Martin Engler is an art historian and head of the contemporary art department at the Städel Museum Frankfurt in Germany since 2008. He has been a curator of Kunstverein Hannover from 2002–2008. Since 1998, he is a lecturer with a focus on Contemporary Art and Art Theory at various academies and universities in Germany, Switzerland, and France. Among the exhibitions he curated at the Städel Museum we can mention Photographs Become Pictures. The Becher Class (2017), The 80s. Figurative Painting in West Germany (2015), John Baldessari. The Städel Paintings (2015), Piero Manzoni. When Bodies Became Art (2013), Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation (2012).
In Kunstverein Hannover (2002–2008) he organized a series of monographic show of the artists Leigh Bowery, Adrian Paci, John Armleder, Corinne Wasmuht, Leni Hoffmann, Ingrid Calame,Mathildeter Heijne, Jörg Wagner, Oliver Boberg.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the VAF Foundation for Italian Art (since 2015), a member of AICA, International Association of Art Critics and IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
This event was supported by the Goethe Zentrum in Tirana.