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Wulf Herzogenrath, pioneering video art curator and Kunsthalle Bremen director, dies at 82

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Wulf Herzogenrath, the influential curator and director of Kunsthalle Bremen for seventeen years, has died. He was a pioneering champion of video and new media art, organizing the first European solo show for Nam June Paik in 1976 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein. He established a video art section at Documenta 6 in 1977 and returned to its curatorial committee in 1987 with an exhibition on new technology in art. He was also a noted advocate for the Bauhaus movement.

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Wulf Herzogenrath, a champion of video art and the director of Kunsthalle Bremen for seventeen years, has died.
In 1976 Herzogenrath organised the first European solo show for Nam June Paik at the Kölnischer Kunstverein.
The following year he established a section dedicated to video art at Documenta 6, returning to quinquennial's curatorial committee in 1987, this time with an exhibition dedicated to new technology in art.
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Headed Kunsthalle Bremen for seventeen years

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