Julia Friedrich
Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Julia Friedrich has been Director of Collections at the Jewish Museum Berlin since March 2022 and Director of Exhibitions since January 2023. She is responsible for the Museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as for the various specialty areas of the collection, for the archive and library, and for collection management.
Friedrich’s previous post was at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, where, after completing a traineeship, she served as Head of the Graphic Arts Collection from 2006 to 2022. She also managed the Haubrich Collection, and has curated numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, featuring artists such as Jo Baer, Otto Freundlich, Pablo Picasso, and exile researcher Günter Peter Straschek.
Julia Friedrich read art history at the Free University of Berlin and Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. She received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 2008 for a dissertation on Gerhard Richter’s Gray Pictures. She has published a number of works on the subject of artists and the social function of art, with a research focus on art politics and collection practices in post-war Germany.
Julia Friedrich in the Glass Courtyard of the Museum, 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
Julia Friedrich in the Glass Courtyard of the Museum, 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
