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Klaus Ottmann (born 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany) is an independent curator and writer based in New York. He received a M.A. in philosophy from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Division of Media and Communications at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Ottmann is Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., and teaches theory of art and exhibitions at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Ottmann has curated over forty exhibitions, which have appeared at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; and the Haus der Kunst, Munich, among others.

His more recent curatorial projects include the Sixth International SITE Santa Fe Biennial (on view through January 7, 2007) and 2007 Open ev+a in Limerick, Ireland (March 31— June 24, 2007).

A former member of the board of directors of the American Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Ottmann has written extensively on contemporary art and art theory for numerous publications, including Flash Art, Arts, Domus, C Magazine, Art On Paper, Sculpture, and Artnews, and is the publisher of the Journal of Contemporary Art.

He is also Editor-in-Chief of Spring Publications, a small press owned by the archetypal psychologist James Hillman, which publishes books on archetypal psychology, symbolic imagination, art and the philosophy of art, phenomenology, the philosophy of psychology, religion, mysticism, and gnosis.

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