Axel Lapp

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Axel Lapp
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)
publisher

Axel Lapp (born 1966 in

publisher, who is based in Memmingen. He is director of MEWO Kunsthalle[1] as well as of Strigel- and Antoniter-Museum in Memmingen. From 2005 until 2013, he was publisher of The Green Box, an art book publisher in Berlin.[2]

Biography

Axel Lapp studied

Art Review and Art Monthly, and as a freelance curator for contemporary art.[4]

For the art publisher The Green Box, which he directed from 2005 until 2013,[5] he edited numerous books on contemporary art and curating.[6]

Since 2012, Lapp is Director of MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen. His first exhibition there, in March 2013, was 'CINEMA and the cinematografic gaze',[7] with works by Omer Fast, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Ming Wong and many others.

Publications (selection)

Exhibitions

  • 'Alles Maskerade! Fasching, Karneval & Mummenschanz im Spiegel der Kunst';[8] Arbeiten von Ewan Atkinson, Sonia Boyce, Adam Chodzko, Leah Gordon, Marlon Griffith, Kahn & Selesnick, Marie Rime, Corinna Theuring und Alexandra Vogt, sowie ‚elfuhrelf’, einer Ausstellung in der Ausstellung, mit Fotografien von Theo Barth, Ute Behrend, Thekla Ehling, Dirk Gebhardt, Matthias Jung, David Klammer, Frederic Lezmi, Nadine Preiß und Wolfgang Zurborn. Memmingen, MEWO Kunsthalle, 2014
  • 'KINO und der kinematografische Blick: Friedemann Hahn, Omer Fast, Romeo Grünfelder, Emanuel Mathias, Jana Müller, Georg Parthen, Martina Sauter, John Sealey, Jason Silva, John Stezaker, Clemens von Wedemeyer und Ming Wong'. Memmingen, MEWO Kunsthalle, 2013
  • 'Jens Schubert: Blackmagickparty'. Memmingen, MEWO Kunsthalle, 2013
  • '8 + 8 – video art': "Sonia Boyce". Guangzhou, 53 Art Museum (美术馆), 2011
  • 'Marion-Ermer-Preis 2011: Loretta Fahrenholz, Emanuel Mathias, Claudia Schötz, Jens Schubert'. Dresden, Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Oktogon), 2011
  • 'Cornelia Renz: Night. Tale. Pieces', Konstanz, Kunstverein, 2011
  • 'Lucie Renneboog: 'mmmmm' diagram – naïf and mymaybe idiot summary of something we knew.'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2009
  • 'Roland Iselin: What we do when we think about love'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2008
  • 'Nick Crowe: Sammlung Witkowski'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2008
  • 'Martin Newth: Ausblick'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2008
  • 'Menschen und Orte' - an exhibition for the 150. anniversary of Kunstverein Konstanz. Konstanz, Kunstverein & Wessenberg-Galerie, 2008
  • 'a season of film: Sonia Boyce & David Bickerstaff, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Jeanne van Heeswijk & Marten Winters, Mona Jas & Holger Friese, Sonia Khurana and John Sealey'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2008
  • 'Sonia Boyce: Crop Over', Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2008
  • 'Nikola Irmer: Boys'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2007
  • 'Josephine Flynn: Mayonnaise and Salad Cream'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2007
  • 'Mona Jas: Die Plejaden #1'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2007
  • 'Shezad Dawood: The End of Civilisation'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2007
  • 'Review: Sonia Boyce, Nick Crowe, Holger Friese, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Mona Jas'. Berlin, Axel Lapp Projects, 2007

Footnotes

  1. ^ "MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen :: Über uns". Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  2. ^ "Publishers | the Green Box".
  3. ^ "CRUMB - News Detail". www.crumbweb.org. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Contributor - Axel Lapp". Archived from the original on 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  5. ^ "Publishers | the Green Box".
  6. ^ "Axel Lapp | the Green Box".
  7. ^ "MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen :: Kino und der kinematografische Blick". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  8. ^ "MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen — Alles Maskerade!". mewo-kunsthalle.de. Retrieved 2020-12-20.