Michael Lailach

Michael Lailach

Michael Lailach (born 1969 Meerbusch) is a curator and academic at the Art Library of the State Museums of Berlin. In the exhibitions Lailach has overseen and in his publications, avant-garde art forms between image and text are often front and centre, for example in “Poetry Intermedia: Künstlerbücher seit 1960” (2002), “Based on Paper: Revolution der Kunst” (2007), “Welt aus Schrift” (2010) and “Kilométrage – Jan Brzekowski und seine Künstlerwelten” (2010).

Lailach received his PhD in Art History at the University of Tübingen and currently oversees the collection Book and Media Art in the Berlin Art Library, as well as the archive of the avant-garde collector Egidio Marzona.

 

Publications (selection)

Based on Paper, Walther König 2007
Land Art: The Earth as Canvas, Taschen 2007