Vortrag
Carsten Höller & Daniel Birnbaum
Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
Das Werk des in Schweden lebenden Künstlers Carsten Höller zählt mit seinen Installationen, Skulpturen, Videos, Zeichnungen und Fotografien zu den bedeutendsten Positionen der Gegenwart. In Höller’s Arbeiten fließen immer wieder wissenschaftliche Ansätze ein, die unter anderem auf sein Studium in Agrarwissenschaften und seine Habilitation in Phytopathologie (Lehre der Pflanzenkrankheiten) zurückzuführen sind. In seinen Ausstellungen ließ Höller beispielsweise das Museum Hamburger Bahnhof mit Rentieren beleben, brachte gigantische Rutschbahnen an der Tate Modern in London an und verwandelte in 2011 die drei Etagen des New Yorker New Museum in Forscherlabore zu seinen Arbeiten aus den vergangenen 18 Jahren. In der Sammlung des MMK ist Carsten Höller mit den Werken „220 Volt“ (1992) sowie „Lichtwand“ (2002) vertreten.
Daniel Birnbaum, in Stockholm geboren, studierte an der Universität Stockholm, der Freien Universität Berlin und der Columbia University New York Kunstgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und Philosophie. Neben Beiträgen in internationalen Kunstzeitschriften wie „Artforum“ und „Frieze“ verfasste er zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Arbeiten. Von 2000 bis 2010 war er Rektor der Städelschule Frankfurt. Neben seiner kuratorischen Mitwirkung an zahlreichen Biennalen leitete er 2009 zusammen mit dem Co-Direktor Jochen Volz die 53. Biennale von Venedig. Seit 2011 ist er Direktor des Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Carsten Höller und Daniel Birnbaum – beide wohnhaft in Stockholm – die sich beruflich wie privat schon seit vielen Jahren kennen, treffen im Rahmen der MMK Talks erstmals in einem öffentlichen Gespräch aufeinander.
Die Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks wird gefördert durch die Deutsche Bank Stiftung.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013
Montag, 21. Januar 2013
Juan A. Gaitán
Vortrag
Juan A. Gaitán: A System of Reports
Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, Aula
Juan A. Gaitán, the curator of the coming Berlin Biennale will begin his lecture-presentation by contextualizing the recent history of the Berlin Biennale, its international relevance and comprehensive impact on the cultural life of Berlin. Further, elaborating on its 8th edition to be held in Spring 2014, he will introduce the beginnings of his curatorial research as well as the artistic team he has invited. In his edition, Gaitán seeks to treat Berlin as a subjective microcosm, tracing its globality and mercantile linkages in the late 19th – early 20th centuries as well as its journey from empire to nation-state. The circulating figures within the formation of Modernity will be interrogated through the contributions of individuals such as Alexander von Humboldt and his scientific explorations across the Americas.
Gaitán (Canada/Colombia), born 1973, is an independent writer and curator, currently based in Mexico City and Berlin. He is trained as an artist and art historian at University of British Columbia and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (Canada). Between January 2009 and December 2011, he was curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and between September 2011 and June 2012 adjunct professor in the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco (USA). During the 2006 – 2008 period, he was on the Board of Directors of the Western Front Society, and worked as external curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver. He presently is curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2014
His writings have been published in several journals, including Afterall, The Exhibitionist, Fillip, and Mousse. His most recent exhibition, Material Information, spans three venues in Bergen (Norway), and looks for a renewed critical approach to the contemporary global distribution of labor from the perspective of arts and crafts. He is presently member of the acquisitions committee at FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunquerke (France).
Juan A. Gaitán: A System of Reports
Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, Aula
Juan A. Gaitán, the curator of the coming Berlin Biennale will begin his lecture-presentation by contextualizing the recent history of the Berlin Biennale, its international relevance and comprehensive impact on the cultural life of Berlin. Further, elaborating on its 8th edition to be held in Spring 2014, he will introduce the beginnings of his curatorial research as well as the artistic team he has invited. In his edition, Gaitán seeks to treat Berlin as a subjective microcosm, tracing its globality and mercantile linkages in the late 19th – early 20th centuries as well as its journey from empire to nation-state. The circulating figures within the formation of Modernity will be interrogated through the contributions of individuals such as Alexander von Humboldt and his scientific explorations across the Americas.
Gaitán (Canada/Colombia), born 1973, is an independent writer and curator, currently based in Mexico City and Berlin. He is trained as an artist and art historian at University of British Columbia and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (Canada). Between January 2009 and December 2011, he was curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and between September 2011 and June 2012 adjunct professor in the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco (USA). During the 2006 – 2008 period, he was on the Board of Directors of the Western Front Society, and worked as external curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver. He presently is curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2014
His writings have been published in several journals, including Afterall, The Exhibitionist, Fillip, and Mousse. His most recent exhibition, Material Information, spans three venues in Bergen (Norway), and looks for a renewed critical approach to the contemporary global distribution of labor from the perspective of arts and crafts. He is presently member of the acquisitions committee at FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunquerke (France).
Dorothea von Hantelmann
Vortrag
Dorothea von Hantelmann: Economies of Attention: Regimes of Time in Exhibitions
Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, Aula
In the early days of public museums, opening hours were a highly debated issue. This was not just because questions such as whether or not museums should be open on Sundays pointed to the extent to which the museum realized its ideal of unlimited public accessibility. This debate also occured because the invention of a cultural ritual based on an open temporal frame with no fixed beginning or end marked the museum as a liberal ritual; a ritual that, unlike the fixed time format of theatre, allowed individualized and flexibilised forms of usage. Although the museum can host thousands of people a day, it – contrary to theatre or film – still constitutes a flexible ritual par excellence. In that sense, it is a distinctively modern ritual that corresponds to a modern, individualized sensitivity.
The lecture will reflect on the aesthetic and cultural significance of these phenomena in light of the history and current social function of art museums. By relating them to sociological approaches such as the theory of weak ties, it will throw a particular light on the respective economies of attention that are at stake in exhibitions today
Dorothea von Hantelmann, born 1969 in Hamburg, lives in Berlin. She teaches Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin and works at the Collaborative Research Centre on “Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits.” Among her recent publications are How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art’s Performativity (2010) and Die Ausstellung. Politik eines Rituals (ed. with C. Meister, 2010).
A lecture in the frame of Curatorial and Critical Studies
Dorothea von Hantelmann: Economies of Attention: Regimes of Time in Exhibitions
Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, Aula
In the early days of public museums, opening hours were a highly debated issue. This was not just because questions such as whether or not museums should be open on Sundays pointed to the extent to which the museum realized its ideal of unlimited public accessibility. This debate also occured because the invention of a cultural ritual based on an open temporal frame with no fixed beginning or end marked the museum as a liberal ritual; a ritual that, unlike the fixed time format of theatre, allowed individualized and flexibilised forms of usage. Although the museum can host thousands of people a day, it – contrary to theatre or film – still constitutes a flexible ritual par excellence. In that sense, it is a distinctively modern ritual that corresponds to a modern, individualized sensitivity.
The lecture will reflect on the aesthetic and cultural significance of these phenomena in light of the history and current social function of art museums. By relating them to sociological approaches such as the theory of weak ties, it will throw a particular light on the respective economies of attention that are at stake in exhibitions today
Dorothea von Hantelmann, born 1969 in Hamburg, lives in Berlin. She teaches Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin and works at the Collaborative Research Centre on “Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits.” Among her recent publications are How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art’s Performativity (2010) and Die Ausstellung. Politik eines Rituals (ed. with C. Meister, 2010).
A lecture in the frame of Curatorial and Critical Studies
Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013
Amy Sillman
Vortrag
Amy Sillman
Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, Aula
Amy Sillman *1956 is an American painter living and working in New York. Sillman foregrounds the materiality of painting and its formal, psychological, and conceptual dimensions. She constructs her work in a physical way — through gesture, color, and drawing-based procedures — imbuing it with questions of feminism, performativity, and humor. Her work is an ongoing negotiation between the improvisatory and the structural aspects of thinking itself, with painting posited as a language in which to express thinking in a formal and affective method.
Sillman‘s bibliography includes Amy Sillman: Works on Paper (Gregory R. Miller, 2006), a monograph of her drawings with text by Wayne Koestenbaum, and Between Artists: Gregg Bordowitz and Amy Sillman (ART Press, NY, 2009). Sillman earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her MFA from Bard College in 1995. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louise Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin in 2009. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected in public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A survey of her work will be exhibited in 2013 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Amy Sillman
Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr, Aula
Amy Sillman *1956 is an American painter living and working in New York. Sillman foregrounds the materiality of painting and its formal, psychological, and conceptual dimensions. She constructs her work in a physical way — through gesture, color, and drawing-based procedures — imbuing it with questions of feminism, performativity, and humor. Her work is an ongoing negotiation between the improvisatory and the structural aspects of thinking itself, with painting posited as a language in which to express thinking in a formal and affective method.
Sillman‘s bibliography includes Amy Sillman: Works on Paper (Gregory R. Miller, 2006), a monograph of her drawings with text by Wayne Koestenbaum, and Between Artists: Gregg Bordowitz and Amy Sillman (ART Press, NY, 2009). Sillman earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her MFA from Bard College in 1995. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louise Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin in 2009. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected in public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A survey of her work will be exhibited in 2013 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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