"I am delighted that the city council has followed our suggestion. Claudia Emmert has excellent museum expertise and management experience, which she will bring to the Kunstmuseum in the future," says Mayor Katja Dörner.

Dr. Claudia Emmert herself says: "Leading the Kunstmuseum Bonn into the future in this culturally interested and ambitious city from 2025 is a great task that I am very much looking forward to." She is convinced that changing societies also need changing museums. Museums in particular are also places where futures are imagined, utopias developed and disruptions considered. "No place is better suited to this than the Kunstmuseum in the City of Bonn."

Dr. Claudia Emmert will move from Friedrichshafen to Bonn. Since 2014, she has been Director and Managing Director of the Zeppelin Museum, an interdisciplinary two-division museum for art and technology. It recently received the Lotto Museum Prize Baden-Württemberg 2024 for innovative museum concepts and important social impulses.

With a view to a smooth transition of the contract with Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg, which expires at the end of November 2025, the Council decided in March 2024 on contractual key points for the future director and the appointment of an expert commission to advise the administration in the search for a suitable successor. "With Claudia Emmert, the City of Bonn is appointing a colleague who is both deserving and experienced. I am delighted to know that the continuity and further development of the museum is in such capable hands - and I wish her and the museum every success," says Prof. Stephan Berg.

The Kunstmuseum Bonn is one of the largest museums of contemporary art in Germany. At the heart of the museum is the Kunstmuseum Bonn's collection of around 9,000 works, with its central body of work on August Macke and the art of the Rhenish Expressionists, as well as the important collection on art in Germany after 1945 with a focus on painting, photography and time-based media.