Photo historian Kathrin Schönegg, previously at c/o Berlin, will be the new director of the Munich City Museum’s photography collection.
Photo historian Kathrin Schönegg takes over management of the photography collection at the Munich City Museum on September 1st. She succeeds Ulrich Pohlmann, who retired at the end of the year after overseeing the collection for more than 30 years. Schönegg has been a curator since 2019 and in a leading position from 2022 at c/o Berlin, a renowned exhibition space for photography and visual media supported by a private foundation.
Among other things, Kathrin Schönegg had previously worked on two exhibitions for six months in the photography collection of the Munich City Museum. The director of the Stadtmuseum, Frauke von der Haar, praised Schönegg’s “comprehensive competence as a photo historian and curator”. With her, the collection is “in the best of hands”.