Prof. Kasper König (1943-2024) was a curator, museum director, educator. He famously initiated the Skulptur Projekte Münster in 1977 together with Klaus Bussmann. The city-wide sculpture projects took place every ten years with his involvement, and he became its artistic director in 2015. From 2000 to 2012, Kasper König directed the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
König was born in Mettingen, Westphalia in 1943, and organized numerous exhibitions during his student years, including an exhibition of the work of Claes Oldenburg in Stockholm in 1966. He was an advisor to Documenta 5, curated by Harald Szeemann in 1972. Following a lengthy stay in New York and teaching positions in Halifax and Düsseldorf. In 1987 he established Portikus in Frankfurt, and he was appointed professor, and later rector, at the Frankfurt Städelschule in 1988. He curated many large-scale exhibitions, including “Westkunst” (1981), “Der zerbrochene Spiegel” (1993) and Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg (2014).
