Moritz Wesseler (1980, Bremerhaven) took over the directorship the Kölnischen Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2013. Moritz has directed the museum, the collection and the scholarship programme of the royal house of Von Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen and Heiligenberg, and curated exhibitions for the exhibition space Capri in Düsseldorf. Collaborations at the Princely Fürstenberg Collections with artists like Dirk Bell, Julian Göthe, Halilaj, Dorota Jurczak, Gareth Moore, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva.Together with the curator Mario Kramer and the artist Gregor Schneider, Wesseler hosted from spring 2009 to autumn 2010 the exhibition project Double at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. They reconstructed historical exhibitions inside a room built by Gregor Schneider. Since 2003 he regularly curated shows at the Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst in Bremerhaven, which his father Jürgen Wesseler founded in 1967, with artists such as Cathy Wilkes, Martin Boyce, Ceal Floyer, Anri Sala, Manfred Pernice Luc Tuymans. Moritz studied art history and business administration in Mainz and Paris and was a volunteer at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, where he supervised exhibition projects by Michael Sailstorfer and Kris Martin in K20 Grabbeplatz, Jordan Wolfson in Schmela house and Tomás Saraceno K21 Ständehaus. Besides his work as curator Moritz Wesseler published regularly on contemporary art.