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PROF. DR. PHILIP URSPRUNG
born 1963
Philip Ursprung studied art history, history and German in Geneva, Vienna and Berlin. Doctorate at the FU Berlin, qualified with post-doctoral thesis for a senior post at the ETH Zurich. He has taught at the universities of Geneva, Basel and Zurich, at the ETH Zurich, the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the Universität der Künste Berlin. From 2001-05 he was funded by the Nationalfonds as professor of contemporary art history in the architecture department of the ETH Zurich. He has been professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Zurich since 2005.
He has been curator at the Kunsthalle Palazzo in Liestal, and guest curator at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University New York.
He is the author of “Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening, Robert Smithson und die Land Art” (Munich, 2003), editor of “Herzog & de Meuron: Naturgeschichte” (Montreal and Baden 2002), and co-author of “Images: A Picture Book of Architecture” (Munich 2004).
He was a member of the Eidgenössische Kunstkommission from 1997-2004.
He has been president of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art since 2003.
He is president of the jury at the Akademie Schloss Solitude for the period 2007-2009.
PROF. DR. PHILIP URSPRUNG
born 1963
Philip Ursprung studied art history, history and German in Geneva, Vienna and Berlin. Doctorate at the FU Berlin, qualified with post-doctoral thesis for a senior post at the ETH Zurich. He has taught at the universities of Geneva, Basel and Zurich, at the ETH Zurich, the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the Universität der Künste Berlin. From 2001-05 he was funded by the Nationalfonds as professor of contemporary art history in the architecture department of the ETH Zurich. He has been professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Zurich since 2005.
He has been curator at the Kunsthalle Palazzo in Liestal, and guest curator at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University New York.
He is the author of “Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening, Robert Smithson und die Land Art” (Munich, 2003), editor of “Herzog & de Meuron: Naturgeschichte” (Montreal and Baden 2002), and co-author of “Images: A Picture Book of Architecture” (Munich 2004).
He was a member of the Eidgenössische Kunstkommission from 1997-2004.
He has been president of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art since 2003.
He is president of the jury at the Akademie Schloss Solitude for the period 2007-2009.