Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Boris Groys: Politics of Installation
Wednesday, 1st July, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In “Politics of Installation”, Boris Groys considers the multilayered nature of the artist's sovereign will and the challenge posed to it by the fundamental act of exhibiting work to the public. Here, within the modernist notion of absolute artistic sovereignty, he identifies a short-circuit in the Western conception of freedom. This is simply because, in exhibiting work to the public (in the name of the public), the artist effectively justifies the place of his or her work in public discourse. The artwork's sovereignty is, in a sense, limited by the same process that allows it to exist as such. In order to recover this lost agency, Groys finds in installation practice a public space in which the artist's sovereign will can be reclaimed.
Boris Groys, Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at HfG Karlsruhe and Global Professor at New York University, is a philosopher, art critic, curator, and media theorist. He published numerous books including „The Total Art of Stalinism“ (Princeton, 1992), „Über das Neue. Versuch einer Kulturökonomie“ (München, 1992), and “Art Power” (Cambridge, 2008), and “Thinking in Loop. Three video lectures” (Karlsruhe/Ostfildern 2008). He has curated the exhibitions “Dream Factory Communism” (Schirn Kunsthalle, 2004), “Privatisations”, at the KW (Berlin, 2004), “Total Enlightenment. Conceptual Art in Moscow 1960-1990” (Schirn, 2008) and “Medium Religion” (with Peter Weibel) at the ZKM (2009).
Friedrich Wolfram Heubach: Zur allgemeinen Debilisierung der Gesellschaft unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kunstbetriebs
Donnerstag, 2. Juli, 19 Uhr, Aula
Es wird zur Sprache kommen, wovon der Titel handelt.
Friedrich Wolfram Heubach gründete 1968 die legendäre Kunst/Künstler-Zeitschrift >interfunktionen<, deren Herausgeber er bis 1972 war; Nach der Habilitation im Fach Psychologie unterrichtete er bis 1989 an der Universität zu Köln und bis 1992 an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg; anschließend wechselte er auf den Lehrstuhl für Psychologie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Seine wohl bekanntesten Veröffentlichungen sind (u.a.): Das bedingte Leben - Theorie der psychologischen Gegenständlichkeit der Dinge (München 1987) und Ein Bild und sein Schatten - Zum Bild der Melancholie und zur Erscheinung der Depression (Bonn 1996).
Diedrich Diederichsen: The Time and Space of Judgment
Friday, 3rd July, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
This lecture addresses different concepts of criticism and distinguishes between 1) an endless processual criticality, 2) clear normative judgments and 3) a third version of criticism that can be traced back to those types of judgmental behaviors that deal with time-related events as in sport, music or other areas.
Diedrich Diederichsen is professor of Theorie, Praxis und Vermittlung von Gegenwartskunst of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Freitag, 26. Juni 2009
Freitag, 19. Juni 2009
DANIEL BIRNBAUM / MARIE ANGE BRAYER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Daniel Birnbaum: The Critic and the Curator
Wednesday, 24th June, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
What is the role of the art critic today? What is the role of the curator? Daniel Birnbaum gives some examples from recent projects.
Beside his rectorship and teaching at the Städelschule and his curatorial practice as director of Portikus Daniel Birnbaum has been involved in several biennials in recent years: in the 50th Venice Biennale, the Moscow Biennials and as a committee member of the International Foundation Manifesta. In 2008, he was co-curator of the Triennial of Yokohama and curator of the 2nd Triennial of Turin. In the period between 2006 and 2007, he co-curated Airs de Paris at the Centre Pompidou and of Uncertain States of America (with Hans-Ulrich Obrist) at Bard College of London’s Serpentine Gallery. A contributing editor of Artforum, he has published numerous books and essays on philosophy and art, including The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl’s Phenomenology (1998), and, with Carsten Höller, Production (2000). His most recent publication is Chronology (2005) beside the numerous catalogues and publications in the framework of Städelschule and Portikus.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Marie Ange Brayer: Towards Machinic Environments: From Model to Machine
Thursday, 25th June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The conceptual practices that emerged in the 1960s through radical architecture in Europe were linked to a networked society in which architecture is no longer a built object, but becomes an environment with which the individual interacts. Within these radical movements, from Archigram to Superstudio, architecture is adapted to all scales, from domestic to urban, in the temporality of the instant and the action. Constant developed „New Babylon“ in which architecture has become an « atmospheric machine ». Today information technologies networks and computational design understand architecture as a dynamic environment. Architecture implements new concepts in a complex living system where a calculated, « machinic » nature has replaced the representational or allegorical nature of the “model”.
Since 1996, Marie-Ange Brayer has been the director of the Centre Regional Contemporary Art Collection [FRAC, Centre] in Orléans, France, where the collection is channeled towards the linkage between art and research architecture. The FRAC centre has been putting together a collection on architecture in its utopian and experimental dimension, from the 1950s until the present day. She has curated ARCHILAB (2001 and 2002) and the French Pavilion at the 8th International Architectural Biennale in Venice (2002). She is currently working on a PhD at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris, retracing the legal status of the architectural model since the Renaissance, by way of a history of representation ("A model object, the architectural maquette"). In 2008 she was a co-curator of the exhibition « Youniverse », 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, curated by Peter Weibel.
Daniel Birnbaum: The Critic and the Curator
Wednesday, 24th June, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
What is the role of the art critic today? What is the role of the curator? Daniel Birnbaum gives some examples from recent projects.
Beside his rectorship and teaching at the Städelschule and his curatorial practice as director of Portikus Daniel Birnbaum has been involved in several biennials in recent years: in the 50th Venice Biennale, the Moscow Biennials and as a committee member of the International Foundation Manifesta. In 2008, he was co-curator of the Triennial of Yokohama and curator of the 2nd Triennial of Turin. In the period between 2006 and 2007, he co-curated Airs de Paris at the Centre Pompidou and of Uncertain States of America (with Hans-Ulrich Obrist) at Bard College of London’s Serpentine Gallery. A contributing editor of Artforum, he has published numerous books and essays on philosophy and art, including The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl’s Phenomenology (1998), and, with Carsten Höller, Production (2000). His most recent publication is Chronology (2005) beside the numerous catalogues and publications in the framework of Städelschule and Portikus.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Marie Ange Brayer: Towards Machinic Environments: From Model to Machine
Thursday, 25th June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The conceptual practices that emerged in the 1960s through radical architecture in Europe were linked to a networked society in which architecture is no longer a built object, but becomes an environment with which the individual interacts. Within these radical movements, from Archigram to Superstudio, architecture is adapted to all scales, from domestic to urban, in the temporality of the instant and the action. Constant developed „New Babylon“ in which architecture has become an « atmospheric machine ». Today information technologies networks and computational design understand architecture as a dynamic environment. Architecture implements new concepts in a complex living system where a calculated, « machinic » nature has replaced the representational or allegorical nature of the “model”.
Since 1996, Marie-Ange Brayer has been the director of the Centre Regional Contemporary Art Collection [FRAC, Centre] in Orléans, France, where the collection is channeled towards the linkage between art and research architecture. The FRAC centre has been putting together a collection on architecture in its utopian and experimental dimension, from the 1950s until the present day. She has curated ARCHILAB (2001 and 2002) and the French Pavilion at the 8th International Architectural Biennale in Venice (2002). She is currently working on a PhD at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris, retracing the legal status of the architectural model since the Renaissance, by way of a history of representation ("A model object, the architectural maquette"). In 2008 she was a co-curator of the exhibition « Youniverse », 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, curated by Peter Weibel.
Dienstag, 16. Juni 2009
CHRISTOPH MENKE / GEORGE L. LEGENDRE
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Talk
Christoph Menke: The Aesthetic Critique of Judgment
Response: Isabelle Graw/Daniel Loick
Wednesday, 17. June, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
This talk will address the question of aesthetic judgment. It will shift the attention away from the usual fixation on criteria and focus instead on more fundamental questions, such as: what is the role of judgment in the aesthetic field? How do we judge in aesthetic matters and why do we judge at all? It is the aesthetic judgment itself that is presented as a problem full of paradoxes.
Christoph Menke is professor of philosophy at the University Frankfurt/Main. He is the author of seminal studies on aesthetic such as "Die Souveränität der Kunst: Ästhetische Erfahrung nach Adorno und Derrida" (1988) or "Die Gegenwart der Tragödie. Versuch über Urteil und Spiel" (2005). He also contributed to the debates around political philosophy, as with "Spiegelungen der Gleichheit" (2000) or "Philosophie der Menschenrechte" (2007). He regularly contributes to "Texte zur Kunst."
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
George L. Legendre: Surface Goodness
Thursday, 18. June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Exploring the intersection between spaces, mathematics, and computation, George L. Legendre has developed a body of work that oscillates around the notion of “surface”. The literal and metaphoric meanings of the “superficial”, statements of computer programming syntax, indexical poetry, mathematical asides and descriptions of nemmerically controlled fabrication processes – all of which offer the very same thing: the surface as object of knowledge.
George L. Legendre is a London-based architect and educator. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1994 and served as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the GSD from 1995 to 2000. Prior to founding IJP Corporation (IJP), his London-based office, he was visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich (2001), Princeton University (2003-05), and the Architectural Association in London, where he served as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 5 (2002-2008). His practice has just completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot-long bridge located in Singapore. In 2007, the influential UK weekly Building Design elected the 3-year-old office as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of 40.
The work of George L. Legendre has been featured worldwide, most recently as the cover feature of AA Files 57 (London 2007), Architectural Review, and Icon Magazine (both London 2008). A regularly published essayist, George L. Legendre has written IJP:The Book of Surfaces, as well as Bodyline: the End of our Meta-Mechanical Body, and a Critical essay in Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (all AA Publications, 2003-06).
Talk
Christoph Menke: The Aesthetic Critique of Judgment
Response: Isabelle Graw/Daniel Loick
Wednesday, 17. June, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
This talk will address the question of aesthetic judgment. It will shift the attention away from the usual fixation on criteria and focus instead on more fundamental questions, such as: what is the role of judgment in the aesthetic field? How do we judge in aesthetic matters and why do we judge at all? It is the aesthetic judgment itself that is presented as a problem full of paradoxes.
Christoph Menke is professor of philosophy at the University Frankfurt/Main. He is the author of seminal studies on aesthetic such as "Die Souveränität der Kunst: Ästhetische Erfahrung nach Adorno und Derrida" (1988) or "Die Gegenwart der Tragödie. Versuch über Urteil und Spiel" (2005). He also contributed to the debates around political philosophy, as with "Spiegelungen der Gleichheit" (2000) or "Philosophie der Menschenrechte" (2007). He regularly contributes to "Texte zur Kunst."
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
George L. Legendre: Surface Goodness
Thursday, 18. June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Exploring the intersection between spaces, mathematics, and computation, George L. Legendre has developed a body of work that oscillates around the notion of “surface”. The literal and metaphoric meanings of the “superficial”, statements of computer programming syntax, indexical poetry, mathematical asides and descriptions of nemmerically controlled fabrication processes – all of which offer the very same thing: the surface as object of knowledge.
George L. Legendre is a London-based architect and educator. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1994 and served as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the GSD from 1995 to 2000. Prior to founding IJP Corporation (IJP), his London-based office, he was visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich (2001), Princeton University (2003-05), and the Architectural Association in London, where he served as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 5 (2002-2008). His practice has just completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot-long bridge located in Singapore. In 2007, the influential UK weekly Building Design elected the 3-year-old office as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of 40.
The work of George L. Legendre has been featured worldwide, most recently as the cover feature of AA Files 57 (London 2007), Architectural Review, and Icon Magazine (both London 2008). A regularly published essayist, George L. Legendre has written IJP:The Book of Surfaces, as well as Bodyline: the End of our Meta-Mechanical Body, and a Critical essay in Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (all AA Publications, 2003-06).
Dienstag, 2. Juni 2009
NINA MÖNTMANN
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Nina Möntmann: How Art Institutions Can Create a Sense of Belonging
Wednesday, 10 June, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Möntmann is a curator and writer who teaches as a Professor and Head of Department of Art Theory and the History of Ideas at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. From 2003 to 2006 she was Curator at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) in Helsinki. She curated the Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia at the 52nd Biennial of Venice in 2007, the group exhibition „If we can’t get it together. Artists rethinking the (mal)function of communities“ for The Power Plant in Toronto (2008/09), and has been curatorial advisor for Manifesta 7 (2008). She is currently co-curating the „Jerusalem Show 2010“ together with Jack Persekian, and a new film project with Raqs Media Collective.
Möntmann is correspondent for Artforum, and contributed to Le Monde Diplomatique, Parachute, metropolis m, Frieze and others. Recent publications include „Manifesta 7 Companion Book“ (Rana Dasgupta, Nina Möntmann, Avi Pitchon eds., Milan 2008); „Art and its Institutions“ (London, Black Dog Publishing, 2006), Mapping a City (Nina Möntmann, Yilmaz Dziewior eds., Hatje Cantz, 2005), „Kunst als sozialer Raum“ (Walther König, Köln, 2002).
Nina Möntmann: How Art Institutions Can Create a Sense of Belonging
Wednesday, 10 June, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Möntmann is a curator and writer who teaches as a Professor and Head of Department of Art Theory and the History of Ideas at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. From 2003 to 2006 she was Curator at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) in Helsinki. She curated the Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia at the 52nd Biennial of Venice in 2007, the group exhibition „If we can’t get it together. Artists rethinking the (mal)function of communities“ for The Power Plant in Toronto (2008/09), and has been curatorial advisor for Manifesta 7 (2008). She is currently co-curating the „Jerusalem Show 2010“ together with Jack Persekian, and a new film project with Raqs Media Collective.
Möntmann is correspondent for Artforum, and contributed to Le Monde Diplomatique, Parachute, metropolis m, Frieze and others. Recent publications include „Manifesta 7 Companion Book“ (Rana Dasgupta, Nina Möntmann, Avi Pitchon eds., Milan 2008); „Art and its Institutions“ (London, Black Dog Publishing, 2006), Mapping a City (Nina Möntmann, Yilmaz Dziewior eds., Hatje Cantz, 2005), „Kunst als sozialer Raum“ (Walther König, Köln, 2002).
Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2009
DAN GRAHAM / JESKO FEZER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Ausstellung
Dan Graham presents New Jersey
Eröffnung: Freitag 29. Mai, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 30. Mai - 12 Juli 2009
Die Ausstellung im Portikus - Dan Graham Presents New Jersey - zeigt neue Fotografien Dan Grahams, die 2006 in Kollaboration mit dem Architekturlehrstuhl der Columbia University in New York entstanden sind, Seite an Seite mit Fotografien aus seiner Serie Homes for America aus dem Jahr 1966. Bereits in den frühen 1960er Jahren entstanden letztere, bewusst im Stil eines Amateurs oder Photojournalisten, mit einer preiswerten und handlichen Kodak Kamera aufgenommene Bilder suburbaner Wohnhäuser, Gewerbeanlagen und städtischer Randzonen in New Jersey – Orte die das gewöhnliche und unspektakuläre, aber auch uniforme Amerika zeigen. Die Beschäftigung mit dem Seriellen, mit Standardisierung und Kontinuität stehen bei sowohl den älteren, als auch den jüngeren Fotografien im Mittelpunkt. Das wiederkehrende Interesse an der Aufwertung des Alltäglichen findet hier präzise Form, gebunden an Fragen nach der individuellen Wahrnehmung von sozialem Raum und Raumbildung durch soziale Gruppen.
Dan Graham wurde 1942 in Urbana, Illinois geboren und wuchs zeitweilig im Bundesstaat New Jersey auf. Er lebt und arbeitet in New York.
Lecture
Dan Graham presents New Jersey
Sunday, 31st May, 17 h, Portikus
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dan Graham’s art is concerned with complex issues of cultural ideologies and ordering principles, with the reflection on the question related to the autonomy of the artwork playing a significant role. Urban surfaces, architectural décor and the discourse on forms, in general, are at the fore of his considerations. He always makes reference to concrete elements of everyday culture, combining minimalist forms with playful humor. He is also strongly dedicated to the relation of the subject to postmodern developments and architectures.
Dan Graham’s career as an artist did not progress in the classical sense. In 1964 he founded the John Daniels Gallery with friends, where the first shows of Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, among others, were on view. A year later, after the gallery was closed, Graham began with his own artistic work. From the very start, his artistic career was shaped in a very interdisciplinary way, since he simultaneously worked as a music journalist, photographer, art theorist, and culture critic.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Jesko Fezer: Design Problem Reality
Tuesday, 02. June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
If anyone out there still believes that architects are people with strong mathematical skills who build houses (and there are many who do) then they should look out for Jesko Fezer. Being active as a publisher, curator, artist, and exhibition designer Berlin-based Fezer renegotiates the traditional media of architecture. He is the co-founder and manager of the thematic bookshop “Pro qm” in Berlin and the co-editor of the political architecture magazine “An Architektur” which also initiated the international “Camp for Oppositional Architecture” in Berlin and Utrecht. In the frame of his cooperation “ifau und Jesko Fezer” he realized projects in Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Utrecht, Graz, New York und London. Having taught at various universities, he was a visiting professor for Urban Research in the master’s degree course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and currently leads the research project “Civic City” at the ZHDK in Zürich.
Fezer´s publications include „Hier entsteht. Strategien partizipativer Architektur“, „Lucius Burckhardt: Wer plant die Planung?“, „Planungsmethodik gestern“. He has curated the exhibitions “Urban Conditions” at the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2004), „Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered” (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2008), “In the Desert of Modernity. Colonias Planung and After“ (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2008).
Ausstellung
Dan Graham presents New Jersey
Eröffnung: Freitag 29. Mai, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 30. Mai - 12 Juli 2009
Die Ausstellung im Portikus - Dan Graham Presents New Jersey - zeigt neue Fotografien Dan Grahams, die 2006 in Kollaboration mit dem Architekturlehrstuhl der Columbia University in New York entstanden sind, Seite an Seite mit Fotografien aus seiner Serie Homes for America aus dem Jahr 1966. Bereits in den frühen 1960er Jahren entstanden letztere, bewusst im Stil eines Amateurs oder Photojournalisten, mit einer preiswerten und handlichen Kodak Kamera aufgenommene Bilder suburbaner Wohnhäuser, Gewerbeanlagen und städtischer Randzonen in New Jersey – Orte die das gewöhnliche und unspektakuläre, aber auch uniforme Amerika zeigen. Die Beschäftigung mit dem Seriellen, mit Standardisierung und Kontinuität stehen bei sowohl den älteren, als auch den jüngeren Fotografien im Mittelpunkt. Das wiederkehrende Interesse an der Aufwertung des Alltäglichen findet hier präzise Form, gebunden an Fragen nach der individuellen Wahrnehmung von sozialem Raum und Raumbildung durch soziale Gruppen.
Dan Graham wurde 1942 in Urbana, Illinois geboren und wuchs zeitweilig im Bundesstaat New Jersey auf. Er lebt und arbeitet in New York.
Lecture
Dan Graham presents New Jersey
Sunday, 31st May, 17 h, Portikus
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dan Graham’s art is concerned with complex issues of cultural ideologies and ordering principles, with the reflection on the question related to the autonomy of the artwork playing a significant role. Urban surfaces, architectural décor and the discourse on forms, in general, are at the fore of his considerations. He always makes reference to concrete elements of everyday culture, combining minimalist forms with playful humor. He is also strongly dedicated to the relation of the subject to postmodern developments and architectures.
Dan Graham’s career as an artist did not progress in the classical sense. In 1964 he founded the John Daniels Gallery with friends, where the first shows of Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, among others, were on view. A year later, after the gallery was closed, Graham began with his own artistic work. From the very start, his artistic career was shaped in a very interdisciplinary way, since he simultaneously worked as a music journalist, photographer, art theorist, and culture critic.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Jesko Fezer: Design Problem Reality
Tuesday, 02. June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
If anyone out there still believes that architects are people with strong mathematical skills who build houses (and there are many who do) then they should look out for Jesko Fezer. Being active as a publisher, curator, artist, and exhibition designer Berlin-based Fezer renegotiates the traditional media of architecture. He is the co-founder and manager of the thematic bookshop “Pro qm” in Berlin and the co-editor of the political architecture magazine “An Architektur” which also initiated the international “Camp for Oppositional Architecture” in Berlin and Utrecht. In the frame of his cooperation “ifau und Jesko Fezer” he realized projects in Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Utrecht, Graz, New York und London. Having taught at various universities, he was a visiting professor for Urban Research in the master’s degree course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and currently leads the research project “Civic City” at the ZHDK in Zürich.
Fezer´s publications include „Hier entsteht. Strategien partizipativer Architektur“, „Lucius Burckhardt: Wer plant die Planung?“, „Planungsmethodik gestern“. He has curated the exhibitions “Urban Conditions” at the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2004), „Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered” (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2008), “In the Desert of Modernity. Colonias Planung and After“ (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2008).
Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009
SARAH MORRIS / CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Sarah Morris: If Direction is a Look
Tuesday, 26th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sarah Morris is a painter and filmmaker who lives and works in New York and London. Her films include „Midtown“(1998), „Capital“(2001), Los Angeles (2004), „1972“ and „Beijing“ (2009). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the 4th Site Santa Fe Biennial (2001), 25th São Paolo Biennial (2002) and „Days Like These“, Tate Triennial (2003). Solo shows include Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005) and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Her most recent exhibition „Gemini Dressage“ (including the European premiere of her latest film “Beijing”) will be on show at MMK in Frankfurt am Main.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Che fare? What has to be done?
Thursday, 28th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In her lecture at the Städelschule newly appointed Documenta director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev asks „Che fare? What has to be done?“. Referring to her curatorial practice she investigates the current condition of the visual arts and its consequences on exhibition making.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a curator and writer based in Rome, Turin and New York. She is currently the Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin and was the Artistic Director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney “Titled Revolutions – Forms That Turn” in 2008. From 1999 to 2001 she was Senior Curator of exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. She curated the first retrospective exhibition of Janet Cardiff’s works (PS1, 2001), “Matrix.2” by Francis Alÿs, the group show “The Moderns / I Moderni” (2003), a survey exhibition of works by William Kentridge (2004), and “The Pantagruel Syndrome” (2005).
Sarah Morris: If Direction is a Look
Tuesday, 26th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sarah Morris is a painter and filmmaker who lives and works in New York and London. Her films include „Midtown“(1998), „Capital“(2001), Los Angeles (2004), „1972“ and „Beijing“ (2009). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the 4th Site Santa Fe Biennial (2001), 25th São Paolo Biennial (2002) and „Days Like These“, Tate Triennial (2003). Solo shows include Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005) and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Her most recent exhibition „Gemini Dressage“ (including the European premiere of her latest film “Beijing”) will be on show at MMK in Frankfurt am Main.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Che fare? What has to be done?
Thursday, 28th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In her lecture at the Städelschule newly appointed Documenta director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev asks „Che fare? What has to be done?“. Referring to her curatorial practice she investigates the current condition of the visual arts and its consequences on exhibition making.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a curator and writer based in Rome, Turin and New York. She is currently the Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin and was the Artistic Director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney “Titled Revolutions – Forms That Turn” in 2008. From 1999 to 2001 she was Senior Curator of exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. She curated the first retrospective exhibition of Janet Cardiff’s works (PS1, 2001), “Matrix.2” by Francis Alÿs, the group show “The Moderns / I Moderni” (2003), a survey exhibition of works by William Kentridge (2004), and “The Pantagruel Syndrome” (2005).
Freitag, 15. Mai 2009
SARAH THORNTON
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Talk:
Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World
With Julia Voss (FAZ) and Nikolaus Hirsch (Städelschule)
Tuesday, 19th May, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton is an ethnography and a social history of the recent past. Set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, the book is populated by characters who espouse conflicting definitions of art. Some see it as a luxury good or entertainment, others view it as an intellectual calling, a job description, or a kind of alternative religion.
The Canadian Sarah Thornton has a BA in Art History and made her PhD in Sociology on Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Once a member of faculty at Sussex University where she ran the MA in Media Studies, Thornton then became a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a freelance journalist and author she contributes on regularly basis amongst others to The Economist, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker.
Julia Voss is co-editor (with Niklas Maak) of the art department of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Nikolaus Hirsch is currently guest professor for Art and Architecture at the Städelschule and host of the lecture series.
In cooperation with the S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Die Vorlesung von Boris Groys über Politics of Installation ist verschoben auf Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009.
The lecture by Boris Groys on Politics of Installation is postponed to Wednesday, July 1st 2009.
Talk:
Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World
With Julia Voss (FAZ) and Nikolaus Hirsch (Städelschule)
Tuesday, 19th May, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton is an ethnography and a social history of the recent past. Set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, the book is populated by characters who espouse conflicting definitions of art. Some see it as a luxury good or entertainment, others view it as an intellectual calling, a job description, or a kind of alternative religion.
The Canadian Sarah Thornton has a BA in Art History and made her PhD in Sociology on Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Once a member of faculty at Sussex University where she ran the MA in Media Studies, Thornton then became a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a freelance journalist and author she contributes on regularly basis amongst others to The Economist, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker.
Julia Voss is co-editor (with Niklas Maak) of the art department of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Nikolaus Hirsch is currently guest professor for Art and Architecture at the Städelschule and host of the lecture series.
In cooperation with the S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Die Vorlesung von Boris Groys über Politics of Installation ist verschoben auf Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009.
The lecture by Boris Groys on Politics of Installation is postponed to Wednesday, July 1st 2009.
Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009
RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER / SYLVIA LAVIN
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Rivane Neuenschwander:
Misunderstanding
Wednesday, 13th May, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Rivane Neuenschwander's art has the precisely orchestrated, unforced economy of what she has termed "ethereal materialism". Often apparent is her fascination with serendipity and the agency of living systems, such as garden snails that munch away at rice-paper squares or ants that orchestrate a parade of confetti dots. The activation of sensory memory and trusting the realization of her work to the generosity of other people or nonhuman organisms frequently sparks Neuschwander's work to life. In I Wish Your Wish, the artist invites viewers to select a ribbon imprinted with a wish and leave behind a wish of their own. The ribbon can be tied to the wrist and worn until it falls off at which point the wish may be realized. Another work, the video Pangaea (2008), takes its title from the vast land mass that existed on earth about 250 million years ago, before this "supercontinent" broke apart into the land masses we know today. Neuenschwander used a stop-frame animation technique to record hundreds of ants as they crawled over and ate a plate of carpaccio meat, giving the viewer the sense that these tiny insects are moving and shaping an evolving map of the world.
Rivane Neuenschwander lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Her work was shown in major group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale 2005, São Paulo Biennale 2008, „Life on Mars“ at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (2008) and „50 Moons of Saturn“ (Torino Triennale, 2008). Her solo shows include „Spell“ at Portikus (2001), „Suspension Point“ at Sounth London Gallery (2008), and „To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander“ at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2008).
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Sylvia Lavin:
Kissing Architecture. Super-Disciplinarity and Confounding Media
Thursday, 14th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at Princeton University's School of Architecture. A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design.
She has published „Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1992) and „Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture“ (MIT Press, 2005). Her next book, „The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity“ will be published by MIT Press in 2009 and she is working on a series of exhibitions on design culture of the late 1960s. She is an editor of „Crib Sheets“, a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli press.
Rivane Neuenschwander:
Misunderstanding
Wednesday, 13th May, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Rivane Neuenschwander's art has the precisely orchestrated, unforced economy of what she has termed "ethereal materialism". Often apparent is her fascination with serendipity and the agency of living systems, such as garden snails that munch away at rice-paper squares or ants that orchestrate a parade of confetti dots. The activation of sensory memory and trusting the realization of her work to the generosity of other people or nonhuman organisms frequently sparks Neuschwander's work to life. In I Wish Your Wish, the artist invites viewers to select a ribbon imprinted with a wish and leave behind a wish of their own. The ribbon can be tied to the wrist and worn until it falls off at which point the wish may be realized. Another work, the video Pangaea (2008), takes its title from the vast land mass that existed on earth about 250 million years ago, before this "supercontinent" broke apart into the land masses we know today. Neuenschwander used a stop-frame animation technique to record hundreds of ants as they crawled over and ate a plate of carpaccio meat, giving the viewer the sense that these tiny insects are moving and shaping an evolving map of the world.
Rivane Neuenschwander lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Her work was shown in major group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale 2005, São Paulo Biennale 2008, „Life on Mars“ at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (2008) and „50 Moons of Saturn“ (Torino Triennale, 2008). Her solo shows include „Spell“ at Portikus (2001), „Suspension Point“ at Sounth London Gallery (2008), and „To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander“ at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2008).
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Sylvia Lavin:
Kissing Architecture. Super-Disciplinarity and Confounding Media
Thursday, 14th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at Princeton University's School of Architecture. A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design.
She has published „Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1992) and „Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture“ (MIT Press, 2005). Her next book, „The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity“ will be published by MIT Press in 2009 and she is working on a series of exhibitions on design culture of the late 1960s. She is an editor of „Crib Sheets“, a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli press.
Donnerstag, 30. April 2009
TAKAHARU TEZUKA
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Takaharu Tezuka: Roof-less Architecture
Thursday, 7th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and “”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. In their small-scale houses as much as in their large public buildings Takaharu and Yui Tezuka explore architecture as an elementary discipline that defines and removes physical boundaries. Boundaries such as roof, floor and wall become the basic media of an architecture that negotiates the relationship between the users and their environment. The Tezuka couple aim for a new definition of architecture: “Since any kind of form is possible in these days, futuristic appearance is not an issue anymore ... We are seeking a future beyond shape or form. The roof is the most basic element of architecture. Anything with a roof can be called architecture.“
The projects of Tezuka Architects include the Museum of Natural Science in Matsunoyama, the pavilion for the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Visionary Arts in Tokyo, Thin Wall Office HQ#01, and the Open Houses 1 to 11. Since 2003 Takaharu Tezuka is an Associate Professor at Musashi Institute of Technology. In 2005 and 2006 he has taught at Salzburg Summer Academy and in 2006 he was a Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as at Archilab held in Orléans (2002) and currently at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Takaharu Tezuka: Roof-less Architecture
Thursday, 7th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and “”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. In their small-scale houses as much as in their large public buildings Takaharu and Yui Tezuka explore architecture as an elementary discipline that defines and removes physical boundaries. Boundaries such as roof, floor and wall become the basic media of an architecture that negotiates the relationship between the users and their environment. The Tezuka couple aim for a new definition of architecture: “Since any kind of form is possible in these days, futuristic appearance is not an issue anymore ... We are seeking a future beyond shape or form. The roof is the most basic element of architecture. Anything with a roof can be called architecture.“
The projects of Tezuka Architects include the Museum of Natural Science in Matsunoyama, the pavilion for the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Visionary Arts in Tokyo, Thin Wall Office HQ#01, and the Open Houses 1 to 11. Since 2003 Takaharu Tezuka is an Associate Professor at Musashi Institute of Technology. In 2005 and 2006 he has taught at Salzburg Summer Academy and in 2006 he was a Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as at Archilab held in Orléans (2002) and currently at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
Freitag, 24. April 2009
JÜRG HALTER / HARUN FAROCKI
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Jürg Halter liest aus "Nichts, das mich hält"
Dienstag, 28. April, 19 Uhr, Aula
“Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit
trafen sich Suizid und Heldentod
in einer Konkurs gegangenen Bar
zum Gespräch über den Nutzen der Sehnsucht.”
Jürg Halter, erschienen am 23. Juni 1980 in Bern, wo er lebt. Studium an der dortigen Hochschule der Künste. Halter ist Dichter und man kennt ihn unter dem Namen Kutti MC auch als Mundart-Rapper. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen Debut-Gedichtband “Ich habe die Welt berührt” und durch Lesungen und Poetry Performances bei internationalen Literaturfestivals in Europa, Afrika und den USA.Mit seiner bestechend anschaulichen Sprache beweist Jürg Halter nicht zuletzt, daß sich weit jenseits des Lyrikzentrums Berlin eine Stimme erhoben hat, der es zuzuhören gilt. Neben dem Gedichtband “Nichts, das mich hält” (Ammann Verlag, 2008) erschien zuletzt von ihm das Spoken-Word-Hörbuch “Aber heute ist der Tag, an dem ich mehr als sprechen will” (Verlag Der Gesunde Menschenversand, 2007). Seit 2007 schreibt Halter zusammen mit dem bekannten japanischen Dichter Tanikawa Shuntaro an einem Lang-Gedicht (Renshi). Er arbeitete auch als Herausgeber der “art.21-zeitdruck” (1999 bis 2002), und ist Veranstalter u.a. von “words'n'beats” und “Tintensaufen”.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Harun Farocki: Shopping / Risk
Thursday, 30th April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process. On the occasion of his lecture at the Städelschule Harun Farocki will show –besides his film “Nothing Ventured“- the documentary „The Creators of Shopping Worlds“ (2001), a film that explores the work of architects, experience designers and executive managers in charge of the creation of today’s shopping malls. Farocki filmed business meetings at which professionals brooded over architectural plans, and ‘walk-through’ simulations that are intended to optimize the flow of consumer traffic and maximize the saturation of the shopper’s visual field with focus points designed to capture his or her attention.
The Berlin-based artist and film-maker Harun Farocki (born 1944 in Novy Jicen, Czechoslovakia) has produced over a hundred films and installations over the past 40 years: films that in their style and visual language do away with traditional genres and alternate between experiment, documentary and essay. Since producing the autobiographical video installation “Interface” for a group exhibition at the Musée d’art Villeneuve d’Ascq in Lille in 1995, Farocki – who is also active as an author, curator, teacher and as a screenwriter for the Berlin director Christian Petzold – has increasingly shown his work outside the cinema context in art institutions. Important stages were documenta X and documenta 12, where he showed “Still Life” in 1997 and “Deep Play” in 2007. His films have been shown in numerous retrospectives, such as at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris (2002) and MoMA in New York (2001). Since 2004 he teaches as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Jürg Halter liest aus "Nichts, das mich hält"
Dienstag, 28. April, 19 Uhr, Aula
“Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit
trafen sich Suizid und Heldentod
in einer Konkurs gegangenen Bar
zum Gespräch über den Nutzen der Sehnsucht.”
Jürg Halter, erschienen am 23. Juni 1980 in Bern, wo er lebt. Studium an der dortigen Hochschule der Künste. Halter ist Dichter und man kennt ihn unter dem Namen Kutti MC auch als Mundart-Rapper. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen Debut-Gedichtband “Ich habe die Welt berührt” und durch Lesungen und Poetry Performances bei internationalen Literaturfestivals in Europa, Afrika und den USA.Mit seiner bestechend anschaulichen Sprache beweist Jürg Halter nicht zuletzt, daß sich weit jenseits des Lyrikzentrums Berlin eine Stimme erhoben hat, der es zuzuhören gilt. Neben dem Gedichtband “Nichts, das mich hält” (Ammann Verlag, 2008) erschien zuletzt von ihm das Spoken-Word-Hörbuch “Aber heute ist der Tag, an dem ich mehr als sprechen will” (Verlag Der Gesunde Menschenversand, 2007). Seit 2007 schreibt Halter zusammen mit dem bekannten japanischen Dichter Tanikawa Shuntaro an einem Lang-Gedicht (Renshi). Er arbeitete auch als Herausgeber der “art.21-zeitdruck” (1999 bis 2002), und ist Veranstalter u.a. von “words'n'beats” und “Tintensaufen”.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Harun Farocki: Shopping / Risk
Thursday, 30th April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process. On the occasion of his lecture at the Städelschule Harun Farocki will show –besides his film “Nothing Ventured“- the documentary „The Creators of Shopping Worlds“ (2001), a film that explores the work of architects, experience designers and executive managers in charge of the creation of today’s shopping malls. Farocki filmed business meetings at which professionals brooded over architectural plans, and ‘walk-through’ simulations that are intended to optimize the flow of consumer traffic and maximize the saturation of the shopper’s visual field with focus points designed to capture his or her attention.
The Berlin-based artist and film-maker Harun Farocki (born 1944 in Novy Jicen, Czechoslovakia) has produced over a hundred films and installations over the past 40 years: films that in their style and visual language do away with traditional genres and alternate between experiment, documentary and essay. Since producing the autobiographical video installation “Interface” for a group exhibition at the Musée d’art Villeneuve d’Ascq in Lille in 1995, Farocki – who is also active as an author, curator, teacher and as a screenwriter for the Berlin director Christian Petzold – has increasingly shown his work outside the cinema context in art institutions. Important stages were documenta X and documenta 12, where he showed “Still Life” in 1997 and “Deep Play” in 2007. His films have been shown in numerous retrospectives, such as at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris (2002) and MoMA in New York (2001). Since 2004 he teaches as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Freitag, 17. April 2009
NINA KÖNNEMANN / MARK WIGLEY / PEACHES
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Nina Könnemann: Screening
Wednesday, 22nd April, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Könnemann came to prominence above all with documentary videos like M.U.D. (2000), unrise (2001) and Pleasure Beach (2001) in which she takes an unmediated look at phenomena of the postmodern amusement society. Könnemann's work characteristically makes use of a hand-held camera that reacts to movements in the crowd, tracing their aimlessness and drawing the viewer into what is going on. In the show “Free Mumia” at Portikus, this fleeting point of view is brought to a standstill, focusing attention on objects which - in among a wealth of details and inessentials - could have appeared in the videos mentioned above. The exhibition in Portikus including two of her most recent videos Laughing Sailor (2008) and Cone (2008) is ongoing till 17th May.
Nina Könnemann was born in Bonn and studied at Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Mark Wigley: Network Radicals: The Architecture of the Streaming City
Thursday, 23rd April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Starting the summer semester lecture series on „Post-Medium Architecture“ Mark Wigley focuses on the “network” as a primary medium of contemporary architecture. Defining the architect as someone who does more than designing buildings but as public intellectual who speculates on possible new worlds, Wigley will - among others - refer to his research on a symposium on the evolution of human settlement that was held on the Greek urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis´ yacht „New Hellas“ and included Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan and thirty-two other protagonists.
Mark Wigley is the Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and also teaches as a Guest Professor at Städelschule Architecture Class. He curated „Deconstructivist Architecture“; he has also served as curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. An accomplished scholar and design teacher, he has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture, and is the author of „The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt“ (MIT Press, 1993); „White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1995); and „Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire“ (Uitgeverij 010, 1998). In addition to numerous essays on art and architecture, he co-edited, with Catherine de Zegher, „The Activist Drawing: Situationist Architectures From Constant's New Babylon to Beyond“ (MIT Press, 2001) and is one of the founding editors of Volume magazine.
Peaches: The Teaches of Peaches
Friday, 24th April, 19h, Hall
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“Do I dare to eat a peach?” – T.S. Eliot
„I first met Peaches in Berlin 2002 at the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant on a Sunday morning after being out a couple of days. Peaches was deejaying their premiere Sunday morning After Hours. I was with an old friend, he introduced us; we were WAY EARLY. As she was deejaying, I went and sat down with the only customer in the venue.
As I slung back the Vodka Cran's and talked this poor women's ear off, the entire time thinking: "who is she this Berliner Lady hangin' out by herself in this empty restaurant in a fur that her body has thoroughly succumb to?"
I stumbled off to the bar; then back via the deejay area to commend Peaches on the sheer vastness of her fan base. Peaches goes, "oh you met my Mom." Real calm and sweet as she is, no hint of surprise.
This snippet should prepare you all for the diversity she represents. We have no idea what she will do; none-the-less, I ain't worried.
You think you know Peaches? Wanna bet? “ - Eric D. Clark
Nina Könnemann: Screening
Wednesday, 22nd April, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Könnemann came to prominence above all with documentary videos like M.U.D. (2000), unrise (2001) and Pleasure Beach (2001) in which she takes an unmediated look at phenomena of the postmodern amusement society. Könnemann's work characteristically makes use of a hand-held camera that reacts to movements in the crowd, tracing their aimlessness and drawing the viewer into what is going on. In the show “Free Mumia” at Portikus, this fleeting point of view is brought to a standstill, focusing attention on objects which - in among a wealth of details and inessentials - could have appeared in the videos mentioned above. The exhibition in Portikus including two of her most recent videos Laughing Sailor (2008) and Cone (2008) is ongoing till 17th May.
Nina Könnemann was born in Bonn and studied at Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Mark Wigley: Network Radicals: The Architecture of the Streaming City
Thursday, 23rd April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Starting the summer semester lecture series on „Post-Medium Architecture“ Mark Wigley focuses on the “network” as a primary medium of contemporary architecture. Defining the architect as someone who does more than designing buildings but as public intellectual who speculates on possible new worlds, Wigley will - among others - refer to his research on a symposium on the evolution of human settlement that was held on the Greek urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis´ yacht „New Hellas“ and included Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan and thirty-two other protagonists.
Mark Wigley is the Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and also teaches as a Guest Professor at Städelschule Architecture Class. He curated „Deconstructivist Architecture“; he has also served as curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. An accomplished scholar and design teacher, he has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture, and is the author of „The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt“ (MIT Press, 1993); „White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1995); and „Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire“ (Uitgeverij 010, 1998). In addition to numerous essays on art and architecture, he co-edited, with Catherine de Zegher, „The Activist Drawing: Situationist Architectures From Constant's New Babylon to Beyond“ (MIT Press, 2001) and is one of the founding editors of Volume magazine.
Peaches: The Teaches of Peaches
Friday, 24th April, 19h, Hall
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“Do I dare to eat a peach?” – T.S. Eliot
„I first met Peaches in Berlin 2002 at the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant on a Sunday morning after being out a couple of days. Peaches was deejaying their premiere Sunday morning After Hours. I was with an old friend, he introduced us; we were WAY EARLY. As she was deejaying, I went and sat down with the only customer in the venue.
As I slung back the Vodka Cran's and talked this poor women's ear off, the entire time thinking: "who is she this Berliner Lady hangin' out by herself in this empty restaurant in a fur that her body has thoroughly succumb to?"
I stumbled off to the bar; then back via the deejay area to commend Peaches on the sheer vastness of her fan base. Peaches goes, "oh you met my Mom." Real calm and sweet as she is, no hint of surprise.
This snippet should prepare you all for the diversity she represents. We have no idea what she will do; none-the-less, I ain't worried.
You think you know Peaches? Wanna bet? “ - Eric D. Clark
Donnerstag, 19. März 2009
NINA KÖNNEMANN
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Ausstellung:
Nina Könnemann: Free Mumia
Eröffnung: 27. März 2009, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 28. März - 17. Mai 2009
Die Künstlerin Nina Könnemann ist vor allem durch dokumentarische Videos wie "M.U.D." (2000), "unrise" (2001) oder "Pleasure Beach" (2001) aufgefallen, in denen sie auf unmittelbare Weise Phänomene der postmodernen Vergnügungs-Gesellschaft beobachtet. Ähnlich der Tradition des kulturanthropologischen Arbeitens folgt ihre Kamera scheinbar zufällig Menschen im öffentlichen Raum oder steht unauffällig am Rand des Geschehens und zeichnet soziale Begegnungen auf. Dabei werden Muster gesellschaftlicher Interaktion in der Peripherie von Raves und anderen Großveranstaltungen freigelegt. Charakteristisch bei Könnemann ist das Filmen „aus der Hand“ das auf Bewegungen in der Masse reagiert, ihre Ziellosigkeit nachzeichnet und den Betrachter gleichzeitig in das Geschehen hineinzieht. In der Ausstellung im Portikus wird dieser flüchtige Blick angehalten. Drei Gegenstände, die in den oben genannten Videos inmitten einer Fülle von Details und Nebensachen hätten auftauchen können, werden in den Fokus gerückt.
Nina Könnemann wurde 1971 in Bonn geboren und studierte von 1992 - 1998 Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Zur Ausstellung wird ein Katalog erscheinen.
Ausstellung:
Nina Könnemann: Free Mumia
Eröffnung: 27. März 2009, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 28. März - 17. Mai 2009
Die Künstlerin Nina Könnemann ist vor allem durch dokumentarische Videos wie "M.U.D." (2000), "unrise" (2001) oder "Pleasure Beach" (2001) aufgefallen, in denen sie auf unmittelbare Weise Phänomene der postmodernen Vergnügungs-Gesellschaft beobachtet. Ähnlich der Tradition des kulturanthropologischen Arbeitens folgt ihre Kamera scheinbar zufällig Menschen im öffentlichen Raum oder steht unauffällig am Rand des Geschehens und zeichnet soziale Begegnungen auf. Dabei werden Muster gesellschaftlicher Interaktion in der Peripherie von Raves und anderen Großveranstaltungen freigelegt. Charakteristisch bei Könnemann ist das Filmen „aus der Hand“ das auf Bewegungen in der Masse reagiert, ihre Ziellosigkeit nachzeichnet und den Betrachter gleichzeitig in das Geschehen hineinzieht. In der Ausstellung im Portikus wird dieser flüchtige Blick angehalten. Drei Gegenstände, die in den oben genannten Videos inmitten einer Fülle von Details und Nebensachen hätten auftauchen können, werden in den Fokus gerückt.
Nina Könnemann wurde 1971 in Bonn geboren und studierte von 1992 - 1998 Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Zur Ausstellung wird ein Katalog erscheinen.
Freitag, 6. Februar 2009
MAX BECKMANN / STÄDELSCHULE RUNDGANG 2009
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Max Beckmann – Lehrer an der Städelschule
Montag, 9. Februar, 19 Uhr, Halle
Anlässlich des 125. Geburtstags von Max Beckmann lädt die Städelschule zu einem Gespräch mit Mayen Beckmann und Klaus Gallwitz ein.
Beckmann lebte siebzehn Jahre in Frankfurt am Main und leitete von 1925 bis 1933 eine Meisterklasse an der Städelschule.
Begrüssung: Prof. Michael Krebber (Rektor)
Einleitung: Brigitte von Ribbentrop (Vorstand Städelschule Portikus e.V.)
Im Anschluss besteht in der Mensa die Möglichkeit zu einem Gedankenaustausch.
Rundgang 2009 – Jahresausstellung der Studierenden der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule
Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 13. Februar, 18 Uhr, Dürerstrasse 10
Rundgang-Party ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Ausstellungsdauer: 13. bis 15. Februar 2008
Öffnungszeiten: 10 – 20 Uhr
Eintritt: Frei
Vom 13. bis zum 15. Februar präsentiert sich die Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule wieder der interessierten Öffentlichkeit. Die etwa 160 Studierenden der Bildenden Kunst und Architektur der Klassen Christa Näher, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Willem de Rooij, Mark Leckey, Ben van Berkel, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger zeigen ihre aktuellen Arbeiten während des gesamten Wochenendes in den Ateliers im Hauptgebäude Dürerstrasse 10 und in den Bildhauerateliers in der Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36.
Highlights:
Fr. 13.2. 18 Uhr, Mensa Dürerstr.: offizielle Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung
Fr. 13.2. 22 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Rundgang-Party Live-Musik: „Tyger, Tyger“ und „Barnwave“ (Kevin Blechdom/Christopher Fleeger). DJs: Michael Lasch/Huen (Hauptbahnhof-Musik); Special Guest DJ und Gastprofessor Eric D. Clark.
So. 15.2. 17 Uhr, Aula Dürerstr.: Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich) im Gespräch mit Prof. Tobias Rehberger
Weitere Informationen zum Filmprogramm und Performances entnehmen Sie bitte dem ausliegenden Programm.
Kulinarisch:
Es gibt durchgehend kalte und warme Küche in der Dürer- und Daimlerstrasse.
Besonders hinweisen möchten wir auf:
Sa. 14.2. ab 13 Uhr, Halle Dürerstr.: Kochwerkstatt: Bouhlou Houcine und Studierende.
So. 10.2. ab 11 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Musikalischer Frühschoppen mit Martin Wagner (Akkordeon) und Hanns Höhn (Kontrabaß).
Service:
Die Bibliothek der Städelschule hat während des Rundgangs von 11 - 18 Uhr geöffnet.
Publikationen und Editionen sind dort erhältlich, ebenso wie weitere Informationen die Städelschule betreffend.
Freitags ab 15 Uhr, Samstags und Sonntags ab 11 Uhr verkehren Shuttlebusse zwischen Daimlerstrasse und Dürerstrasse.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!
Der Rundgang wird unterstützt durch:
1822 Stiftung - Delbrück Bethmann Maffei ABN AMRO - Ermenegildo Zegna - Linklaters LLP - Verein der Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e.V - Lohr und Schach - Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank - Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V.
Max Beckmann – Lehrer an der Städelschule
Montag, 9. Februar, 19 Uhr, Halle
Anlässlich des 125. Geburtstags von Max Beckmann lädt die Städelschule zu einem Gespräch mit Mayen Beckmann und Klaus Gallwitz ein.
Beckmann lebte siebzehn Jahre in Frankfurt am Main und leitete von 1925 bis 1933 eine Meisterklasse an der Städelschule.
Begrüssung: Prof. Michael Krebber (Rektor)
Einleitung: Brigitte von Ribbentrop (Vorstand Städelschule Portikus e.V.)
Im Anschluss besteht in der Mensa die Möglichkeit zu einem Gedankenaustausch.
Rundgang 2009 – Jahresausstellung der Studierenden der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule
Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 13. Februar, 18 Uhr, Dürerstrasse 10
Rundgang-Party ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Ausstellungsdauer: 13. bis 15. Februar 2008
Öffnungszeiten: 10 – 20 Uhr
Eintritt: Frei
Vom 13. bis zum 15. Februar präsentiert sich die Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule wieder der interessierten Öffentlichkeit. Die etwa 160 Studierenden der Bildenden Kunst und Architektur der Klassen Christa Näher, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Willem de Rooij, Mark Leckey, Ben van Berkel, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger zeigen ihre aktuellen Arbeiten während des gesamten Wochenendes in den Ateliers im Hauptgebäude Dürerstrasse 10 und in den Bildhauerateliers in der Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36.
Highlights:
Fr. 13.2. 18 Uhr, Mensa Dürerstr.: offizielle Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung
Fr. 13.2. 22 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Rundgang-Party Live-Musik: „Tyger, Tyger“ und „Barnwave“ (Kevin Blechdom/Christopher Fleeger). DJs: Michael Lasch/Huen (Hauptbahnhof-Musik); Special Guest DJ und Gastprofessor Eric D. Clark.
So. 15.2. 17 Uhr, Aula Dürerstr.: Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich) im Gespräch mit Prof. Tobias Rehberger
Weitere Informationen zum Filmprogramm und Performances entnehmen Sie bitte dem ausliegenden Programm.
Kulinarisch:
Es gibt durchgehend kalte und warme Küche in der Dürer- und Daimlerstrasse.
Besonders hinweisen möchten wir auf:
Sa. 14.2. ab 13 Uhr, Halle Dürerstr.: Kochwerkstatt: Bouhlou Houcine und Studierende.
So. 10.2. ab 11 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Musikalischer Frühschoppen mit Martin Wagner (Akkordeon) und Hanns Höhn (Kontrabaß).
Service:
Die Bibliothek der Städelschule hat während des Rundgangs von 11 - 18 Uhr geöffnet.
Publikationen und Editionen sind dort erhältlich, ebenso wie weitere Informationen die Städelschule betreffend.
Freitags ab 15 Uhr, Samstags und Sonntags ab 11 Uhr verkehren Shuttlebusse zwischen Daimlerstrasse und Dürerstrasse.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!
Der Rundgang wird unterstützt durch:
1822 Stiftung - Delbrück Bethmann Maffei ABN AMRO - Ermenegildo Zegna - Linklaters LLP - Verein der Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e.V - Lohr und Schach - Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank - Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V.
Freitag, 30. Januar 2009
NIKOLAUS HIRSCH
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 5th February, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion on pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", his growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (recently being exhibited at Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" (Manifesta 7 and Delhi), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations.
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at Städelschule who has held 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 structures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel) 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”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of essays and interviews that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 5th February, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion on pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", his growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (recently being exhibited at Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" (Manifesta 7 and Delhi), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations.
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at Städelschule who has held 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 structures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel) 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”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of essays and interviews that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
Freitag, 23. Januar 2009
TIRDAD ZOLGHADR / MORGAN FISHER / FRANK BARKOW
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Tirdad Zolghadr: Only You. Thoughts on the Artworld and its Peculiar Sense of Expertise
Tuesday, 27 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How does art do it? What’s the unique selling point that lets art get away with murder, again and again. Whether you’re lecturing, writing, curating, or helping yourself to context as an artist, the art reference will open doors to an unquestioned ambivalence that remains out of bounds for other professions. When is the artistic colonization of architectural, theoretical, activist traditions a blessing, and when is it a case of unwittingly aping the “architects”, “academics”,“activists” etc. In other words, when does the post-medium, post-disciplinary condition offer the productivity of unpredictable combinations, and when is it a fashionable display of semi-knowledge. And when can it be both. Trouble is, if the world is our oyster, then there’s no situation where the artworld can be expected to sit down and shut up. So even if attempts to delineate the arts-as-field have amounted to ignoble acts of intellectual malice, committed by pompous old cretins in corduroy, even then, it might be worth the risk.
Tirdad Zolghadr is an independent writer and curator based in Berlin. He currently teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (NY), and writes for magazines such as Frieze, Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, and Afterall. He has curated “Ethnic Marketing” at the Kunsthalle Geneva 2004) and „Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie“ (2006-09). His novel "Softcore" is still available on Amazon, used and new.
Morgan Fisher: Painting Work
Wednesday, 28 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
While studying art history and film, the American artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher worked as a film editor for Hollywood productions, and his first film projects were clearly shaped by these experiences. He first appeared at the end of the 1960s with film works such as The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2), Documentary Footage or Production Stills (1968 and 1970). In 1984 he produced his well-known 35-minute Standard Gauge, in which found footage was compiled according to a precise formal model. With these conceptual approaches, Fisher reflects on the parameters of cinematographic depiction. In the early 1970s, these works were already shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the end of the 1990s, Fisher expanded his work to include painting, drawing and spatial installations. Today, Morgan Fisher ranks as one of the best-known and most influential artists of the American West Coast who has decisively influenced an entire generation of young artists. For many years, he was professor at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Frank Barkow: Revolution of Choice
Thursday, 29 January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Parallel to their internationally acclaimed buildings Berlin-based architects Barkow Leibinger have continuously developed a series of pavilions, temporary structures and applied research modules. These include Barkow Leibinger´s “Formation (Re) Formation: A Nomadic Garden” for the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2008, the Marcus Prize Pavilion in Milwaukee, and most recently the project for a pavilion for the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. Resulting in a variety of prototypes the applied research addresses advanced techniques such as revolved lasercutting (Tubematic), bending (Trumabend V-series) and casting of ceramic elements.
Frank Barkow is an architect and partner of Berlin-based Barkow Leibinger. He currently teaches at Harvard Design School and has previously held academic positions at Cornell University, the Architectural Association in London, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Barkow Leibinger´s work includes Trudec Building in Seoul, the service and Training Center in Dietzingen, the Campus restaurant and auditorium in Dietzingen and Biosphere in Potsdam.
Ausstellung:
Morgan Fisher: Portikus Looks at Itself
Eröffnung: 30. Januar, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 31. Januar 2009 - 15. März 2009
Tirdad Zolghadr: Only You. Thoughts on the Artworld and its Peculiar Sense of Expertise
Tuesday, 27 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How does art do it? What’s the unique selling point that lets art get away with murder, again and again. Whether you’re lecturing, writing, curating, or helping yourself to context as an artist, the art reference will open doors to an unquestioned ambivalence that remains out of bounds for other professions. When is the artistic colonization of architectural, theoretical, activist traditions a blessing, and when is it a case of unwittingly aping the “architects”, “academics”,“activists” etc. In other words, when does the post-medium, post-disciplinary condition offer the productivity of unpredictable combinations, and when is it a fashionable display of semi-knowledge. And when can it be both. Trouble is, if the world is our oyster, then there’s no situation where the artworld can be expected to sit down and shut up. So even if attempts to delineate the arts-as-field have amounted to ignoble acts of intellectual malice, committed by pompous old cretins in corduroy, even then, it might be worth the risk.
Tirdad Zolghadr is an independent writer and curator based in Berlin. He currently teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (NY), and writes for magazines such as Frieze, Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, and Afterall. He has curated “Ethnic Marketing” at the Kunsthalle Geneva 2004) and „Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie“ (2006-09). His novel "Softcore" is still available on Amazon, used and new.
Morgan Fisher: Painting Work
Wednesday, 28 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
While studying art history and film, the American artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher worked as a film editor for Hollywood productions, and his first film projects were clearly shaped by these experiences. He first appeared at the end of the 1960s with film works such as The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2), Documentary Footage or Production Stills (1968 and 1970). In 1984 he produced his well-known 35-minute Standard Gauge, in which found footage was compiled according to a precise formal model. With these conceptual approaches, Fisher reflects on the parameters of cinematographic depiction. In the early 1970s, these works were already shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the end of the 1990s, Fisher expanded his work to include painting, drawing and spatial installations. Today, Morgan Fisher ranks as one of the best-known and most influential artists of the American West Coast who has decisively influenced an entire generation of young artists. For many years, he was professor at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Frank Barkow: Revolution of Choice
Thursday, 29 January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Parallel to their internationally acclaimed buildings Berlin-based architects Barkow Leibinger have continuously developed a series of pavilions, temporary structures and applied research modules. These include Barkow Leibinger´s “Formation (Re) Formation: A Nomadic Garden” for the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2008, the Marcus Prize Pavilion in Milwaukee, and most recently the project for a pavilion for the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. Resulting in a variety of prototypes the applied research addresses advanced techniques such as revolved lasercutting (Tubematic), bending (Trumabend V-series) and casting of ceramic elements.
Frank Barkow is an architect and partner of Berlin-based Barkow Leibinger. He currently teaches at Harvard Design School and has previously held academic positions at Cornell University, the Architectural Association in London, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Barkow Leibinger´s work includes Trudec Building in Seoul, the service and Training Center in Dietzingen, the Campus restaurant and auditorium in Dietzingen and Biosphere in Potsdam.
Ausstellung:
Morgan Fisher: Portikus Looks at Itself
Eröffnung: 30. Januar, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 31. Januar 2009 - 15. März 2009
Montag, 19. Januar 2009
SABETH BUCHMANN / JAN VERWOERT / CHARLES WALKER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Sabeth Buchmann
Thinking against the thinking.
Production, Technology, Subjectivity
Tuesday, 20th January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Based on works by Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica and Yvonne Rainer as well as some central shows from the 1960/70s dealing with "Art and technology", Sabeth Buchmann turns attention from "Thinking against the thinking" to the various interrelations between social production codes and artistic works. This includes the American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and the relativization of author and creation based catagories while referring to industrial catagories of production that address aspects of motion, psyche, emotions, sexuality and intersubjective relations.
Investigating exemplary choreographies and films, Buchmann shows that the (self-) interpretation of the performer is always to be understood in direct confrontation with the technological and media constructions of physical presence which have been vital for (post-) avantgarde concepts. In this connection she considers the current receptions of the 60/70s post-aventgarde, which identify a parallel-development to the postfordistic and biopolitical organisation forms of social works.
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic who teaches as a Professor for Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a regular contributor to art magazines such as "Texte zur Kunst" and a co-editor of 'Polypen' - a publication series on art criticism and political theory.
Jan Verwoert
Why are conceptual artists painting again?
Because they think it’s a good idea.
Wednesday, 21st January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models could we use to open up the potentials at the heart of these developments in art after Conceptualism? The dominant models no longer satisfy. It makes no sense to melodramatically invoke the “end of painting” (or any other medium-specific practice for that part) when the continous emergence of fascinating work obviously proves apocalyptic endgame scenarios wrong. Yet, to pretend it were possible to go back to business as usual seems equally impossible because the radical expansion of artistic possibilities through the landslide changes of the 1960s leave medium-specific practices in the odd position of being one among many modes of artistic articulation, with no preset justification. How can we describe then what medium-specific practices like painting or sculpture can do today?
Unfortunately, a certain understanding of conceptualism has had incredibly stifling effects on how people approach their practice, namely the idea that to have a concept in art means to know exactly why you do what you do - before you ever even do it. This assumption has effectively increased the pressure on artists to occupy the genius-like position of a strategist who would clearly know the rules of how to do the right thing, the legitimate thing. How could we invent a language that would describe the potentials of contemporary practice, acknowledge a sense of crisis and doubt, yet break the spell of the senseless paranoia over legitimation - and instead help to transform critical art practice into a truly gay science based on a shared sense of appreciation and irreverence?
Jan Verwoert is a critic, who lives in Berlin, teaches art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, works as a contributing editor to frieze magazine, writes for different publications and co-curated the city-wide exhibition Art Sheffield 08, Yes, No, Other Options in Sheffield in 2008.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Charles Walker
Get Real!
Thursday, 22nd January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Canadian-born Charles Walker returns to Städelschule to give a share his vast experience in directing and realizing projects ranging from small pavilions to large urban masterplans. Currently working for Zaha Hadid Architects in London,Walker has previously practiced design-based engineering with Atelier One as well as Ove Arup & Partners. The latter firm he joined in 1998 and in 2000, he co-founded its Advanced Geometry Unit with Cecil Balmond.
Leading this unit, Walker was projector director and masterplanner for the Battersea Power Station Project, but - not the least in light of this lecture series, he was responsible for the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilions, including Daniel Libeskind's, Toyo Ito's and Oscar Niemeyer's structures.Educated an architect in Canada, Charles Walker went on to undertake post-graduate structural engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1992. Since 2003, he has been teaching an Intermediate School Unit at the Architectural Association in London.
Sabeth Buchmann
Thinking against the thinking.
Production, Technology, Subjectivity
Tuesday, 20th January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Based on works by Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica and Yvonne Rainer as well as some central shows from the 1960/70s dealing with "Art and technology", Sabeth Buchmann turns attention from "Thinking against the thinking" to the various interrelations between social production codes and artistic works. This includes the American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and the relativization of author and creation based catagories while referring to industrial catagories of production that address aspects of motion, psyche, emotions, sexuality and intersubjective relations.
Investigating exemplary choreographies and films, Buchmann shows that the (self-) interpretation of the performer is always to be understood in direct confrontation with the technological and media constructions of physical presence which have been vital for (post-) avantgarde concepts. In this connection she considers the current receptions of the 60/70s post-aventgarde, which identify a parallel-development to the postfordistic and biopolitical organisation forms of social works.
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic who teaches as a Professor for Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a regular contributor to art magazines such as "Texte zur Kunst" and a co-editor of 'Polypen' - a publication series on art criticism and political theory.
Jan Verwoert
Why are conceptual artists painting again?
Because they think it’s a good idea.
Wednesday, 21st January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models could we use to open up the potentials at the heart of these developments in art after Conceptualism? The dominant models no longer satisfy. It makes no sense to melodramatically invoke the “end of painting” (or any other medium-specific practice for that part) when the continous emergence of fascinating work obviously proves apocalyptic endgame scenarios wrong. Yet, to pretend it were possible to go back to business as usual seems equally impossible because the radical expansion of artistic possibilities through the landslide changes of the 1960s leave medium-specific practices in the odd position of being one among many modes of artistic articulation, with no preset justification. How can we describe then what medium-specific practices like painting or sculpture can do today?
Unfortunately, a certain understanding of conceptualism has had incredibly stifling effects on how people approach their practice, namely the idea that to have a concept in art means to know exactly why you do what you do - before you ever even do it. This assumption has effectively increased the pressure on artists to occupy the genius-like position of a strategist who would clearly know the rules of how to do the right thing, the legitimate thing. How could we invent a language that would describe the potentials of contemporary practice, acknowledge a sense of crisis and doubt, yet break the spell of the senseless paranoia over legitimation - and instead help to transform critical art practice into a truly gay science based on a shared sense of appreciation and irreverence?
Jan Verwoert is a critic, who lives in Berlin, teaches art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, works as a contributing editor to frieze magazine, writes for different publications and co-curated the city-wide exhibition Art Sheffield 08, Yes, No, Other Options in Sheffield in 2008.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Charles Walker
Get Real!
Thursday, 22nd January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Canadian-born Charles Walker returns to Städelschule to give a share his vast experience in directing and realizing projects ranging from small pavilions to large urban masterplans. Currently working for Zaha Hadid Architects in London,Walker has previously practiced design-based engineering with Atelier One as well as Ove Arup & Partners. The latter firm he joined in 1998 and in 2000, he co-founded its Advanced Geometry Unit with Cecil Balmond.
Leading this unit, Walker was projector director and masterplanner for the Battersea Power Station Project, but - not the least in light of this lecture series, he was responsible for the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilions, including Daniel Libeskind's, Toyo Ito's and Oscar Niemeyer's structures.Educated an architect in Canada, Charles Walker went on to undertake post-graduate structural engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1992. Since 2003, he has been teaching an Intermediate School Unit at the Architectural Association in London.
Freitag, 9. Januar 2009
MARIA LIND / BEATRIZ COLOMINA
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Maria Lind: The Collaborative Turn: On Collaborative Practices and Contemporary Art
Wednesday, 14th January 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
What can we make of collaboration as one of the most important strands of recent art? Artists, curators, writers, architects, activists and others collaborate on a short-term basis, as well as on more long-term bases; they spread their attention across various subjects, methods, lifestyles, different political orientations, often hoping for some kind of emancipation. Furthermore, in a variety of projects, the form and basis of collective activities have been presented, examined, and called into question. At the same time, these collaborative efforts often constitute a response to specific, at times local, situations, and they constantly run the risk of being swallowed up and incorporated into the very systems against which they are reacting.
Since 2008 Maria Lind is the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (NY). Previously she was the director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007) and the director of Kunstverein München (2002-2004) where she ran a program which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective was explored in a one-year long exhibition with Christine Borland, only ever showing one piece at a time and a retrospective project in the form of a 7-day long workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija. The group project “Totally motivated: A sociocultural manoeuvre” was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between ”amateur” and ”professional” art and culture. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She is the co-editor of the books “Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter” (Revolver), “Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art” (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report “European Cultural Policies 2015” and “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art”.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Beatriz Colomina: The Pavilions of Modern Architecture
Thursday, 15th January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Re-commencing the current lecture series after New Year’s, architectural historian and theorist, Beatriz Colomina, will talk about the pavilions of modern architecture. Her lecture draws on her extensive scholarship, which focuses in particular on questions of architecture and media.
Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Her books include, amongst other, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects; Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and Architectureproduction (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988). Her latest book is Domesticity at War (Barcelona: ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007). She has also curated a number of exhibitions.
In her essay, Pavilions of the Future (in Your Black Horizon, Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Walter Konig, Cologne, 2007), Colomina argues that historically, 'pavilions made dreams seem real, and reality seem dreamlike...the unique role of a pavilion (is) to fuse image and structure...The pavilion is the key instrument for negotiating the relationship between image and physical structure.'
Maria Lind: The Collaborative Turn: On Collaborative Practices and Contemporary Art
Wednesday, 14th January 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
What can we make of collaboration as one of the most important strands of recent art? Artists, curators, writers, architects, activists and others collaborate on a short-term basis, as well as on more long-term bases; they spread their attention across various subjects, methods, lifestyles, different political orientations, often hoping for some kind of emancipation. Furthermore, in a variety of projects, the form and basis of collective activities have been presented, examined, and called into question. At the same time, these collaborative efforts often constitute a response to specific, at times local, situations, and they constantly run the risk of being swallowed up and incorporated into the very systems against which they are reacting.
Since 2008 Maria Lind is the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (NY). Previously she was the director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007) and the director of Kunstverein München (2002-2004) where she ran a program which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective was explored in a one-year long exhibition with Christine Borland, only ever showing one piece at a time and a retrospective project in the form of a 7-day long workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija. The group project “Totally motivated: A sociocultural manoeuvre” was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between ”amateur” and ”professional” art and culture. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She is the co-editor of the books “Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter” (Revolver), “Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art” (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report “European Cultural Policies 2015” and “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art”.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Beatriz Colomina: The Pavilions of Modern Architecture
Thursday, 15th January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Re-commencing the current lecture series after New Year’s, architectural historian and theorist, Beatriz Colomina, will talk about the pavilions of modern architecture. Her lecture draws on her extensive scholarship, which focuses in particular on questions of architecture and media.
Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Her books include, amongst other, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects; Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and Architectureproduction (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988). Her latest book is Domesticity at War (Barcelona: ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007). She has also curated a number of exhibitions.
In her essay, Pavilions of the Future (in Your Black Horizon, Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Walter Konig, Cologne, 2007), Colomina argues that historically, 'pavilions made dreams seem real, and reality seem dreamlike...the unique role of a pavilion (is) to fuse image and structure...The pavilion is the key instrument for negotiating the relationship between image and physical structure.'
Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008
JACQUES RANCIERE
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Jacques Rancière: The Politics of Images
Wednesday, 7 January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“After the reign of the spectacle, the death of the image and an ethics of the non-representable have each been proclaimed, it seems timely to rethink the consistency of the image and the forms of its efficiency.”
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis) where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He came first to prominence when he co-authored "Reading Capital" (1968) with the Marxist philosopher and his mentor Louis Althusser, with whom he later split over the proper response to the student revolt of May 1968. Today, Rancière is most well known for his writings on emancipatory politics, aesthetics and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. He also writes extensively on cinema. His recent publications in german are Zehn Thesen zur Politik (diaphanes 2008) and Ist Kunst widerständig? (Merve 2008).
Jacques Rancière: The Politics of Images
Wednesday, 7 January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“After the reign of the spectacle, the death of the image and an ethics of the non-representable have each been proclaimed, it seems timely to rethink the consistency of the image and the forms of its efficiency.”
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis) where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He came first to prominence when he co-authored "Reading Capital" (1968) with the Marxist philosopher and his mentor Louis Althusser, with whom he later split over the proper response to the student revolt of May 1968. Today, Rancière is most well known for his writings on emancipatory politics, aesthetics and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. He also writes extensively on cinema. His recent publications in german are Zehn Thesen zur Politik (diaphanes 2008) and Ist Kunst widerständig? (Merve 2008).
JUDITH HOPF / PHILIPPE RAHM
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Judith Hopf: Doors - Count
Wednesday, 17 December, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Judith Hopf takes the Portikus exhibition "Türen" (2007 in collaboration with Henrik Olesen) as an starting point of her lecture to exemplify further and recent projects and works.
Doors showed a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. Doors offered passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asked the viewer to come to a new decision. The different possibilities of action - opening doors, moving (backward) in space - engender new spatial constellations. They affect what is behind, what remains initially hidden from view, and necessitate unforeseen changes in direction and sidestepping gestures. This sculptural space, conceived as a model and designed in the manner of a stage setting, at once also presents an exaggerated delineation of social patterns, in which limitations, compulsions, contradictions and strictures, but also possibilities for decisions emerge into view. In a similar manner, Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen also approached the subject of spatial and personal demarcation by means of film.
The new Film of Jdith Hopf, Zählen! (Count!) is about the unusual story of Wilhelm Von Osten, a Berlin high school mathematics teacher, phrenologist, showman and mystic. At the beginning of the twentieth century, working from Darwinian postulates, Von Osten successfully managed to train his horse Hans in elementary arithmetic. The horse quickly became a sensation, making the front cover of The New York Times and prompting the German board of eduction to convene a 13-man board of inquiry. The Hans Commission reported back in 1907. Analyzing the Hans’ arithmetical acumen in terms of what would henceforth be called the ‘Clever Hans effect’, the commission concluded that the horse’s true acuity lay in the realms of psychology. Zählen! is her most recent exhibition in the Gallery Croy Nielsen, Berlin, which ended last week.
Judith Hopf is professor for Fine Art at Städelschule.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Philippe Rahm: Meteorological Architecture
Thursday, 18 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Philippe Rahm´s lecture at the Städelschule investigates the concept of architecture as a physiological environment. Dealing with physiological and often invisible aspects of space the Paris-based architect raises the possibility that climate can replace the typology, function and form of what we use and define as architecture.
Philippe Rahm´s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as the Swiss Pavilion at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and "Digestible Gulf Stream" at Architectural Venice Biennale 2008, San Francisco MoMA (2001), Museum of Modern Art in Paris (2001), Tirana Biennial 2001, "Form & function follow climate“ at CCA Kitakyushu (2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), Centre Pompidou (2003-2007 and Manifesta 7. He has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts of Paris (2003), Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (2005/06) and at the ETH Lausanne (2006/07). He is a professor at the ECAL Lausanne and teaches at the School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais in Paris. He has published „Physiological Architecture“ (Birkhäuser) and is currently working on several projects such as the „Winter House“ for Fabrice Hybert in France and the „Second summer“ in Austria.
Judith Hopf: Doors - Count
Wednesday, 17 December, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Judith Hopf takes the Portikus exhibition "Türen" (2007 in collaboration with Henrik Olesen) as an starting point of her lecture to exemplify further and recent projects and works.
Doors showed a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. Doors offered passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asked the viewer to come to a new decision. The different possibilities of action - opening doors, moving (backward) in space - engender new spatial constellations. They affect what is behind, what remains initially hidden from view, and necessitate unforeseen changes in direction and sidestepping gestures. This sculptural space, conceived as a model and designed in the manner of a stage setting, at once also presents an exaggerated delineation of social patterns, in which limitations, compulsions, contradictions and strictures, but also possibilities for decisions emerge into view. In a similar manner, Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen also approached the subject of spatial and personal demarcation by means of film.
The new Film of Jdith Hopf, Zählen! (Count!) is about the unusual story of Wilhelm Von Osten, a Berlin high school mathematics teacher, phrenologist, showman and mystic. At the beginning of the twentieth century, working from Darwinian postulates, Von Osten successfully managed to train his horse Hans in elementary arithmetic. The horse quickly became a sensation, making the front cover of The New York Times and prompting the German board of eduction to convene a 13-man board of inquiry. The Hans Commission reported back in 1907. Analyzing the Hans’ arithmetical acumen in terms of what would henceforth be called the ‘Clever Hans effect’, the commission concluded that the horse’s true acuity lay in the realms of psychology. Zählen! is her most recent exhibition in the Gallery Croy Nielsen, Berlin, which ended last week.
Judith Hopf is professor for Fine Art at Städelschule.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Philippe Rahm: Meteorological Architecture
Thursday, 18 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Philippe Rahm´s lecture at the Städelschule investigates the concept of architecture as a physiological environment. Dealing with physiological and often invisible aspects of space the Paris-based architect raises the possibility that climate can replace the typology, function and form of what we use and define as architecture.
Philippe Rahm´s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as the Swiss Pavilion at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and "Digestible Gulf Stream" at Architectural Venice Biennale 2008, San Francisco MoMA (2001), Museum of Modern Art in Paris (2001), Tirana Biennial 2001, "Form & function follow climate“ at CCA Kitakyushu (2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), Centre Pompidou (2003-2007 and Manifesta 7. He has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts of Paris (2003), Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (2005/06) and at the ETH Lausanne (2006/07). He is a professor at the ECAL Lausanne and teaches at the School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais in Paris. He has published „Physiological Architecture“ (Birkhäuser) and is currently working on several projects such as the „Winter House“ for Fabrice Hybert in France and the „Second summer“ in Austria.
Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008
NIKOLAUS HIRSCH
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 11 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", a growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" at Manifesta 7 (Bolzano, 2008), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at 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”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of texts that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 11 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", a growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" at Manifesta 7 (Bolzano, 2008), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at 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”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of texts that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
Montag, 1. Dezember 2008
TOBIAS REHBERGER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tobias Rehberger: Halbe, viertel und ganze Eier
Thursday, 4 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule graduate and art professor since 2001, produces work of great artistic complexity and intimacy with design. The production flirts with the contemporary status of objects, space, commodification and innovation. Yet, for all its extravagance, humor and disciplinary ambiguity, Rehberger's work reflects his own clear identification as an artist. As he has put it, the work emerges from a paradigm of art - that is, the thinking and production of an artist. When the work is at its most potent in terms of design and spatial implications (such as in Private Matters (Whitechapel, London, 2004), On Otto (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2007) and The-Chicken-and-Egg-No-Problem Wall Painting, (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2008)), Rehberger seems to insist on a resistance to the most immanent interpretation of his own work.
Hence, Rehberger's art is probably less about "chance connections" than it is about a carefully calculated play of contradictions, paradoxes and conflicts. It is probably less about "unexpected encounters" than it is about a spatial scenography revolving around disciplinary and productive tension.
To a discussion about architecture, art and the typology of the pavilion, Tobias Rehberger brings ideas and a portfolio of work that bespeaks the disciplinary and typological strictures, yet suspend the same relative to an urgency of production.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tobias Rehberger: Halbe, viertel und ganze Eier
Thursday, 4 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule graduate and art professor since 2001, produces work of great artistic complexity and intimacy with design. The production flirts with the contemporary status of objects, space, commodification and innovation. Yet, for all its extravagance, humor and disciplinary ambiguity, Rehberger's work reflects his own clear identification as an artist. As he has put it, the work emerges from a paradigm of art - that is, the thinking and production of an artist. When the work is at its most potent in terms of design and spatial implications (such as in Private Matters (Whitechapel, London, 2004), On Otto (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2007) and The-Chicken-and-Egg-No-Problem Wall Painting, (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2008)), Rehberger seems to insist on a resistance to the most immanent interpretation of his own work.
Hence, Rehberger's art is probably less about "chance connections" than it is about a carefully calculated play of contradictions, paradoxes and conflicts. It is probably less about "unexpected encounters" than it is about a spatial scenography revolving around disciplinary and productive tension.
To a discussion about architecture, art and the typology of the pavilion, Tobias Rehberger brings ideas and a portfolio of work that bespeaks the disciplinary and typological strictures, yet suspend the same relative to an urgency of production.
Mittwoch, 19. November 2008
EYAL WEIZMAN / WILL BRADLEY / BEN VAN BERKEL
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Eyal Weizman investigates the conflicts and contradictions within contemporary spatial practice. Referring to his book "Hollow Land" and his most recent project "The Lesser Evil" he discusses the notion of political agency as one of the key questions of the current cultural debate.
London-based Eyal Weizman is one of the most prolific figures in the ongoing renegotiation of cultural agency. As the founder and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London he has initiated a „Roundtable“ that involves a variety of curators, architects and artists. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His books include „A Civilian Occupation“ (Verso Books, 2003) and „Hollow Land“ (Verso Books, 2007. Weizman is a regular contributor to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007. As a curator he has co-organized „Territories“ (KW Berlin, 2003, with Anselm Franke). Most recently his work has been shown at Manifesta 7 and Brussels Biennial.
Will Bradley: What Are You Doing Here?: Art in the Place of Politics at OSRAM China Lighting Ltd.
Tuesday, 25 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Will Bradley´s lecture discusses the relationship between art and politics centred on the project “What are you doing here?” (2006), produced by the Siemens Art Program, in which 'the artist Cao Fei works with employees from OSRAM China Lighting to turn their individual ideas, hopes and expectations into art.' The talk will examine how this process worked, and discuss its implications.
Will Bradley is an Oslo-based critic and curator who is currently a guest professor at the Städelschule. He is researching social and economic experiments in contemporary art and has co-founded “The Modern Institute” in Glasgow that produces artists' projects and represents artists. He has co-edited “Self Organisation / Counter-Economic Strategies” (Lukas & Sternberg, 2006) and "Art and Social Change" (Tate, 2007). As a curated he has organized the exhibition "Radical Software" (CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco 2006) and „Forms of Resistance“ (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007). He is currently working (with curator Cristina Ricupero) on „Manufacturing Today“, a polemical survey of alternatives and oppositions to the neo-liberal instrumentalisation of art and art education.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Ben van Berkel: Switching On & Off
Thursday, 27 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Ben van Berkel and UNStudio designed and developed over the years a series of pavilions with which they have explored specific themes in architecture. These themes have ranged from the problem of formal and geometric continuity, via circulation and time, to informed surface conditions.
According to Ben van Berkel small and temporary projects are often a great way to test new ideas, to advance themes that form part of longer-lasting preoccupations. ‘What we like to do is work in series. To us, each project is like a still from a film.’
For the Architecture Biennale 2008 in Venice, UNStudio produced the pavilion ‘The Changing Room’. The pavilion explores inside-outside relationships with a geometric organization that twists and folds into itself. As the continuous surfaces peel back and expose the interior, the visitors are confronted with a choreography that summons the intimacy of the changing room and weaves the public and private domains to one another.
Ben van Berkel is Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class.
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Eyal Weizman investigates the conflicts and contradictions within contemporary spatial practice. Referring to his book "Hollow Land" and his most recent project "The Lesser Evil" he discusses the notion of political agency as one of the key questions of the current cultural debate.
London-based Eyal Weizman is one of the most prolific figures in the ongoing renegotiation of cultural agency. As the founder and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London he has initiated a „Roundtable“ that involves a variety of curators, architects and artists. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His books include „A Civilian Occupation“ (Verso Books, 2003) and „Hollow Land“ (Verso Books, 2007. Weizman is a regular contributor to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007. As a curator he has co-organized „Territories“ (KW Berlin, 2003, with Anselm Franke). Most recently his work has been shown at Manifesta 7 and Brussels Biennial.
Will Bradley: What Are You Doing Here?: Art in the Place of Politics at OSRAM China Lighting Ltd.
Tuesday, 25 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Will Bradley´s lecture discusses the relationship between art and politics centred on the project “What are you doing here?” (2006), produced by the Siemens Art Program, in which 'the artist Cao Fei works with employees from OSRAM China Lighting to turn their individual ideas, hopes and expectations into art.' The talk will examine how this process worked, and discuss its implications.
Will Bradley is an Oslo-based critic and curator who is currently a guest professor at the Städelschule. He is researching social and economic experiments in contemporary art and has co-founded “The Modern Institute” in Glasgow that produces artists' projects and represents artists. He has co-edited “Self Organisation / Counter-Economic Strategies” (Lukas & Sternberg, 2006) and "Art and Social Change" (Tate, 2007). As a curated he has organized the exhibition "Radical Software" (CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco 2006) and „Forms of Resistance“ (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007). He is currently working (with curator Cristina Ricupero) on „Manufacturing Today“, a polemical survey of alternatives and oppositions to the neo-liberal instrumentalisation of art and art education.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Ben van Berkel: Switching On & Off
Thursday, 27 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Ben van Berkel and UNStudio designed and developed over the years a series of pavilions with which they have explored specific themes in architecture. These themes have ranged from the problem of formal and geometric continuity, via circulation and time, to informed surface conditions.
According to Ben van Berkel small and temporary projects are often a great way to test new ideas, to advance themes that form part of longer-lasting preoccupations. ‘What we like to do is work in series. To us, each project is like a still from a film.’
For the Architecture Biennale 2008 in Venice, UNStudio produced the pavilion ‘The Changing Room’. The pavilion explores inside-outside relationships with a geometric organization that twists and folds into itself. As the continuous surfaces peel back and expose the interior, the visitors are confronted with a choreography that summons the intimacy of the changing room and weaves the public and private domains to one another.
Ben van Berkel is Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class.
Freitag, 14. November 2008
FRANCES STARK / TOMAS SARACENO
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Tuesday, 18 November, 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Frances Stark’s (b. 1967, lives and works in Los Angeles) works arise mainly out of a complex system of references comprising texts and images. Thus the metaphorical significance and composition of the written word on the canvas or the paper form the starting point from which her collages and texts draw their creative sustenance. Equally important for her method of working are visual templates from the world of art; they can be derived from classical art, but can also be taken from textual and pictorial material from a more contemporary or sub-cultural genre. She creates networks made up of different found and discovered symbols, cuttings and graphic elements, quotations from literature and autobiographical references in the delicate ornament of her collages. Equally characteristic for the contextual composition of the works is the illumination of and engagement with her own personal creative process as well as with the diverse roles and attitudes she adopts as an artist and author. Stark’s approach is accordingly characterized by a repeated self-referentiality within her own work. Motifs and textual fragments, but also complete thematic threads can weave their path through several cycles of work. Frances Stark’s two publications Frances Stark: Collected Writing, 1993-2003 (2003, Bookworks, London) and Frances Stark: Collected Works (2007, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne) trace this development most beautifully. Frances Stark’s works are informed for the most part with a fine sense of humour; it manifests itself both in the special choice of motif and in the minimal composition of the respective elements when engaging with the dynamic tension inherent in »public and private« or »gravity and irony, i.e. posing«.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tomas Saraceno
in Conversation with Klaus Bollinger, Johan Bettum and Nikolaus Hirsch
Thursday, 20 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Meeting with Klaus Bollinger, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, Städelschule alumnus Tomas Saraceno will discuss aspects of his work with respect to issues in art and architecture. The panel will investigate Saraceno’s visionary approach to architecture, engineering, and physics, while addressing spatial and conceptual questions related to art.
Tomas Saraceno was trained as an architect in Argentina before commencing his post-graduate training in art and architecture in Argentina, Germany and Italy. Already during his studies at the Städelschule (2001-2003), Saraceno had begun exhibiting his work, and upon graduation he soon established a career as an artist. He has had numerous prestigious solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions all over the world, including “Infinitive Actives” at Portikus (2006), Venice Biennial (2003) and his project on the world's largest salt lake, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. His permanent installations are “On Clouds (Air port city)” at Towada Arts Center in Japan, and “Flying Garden” in Munich. Currently he holds a residency at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where he is preparing a major solo exhibition in 2009.
Ausstellung:
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Eröffnung: 21. November, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 22. November 2008 - 11. Januar 2009
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Tuesday, 18 November, 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Frances Stark’s (b. 1967, lives and works in Los Angeles) works arise mainly out of a complex system of references comprising texts and images. Thus the metaphorical significance and composition of the written word on the canvas or the paper form the starting point from which her collages and texts draw their creative sustenance. Equally important for her method of working are visual templates from the world of art; they can be derived from classical art, but can also be taken from textual and pictorial material from a more contemporary or sub-cultural genre. She creates networks made up of different found and discovered symbols, cuttings and graphic elements, quotations from literature and autobiographical references in the delicate ornament of her collages. Equally characteristic for the contextual composition of the works is the illumination of and engagement with her own personal creative process as well as with the diverse roles and attitudes she adopts as an artist and author. Stark’s approach is accordingly characterized by a repeated self-referentiality within her own work. Motifs and textual fragments, but also complete thematic threads can weave their path through several cycles of work. Frances Stark’s two publications Frances Stark: Collected Writing, 1993-2003 (2003, Bookworks, London) and Frances Stark: Collected Works (2007, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne) trace this development most beautifully. Frances Stark’s works are informed for the most part with a fine sense of humour; it manifests itself both in the special choice of motif and in the minimal composition of the respective elements when engaging with the dynamic tension inherent in »public and private« or »gravity and irony, i.e. posing«.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tomas Saraceno
in Conversation with Klaus Bollinger, Johan Bettum and Nikolaus Hirsch
Thursday, 20 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Meeting with Klaus Bollinger, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, Städelschule alumnus Tomas Saraceno will discuss aspects of his work with respect to issues in art and architecture. The panel will investigate Saraceno’s visionary approach to architecture, engineering, and physics, while addressing spatial and conceptual questions related to art.
Tomas Saraceno was trained as an architect in Argentina before commencing his post-graduate training in art and architecture in Argentina, Germany and Italy. Already during his studies at the Städelschule (2001-2003), Saraceno had begun exhibiting his work, and upon graduation he soon established a career as an artist. He has had numerous prestigious solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions all over the world, including “Infinitive Actives” at Portikus (2006), Venice Biennial (2003) and his project on the world's largest salt lake, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. His permanent installations are “On Clouds (Air port city)” at Towada Arts Center in Japan, and “Flying Garden” in Munich. Currently he holds a residency at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where he is preparing a major solo exhibition in 2009.
Ausstellung:
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Eröffnung: 21. November, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 22. November 2008 - 11. Januar 2009
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Donnerstag, 6. November 2008
ANTON VIDOKLE / JOCHEN VOLZ
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Anton Vidokle: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About __ But Were Too Afraid To Ask.
Tuesday, 11 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Anton Vidokle is an artist based in New York and Berlin. His work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale and at Tate Modern, London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musee d'art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental, which traveled to numerous institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt; KW, Berlin; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and others. As founder of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin alled Unitednationsplaza - a twelve-month exhibition-as-school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, theorists, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP's program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations. Unitednationsplaza recently traveled to Mexico City and a parallel project called the Night School will continue at the New Museum through January 2009.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Jochen Volz: Unfolding an Institution: Finding Inhotim
Thursday, 13 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Jochen Volz is the artistic director of Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, a large museum complex which was founded in 2005, situated in Brumadinho, 60 km from the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The museum is unique for its combination of a botanical garden with the collection of important Brazilian and international art. In addition to a collection that includes important Brazilian and international art from the 1960s and on, Inhotim numbers a sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden. The botanical garden has been partly developed along guidelines formulated by famed landscape artist, Roberto Burle Marx. The enormous variety of plants at Inhotim makes it one of the largest botanical collections in the world, with rare tropical species and a forest reserve which is part of the Atlantic Forest biome. The pavilions and botanical garden form the core of the museum complex and, together with the art collection, support the institution’s ongoing development of research, scientific innovation and education.
In 2006 Jochen Volz guest curated the 27th São Paulo Biennial: How to Live Together, with a special exhibition project in homage to Marcel Broodthaers with Juan Araujo, Mabe Bethônico, Marcel Broodthaers, Marilá Dardot, Tacita Dean, Meschac Gaba, Goshka Macuga, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Haegue Yang. Between 2001 and 2004, he was curator of Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. As a critic he is writing for magazines and catalogues. Together with Daniel Birnbaum, he will be organizing the international section of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial 2009. Jochen Volz currently holds the Heinz und Giesela Friederichs Stiftung professorship for Art and Architecture 2008-09 at Städelschule.
Anton Vidokle: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About __ But Were Too Afraid To Ask.
Tuesday, 11 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Anton Vidokle is an artist based in New York and Berlin. His work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale and at Tate Modern, London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musee d'art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental, which traveled to numerous institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt; KW, Berlin; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and others. As founder of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin alled Unitednationsplaza - a twelve-month exhibition-as-school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, theorists, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP's program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations. Unitednationsplaza recently traveled to Mexico City and a parallel project called the Night School will continue at the New Museum through January 2009.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Jochen Volz: Unfolding an Institution: Finding Inhotim
Thursday, 13 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Jochen Volz is the artistic director of Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, a large museum complex which was founded in 2005, situated in Brumadinho, 60 km from the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The museum is unique for its combination of a botanical garden with the collection of important Brazilian and international art. In addition to a collection that includes important Brazilian and international art from the 1960s and on, Inhotim numbers a sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden. The botanical garden has been partly developed along guidelines formulated by famed landscape artist, Roberto Burle Marx. The enormous variety of plants at Inhotim makes it one of the largest botanical collections in the world, with rare tropical species and a forest reserve which is part of the Atlantic Forest biome. The pavilions and botanical garden form the core of the museum complex and, together with the art collection, support the institution’s ongoing development of research, scientific innovation and education.
In 2006 Jochen Volz guest curated the 27th São Paulo Biennial: How to Live Together, with a special exhibition project in homage to Marcel Broodthaers with Juan Araujo, Mabe Bethônico, Marcel Broodthaers, Marilá Dardot, Tacita Dean, Meschac Gaba, Goshka Macuga, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Haegue Yang. Between 2001 and 2004, he was curator of Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. As a critic he is writing for magazines and catalogues. Together with Daniel Birnbaum, he will be organizing the international section of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial 2009. Jochen Volz currently holds the Heinz und Giesela Friederichs Stiftung professorship for Art and Architecture 2008-09 at Städelschule.
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2008
JÜRGEN MAYER H / ALUMNI ARCHITEKTUR
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Jürgen Mayer H: re:activators
Thursday, 6 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Jürgen Mayer H, one of Germany's leading, young architects, returns to Städelschule to lecture on his work that frequently touches on issues related to art and design at large.
Since establishing his office in 1995, Jürgen Mayer H has produced a wide range of objects and buildings, from interior panels, furniture and sculpture, to exhibition installations and large private and public buildings. In the work, Mayer H focuses on the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. "From urban planning schemes and buildings to installation work and objects with new materials," Mayer H says, "the relationship between the human body, technology and nature form the background for a new production of space."
This focus has led to remarkable results, frequently praised by critics and cherished on the international architecture scene. Mayer H's Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park
und Marktplatz (1998-2002) is an extraordinary early design and won international interest and acclaim; models and drawings of the project have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recent projects include the Town Hall in Ostfildern, Germany, a student center at Karlsruhe University and the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Sevilla, Spain.
Jürgen Mayer H. studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and at Princeton Universtiy. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of international collections like the MoMA New York and SF MoMA. Among the prizes and awards won are the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award 2003 Emerging Architect and Winner Holcim Awards 2005 Bronze Europe for Metropol Parasol. Jürgen Mayer H. has taught at Princeton University, University of the Arts Berlin, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, the Architectural Association in London and is currently teaching at Columbia University in New York.
Die Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst lädt ein:
Öffentliche Vorträge und Ausstellung von Absolventen der Städelschule Architekturklasse
Samstag, 1. November 2008, 10 Uhr, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
Die Vorträge finden teils in Deutsch, teils in Englisch statt.
Es sprechen u.a. Prof. Luise King (Berlin), Sir Peter Cook (London), Prof. Johan Bettum (Frankfurt am Main)
Vortragende Absolventen sind: Max Dudler (Zürich), Tomas Saraceno (Frankfurt am Main), Asterios Agkathidis, a3lab (Thessaloniki), Christopher Kelly, Architecture Workshop (Wellington), Prof. Claudio Vekstein (Buenos Aires), Gabi Schillig (Berlin), Jürgen Riehm, 1100 Architect (New York City)
Im Anschluss wird die Ausstellung der Absolventen und gleichzeitig Projekte der heutigen Studierende der Architekturklasse werktags von 8.00 bis 18.00 Uhr vom 3. – 14. November 2008 in der Halle der Städelschule zu sehen sein.
Teilnahmegebühr für Nicht-Alumni 20€ / 35 € (ohne/ mit Teilnahmebescheinigung Fortbildungsveranstaltung).
Weitere Infos siehe: www.stiftung-baukunst.de
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Jürgen Mayer H: re:activators
Thursday, 6 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Jürgen Mayer H, one of Germany's leading, young architects, returns to Städelschule to lecture on his work that frequently touches on issues related to art and design at large.
Since establishing his office in 1995, Jürgen Mayer H has produced a wide range of objects and buildings, from interior panels, furniture and sculpture, to exhibition installations and large private and public buildings. In the work, Mayer H focuses on the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. "From urban planning schemes and buildings to installation work and objects with new materials," Mayer H says, "the relationship between the human body, technology and nature form the background for a new production of space."
This focus has led to remarkable results, frequently praised by critics and cherished on the international architecture scene. Mayer H's Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park
und Marktplatz (1998-2002) is an extraordinary early design and won international interest and acclaim; models and drawings of the project have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recent projects include the Town Hall in Ostfildern, Germany, a student center at Karlsruhe University and the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Sevilla, Spain.
Jürgen Mayer H. studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and at Princeton Universtiy. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of international collections like the MoMA New York and SF MoMA. Among the prizes and awards won are the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award 2003 Emerging Architect and Winner Holcim Awards 2005 Bronze Europe for Metropol Parasol. Jürgen Mayer H. has taught at Princeton University, University of the Arts Berlin, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, the Architectural Association in London and is currently teaching at Columbia University in New York.
Die Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst lädt ein:
Öffentliche Vorträge und Ausstellung von Absolventen der Städelschule Architekturklasse
Samstag, 1. November 2008, 10 Uhr, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
Die Vorträge finden teils in Deutsch, teils in Englisch statt.
Es sprechen u.a. Prof. Luise King (Berlin), Sir Peter Cook (London), Prof. Johan Bettum (Frankfurt am Main)
Vortragende Absolventen sind: Max Dudler (Zürich), Tomas Saraceno (Frankfurt am Main), Asterios Agkathidis, a3lab (Thessaloniki), Christopher Kelly, Architecture Workshop (Wellington), Prof. Claudio Vekstein (Buenos Aires), Gabi Schillig (Berlin), Jürgen Riehm, 1100 Architect (New York City)
Im Anschluss wird die Ausstellung der Absolventen und gleichzeitig Projekte der heutigen Studierende der Architekturklasse werktags von 8.00 bis 18.00 Uhr vom 3. – 14. November 2008 in der Halle der Städelschule zu sehen sein.
Teilnahmegebühr für Nicht-Alumni 20€ / 35 € (ohne/ mit Teilnahmebescheinigung Fortbildungsveranstaltung).
Weitere Infos siehe: www.stiftung-baukunst.de
DAVID ADJAYE
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
David Adjaye: Art and Architecture
Thursday, 30 Oktober, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
David Adjaye´s work reflects the critical relationship between art and architecture in all its facets. The reciprocal configurations of this relationship range from a public museum (Denver Museum of Modern Art) to the intimacy of a collaborative production (such as the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennial with Chris Ofili an his collaboration with Olafur Eliasson for Your Black Horizon), from a temporary structure for an art fair (Frieze Art Fair) to artists studios and homes (among others for Jake Chapman, Chris Ofili, Tim Noble, Sue Webster), from private galleries (such as Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin) to his own objects Monoform.
Dar-Es-Salaam-born and London-based architect David Adjaye is recognized as one of the leading architects of his generation. He has held academic positions at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Princeton University and the Architectural Association. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings (Whitechapel Gallery in London and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York), Manifesta 7 in Bolzano and African Cities (Harvard’s Graduate School of Design). His publications include Houses - Recycling, Reconfiguring, Rebuilding (2005) and Making Public Buildings (2006).
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
David Adjaye: Art and Architecture
Thursday, 30 Oktober, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
David Adjaye´s work reflects the critical relationship between art and architecture in all its facets. The reciprocal configurations of this relationship range from a public museum (Denver Museum of Modern Art) to the intimacy of a collaborative production (such as the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennial with Chris Ofili an his collaboration with Olafur Eliasson for Your Black Horizon), from a temporary structure for an art fair (Frieze Art Fair) to artists studios and homes (among others for Jake Chapman, Chris Ofili, Tim Noble, Sue Webster), from private galleries (such as Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin) to his own objects Monoform.
Dar-Es-Salaam-born and London-based architect David Adjaye is recognized as one of the leading architects of his generation. He has held academic positions at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Princeton University and the Architectural Association. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings (Whitechapel Gallery in London and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York), Manifesta 7 in Bolzano and African Cities (Harvard’s Graduate School of Design). His publications include Houses - Recycling, Reconfiguring, Rebuilding (2005) and Making Public Buildings (2006).
Freitag, 17. Oktober 2008
ISABELLE GRAW: WHEN LIFE GOES TO WORK: ANDY WARHOL
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Vorlesung
Isabelle Graw:
When life goes to work: Andy Warhol
Dienstag, 21. Oktober, 19 Uhr, Aula
In dieser Vorlesung wird der Künstler Andy Warhol als Theoretiker und Praktiker der "Celebrity Kultur" vorgestellt, von der behauptet wird, dass sie die vielbeschworene Spektakelkultur ablöste. Es sind speziell Warhols Portraits, an denen sich dieser Umschlag des Starsystems in das Celebritywesen ablesen lässt. Doch so wie er auch seine eigenen Undergroundstars produzierte, setzte er dem biopolitischen Interesse am "Leben" sein Produkt entgegen. Man könnte sagen, dass in Warhols Factory das Leben zur Arbeit geht und, dass sich die Kunst hier einmal mehr als Lebenslieferant erweist. Auch im Hinblick auf Markterfordernisse zeichnet sich seine Praxis durch einen Doppelcharakter aus - sie wird als marktkonformistisch und zugleich marktresistent bezeichnet.
Vorlesung
Isabelle Graw:
When life goes to work: Andy Warhol
Dienstag, 21. Oktober, 19 Uhr, Aula
In dieser Vorlesung wird der Künstler Andy Warhol als Theoretiker und Praktiker der "Celebrity Kultur" vorgestellt, von der behauptet wird, dass sie die vielbeschworene Spektakelkultur ablöste. Es sind speziell Warhols Portraits, an denen sich dieser Umschlag des Starsystems in das Celebritywesen ablesen lässt. Doch so wie er auch seine eigenen Undergroundstars produzierte, setzte er dem biopolitischen Interesse am "Leben" sein Produkt entgegen. Man könnte sagen, dass in Warhols Factory das Leben zur Arbeit geht und, dass sich die Kunst hier einmal mehr als Lebenslieferant erweist. Auch im Hinblick auf Markterfordernisse zeichnet sich seine Praxis durch einen Doppelcharakter aus - sie wird als marktkonformistisch und zugleich marktresistent bezeichnet.
Freitag, 19. September 2008
WADE GUYTON
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Lecture:
Wade Guyton
Wednesday, 24th September, 19 h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
The works of New York-based artist Wade Guyton engage the formal repertory of modernism, from Bauhaus and constructivism to Minimal, Conceptual, and Appropriation art. Since 2005, Guyton has worked primarily on canvas; his tool, however, is not the brush but an Epson Stylus inkjet printer, a machine used for large-format prints. Using a computer, Guyton produces abstract paintings: he designs the motifs on the computer and then puts them on canvas using the printer; sources of error such as using a carrier material other than the one for which the machine is conceived, manipulating the color supplies, and deliberately jolting and pulling the material while the printer is working are an intentional part of this process, creating smudges, drippings, or distortions and displacements that turn a model designed for serial reproduction into a series of original objects.
Ausstellung:
Wade Guyton
Eröffnung: 26. September 2008, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 27. September - 9. November 2008
Lecture:
Wade Guyton
Wednesday, 24th September, 19 h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
The works of New York-based artist Wade Guyton engage the formal repertory of modernism, from Bauhaus and constructivism to Minimal, Conceptual, and Appropriation art. Since 2005, Guyton has worked primarily on canvas; his tool, however, is not the brush but an Epson Stylus inkjet printer, a machine used for large-format prints. Using a computer, Guyton produces abstract paintings: he designs the motifs on the computer and then puts them on canvas using the printer; sources of error such as using a carrier material other than the one for which the machine is conceived, manipulating the color supplies, and deliberately jolting and pulling the material while the printer is working are an intentional part of this process, creating smudges, drippings, or distortions and displacements that turn a model designed for serial reproduction into a series of original objects.
Ausstellung:
Wade Guyton
Eröffnung: 26. September 2008, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 27. September - 9. November 2008
Montag, 7. Juli 2008
END OF YEAR / GREG LYNN / MARTHA ROSLER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
END-OF-YEAR EVENTS
10th - 11th July 2008
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The End-of-Year Events of the Architecture Class include once more a series of exciting occasions for visiting the Städelschule and enjoying vibrant discussions and talks about architecture. For the series of events, SAC is proud to host numerous world-class theorists and architects, including: Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University), Nikolaus Hirsch, Sanford Kwinter (Rice University and Harvard University), Greg Lynn (Angewandte (Wien) and UCLA), Achim Menges (Stuttgart University), Peter Schmal (German Architectural Museum) and Mark Wigley (Columbia University). These guests join the SAC faculty that counts its dean, Ben van Berkel, Johan Bettum, Sigurdur Gunnarsson and Harald Kloft.
Review of the Research and Experiments by the First Year Group
Thursday, 10th July, 14h, Aula
The work comprises studies of select material-structural phenomena - in particular some that relate to fibrous and textile geometric conditions, analyses of select fashion designers' work and an in-depth study of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau. The research and experiments have resulted in a series of model propositions that will be further developed for full architectural resolution during the students' second and final Diploma year.
Dean's Honorary Lecture: Greg Lynn
& The Günter Bock Prize: First Year Prize for Excellent Work
Thursday 10th July, 18:30h, Aula
The American architect, Greg Lynn, is, arguably, the inventor of advanced, time-based digital modeling in architecture. In the early 1990s, after having worked for Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn established himself as one of the most important theorists and practitioners of complexity in architecture. Till this day, his work espouses originality and radical invention as he continues to be one of the central figures on the international, academic scene.
For the second time, the Günter Bock Prize is given out to the First Year Student(s) who has produced the best work in terms of research and experiments with respect to architecture. The prize has been made possible through the generous support of the Lions Club Frankfurt Flughafen, and, like last year, the prize is handed out by the Dean Honorary Lecturer.
Diploma Thesis Review
Friday, 11th July, 10h, Aula
The Diploma Thesis Proposals is for high-rise buildings in Frankfurt and positions hybrid or composite programming with institutional programs as the catalyst for transforming the high-rise building typology. The review sees a panel of excellent critics, including Beatriz Colomina, Sanford Kwinter, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges, Peter Schmal and Mark Wigley in addition to SAC faculty members.
Martha Rosler: location, location, location
Vortrag: 11. Juli , 18.30 Uhr
Eröffnung: 11. Juli, 20 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 12. Juli – 14. September
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Seit Ende der sechziger Jahre nimmt Martha Rosler in beißend-kritischen, aber auch humorvollen Arbeiten zu aktuellen und gesellschaftlich relevanten Themen Stellung. Mit ihrem Blick auf die alltäglichen Dinge des Lebens und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen dekonstruiert Rosler Schicht für Schicht die „Mythen des Alltags“. Martha Rosler hat einflussreiche Arbeiten in den Bereichen Fotografie, Installation, Performance, Video, Textarbeiten sowie als Autorin kritischer und theoretischer Ausätze geschaffen. Sie ist keinem speziellen Medium verhaftet und arbeitet mit den Methoden und Strategien, die ihr für die jeweilige Thematik adäquat erscheinen. Ein weiterer wesentlicher Aspekt im Werk von Martha Rosler ist die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den urbanen Strukturen, in denen wir leben, als den Orten unserer täglichen Erfahrung, sowie ihrer sozialen Implikation.
Wie schon für die documenta 12 und die letztjährigen Skulpturen Projekte Münster hat Martha Rosler für ihre Ausstellung im Portikus eine ortspezifisch motivierte Ausstellungssituation entworfen. Dem Prinzip der Montage folgend untersucht sie verschiedene Aspekte, die aus historischer sowie aus gegenwärtiger Sicht das Image der Stadt Frankfurt als Handelsstadt ausmachen. Martha Rosler geht dabei der Frage nach, aus welchen Teilen sich das „City-Branding“ in einer Stadt wie Frankfurt zusammensetzt.
Die Ausstellung wurde großzügig unterstützt von der Dresdner Bank. Vielen Dank für die Kooperation an: Deutsche Börse Group, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
END-OF-YEAR EVENTS
10th - 11th July 2008
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The End-of-Year Events of the Architecture Class include once more a series of exciting occasions for visiting the Städelschule and enjoying vibrant discussions and talks about architecture. For the series of events, SAC is proud to host numerous world-class theorists and architects, including: Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University), Nikolaus Hirsch, Sanford Kwinter (Rice University and Harvard University), Greg Lynn (Angewandte (Wien) and UCLA), Achim Menges (Stuttgart University), Peter Schmal (German Architectural Museum) and Mark Wigley (Columbia University). These guests join the SAC faculty that counts its dean, Ben van Berkel, Johan Bettum, Sigurdur Gunnarsson and Harald Kloft.
Review of the Research and Experiments by the First Year Group
Thursday, 10th July, 14h, Aula
The work comprises studies of select material-structural phenomena - in particular some that relate to fibrous and textile geometric conditions, analyses of select fashion designers' work and an in-depth study of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau. The research and experiments have resulted in a series of model propositions that will be further developed for full architectural resolution during the students' second and final Diploma year.
Dean's Honorary Lecture: Greg Lynn
& The Günter Bock Prize: First Year Prize for Excellent Work
Thursday 10th July, 18:30h, Aula
The American architect, Greg Lynn, is, arguably, the inventor of advanced, time-based digital modeling in architecture. In the early 1990s, after having worked for Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn established himself as one of the most important theorists and practitioners of complexity in architecture. Till this day, his work espouses originality and radical invention as he continues to be one of the central figures on the international, academic scene.
For the second time, the Günter Bock Prize is given out to the First Year Student(s) who has produced the best work in terms of research and experiments with respect to architecture. The prize has been made possible through the generous support of the Lions Club Frankfurt Flughafen, and, like last year, the prize is handed out by the Dean Honorary Lecturer.
Diploma Thesis Review
Friday, 11th July, 10h, Aula
The Diploma Thesis Proposals is for high-rise buildings in Frankfurt and positions hybrid or composite programming with institutional programs as the catalyst for transforming the high-rise building typology. The review sees a panel of excellent critics, including Beatriz Colomina, Sanford Kwinter, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges, Peter Schmal and Mark Wigley in addition to SAC faculty members.
Martha Rosler: location, location, location
Vortrag: 11. Juli , 18.30 Uhr
Eröffnung: 11. Juli, 20 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 12. Juli – 14. September
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Seit Ende der sechziger Jahre nimmt Martha Rosler in beißend-kritischen, aber auch humorvollen Arbeiten zu aktuellen und gesellschaftlich relevanten Themen Stellung. Mit ihrem Blick auf die alltäglichen Dinge des Lebens und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen dekonstruiert Rosler Schicht für Schicht die „Mythen des Alltags“. Martha Rosler hat einflussreiche Arbeiten in den Bereichen Fotografie, Installation, Performance, Video, Textarbeiten sowie als Autorin kritischer und theoretischer Ausätze geschaffen. Sie ist keinem speziellen Medium verhaftet und arbeitet mit den Methoden und Strategien, die ihr für die jeweilige Thematik adäquat erscheinen. Ein weiterer wesentlicher Aspekt im Werk von Martha Rosler ist die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den urbanen Strukturen, in denen wir leben, als den Orten unserer täglichen Erfahrung, sowie ihrer sozialen Implikation.
Wie schon für die documenta 12 und die letztjährigen Skulpturen Projekte Münster hat Martha Rosler für ihre Ausstellung im Portikus eine ortspezifisch motivierte Ausstellungssituation entworfen. Dem Prinzip der Montage folgend untersucht sie verschiedene Aspekte, die aus historischer sowie aus gegenwärtiger Sicht das Image der Stadt Frankfurt als Handelsstadt ausmachen. Martha Rosler geht dabei der Frage nach, aus welchen Teilen sich das „City-Branding“ in einer Stadt wie Frankfurt zusammensetzt.
Die Ausstellung wurde großzügig unterstützt von der Dresdner Bank. Vielen Dank für die Kooperation an: Deutsche Börse Group, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008
REALISM - J. RAETHER, K. STAKEMEIER, H. STEYERL
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Realism – Conversation with Johannes Raether, Kerstin Stakemeier and Hito Steyerl
Sunday, 6th July, 16:30 h, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
The topic of this discussion event is artistic Realism – not as a term that defines a technique of copying reality but as a method of critical intervention into the production of that reality. Taking into consideration its complex history, present definitions of realism will be discussed in the context of their political development. What does it mean to define realism as a critical stance toward artistic production today? Which methods might enable the construction of realist views on the changeability of our present?
This round table discussion is organized as part of the project “Trompe-l’œil Polizei” by the Realism Working Group // Free Class Frankfurt/M. The group produced a bi-lingual newspaper (German/English) that is dedicated to the topic of realism, as well as the significance of collaborative strategies. It comprises interviews with “Chto delat?” and Claire Fontaine, an article by Johannes Raether and Kerstin Stakemeier as well as texts and images by the members of the Realism Working Group. This newspaper is available in the “10 Reasons to be a Member” space at the Frankfurter Kunstverein for free distribution and online at: http://realismworkinggroup.wordpress.com.
Furthermore, the project includes a film program at Frankfurter Kunstverein and a series of workshops at HfBK Städelschule.
For further information on this and other projects of the Free Class Frankfurt/M visit: http://freeclassfrankfurt.wordpress.com
This talk is a cooperation between Frankfurter Kunstverein and Städelschule.
Realism – Conversation with Johannes Raether, Kerstin Stakemeier and Hito Steyerl
Sunday, 6th July, 16:30 h, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
The topic of this discussion event is artistic Realism – not as a term that defines a technique of copying reality but as a method of critical intervention into the production of that reality. Taking into consideration its complex history, present definitions of realism will be discussed in the context of their political development. What does it mean to define realism as a critical stance toward artistic production today? Which methods might enable the construction of realist views on the changeability of our present?
This round table discussion is organized as part of the project “Trompe-l’œil Polizei” by the Realism Working Group // Free Class Frankfurt/M. The group produced a bi-lingual newspaper (German/English) that is dedicated to the topic of realism, as well as the significance of collaborative strategies. It comprises interviews with “Chto delat?” and Claire Fontaine, an article by Johannes Raether and Kerstin Stakemeier as well as texts and images by the members of the Realism Working Group. This newspaper is available in the “10 Reasons to be a Member” space at the Frankfurter Kunstverein for free distribution and online at: http://realismworkinggroup.wordpress.com.
Furthermore, the project includes a film program at Frankfurter Kunstverein and a series of workshops at HfBK Städelschule.
For further information on this and other projects of the Free Class Frankfurt/M visit: http://freeclassfrankfurt.wordpress.com
This talk is a cooperation between Frankfurter Kunstverein and Städelschule.
Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008
ERIC D. CLARK
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Eric D. Clark:
Self Marketing in the private art sectors, or "Basic Schmoozing"
How to maximize your potential in the field of the arts you deem your own strength
Tuesday, 24th June, 19 h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Born beautiful and talented, Eric mastered piano by 10, at the same age was recruited to play for God at the Allen Chappell A.M.E. Church, leading his own choir of 5-12 year olds ’the Angel Choir‘ in all Sunday processions. His belief was compounded when he read a Jehovah's Witness ’Watchtower‘ magazine where ’disco‘ was described as ”devil music, fueled by drugs and false euphoria“ -he had found his vocation. In search of better records Eric went from California via Paris to Cologne where he meets Hans Nieswandt and does a series of parties known as the legendary ’Whirlpool Parties‘, understanding "Whirlpool" in the sense to be euphemism to a mixture of events and not solely funneled into one mono sensory direction. Asked what influenced him in his work he names among hundred others: Cabaret Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Vocoder’s, The Tele Harmonium, telephone, nintendo64, David Bowie, logarithms, Monty Python, Nirvana, George & Ira Gershwin, Barbara Streisand, Janet Jackson, Sonic Youth, Josephine Baker, Yves Saint Laurent, Sir Sean Connery, conspiracy and game theory, Martin Kippenberger, Skunk Anansie, The Simpsons, AC/DC, Japan, Zappa, Chicks on Speed, Bauhaus (the band and the architecture school NOT the chain store in Germany), Nina Hagen, Stockhausen, David Lynch, KISS, Bananarama, The Pet Shop Boys, The Harlem Globetrotters, Madonna, Albert Camus, Pasolini and Naomi Campbell. He is based in Berlin.
Eric D. Clark:
Self Marketing in the private art sectors, or "Basic Schmoozing"
How to maximize your potential in the field of the arts you deem your own strength
Tuesday, 24th June, 19 h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Born beautiful and talented, Eric mastered piano by 10, at the same age was recruited to play for God at the Allen Chappell A.M.E. Church, leading his own choir of 5-12 year olds ’the Angel Choir‘ in all Sunday processions. His belief was compounded when he read a Jehovah's Witness ’Watchtower‘ magazine where ’disco‘ was described as ”devil music, fueled by drugs and false euphoria“ -he had found his vocation. In search of better records Eric went from California via Paris to Cologne where he meets Hans Nieswandt and does a series of parties known as the legendary ’Whirlpool Parties‘, understanding "Whirlpool" in the sense to be euphemism to a mixture of events and not solely funneled into one mono sensory direction. Asked what influenced him in his work he names among hundred others: Cabaret Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Vocoder’s, The Tele Harmonium, telephone, nintendo64, David Bowie, logarithms, Monty Python, Nirvana, George & Ira Gershwin, Barbara Streisand, Janet Jackson, Sonic Youth, Josephine Baker, Yves Saint Laurent, Sir Sean Connery, conspiracy and game theory, Martin Kippenberger, Skunk Anansie, The Simpsons, AC/DC, Japan, Zappa, Chicks on Speed, Bauhaus (the band and the architecture school NOT the chain store in Germany), Nina Hagen, Stockhausen, David Lynch, KISS, Bananarama, The Pet Shop Boys, The Harlem Globetrotters, Madonna, Albert Camus, Pasolini and Naomi Campbell. He is based in Berlin.
Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008
HELMUT DRAXLER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Hinweis:
Aufgrund einer Erkrankung von Prof. Näher muss der Vortrag "Rebellen" am Freitag, 13.6.2008 leider entfallen und wird im Wintersemester nachgeholt.
Note: Due to illness of Prof. Näher the lecture "Rebels" on Friday, 13th June has to be postponed to the winter term.
Helmut Draxler: Substance vs Shandy
Wednesday, 18th June, 19 h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
‚Substance’ is not only a category for a deeper understanding of an artwork, but an aesthetic category of its own. In a certain sense it is the aesthetic category since the late 18th century, functioning as a sort of back ground metaphor for all the other aesthetic categories. Therefore, idealistic and anti-idealistic positions in art criticism and art practice can be understood as a struggling for the better understanding of what ‘substance’ is about. That is why, especially anti-idealistic positions are easily trapped in their own preliminary idealistic decisions. For a more subtle way to negotiate ‘substance’ I suggest the ‘shandean’ tradition, based on Lawrence Sterne’s famous novel Tristram Shandy.
A presentation of of three books by Helmut Draxler
- Gefährliche Substanzen. Zum Verhältnis von Kritik und Kunst, Berlin 2007
- Die Gewalt des Zusammenhangs. Raum, Referenz und Repräsentation bei Fareed Armaly, Berlin 2007 (Coercing Constellations. Space, Reference, and Representation in Fareed Armaly)
- Shandyismus. Autorschaft als Genre, Stuttgart 2007 (Shandyism. Authorship as Genre)
Hinweis:
Aufgrund einer Erkrankung von Prof. Näher muss der Vortrag "Rebellen" am Freitag, 13.6.2008 leider entfallen und wird im Wintersemester nachgeholt.
Note: Due to illness of Prof. Näher the lecture "Rebels" on Friday, 13th June has to be postponed to the winter term.
Helmut Draxler: Substance vs Shandy
Wednesday, 18th June, 19 h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
‚Substance’ is not only a category for a deeper understanding of an artwork, but an aesthetic category of its own. In a certain sense it is the aesthetic category since the late 18th century, functioning as a sort of back ground metaphor for all the other aesthetic categories. Therefore, idealistic and anti-idealistic positions in art criticism and art practice can be understood as a struggling for the better understanding of what ‘substance’ is about. That is why, especially anti-idealistic positions are easily trapped in their own preliminary idealistic decisions. For a more subtle way to negotiate ‘substance’ I suggest the ‘shandean’ tradition, based on Lawrence Sterne’s famous novel Tristram Shandy.
A presentation of of three books by Helmut Draxler
- Gefährliche Substanzen. Zum Verhältnis von Kritik und Kunst, Berlin 2007
- Die Gewalt des Zusammenhangs. Raum, Referenz und Repräsentation bei Fareed Armaly, Berlin 2007 (Coercing Constellations. Space, Reference, and Representation in Fareed Armaly)
- Shandyismus. Autorschaft als Genre, Stuttgart 2007 (Shandyism. Authorship as Genre)
Freitag, 6. Juni 2008
THOMAS WAGNER / LE CORBUSIER / CHRISTA NÄHER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Thomas Wagner:
Das Werk verflüchtigt sich wie ein Duft. Marcel Duchamp´s Ästhetik des Atmosphärischen
1. Teil: Dienstag, 10. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
2. Teil: Mittwoch, 11. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
Werk und Person Marcel Duchamps (1887 bis 1968) kommen innerhalb der Kunst und der Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine zentrale Rolle zu. Wie kein anderer hat er unsere Vorstellungen vom Kunstwerk, seinem Produzenten und seinem Rezipienten verändert und eine neue Möglichkeit der künstlerischen Haltung vorgelebt.
Dabei hat der Meta-Ironiker gern gespielt, oft falsche Köder ausgelegt, gegen die Netzhautkunst polemisiert und Widerstand gegen all das geleistet, was mit Geschmack zu tun hat. Lieber lauschte er dem ästhetischen Echo und ließ die grauen Zellen arbeiten. Auf welche Weise aber verweist in seinen „Werken“ das Sichtbare auf das Unsichtbare? Welche Rolle spielt das Atmosphärische innerhalb seiner Arbeiten? Und verbirgt sich in seinem Konzept des „infra-mince“ gar so etwas wie eine späte Ästhetik?
the Architecture Class presents:
Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2008
Le Corbusier – Film & Television for Architecture
Thursday, 12 June, 14h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Due to scheduling conflicts, the originally planned conference on ‘Le Corbusier, Art and Architecture’ is deferred to autumn.
In place of the planned event, the Architecture Class hosts an event on Le Corbusier & film and television as part of an extended program on the architect’s engagement with the arts and media.
At the time when the French architect, Le Corbusier, engaged with the arts in conjunction with producing his many influential works, he also embraced the new media of film and, shortly thereafter, television. According to Beatriz Colomina, professor at Princeton University, ‘modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.’ Architecture thus becomes constructed as an immaterial series of images in the public imagination, and Le Corbusier actively engaged with the new media to convey his architectural visions as much as to promote himself in the public realm. In consequence, the building, as the ultimate artifact of architecture, was displaced through reproduction and a specific narrative. The inquiry into the subject matter holds continued relevance at a time when various forms of media have taken on increased importance in conveying architecture within the field as well as to an international, public audience at large.
The program includes lectures by Beatriz Colomina and Véronique Boone. A series of films, film- and television clips will be screened. The talks and the viewings will be followed by an open discussion that includes the participation of Sanford Kwinter as well as Daniel Birnbaum, Ben van Berkel and Johan Bettum.
Beatriz Colomina is an architectural theorist and associate professor in the School of Architecture and guest professor for Architecture History at Städelschule.
She has written extensively on questions of architecture and the modern institutions of representation, particularly the printed media, photography, advertising, film and TV.
Veronique Boone studied architecture at the University of Ghent and holds a Master Histoire de l'architecture from the Sorbonne in Paris. Her research is focused on the representation of architecture in film and photography. Her book, Le Corbusier et le film, la promotion d'une oeuvre, will be issued by the French publisher Picard this year.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
Christa Näher:
Rebellen. Gilles Deleuze, Glenn Gould und Yeshayahu Leibovitz
Freitag, 13. Juni, Daimlerstr. 32
Der Vortag wurde inspiriert durch folgende provokante Aussage P.P. Pasolini´s: am meisten liebe er die Menschen, welche gerade mal das vierte Schuljahr erreicht hätten, oder aber die “Hochgebildeten”, dazwischen läge die Bourgeoise, gebildet Mittel- und Oberschicht, welch zu den infamsten Grausamkeiten in der Lage seien.
Gilles Deleuze, Yeshayahu Leibovitz und Glenn Gould sind ohne Zweifel hochgebildete, außergewöhnliche Begabungen. Auffallend ist, dass sie alle auf eine unerschütterliche, überaus leicht verständliche und schöne Weise menschlich sind.
Thomas Wagner:
Das Werk verflüchtigt sich wie ein Duft. Marcel Duchamp´s Ästhetik des Atmosphärischen
1. Teil: Dienstag, 10. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
2. Teil: Mittwoch, 11. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
Werk und Person Marcel Duchamps (1887 bis 1968) kommen innerhalb der Kunst und der Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine zentrale Rolle zu. Wie kein anderer hat er unsere Vorstellungen vom Kunstwerk, seinem Produzenten und seinem Rezipienten verändert und eine neue Möglichkeit der künstlerischen Haltung vorgelebt.
Dabei hat der Meta-Ironiker gern gespielt, oft falsche Köder ausgelegt, gegen die Netzhautkunst polemisiert und Widerstand gegen all das geleistet, was mit Geschmack zu tun hat. Lieber lauschte er dem ästhetischen Echo und ließ die grauen Zellen arbeiten. Auf welche Weise aber verweist in seinen „Werken“ das Sichtbare auf das Unsichtbare? Welche Rolle spielt das Atmosphärische innerhalb seiner Arbeiten? Und verbirgt sich in seinem Konzept des „infra-mince“ gar so etwas wie eine späte Ästhetik?
the Architecture Class presents:
Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2008
Le Corbusier – Film & Television for Architecture
Thursday, 12 June, 14h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Due to scheduling conflicts, the originally planned conference on ‘Le Corbusier, Art and Architecture’ is deferred to autumn.
In place of the planned event, the Architecture Class hosts an event on Le Corbusier & film and television as part of an extended program on the architect’s engagement with the arts and media.
At the time when the French architect, Le Corbusier, engaged with the arts in conjunction with producing his many influential works, he also embraced the new media of film and, shortly thereafter, television. According to Beatriz Colomina, professor at Princeton University, ‘modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.’ Architecture thus becomes constructed as an immaterial series of images in the public imagination, and Le Corbusier actively engaged with the new media to convey his architectural visions as much as to promote himself in the public realm. In consequence, the building, as the ultimate artifact of architecture, was displaced through reproduction and a specific narrative. The inquiry into the subject matter holds continued relevance at a time when various forms of media have taken on increased importance in conveying architecture within the field as well as to an international, public audience at large.
The program includes lectures by Beatriz Colomina and Véronique Boone. A series of films, film- and television clips will be screened. The talks and the viewings will be followed by an open discussion that includes the participation of Sanford Kwinter as well as Daniel Birnbaum, Ben van Berkel and Johan Bettum.
Beatriz Colomina is an architectural theorist and associate professor in the School of Architecture and guest professor for Architecture History at Städelschule.
She has written extensively on questions of architecture and the modern institutions of representation, particularly the printed media, photography, advertising, film and TV.
Veronique Boone studied architecture at the University of Ghent and holds a Master Histoire de l'architecture from the Sorbonne in Paris. Her research is focused on the representation of architecture in film and photography. Her book, Le Corbusier et le film, la promotion d'une oeuvre, will be issued by the French publisher Picard this year.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
Christa Näher:
Rebellen. Gilles Deleuze, Glenn Gould und Yeshayahu Leibovitz
Freitag, 13. Juni, Daimlerstr. 32
Der Vortag wurde inspiriert durch folgende provokante Aussage P.P. Pasolini´s: am meisten liebe er die Menschen, welche gerade mal das vierte Schuljahr erreicht hätten, oder aber die “Hochgebildeten”, dazwischen läge die Bourgeoise, gebildet Mittel- und Oberschicht, welch zu den infamsten Grausamkeiten in der Lage seien.
Gilles Deleuze, Yeshayahu Leibovitz und Glenn Gould sind ohne Zweifel hochgebildete, außergewöhnliche Begabungen. Auffallend ist, dass sie alle auf eine unerschütterliche, überaus leicht verständliche und schöne Weise menschlich sind.
Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008
ARMIN LINKE / GARRY NEILL KENNEDY / TROMPE-L´OEIL POLIZEI
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Armin Linke:
phenotypes and other works
Wednesday, 4th June, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Armin Linke’s installation Phenotypes/Limited Forms, which is shown in ZKM, analyzes the public utility of his online-photographic archive. Linke’s online archive contains photographs of locations in Nigeria, China, Cyprus, of the G8-Summit in Genoa, a NASA-base in California, the documenta etc. As an interactive internet project Book on Demand, the photographic archive had already been presented as part of the Utopia Station at the Venice Biennale, 2003. Armin Linke will present phenotypes and other recent projects.
Armin Linke lives in Milan and Berlin.
As a photographer and filmmaker he is working on an ongoing archive about human activity and the most varied natural and man-made landscapes.
He tries to document scenes where the boundary between fiction and non-fiction blurs or becomes invisible.
Garry Neill Kennedy:
The Colours of Citizen Arar and other works
Thursday, 5th June, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Maher Arar, a Canadian Citizen, was apprehended by US officials while in transit at New York's JFK airport when returning home in 2002 from a family vacation. He was subsequently sent from the US to Syria where he endured a year of imprisonment and torture. Upon his return to Canada he was completely vindicated of any wrongdoing (2006). Kennedy's large wall painting and booklet, The Colours of Citizen Arar attempts as an artwork to bring forward the tragic experiences of Maher Arar.
Garry Neill Kennedy is a Canadian artist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition to an active career as an artist he has been teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) for over forty years where he also served as president. He was visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (ensba). His most recent solo museum exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Portikus (Frankfurt am Main). He is currently editing a book/catalogue for MIT Press with working title, NSCAD: The Conceptual Art Years.
Free Class Frankfurt/M: Trompe-l'œil Polizei (10 Reasons To Be A Member #16)
Eröffnung: Freitag, 6. Juni, 20 Uhr, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Ausstellung: 07. Juni - 07. September 2008
Die „Realism Working Group“ der Free Class Frankfurt/M. widmet sich in ihrem Beitrag für den 10 Reasons to be a Member - Raum des Frankfurter Kunstvereins dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Wirklichkeitsproduktion. Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Realitäten basieren nicht auf Naturgewalten, sondern auf einer diffusen polizeilichen Ordnung konstruierter 'Sachzwänge'. Ausgehend von dieser Prämisse sucht die Gruppe nach künstlerisch-kollaborativen Methoden, welche die Veränderlichkeit unserer Gegenwart in den Vordergrund stellen. Neben der Gestaltung einer Ausstellung produziert die Gruppe eine Zeitung die sich der Aktualität des Begriffs 'Realismus' widmet und dabei zugleich die Bedeutung kollaborativer Strategien diskutiert. Begleitend gibt es ein Film- und Diskussionsprogramm.
Die Free Class Frankfurt/M. ist ein loser Zusammenhang von KünstlerInnen die eine gemeinsame Diskussion über Kunst und Politik verbindet. Innerhalb der Free Class werden dabei verschiedene Arbeitsgruppen und experimentelle Initiativen zu unterschiedlichen Themen entwickelt. Mitglieder der “Realism Working Group” sind: Rebecca Ann Tess, Michael Eddy, Jonas Jensen, Martin Kirchner, Flo Maak, Siw Umsonst und Jeronimo Voss.
Ursprung und momentane Heimat der Free Class ist die Städelschule.
Dieses Projekt für den 10 reasons to be a Member - Raum wurde initiiert von Tobi Maier (Kurator, Frankfurter Kunstverein).
Mehr Information: http://freeclassfrankfurt.wordpress.com/ und www.fkv.de
Armin Linke:
phenotypes and other works
Wednesday, 4th June, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Armin Linke’s installation Phenotypes/Limited Forms, which is shown in ZKM, analyzes the public utility of his online-photographic archive. Linke’s online archive contains photographs of locations in Nigeria, China, Cyprus, of the G8-Summit in Genoa, a NASA-base in California, the documenta etc. As an interactive internet project Book on Demand, the photographic archive had already been presented as part of the Utopia Station at the Venice Biennale, 2003. Armin Linke will present phenotypes and other recent projects.
Armin Linke lives in Milan and Berlin.
As a photographer and filmmaker he is working on an ongoing archive about human activity and the most varied natural and man-made landscapes.
He tries to document scenes where the boundary between fiction and non-fiction blurs or becomes invisible.
Garry Neill Kennedy:
The Colours of Citizen Arar and other works
Thursday, 5th June, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Maher Arar, a Canadian Citizen, was apprehended by US officials while in transit at New York's JFK airport when returning home in 2002 from a family vacation. He was subsequently sent from the US to Syria where he endured a year of imprisonment and torture. Upon his return to Canada he was completely vindicated of any wrongdoing (2006). Kennedy's large wall painting and booklet, The Colours of Citizen Arar attempts as an artwork to bring forward the tragic experiences of Maher Arar.
Garry Neill Kennedy is a Canadian artist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition to an active career as an artist he has been teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) for over forty years where he also served as president. He was visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (ensba). His most recent solo museum exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Portikus (Frankfurt am Main). He is currently editing a book/catalogue for MIT Press with working title, NSCAD: The Conceptual Art Years.
Free Class Frankfurt/M: Trompe-l'œil Polizei (10 Reasons To Be A Member #16)
Eröffnung: Freitag, 6. Juni, 20 Uhr, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Ausstellung: 07. Juni - 07. September 2008
Die „Realism Working Group“ der Free Class Frankfurt/M. widmet sich in ihrem Beitrag für den 10 Reasons to be a Member - Raum des Frankfurter Kunstvereins dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Wirklichkeitsproduktion. Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Realitäten basieren nicht auf Naturgewalten, sondern auf einer diffusen polizeilichen Ordnung konstruierter 'Sachzwänge'. Ausgehend von dieser Prämisse sucht die Gruppe nach künstlerisch-kollaborativen Methoden, welche die Veränderlichkeit unserer Gegenwart in den Vordergrund stellen. Neben der Gestaltung einer Ausstellung produziert die Gruppe eine Zeitung die sich der Aktualität des Begriffs 'Realismus' widmet und dabei zugleich die Bedeutung kollaborativer Strategien diskutiert. Begleitend gibt es ein Film- und Diskussionsprogramm.
Die Free Class Frankfurt/M. ist ein loser Zusammenhang von KünstlerInnen die eine gemeinsame Diskussion über Kunst und Politik verbindet. Innerhalb der Free Class werden dabei verschiedene Arbeitsgruppen und experimentelle Initiativen zu unterschiedlichen Themen entwickelt. Mitglieder der “Realism Working Group” sind: Rebecca Ann Tess, Michael Eddy, Jonas Jensen, Martin Kirchner, Flo Maak, Siw Umsonst und Jeronimo Voss.
Ursprung und momentane Heimat der Free Class ist die Städelschule.
Dieses Projekt für den 10 reasons to be a Member - Raum wurde initiiert von Tobi Maier (Kurator, Frankfurter Kunstverein).
Mehr Information: http://freeclassfrankfurt.wordpress.com/ und www.fkv.de
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