Overview
- His family and the Bremen senate confirmed late Friday that Herzogenrath died in Berlin on Thursday after a short, serious illness.
- Herzogenrath rose to prominence as the young director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, led the video section at documenta 6 and was on the documenta 8 leadership team before serving as Hauptkustos at the Hamburger Bahnhof.
- He directed the Kunsthalle Bremen from 1994 to 2011, overseeing a major modernization and an expansion that opened in 2011 and helped raise the museum’s national profile.
- As a curator he championed media art, staging a Nam June Paik retrospective and acquiring Paik’s 1969 video synthesizer, and he was also a respected Bauhaus scholar with a 1970 PhD on Oskar Schlemmer.
- In later years he held an honorary professorship in Bremen, chaired the Akademie der Künste’ section for visual arts from 2012 to 2021, and served on high-profile juries and advisory bodies; no public funeral details have been reported.