vom Tier entstand
2007
- With Louise Lippincott.
Organised exhibitions
1912 – Mission Moderne
2012
- Curated by Barbara Schaefer.
Künstlerpaare – Liebe, Kunst und Leidenschaft
2008
- Curated by Barbara Schaefer.
Impressionismus. Wie das Licht auf die Leinwand kam
2008
- Curated by Iris Schaefer et al. Also shown at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Albertina, Vienna.
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Curated exhibitions
Fierce Friends. Artists and Animals 1750-1900
2005
- With Louise Lippincott. Also shown at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
GoghModern: Vincent van Gogh and Contemporary Art
2005
- With Jan Hein Sassen and Melanie Verhoeven.
La Scala: The Opera and the Orient
2005
- With Vittoria Crespi.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940
2001
- With Stephen White. Also shown at the Skirball Center, Los Angeles; Patrimoine Photographique, Paris.
Light! Art & Science, Technology & Society. The Industrial Age, 1750-1900
2000
- With Louise Lippincott. Also shown at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich: The Passage of Time
1996
The Colour of Sculpture, 1840-1910
1996
- Also shown at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Organised exhibitions
Forget me not – Photography and Remembrance
2004
- Curated by Geoffrey Batchen. Also shown at National Media Museum, Bradford; National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik; International Center of Photography, New York.
Manet and the Sea
2004
- Curated by Richard Brettell.
Vincent’s Choice: The Musée Imaginaire of Van Gogh
2003
- Curated by Chris Stolwijk et al.
Van Gogh & Gauguin: The Studio of the South
2002
- Curated by Douglas Druick and Peter Kort Zegers. Also shown at The Art Institute of Chicago.
American Beauty: Painting and Sculptures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
2002
- Curated by James W. Tottis. Also shown at the National Gallery, Dublin.
Theo van Gogh 1857-1891: Dealer, Collector and Brother of Vincent
1999
- Curated by Chris Stolwijk et al.
Auguste Préault: Romanticism in Bronze
1999
- Curated by Sylvain Bellanger. Also shown at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois; Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie
Regensburg, Germany
Curated exhibitions
Markus Lüpertz
1992
- With Gerhard Leistner.
Katharina Sieverding
1992
- With Gerhard Leistner.
Lyonel Feininger
1991
- With Werner Timm.
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
Curated exhibitions
Johann Friedrich Overbeck 1789-1869
1989
- With Gerhard Gerkens.
