Board

Dorothée Wahl

Chair

Dorothée Wahl has been an elected member of the PIN. Board since 2008. After three years as vice chair, she was elected chair in 2016. She graduated from the University of Cologne with a degree in business administration, worked for diverse companies in the textile industry, and has been an active entrepreneur in the sector since 1988. She is PIN.’s contact partner for corporate cooperation and museum funding. Dorothée Wahl was intensely interested in contemporary art as a student and remains enthusiastic and involved to this day.

ANNETTE STADLER

Vice Chair

Annette Stadler was elected to the PIN. Board in 2016. Since late 2014 she has additionally served as head of the planning committee for the PIN. Party. Contemporary art always played an important role in Stadler’s childhood home thanks to close connections to both the Kunstverein Braunschweig, as well as to numerous artists. She received a degree in romance languages and history in Tübingen and Lüttich. Her family members remain passionate about contemporary art, particularly about concrete art, conceptual art, minimal art and light art.

STEPHANIE RECHENBERG

Vice Chair

Stephanie Rechenberg was elected to the PIN. Board in 2020, advises PIN. in legal matters and has also served as head of PIN. Young Circle since 2021. She was admitted to the bar in 2013 and specializes in general contract law and labor law. During her parental leave she also studied art history and is currently pursuing a doctorate in the field of provenance research. The focus of her work is the interface between art and law.

KLAUS SCHNEIDER

Treasurer

Klaus Schneider was elected to the PIN. Board in 2022 and appointed treasurer. He holds a degree in business administration and works as a tax consultant and auditor and is managing partner at Schneider + Partner GmbH. In addition to his volunteer involvement with PIN., he serves as treasurer of the Akademieverein as well as committee member of the auditors of the Deutscher Spendenrat e.V. (German Donations Council). Klaus Schneider has been interested in the diverse aspects of modern art for many years.

JEANETTE APITZ

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Jeanette Apitz was born in Munich and moved to London in the mid-1990s. There she studied graphic design, first at Camberwell College of Arts, then at Central Saint Martins and later at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she first worked in various design studios in London and then moved to New York, where she was particularly involved in the graphic design of Roland Lauder's Neue Galerie New York. After two years in the USA, she moved back to London. Here she worked for renowned design companies until 2006.
She now lives with her family in Switzerland and advises various companies, including the fashion label Bally, and was involved in the first editions of the NOMAD design fair. She is a member of various art and cultural promotion organizations and is intensively involved with contemporary design and jewelry.
Jeanette Apitz is still closely connected to her home town and has a great interest in the interdisciplinary exchange of art, architecture, graphics and design - a dialog that the Pinakothek unites in an exemplary way through its four buildings.

KATHARINA FREIFRAU VON PERFALL

Vice Chair

Katharina von Perfall has been an elected member of the PIN. Board since 1998. After a six-year term as board chair, she was elected vice chair in 2016. Following her studies in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London and the University of Heidelberg, Katharina von Perfall worked as art critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine and Die Wochenpost. She was active as an art consultant from 1990 to 2009 and as of 2004, increasingly specialized as an advisor for private collections of contemporary art. Katharina von Perfall oversees the development of corporate collections and initiates the realization of architecture-related works by artists including Gerhard Richter, Dan Flavin, Juan Munoz, Daniel Buren or Robert Barry. Katharina von Perfall has authored numerous catalogue texts.

DR. MICHAEL HERING

Board

Michael Hering has been the Director of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München since January 2016 and is thus PIN. Board member ex officio. He studied art history and German in Osnabrück, Hamburg, Paris, and Jena and from 1991 to 2000 he held a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. In 2003, Hering obtained his doctorate under Professor Franz-Joachim Verspohl at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena with a critical catalogue raisonné of the printing oeuvre of Wols. He worked as research assistant in the graphics collection at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, as well as at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover. From 2010 to 2015, Michael Hering was the conservator of drawing, graphics, and photography of the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett and served there as at deputy director from 2014 through 2015. Hering curated numerous special exhibitions which brought the Kupferstich-Kabinett significant acclaim.

ACHIM HOCHDÖRFER

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Achim Hochdörfer became Director of the Museum Brandhorst Collection in 2013 and has been an ex officio member of the PIN. Board since 2016. From 1990, Achim Hochdörfer studied art history, philosophy and archaeology in Augsburg, Rome and Vienna. He spent several months in 1997 with Cy Twombly in Rome and Gaeta assisting with the works catalogue of the artist’s sculptures. Following an assistant's position at the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna from 1998 to 2001, he became a curator there, heading the performance and art theory departments. At the same time, he taught at both the Institute of Art History of the University of Vienna and at the Academy of Fine Arts and additionally realised numerous monographic and thematic projects. Hochdörfer has conceived and organised a series of highly acclaimed symposiums on topics relevant to art theory, genre specificity and institutions.

PROF. DR. ANDRES LEPIK

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In May 2012, Andres Lepik accepted an appointment as professor of architectural history and curatorial practice at the TU Munich. In October 2012 he assumed the role of director of the Architekturmuseum for the TU Munich and thus became an ex officio member of the PIN. Board. Andres Lepik studied art history and German at the Universities of Augsburg and Munich. From 1994, he worked as a curator at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, becoming chief custodian of the 20th and 21st- century architecture collection at the Kunstbibliothek in 2004. From 2007 to 2011, he was employed as a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 2011/2012. Andres Lepik has written and published numerous books and is the author of many essays, newspaper articles and reviews on contemporary architecture and architectural history. He is also the co-editor of CANDIDE. Journal for Architectural Knowledge. Since 2013 he has been a trustee of the IBA Heidelberg and sits on the committee for visual arts at the Goethe Institute.

PROF. DR. BERNHARD MAAZ

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Bernhard Maaz has been General Director of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen since April 2015, responsible for the main houses in Munich and the Bavarian branch galleries in addition to overseeing the collections as well as construction planning and building sites. As general director, Maaz is also a PIN. Board member ex officio. Bernhard Maaz studied art history and archeology and started in 1986 as research associate at the Nationalgalerie bei den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (National Gallery of the State Museums), in charge of the sculptures of the 19th century. This focus served as motivation for his dissertation on the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck and led to numerous publications. As consultant for construction, he was responsible for the refurbishment of the Alte Nationalgalerie; completed in 2001. Exhibitions in Germany and abroad followed, concentrated primarily on 19th-century sculptures, paintings and drawings.
Until 2009, Maaz was head of the Alte Nationalgalerie and lastly the deputy director. Starting in 2010 he was director of the Kupferstich-Kabinett and the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden for over five years. Major publications from that period include Das Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, describing a selection of masterpieces (2013), and the comprehensive volume of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. Eine Geschichte der Malerei (2014).

DR. MARKUS MICHALKE

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Chairman of the Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne, (Foundation Pinakothek der Moderne), Markus Michalke has been a PIN. Board member ex officio since 2016. As an economist, Michalke has collected extensive investment experiences in the field of investment banking, private equity, asset management and real estate development. He has been managing partner of the medium-sized industrial holding Alveus Beteiligungen for seven years. Michalke has also been a passionate art collector for 25 years, particularly of minimal and post-minimal art with a focus on graphics. He has been involved in the foundation council of the Foundation Pinakothek der Moderne for over 13 years; for more than 10 of those years as chairman. Michalke is fervently interested in the future viability of museums, as well as in art education for a broader society. This enthusiasm motivates Michalke’s active involvement in a variety of other cultural institutions.

PROF. DR. ANGELIKA NOLLERT

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Angelika Nollert succeeded Professor Florian Hufnagl as director of the Neue Sammlung – International Design Museum in May 2014 and thus became a member of the PIN. Board ex officio. With a PhD in art history, Angelika Nollert was the director of the Neues Museum für Kunst und Design in Nuremberg for seven years prior to her appointment in Munich. During her time there, the two museums maintained close ties. The ongoing exchange resulted in the realisation of various cooperation projects over the years, such as the large monographic exhibitions on Marcello Morandini, Claus Bury, Alessandro Mendini, and Helmut Jahn at the Nuremberg museum. Work at the junction between various disciplines – design, art, and architecture – are of particular interest to Angelika Nollert. Following her engagement with Skulptur Projekte in Münster in 1997, she curated Portikus in Frankfurt am Main and took over the project management for the Documenta 11 in 2001. From 2002 to 2007, she managed the Visual Arts Department of the Siemens Art Program in Munich, after which she was appointed director of the Neues Museum in Nuremberg.