Nina Schallenberg

Nina Schallenberg studied art history, philosophy and modern German literature in Berlin and Paris, and wrote her doctoral thesis at the Freie Universität Berlin on the mise en scène of the sculptures of Rodin, Rosso and Brancusi. After having served as curatorial assistant and curator at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne she has been head of collections at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen from 2010 to 2017. In 2017 she has been appointed curator at the Nationalgalerie / Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. Apart from her museum career she has been engaged in research projects at the German Center for Art History in Paris and the DFG-network “Theory of Sculpture”. She had teaching positions at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, in 2016/2017 she was Chillida Visiting Professor at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. Her curatorial and research interests are focused on the history of sculpture, on European modernism and European and US-American art from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Dr. Nina Schallenberg
Art History
Email: n.schallenberg[at]berlin.bard.edu