Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2010

Mathias Poledna

Vortrag
Mathias Poledna: Songs to Remember
Mittwoch, 27. Januar, 19 Uhr, Aula

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Mathias Poledna (*1965 Vienna/A, lives and works in Vienna, Los Angeles/USA) belongs to a generation of artists, who at the outset of the 1990s, with recourse to both the critical attitude towards institutions developed by the art of the 1960s and 1970s and to the conceptual practices of inquiry, analysis, and documentation, called into question the conditions under which art was being created and pushed for its re-politicization. With reference to the mass media’s collective memory of images, Poledna has repeatedly focused on the visualization of historic constellations in both political and popular culture contexts.

Mike Bouchet

Vortrag
Mike Bouchet
Dienstag, 26. Januar, 19 Uhr, Aula

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Mike Bouchet was born 1970 in California, USA.
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

The work produced by Bouchet in recent years seems to present a compulsion to alter one’s place in the world by reproducing and re-contextualizing “desirable” things in and of the world. His projects and exploits are one-to-one models—real transactions with their own autonomy and agency. You cannot alter your place in the world without first altering your image of the world. Bouchet’s endeavor goes beyond representation or a kind of DIY prudence, into what can best be described as a real-life parody. This artist uses everything at his disposal to grow, package, and pitch his own products. In systems such as these, even real transactions are not completely convincing, the reification of one’s product through extensive image production is needed to make it completely viable.

Recent solo shows include ‘CANBURGER’, Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris; ‘New New Age Film Festival’, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main (both 2008) and ‘16x9 Action Film’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2008) and MOCA, Los Angeles (2007). Group shows include ‘Making Worlds’, 53rd Venice Biennale; ‘Quand la première ivresse des succès bruyants ….’ CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (both 2009) and ‘Meet Me Around The Corner’, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2008).

Samstag, 23. Januar 2010

SPACE AND TIME IN ARCHITECTURE AND EXHIBITIONS

The Architecture Class presents:

Public Panel Discussion: "Space and Time in Architecture and Exhibitions"
Monday, 25th January, 18h, Aula

Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.

The modern notions of time and space in architecture are defined in terms of mutual dependency through an unresolved, dialectical hierarchy. One is supposed to follow the other and in this manner make the other legible. However, this relation of intelligibility is problematic since we construe space from systems of projection that far exceed the extensions give in Euclidean space, and the flow and experience of time can be reduced neither to a discrete nor a continueous condition. Nowhere is this unresolved relation between time and space more clear than in exhibitions - whether in art or architecture. These events use narratives and compositional adjacency relations in spatial terms to propose temporally defined relations.


*Jeffrey Kipnis*

Jeffrey Kipnis, currently a professor at Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University and a visiting professor at Harvard, Colombia and Angewandte Kunst, Vienna is a world renowned architectural critic, educator and author. His work attempts to define and correlate the intellectual, cultural and political role of contemporary architecture – ranging from his writing which include:/ Toward a New Architecture/, /Twisting the Separatrix/ and /Political Space I/, to studies on 20^th century key figures such as Philip Johnson, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind, to various exhibitions on architectural drawing and design and his award-winning film on the work of Frank Gehry.

*Ben van Berkel*

Ben van Berkel is the Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class and the co-founder of UNStudio. He has co-authored a number of books and essays and has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton, Columbia University, Harvard, the Berlage Institute and UCLA. Central to his work is an interest in the integration of construction and architecture. Recent projects include the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart; the restructuring of the station area of Arnhem, The New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion in Battery Park New York, the MUMUTH Music Theatre in Graz and the Raffles City development in Hangzhou, China.

*Johan Bettum*

Johan Bettum is a professor of architecture and the program director of the Städelschule Architecture Class. He has also taught at the AA, UCLA, the Berlage Institute, Innsbruck University, the EPFL in Lausanne and Oslo School of Architecture. Bettum has a PhD in fibre-reinforced material systems entitled /The Material Geometry of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites and Architectural Tectonics./ He has written for a number of prominent publications while his work is repeatedly published in Graz Architecture Magazine, Domus and Architecture Design (AD) to name but a few. His practice, ArchiGlobe, focuses on architecture within the context of research and experiments.

*Nikolaus Hirsch*

Nikolaus Hirsch is a Stiftungsprofessor at the Städelschule who has hold academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, and numerous exhibition architectures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel), “Frequencies-Hz” at Schirn Kunsthalle and "Indian Highway" (Serpentine Gallery, 2008). Hirsch´s ongoing research in institutional models has resulted in projects such as the Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), Unitednationsplaza in Berlin (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi and currently a studio structure for Rirkrit Tiravanija´s “The Land”.

Dienstag, 19. Januar 2010

Rundgang 2010

Jahresausstellung der Studierenden der
Städelschule

Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 12. Februar 2010, 18 Uhr, Dürerstrasse 10
Party: ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Ausstellungsdauer: 13. bis 15. Februar 2010
Öffnungszeiten: 10 – 20 Uhr
Shuttlebus zwischen Dürer- und Daimlerstraße am Wochenende ab 11Uhr stündlich.
Eintritt Frei!

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von:

Städelschule Portikus e.V.
Hans und Stefan Bernbeck-Stiftung
Lohr & Schach
Delbrück Bethmann Maffei ABN AMRO AG
Linklaters LLP
Haus & Grund Deutschland
Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
Frankfurter Verein für Künstlerhilfe e.V.
Ernst & Young GmbH
Albig-Stiftung






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