Axel Lapp


Axel Lapp is a German curator, art historian and publisher, who is based in Memmingen. He is director of :de: MEWO Kunsthalle|MEWO Kunsthalle as well as of :de: Strigel-Museum|Strigel- and :de: Antoniter-Museum|Antoniter-Museum in Memmingen. From 2005 until 2013, he was publisher of :de: The Green Box - Kunst Editionen|The Green Box, an art book publisher in Berlin.

Biography

Axel Lapp studied museology and art history in Marburg, Essex and Manchester. He was Henry Moore Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sunderland. From 2002 until 2012, he worked as an art critic for Art Review and Art Monthly, and as a freelance curator for contemporary art.
For the art publisher :de:The Green Box - Kunst Editionen|The Green Box, which he directed from 2005 until 2013, he edited numerous books on contemporary art and curating.
Since 2012, Lapp is Director of MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen. His first exhibition there, in March 2013, was 'CINEMA and the cinematografic gaze', with works by Omer Fast, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Ming Wong and many others.

Publications (selection)