Ich liebe Widersprüche

Barbara Rä derscheidt, b. 1959, comes from a family where art was part of everyday life. Her grandmother, Martha Hegemann, her grandfather, Anton Rä derscheidt, and her father, Karl Anton Rä derscheidt, were all painters; her great-aunt was a painter, and her siblings were also artistically active. For Barbara Rä derscheidt, working artistically is therefore a matter of course; her focus is on working with objects. Dirk Luckow, b. 1958, has been the General Director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg since 2009. He graduated 1996 with a dissertation on Joseph Beuys and the American Anti-Form-Art. Luckow has since worked at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dü sseldorf, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Wü rttembergische Kunstverein in Stuttgart. He also worked as project manager for visual arts at the Siemens Arts Program in Munich, before he became Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel from 2002 to 2009. From 2007 to 2009 he was a member of the Artistic Advisory Board of the Temporä re Kunsthalle in Berlin. Belinda Grace Gardner, b. 1960, is a scholar of literature and art history. She works in Hamburg as a freelance critic, author, and curator in the field of contemporary art. She teaches at, among other institutions, the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (specializing in theory and history) and Leuphana University Lü neburg. Her research focuses on visual concepts of romantic love and the ephemeral, as well as (re)constructions of reality, identity, memory, place, and space in contemporary art.