KASSEL.- dOCUMENTA (13) announced Dr. Christine Litz as a new member of the dOCUMENTA (13) organizational team. Recently appointed project manager, she is responsible for the realization of the ideas developed by the artistic director, Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev, and her curatorial team, as well as for the artists’ projects and other elements that will ultimately comprise dOCUMENTA (13).

Christine Litz is an art historian. She studied Art History, German Language and Literature, and Education in Cologne and Bochum, where she completed her doctorate on “Script in the Visual Arts” in 2002.

At the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Litz was responsible for a weekly film- and lecture series from 1999 to 2000, and she was assistant to Director Kasper König at the Museum Ludwig. For the Museum Ludwig, she initiated the “film-bar” together with Peter Allmann and developed the educational programs “Art: Dialogues” and “Young Night.” She became internationally known as the project manager of sculptur projects münster 07, where she worked from 2005 to 2007. Immediately prior to her engagement in Kassel, she was a visual arts expert in the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony.