Axel Lapp (born 1966 in Konstanz, West Germany) is a German curator, art historian and 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]
Axel Lapp | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | curator, art historian and publisher |
Axel Lapp studied museology and art history in Marburg, Essex and Manchester.[3] He was Henry Moore Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (1998–2000) and Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sunderland (2009–2010). From 2002 until 2012, he worked as an art critic for 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.