Zeitgeist / L'esprit d'un temps

Celebrating the 25 years of the Institut Francais in Berlin, a group of 20 critics, curators, directors of art institutions or project rooms, gallery owners and collectors give their individual image of artistic creation in France and their collaboration with French artists through texts and interviews.

Authors of the publication are: Inke Arns (Artistic Director and Curator, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund), Stéphane Bauer (Director, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin), Katia Baudin (Director, Kunstmuseen Krefeld), Oriane Durand (Director, Dortmunder Kunstverein), Florian Ebner (Director of the Photographic Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen), Fanny Gonella (Curator, Künstlerhaus Bremen), Marie Graftieaux (Curator, insitu, Berlin), Nele Heinevetter (Art historian and founder of Niche, Berlin), Bettina Klein (Director Visual Arts, daadgalerie, Berlin), Judy Lybke (Gallery owner, EIGEN + ART, Leipzig/Berlin), Thomas Olbricht (Director, me Collectors Room, Berlin), Susanne Pfeffer (Director, Fridericianum, Kassel), Kathleen Rahn (Director, Kunstverein Hannover), Thibaut de Ruyter (curator, critic, Berlin), Esther Schipper (Gallery owner, Esther Schipper GmbH, Berlin), Jens Emil Sennewald (critic and journalist, AICA France, Paris), Giovanni Springmeier (collector, Springmeier Collection, Berlin), Bettina Steinbrügge (Director, Kunstverein Hamburg), Michel Stiernon (Sociologist, CNAM Île-de-France, Paris), Thomas Thiel (Director, Bielefelder Kunstverein). Edited by Adeline Blanchard and Thibaut de Ruyter