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Director Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg on the new colleague: "With his broad professional horizon, his management experience and his international network, Oliver Zybok ideally meets the requirements for the future deputy director of our museum. We are very much looking forward to welcoming this new, competent colleague."

Zybok has been Director of the Overbeck Society in Lübeck since 2015 and has also been Chief Curator of St. Peter's Church in Lübeck and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich since 2016. Together with Max Schön, he initiated the Possehl Prize for International Art in 2018 and curated the exhibitions of the first two prizewinners Doris Salcedo (2019) and Matt Mullican (2022) at the Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck. In 2019, he curated the city project Dr. Zuhause: K.U.N.S.T. (Erzliebe), in which five Lübeck institutions participated and jointly presented the extensive work of Jonathan Meese. Further stations included the Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (2007-2014 as artistic director), the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (2001-2002 as curator) and the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen (1999-2001 as chief curator).

Since 2004, Zybok has been guest editor for thematic volumes of the magazine Kunstforum International, including This is not a Love Song. On the Relationship between Art and Music and Memes. On the Power of Writing and Image (2020 and 2021, with Rosa Windt). Between 2003 and 2020, Zybok held various deputy and visiting professorships, including at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki (2003-2005), the Braunschweig University of Art (2006-2008) and the Münster Academy of Art (2017-2020).

Oliver Zybok studied art history, philosophy, history and modern German literature at RWTH Aachen University, the universities of Cologne and Bonn and the Sorbonne in Paris. He received his doctorate from RWTH Aachen University.