HfG-Archive
Dr. Martin Mäntele
Head of Department
1965 born in Messkirch, West Germany. Studies Art History and Modern German Literature at Tuebingen University, in Newcastle (GB) and Hamburg. 1994 M.A., 1999 Ph.D. in Art History at Tuebingen University. 1999-2002 Research Assistant at Kunsthalle Tuebingen. 2002-2004 Junior Curator at Ulmer Museum. Since 2004 Head of Public Relations and Education at Ulmer Museum. Various exhibition projects and publications, including “ulm model – models after ulm”, 2003. April 2013 Head of HfG-Archive, the archive of the former Ulm School of Design. 2003-2012 lecturer in Design History at Polytechnics in Ulm, Wuerzburg, and Schwaebisch Gmuend.
+49 (0)731 161-4372
Viktoria Lea Heinrich
Curator, HfG Archive
Viktoria Lea Heinrich is a design historian and curator specializing in design history since 1950 and contemporary design perspectives. As head of the Arts and Crafts and Design Collection at the MK&G Hamburg (2024-2025), she curated, among other things, the exhibition “Hello Image. The Staging of Things” (2025/26). Prior to that, she was employed as an intern at the HfG Archive from 2019 to 2021 on the research project “Exhibiting Design: The Visibility of the HfG Ulm: From Ulm to Montréal,” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. She completed her traineeship with the exhibition “HfG Ulm: Exhibition Fever” (2021), which she curated together with two colleagues.
Other positions: Curatorial work at the MAK Vienna and the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna. In addition to her curatorial work, she teaches at various universities, including Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, HfG Offenbach, and Kunsthochschule Kassel. She is pursuing a doctorate at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin on the designer and university teacher Hans (Nick) Roericht, whose estate is kept at the HfG Archive in Ulm.
Tue–Thu (Tue/Wed: 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Thu: 9 a.m.–12 p.m.)
+49(0)731-161 4384
Gerti Kohler
Secretariat and administration
+49 (0)731 161-4370
