About Viktoria Lea Heinrich
Viktoria Lea Heinrich has been curator and head of the Arts and Crafts and Design Collection at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) in Hamburg since March 2024 (parental leave replacement). Since 2023, together with Kaja Ninnis, she has been organising the ” Kolloquium Designgeschichte”, a forum for exchange between doctoral students in the field of design history.
From 2021 to 2024 she was a research assistant in the Theory and Practice of Design in the Product Design department at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Since 2021, she has been researching the designer and university lecturer Hans Roericht as part of a dissertation. From 2019 to 2021, she was employed as a research trainee at the HfG Archive/Museum Ulm as part of a Volkswagen Foundation research project and co-curated the exhibitions “HfG Ulm: Ausstellungsfieber” (2021) and “Der Ulmer Hocker: Idee – Ikone – Idol” (2021/22). Between 2016 and 2019, she worked as a curatorial assistant in the design collection of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and as a research assistant at the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna.
Viktoria Lea Heinrich studied product design at the HTW in Dresden and art and design science at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
About MK&G
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) is one of the foremost institutions for design in Germany. Its collection ranges from antiquity to contemporary innovations, encompassing the European, East Asian and Islamic cultural areas. The museum regards itself as an institution for discourse and considers the designing of our world as one of the most significant issues of our time.
The collection is the heart of the MK&G. Over 600,000 objects are in the custody of the museum so that people can research them, preserve them and communicate their significance. The collection stores the history of design, art and of museums, but also links itself to the present and points to the future in accordance with its founding concept as a model collection.
Applied Arts and Design Collection
Around 15,000 objects document over 200 years of design history, from Biedermeier to Bauhaus, from Braun products to Italian anti-design.
Works by important artists such as Lyonel Feiniger, Erich Heckel, Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt are on permanent display. As well as the Art Nouveau exhibits, which are known far beyond the country’s borders. The historically relevant collection is a platform for discourse on the future of design, which is debated in exhibitions and projects.
Support
Viktoria Lea Heinrich is part of the jury for the Museum Exhibition & Awards 2024.