Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Dr. phil., is a curator, writer, editor, and advisor in the field of the visual arts and has produced numerous monographic and thematic exhibitions and publications. She lives and works in Munich.

For ten years Petra Giloy-Hirtz was an assistant and associate professor of medieval literature at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and a lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. Since 1993 she has been active as an independent curator for contemporary art.

Her recent exhibitions and publications include: Berlinde De Bruyckere, City of Refuge II, Diözesanmuseum Freising (2023); Acosta Danza. Fusion. The Vision of Carlos Acosta's Dance Company, Prestel Penguin Random House (2022); Kiki Smith, I am a Wanderer. Tapestries, prints, photography, sculpture, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2019); Kiki Smith, Procession, Belvedere, Vienna (2019), Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere/Finland (2019), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2018); Dennis Hopper, The Lost Album, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2012); David Lynch, The Factory Photographs, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, MAST, Bologna (2014); Julian Schnabel, Polaroids, Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague/Netherlands (2010).

Since 2017 Petra Giloy-Hirtz is Artistic Advisor of the Alexander Tutsek-Foundation in Munich and she is active as an independent curator for contemporary art for the Diocesan Museum of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising since 2019.

Kiki Smith, Empathy, Diözesanmuseum Freising (2023), Berlinde De Bruyckere, City of Refuge II, Diözesanmuseum Freising (2023), Kiki Smith, I am a Wanderer. Tapestries, prints, photography, sculpture, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2019), Kiki Smith, Procession, Belvedere, Vienna (2019), Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere/Finland (2019), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2018); Dennis Hopper, The Lost Album, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2012); David Lynch, The Factory Photographs, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, MAST, Bologna (2014); Julian Schnabel, Polaroids, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf / Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague, Netherlands / FORMA Centro Internationale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy / Centro Niemeyer, Áviles, Asturias, Spain / Colnaghi, London, 18Gallery, Bund 18, Shanghai. (2010/2011).

At the Diocesan Museum of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (1998-2005) Petra Giloy-Hirtz curated numerous single-artist and thematic exhibitions with artists such as Kai Althoff, Lawrence Carroll, Olafur Eliasson, Gloria Friedmann, Geoffrey Hendricks, Mischa Kuball, Christina Kubisch, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Longo, Julian Opie, David Reed, Lisa Ruyter, Kiki Smith, Pia Stadtbäumer, Bill Viola.

Lucas Reiner, Los Angeles Trees (Prestel 2008), Christopher Thomas, New York Sleeps (Prestel 2009), Stefan Hunstein „Schön war’s!“ (Hatje Cantz 2009), Christopher Thomas, Passion (Prestel 2010), Julian Schnabel, Polaroids (Prestel 2010), Dennis Hopper, The Lost Album (Prestel 2012), Hassel Smith, Paintings 1937-1997, (ed.) (Prestel 2012), David Lynch, The Factory Photographs (Prestel 2014), Dennis Hopper, The Lost Album, 2. edition, exhibition catalogue Royal Academy of Arts, London (Prestel 2014). Roland Fischer, Facades, (ed.) (Hirmer 2014, 2. edition 2015); Stefan Hunstein, Im Eis, (ed.) Hirmer (2014), englische Ausgabe 2016; Julian Schnabel, CVJ, Nicknames of Maitre D’s & Other Excerpts from Life, (ed., epilogue, Hatje Cantz 2015 (Facsimile of the out-of-print, original bibliophile edition from 1987); Elke Härtel, Rapunzel, Hirmer 2017; Kiki Smith, Procession, Prestel 2018, 2. revised edition 2019; Mark Harrington, Degi-Degi, Zweigstelle Berlin: Munich 2020; About Us. Young Photography in China (with Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek), Hirmer Publishers: Munich 2021; Acosta Danza. Fusion. The Vision of Carlos Acosta's Dance Company, Prestel Penguin Random House (2022), Stephan Huber, Gran Paradiso, (Hrsg.), Hirmer (2023).

Essays on Silvia Bächli, Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Julian Schnabel, David Lynch, Lawrence Carroll, Hassel Smith, Mark Harrington, Lucas Reiner, Thomas Lehnerer, Julia Mangold, Lilian Moreno Sánchez, Elke Härtel u.v.a. Lectures and artist talks, recently with Robin Rhode, Monica Bonvicini, Jitka Hanzlová, Mona Hatoum (2021/2022), Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, Silvia Levenson, Vera Lutter (2023).

Dr. phil. Petra Giloy-Hirtz

Maximilianstr. 26
80539 Munich
Germany

Phone: +49 89 982 82 83
Cell: +49 170 282 1591
Email: petra@curators.de