WORKING WITH ART MEANS LIVING WITH IT.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Uta Grosenick worked as a project manager and curator at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. From 1999 to 2006 she worked as a freelance editor at Taschen Verlag, where she was responsible for the internationally successful titles 'Art at the Turn of the Millennium' (1999), 'WOMEN ARTISTS' (2001) and 'ART NOW' and 'ART NOW 2'. From 2006 to 2009 she was head of the art programme at DuMont Verlag and published the title 'CHINA ART BOOK' on the new Chinese art market. In 2010 she co-founded DISTANZ Verlag with Christian Boros, leaving in 2019 to take over the venerable edition cantz. In 2021 she renamed the publishing house Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft (DCV). She stepped down as managing director in 2024, but remains a co-owner.

Uta Grosenick's publishing work - including with several Munich museums - is the starting point for a discussion of Grosenick's vision for art book publishing and art collecting. Grosenick has accompanied the internationally successful German-Georgian artist Tamara K.E. for many years and in 2018 published K.E.'s second monograph "fading song in the wide open" with DISTANZ Verlag. The conversation thus forms a bridge to the current exhibition.

Tamara K.E.
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07.09.-30.10.2024

The Munich Speech® is an exclusive, international, non-profit series of events, to discuss cutting-edge art- and culture-topics. The name Munich Speech® derives from the celebrated series „Speeking about your own country: Germany“ at the Kammerspiele Munich in 1985 with Joseph Beuys.

Produced and presented since 2014 by Dietlinde Behncke (cultural manager and journalist, formerly at ZDF headquarter Berlin), the focus lies on outstanding positions/ personalities, who change, take action for or develop visions for Munich or change an institution in the world from Munich and who receive direct and immediate attention through the Munich Speech®. Due to the corona pandemic, there were also Munich Speech® digital live streams in 2020-2022.

The events took place three to four times a year until 2022 in André and Dietlinde Behncke's private apartment. The events are currently taking place at behncke gallery, since the gallery was founded on January 31, 2023.
Previous guests in 2017 included Dr. Roger Diederen (Director Kunsthalle Munich) with the FAUST-FESTIVAL MUNICH, 2018 Dr. Angelika Nollert (Director Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne), 2019 2022 Serge Dorny (Bavarian State Opera Director), 2022 Dr. Eva Kraus (Director Bundeskunsthalle Bonn) "No future without transformation?" or Andrea Lissoni (in 2021 and 2022) - Artistic Director Haus der Kunst and Sarah Haugeneder (Boardmember Various Others), Prof. Bernhard Maaz (Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections) on the subject of "Art deals with the essence of life" or 2024 Dr. Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy (Director Franz Marc Museum, Kochel).