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Madeleine Frey (1984 in Schweinfurt) is a German art historian, economist and museum director. She lives in Stuttgart.

Education and work
Madeleine Frey trained at the universities of Basel, Cambridge, Lugano and Freiburg im Breisgau from 2004 to 2012. She studied economics and art history and was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). After stints at the Archdiocese of Freiburg, the Buchstabenmuseum Berlin and Christie’s auction house, Frey was a cultural manager and curator at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg) from 2015 to 2016, where, among other things, she curated the group exhibition Light on and the solo show of works by Benjamin Appel Zu Groß für mein Zimmer. Afterwards, Frey was project manager responsible for the development of fundraising, sponsoring strategies and management of the Fördergesellschaft im Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum) from 2015 to 2016. In 2016 she became director of the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, the city’s museum of contemporary art.

The focus of her research is on the economic and sociological parameters of the art industry, the analysis of feminist discourses, and a critical appraisal of patriarchal power structures and social roles. She has curated exhibitions of artists including Kate Cooper, Ana Navas, Leni Hoffmann, Roman Signer, Capucine Vandebrouck and Peter Zimmermann. With the aid of the group exhibition Aktion&Malerei (2017), Martin Pfeifle’s terr! at the Sindelfinger Freibad (2018), and #Material 4.0(2018) she brings art to new settings, thus allowing new perspectives and enabling new productions for specific sites. As in the group show #Material 4.0 (2018), as artistic director of the exhibition Beyond the Pain (October 2020 to May 2021) she once again focuses on artists who make use of time-based media in order to reflect on the transience of pain sensations in terms of media. The exhibition Beyond the Pain sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung (Baden-Württemberg Foundation) features works by Forensic Architecture, Marianna Simnett, Maya Watanabe or Damien Hirst, among others.

Exhibitions (selection)

 * 2020: Beyond the Pain, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2020: Out of the Dark - 30 Jahre Sammlung Lütze in der Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2020: Inge Mahn, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen.
 * 2019: On the Quiet, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2019: Utopien in der Stadtgesellschaft – Identität und Geschichte, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2019: Peter Zimmermann – paint it, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2019: Anna Schütten – Go, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2018: #Material 4.0, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2018: Martin Pfeifle terr!, Freibad Sindelfingen
 * 2018: Martin Pfeifle, ZOK, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2018: Dave Bopp - Black Box, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2017: Aktion&Malerei, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2017: Ana Navas, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2017: Capucine Vandebrouck, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2017: Benjamin Appel: Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
 * 2015: Light on, Studio 1 der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
 * 2014: Zuspiel, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg und Galerie Valentien Stuttgart

Publications

 * Peter Zimmermann: paint it, Sindelfingen, 2019. ISBN 978-3-928222-56-3


 * MATERIAL 4.0, Sindelfingen, 2019. ISBN 978-3-89790-559-7


 * Aktion & Malerei, Sindelfingen, 2018. ISBN 9783928222556


 * Benjamin Appel: Den Keller mit Beton füllen, Verlag aga press, Baden-Baden, 2017. ISBN-10 3928222546


 * Ana Navas: I had to think of you / Ich musste an dich denken, Sindelfingen, 2017. ISBN 978-3-943514-92-6.


 * Das Prinzip der Einfachheit, in: Hufschmidt, Isabel: Martin Pfeifle. ISBN 2910036790


 * Madeleine Frey im Gespräch mit Jens Stickel, in: Jens Stickel, Wand gegen Sonne, Karlsruhe, 2018, ISBN 29782910036799