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Dr. Harald P. Kraemer

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Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies
Exhibition Curator,
University Museum and Art Gallery

Contact
2/F, T. T. Tsui Building
Telephone: +852 3917 4513
Email Harald Kraemer

Education

 

Ph.D. in Art History, Trier University

 

Dipl. Curator in Museum Studies and Curatorship, Institute of Cultural Sciences, Vienna

Bio

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Harald Peter Kraemer is an art scholar, curator and designer with a focus on Museum Studies and Interactive Media in Museums. His PhD on Museum Informatics & Digital Collections is considered a standard work for digital museum documentation. As a pioneer of museum informatics and through his involvement in 40 museums in the planning, design and production of database systems for collection/museum management, digital strategies for museums and numerous interactive online and offline media applications with cultural themes and e-learning courses, he is counted among the founders of the Digital Humanities.

 

In Vienna, Harald completed the first MA programme for exhibition curators and has since curated and designed over 100 exhibitions. He has written and published widely on applied museology, museum documentation, media in museums, curating, and contemporary art and has taught these topics at universities in Bern, Cologne, Glasgow, Hong Kong, and Zurich, among others. He was one of the founders of the European Master of Excellence Program Media Arts Cultures and Head of the MA Program Curating Art & Media (SCM, 2014-2021). Since August 2022, Harald has been at UMAG, where he teaches courses in Museum Studies and curates exhibitions on unusual topics.

Research Interests

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  • The Future of Museums

  • Digital Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • Dystopian Science Fiction Movies

  • Any form of art that inspires him

Courses

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Selected Publications and Exhibitions

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Publications

  • “Pedagogical & Interpretive Media” (chapter) in: New Media Art: Curation and Culture, Vol. III of Encyclopaedia of New Media Art, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2026. (in prep.)

  • 8 Times 8. Stories Series Systems in Mythology and Art, Hong Kong: UMAG, 2025.

  • Couplet Pair Rebus. The Principle of Cause and Effect in Art, Hong Kong: UMAG, 2024.

  • Future Memories. Utopia Dystopia Nature. Exhibition Strategy – Reflection – Documentation, Barcelona / Hong Kong / Vienna: Ediciones Triton, 2022.

  • “Media are—first of all—for fun. The Future of Media determines the Future of Museums”, in: Gerald Bast, Elias G. Carayannis and David F. J. Campbell (Eds.): The Future of Museums, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2018, 81–100. 

  • The Age of Experience: Hong Kong – Vienna. Exhibition Strategy & Reflection, Barcelona / Hong Kong / Vienna: Ediciones Triton, 2017. 

  • “What is less or more than a touch? Multimedia Classics – Hypermedia Hermeneutics”, in: Curator. The Museum Journal, January 2014, Vol. 57, No. 1, 119–136.

  • “Interdependence and Consequence. En Route toward a Grammar of Hypermedia Communication Design”, in: Oliver Grau, Thomas Veigl (Eds.): Gazing into the 21st Century, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2011,  289–312.

  • “Art is redeemed, Mystery is gone: the Documentation of Contemporary Art”, in: Sarah Kenderdine, Fiona Cameron (Eds.): Theorising Futures for the Past. Cultural Heritage and Digital Media, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2007, 193–222.

  • Museumsinformatik und Digitale Sammlung, Vienna: WUV (Vienna University Press), 2001.

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Exhibitions

  • 8 Times 8. Stories Series Systems in Mythology and Art, UMAG, 21.03.–08.06.2025.

  • Shape of Things to come. Again. Broodthaers Finlay Holzer Lettner Starek, Lotsremark Projekte, Basel, 11.06.-16.06.2024.

  • Couplet Pair Rebus. The Principle of Cause and Effect in Art, UMAG, 18.10.2023–28.01.2024.

  • Future Memories. Utopia Dystopia Nature, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 10.03.–06.04.2021.

  • Metamorphosis or Confrontation. Tobias Klein, The University of Hong Kong Museum and Art Gallery, 20.05.–06.12.2020. (Co-curated with F. Knothe).

  • Jeffrey Shaw. Encompassing the Golden Calf 1966>2019, Lotsremark Projekte, Basel, 11.06.–16.07.2019.

  • Interval in Space, Fundaziun Nairs, 22.07.–31.10.2017; Osage Gallery, 15.12.2017–15.01.2018, with works of Nadim Abbas, Au Hoi Lam, Sarah Lai, Lee Kit, Kingsley Ng, Judith Fegerl, Beat Feller, Zilla Leutenegger, Matthias Liechti, Boris Rebetez.

  • The Age of Experience, Angewandte Innovation Lab, University of Applied Arts,Vienna, 28.11.–20.12.2016; Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 13.03.–22.04.2015.

  • ISEA2016 Hong Kong Cultural R>Evolution, City University of Hong Kong, CMC, 18.05.–23.05.2016; Polytechnic University, Design School, 16.05.– 23.05.2016; The University of Hong Kong, 19.05.–23.05.2016; Connecting Spaces Hong Kong–Zurich, 17.05.–21.05.2016.

  • George Steinmann – Marcel Broodthaers. Dyspositive. Lotsremark Projekte, Basel 13.10.–15.12.2012.

  • Robert Lettner. Bilder zur magischen Geometrie (Paintings of magical geometry), Vienna Secession, 20.11.1998–17.01.1999.

  • Aura – Die Realität des Kunstwerks zwischen Autonomie, Reproduktion und Kontext (Aura – the reality of the artwork between autonomy, reproduction and context), Vienna Secession, 02.09.–16.10.1994. (Graphic Cabinet).

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