Trained as an art historian, Corinna Roesner is best known for being the chief curator and deputy director of the venerated Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich.
Roesner studied art history, archaeology and ethnology at the University of Munich, receiving her Ph.D. in 1988. As a curator, Roesner has worked for Die Neue Sammlung since 1990, overseeing the planning and completion of the museum’s new buildings in Munich and Nuremberg in 2000 and 2002. She was involved in the development of concepts for the permanent exhibitions in these buildings, strategizing both content and exhibition design. In her primary role, Roesner has served as Curator and co-organizer of numerous temporary exhibitions for the museum. In addition, she co-authored and authored an array of publications and exhibition catalogues for Die Neue Sammlung and others.
Established in 1907, Die Neue Sammlung is regarded as the world's first design museum. With some 80,000 objects from the fields of industrial design, the museum houses the largest design collection in the world. The collection's exalted quality, owing to intense diversity and historical depth, allows for a variety of groundbreaking presentations about the development of design. Pioneering special exhibitions and cooperation projects provide a lively forum for contemporary trends.
Since the 2000 and 2002, Die Neue Sammlung – administered by the Free State of Bavaria – has boasted two large new buildings featuring trans-disciplinary concepts: Neues Museum für Kunst und Design (New Museum of Art and Design) in Nuremberg and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. In these establishments, for the first time, comprehensive permanent exhibitions of design have been made available to the general public, mingling side by side with the fine arts, graphics and architecture.
Ferrari racing car in the central rotunda of the museum during the exhibition "The face of Pace. La scuderia Ferrari. Photos by Michel Comte".
Photo: Rainer Viertlboeck
Visitors.
Photo: Haydar Koyupinar
Streamline pioneer Tatra 87 of 1938 in front of the wall installation "The Art of Car Design" by Chris Bangle, BMW Design, 2002.
Photo: Rainer Viertlboeck
Monumental entrance wall of Die Neue Sammlung's permanent exhibition.
Photo : Rainer Viertlboeck
