MUNICH.- In pleasant anticipation of yet another exciting chapter of Kunstverein München’s history, the museum announced Maurin Dietrich as the new Director. Amongst a multitude of exceptional applicants, Maurin Dietrich stood out with her ideas for the future of the institution. Together with the team, she will pave the way to Kunstverein München's upcoming 200th anniversary in 2023. Maurin Dietrich will take up her position in July 2019, and the programme will already be starting this September. The previous Director Chris Fitzpatrick left Kunstverein München this spring after four successful years.

Maurin Dietrich spent the last four years at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, where she curated exhibitions, performance programmes and discursive formats. Apart from her institutional work, she is also co-founder and Director of the Berlin exhibition space FRAGILE. Before that, she worked for the 9. Berlin Biennale, as well as for Schir Concepts, a residency programme based in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Additionally, she has conceptualized and realized a variety of other exhibitions over the past seven years.

In her curatorial practice, Maurin Dietrich devotes herself mostly to discursive and process-oriented exhibition formats, integrating them into both international and local contexts.

Maurin Dietrich studied Art History and Literature at the FU Berlin, was visiting lecturer for the Master’s Degree ‚Art in Context‘ at the UdK in Berlin, and has written for exhibition catalogues and magazines, such as Cura and Mousse Magazine. Since 2017, she has also been a guest mentor and curator for the postgraduate programme Berlin Program for Artists (BPA).

Besides the exhibitions and performative programmes, Maurin Dietrich wants to create a tangible and visible space for the Kunstverein München’s archive, within the context of its 200th anniversary.