Inke Arns (born 1968 in Duisdorf/Bonn) is a German curator and theorist known for her works focusing on

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. After having held positions at the

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, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK) in

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and Piet Zwart Institut in

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, she has been the artistic director of ''Hartware MedienKunstVerein'' since 2005, a contemporary art space in

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, Germany. She has curated numerous exhibitions, particularly in the field of media art. Her publications include studies of the Slovenian NSK movement.

Education

She lived in

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from 1982 to 1986, and studied

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an studies,

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, and

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and

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from 1988 to 1996. She obtained a PhD from

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Berlin in 2004.

Exhibitions

In 2014, she curated the exhibition ''Böse Clowns'', which presents examples from advertisement, political activism, television and film, pop music and contemporary art. In 2017, she created the exhibition "alien matter".

Publications

*Arns, I. (2002). ''Netzkulturen'', Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt. * * *Arns, Inke (2015). "World of Matter", Berlin: Sternberg Press.

References

External links

Dr. Inke Arns / Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Inke Arns
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