The Feast: Prolegomenon - From Peelings to Core

Städelschule Architecture Class
The Feast: Prolegomenon - From Peelings to Core
Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2015, ab 17:30 Uhr, Lichthalle

The Städelschule Architecture Class and its second year group, Architecture and Aesthetic Practice, in collaboration with AtelierSlice (Stockholm/New York) and Genießerakademie (Frankfurt) invites to The Feast. The Feast is a year-long experimental investigation into the relations between architecture, art and culinary practice, exploring opportunities for innovation in the making of tomorrow.

The Feast enquires into culinary art and its radical and sometimes innovative transformation of matter for choreographed and carefully sequenced experiences in order to transpose lessons from the experiments into new opportunities for architectural design.

To kick off the experimental programme, SAC and its collaborators invites to The Feast: Prolegomenon - From Peelings to Core, an evening with food and talk about food, architecture and art. Dorothy Hamilton, founder and CEO of the International Culinary Center (ICC), and Sayan Isaksson, founder of and chef at the Michelin-starred restaurant, Esperanto, in Stockholm, are main guests. They join AtelierSlice’s Jan Åman and Savinien Caracostea, Fabian Lange of the Genießerakademie, and Städelschule’s Daniel Birnbaum and Johan Bettum to discuss the history of food and cooking in architecture and the arts, the role of cooking and chefs in the 21st century and how the disciplines engage with innovation and innovations role in forming the future.

For the event, Sayan Isaksson will have prepared soup that will be served; Savinien Caracostea, who has a degree in Pastry Arts from the International Culinary Center in NYC, will serve pastry; and there will be tastes of wine chosen by Fabian Lange.


Programme: Discussion - Conversation

17:30 - 18 Uhr
Savinien Caracostea & Johan Bettum
Welcome: Architecture - System, City, Food
       
18 - 18:30 Uhr   
Daniel Birnbaum
Städelschule Cooking: From Gordon Matta Clark and Peter Kubelka to Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jason Rhoades.
       
18:30 - 19 Uhr   
Dorothy Hamilton
Beyond knife skills: the role of the professional cook in the 21st century.
       
19 - 19:30 Uhr
Fabian Lange
The Architecture of taste.
       
19:30 - 20 Uhr
Jan Åman
Food and the city: the world’s fair and tools for innovation.
       
20 - 20:30 Uhr   
Conversation with Tobias Rehberger.


Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.


Special Guests:

Dorothy Cann Hamilton is founder and CEO of the International Culinary Center (ICC). She is one of the most respected culinary leaders in the world today. She is the president of the USA pavilion at the 2015 World Expo in Milan and served as the former president of  the James Beard Foundation, one of the most prestigious culinary foundations in the USA. Hamilton is an author and creator and host of Chef’s Story, a weekly radio program on the Heritage Radio Network and a 26-part television series on PBS.

Sayan Isaksson is the renown founder of and chef at the restaurant, Esperanto, in Stockholm. The restaurant has one Michelin star and was selected best restaurant in Sweden in both 2013 and -14.

Tobias Rehberger, professor for sculpture at Städelschule 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.


More about The Feast:

The one-year long experimental project, The Feast, engages with culinary art as the inventive planning and production for human nutrition, sustenance and pleasure. The aim of the project is to deliver a vast research and educational experience for architectural design and present the results in select public media and events.

Preparations for The Feast comprises in-depth research and architectural design experiments based on basic lessons as well as cutting edge strategies for innovation in the culinary arts. The Feast abstracts and explores architects’ creative work process and goal oriented planning by shifting the attention to the ephemeral production of a dinner party.  By unfolding the traditional elements that constitute a holistic dining experience - food, service, atmosphere - and understanding their temporality, the research and experiments will seek to establish a new framework for creating sequenced composition, choreography and effects for architectural design.

In the second, summer semester 2016 the lessons and experimental results had from The Feast will be transposed to architecture and comprise the basis for the respective students’ conceptualisation, development and design of a culinary social centre for one of the many cultural institutions in Frankfurt am Main.

Architecture and Aesthetic Practice is led by professors Daniel Birnbaum and Johan Bettum. The Feast is undertaken in collaboration with Jan Åman and Savinien Caracostea of AtelierSlice (Stockholm/New York), Fabian Lange of the Genießerakademie (Frankfurt) and Städelschule’s cook, Hocine Bouhlou. Further specialists from the local and international kitchen and restaurant scene as well as Städelschule professor and artist, Tobias Rehberger, are invited.



The Feast: Prolegomenon - From Peelings to Core is generously supported by Städelschule Portikus e.V.

Wolfgang Müller: Gestaltbildung in Performance und Konzeptkunst

Vortrag
Wolfgang Müller: Gestaltbildung in Performance und Konzeptkunst
Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Wolfgang Müller * 1957 in Wolfsburg. Er zieht 1979 nach West-Berlin. Dort gründet er „Die Tödliche Doris“. Angeregt von Marcel Duchamp fragt er: „Kann man etwas machen, das keine Musik ist?“ Es entstehen zahlreiche unmusikalische, außermusikalische und übermusikalische Werke. Sein Manifest des musikalisch-künstlerischen West-Berliner Undergrounds „Geniale Dilletanten“ erscheint 1981 im Merve-Verlag. Ab 1990 dehnt er seine „Missverständniswissenschaft“ (Marcel Beyer) auf Island aus. Als Professor der HfBK Hamburg unterrichtet er 2001-2002 Elfen-, Zwergen- und Geschlechterkunde. Den Karl-Sczuka-Preis erhält er 2009 in Donaueschingen für sein Werk „Séance Vocibus Avium“, ein Hörspiel mit den rekonstruierten Gesängen ausgestorbener Vogelarten.  Sein 2013 bei philo Fine Arts erschienenes  Buch „Subkultur Westberlin 1979 – 1989.Freizeit“ ist inzwischen in 4. Auflage erschienen. Zur Zeit recherchiert er über den Tanz „Pause“ (1919) von Valeska Gert. 

Müller spricht in seinem Vortrag über Beispiele von Materialisierungen des Konzeptes der Tödlichen Doris: Von der schwarzen Vinyl-LP zur unsichtbaren LP. Für jeden Song einen Modeentwurf. Das Gegenstück zu Michel Jacksons BAD (1987), die 1988 erscheinende BAT von Wolfgang Müller mit den Ultraschallecholauten einheimischer Fledermausarten, Experimentelle Plastik, Elfen und Zwergenkunde in der Walther von Goethe Foundation Reykjavík. Séance Vocibus Avium - die rekonstruierten Rufe ausgestorbener Vogelarten - vom Riesenalk zur Neuseeländischen Schwarzbrustwachtel.  Die Elfengebärde. Neues von der Missverständniswissenschaft. Valeska Gert und ihr Tanz "Pause".

FookBair 2015

Veranstaltung zur Buchmesse
FookBair 2015 @ Städelschule
Samstag, 17. Oktober 2015, ab 10 Uhr, Dürerstrasse 10


http://fookbair.tumblr.com/

Print is not dead, it just looks canny. So what?
Join us for the inaugural fookbair at Frankfurt's matchless Städelschule this Sat Oct 17th. Twelve+ hours to celebrate the resurrection of the book and its analog orphans. Fakers, fellows, fetishists, folks +++ Think Bāzār. Think Ballroom.

Starting off at 10am with Easter trouble press, re/search, Leesmagazijn, Fucking good art, Ztscrpt, Spector books, Dancing foxes, Textem, Archive books, Monokultur, Zero sharp and many others.

Plus: Live Lectures, Films, Music by Traumawien, Sic Sic Tapes / Mmodemm, Ricochet, Scriptings Achim Lengerer, Alexander Tillegreen, Merve, Spector books, Leesmagazijn, Bernhard Cella

Plusplus: 10pm: "One reynaldo’s revenge" on the Most Excellent and Lamentable Conceited Tragedie, of iuliet and her romeo, and one Mercutio his friend, and the Friar who advised true lovers to False Death, made true, etc., as it will be publickly acted by the DysHonorable pure fiction seminar and its purple vein’d faire assembly, under the deu’l’d Aegis of the STAEDEL and FookBair – a Mishapen Chaos of welseeing formes, soales of leade, bright smoake, cold fire, sicke health – fiddlestickes prepar’d in Chopt Logicke. What is it else? A madnesse, most Discreet, a choking gall, a marue’lous treat – Farewell my Coze. with vntimely appearances by Laura Marx and Paul Lafarge. 30 minvtes of borrow’d likenesse & kindred Deathe. Shut vp yr windowes, locke faire daylight out, and make yrselfe an artificiall night: Doest thou not weep?

Drinks & Drunks & Music till dawn

Die Veranstaltung FookBair ist eine Initiative des Merve Verlags.

Bifo: NEXT Europe

Vortrag
Bifo: NEXT Europe
Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Recently the Union has been shaken by two major crises: the first was linked to the financial problems of Southern countries of the continent particularly of Greece, the second was linked to the wave of migration at the Southern and Eastern borders. The reaction of the leading class, and particularly of the German State has been ambivalent. Generally speaking the Ordo-Liberal order imposed to the economy of the Union has provoked an impoverishment of social life, and the growing discontent of people is more and more exploited by nationalist forces. A division is emerging in the continent, and the fear of migrants has made this division quite evident.
What will be the issue of the multifaceted crisis? Why intellectuals seem unable to speak out and to propose a project for the future? What is going to happen next in the European space? Will we be able to find a way out from the alternative between aggressive financial capitalism and the resurgence of nationalism?

Franco Berardi is writer, philosopher and media-activist. In the '70s he took part to the Italian experience of Potere operaio, and founded the first radio station called Radio Alice. In the '80s he studied in Paris, in New York and in Mexico City, then was the animator of the international cyberculture of the '90s.
Recently he has published The soul at work (Semiotexte) The Uprising translated in German by Matthes un Destz. His next book will be published by Semiotexte with title And Phenomenology of the End.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Oliver Laric: 2 recent works

Vortrag
Oliver Laric: 2 recent works
Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Oliver Laric’s work deals with Age regression, age progression, TF and Kisekae. It seeks to parse the productive potential of the copy, the bootleg, and the remix, and examine their role in the formation of both historic and contemporary image cultures. This process is intimately tied to his intuitive, idiosyncratic brand of scholarship, which he presents through an ongoing series of fugue-like expository videos (Versions, 2009—present), and further elaborates through his appropriated object works, videos, and sculptures, all of which are densely conceptually layered and often make use of recondite, technologically sophisticated methods of fabrication. Straddling the liminal spaces between the past and the present, the authentic and the inauthentic, the original and its subsequent reflections and reconfigurations, Laric’s work collapses categories and blurs boundaries in a manner that calls into question their very existence.

Laric (born 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien and is a co-founder of the VVORK platform (www.vvork.com). In his talk at Städelschule he will present two recent works.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Otobong Nkanga

Vortrag
Otobong Nkanga
Dienstag, 14. Juli 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Otobong Nkanga in conversation with Clare Molloy will be a haptic introduction to Nkanga's practice. The talk will address the process behind Nkanga's forthcoming exhibition at Portikus: her long-standing examination of “bling”, a field-trip through Namibia and the intensive workshops that she has led at the Städelschule, where she is currently a guest professor.

Crumbling Through Powdery Air follows on from In Pursuit of Bling, a work realised for the 8th Berlin Biennale, and examines the complex relationships that the desire for shining substances creates. Nkanga and Molloy are also working on a second exhibition at the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, which deals with the extensive photographic and film material that Nkanga created in Namibia.

Otobong Nkanga is a visual artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. From 2013-2014 Nkanga was an Artist in Residence of the DAAD. Recent exhibitions include: Tracing Confessions, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE (2015), Taste of a Stone, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL (2015); Diaspore, 14 Rooms, Basel, CH (2014); Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, UAE, (2013); Across the Board: Politics of Representation, Tate Modern, The Tanks, London, UK (2012).
Clare Molloy is the Kadist Curatorial Fellow of 2015, supported by the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris/San Francisco). She studied Curatorial Studies (a master’s programme at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule and Goethe University Frankfurt).

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Alessandro Nova: The Portrait in the Art Theory of the 16th century

Vortrag
Alessandro Nova: The Portrait in the Art Theory of the 16th century
Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Born 1954 in Milan, Alessandro Nova studied “Lettere e Filosofia” at the Università degli Studi di Milano and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 1982, he earned his PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. His research was financed in 1986-1987 by the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, and in 1992-94 by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 1988 to 1994 he was an Assistant Professor at Stanford University (California, USA). In the summer semester he held the position of a C4-Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1994, he was appointed professor of Art History of the Renaissance at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. In the Wintersemester of 2001-2002 he was a Guest Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – CEHTA (Centre d’histoire et théorie des arts) in Paris. From 2006 to 2007 he served as the managing director of the research center on the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt University (Zentrum zur Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit, Renaissance Institut). In July 2006, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. In 2010 he was a visiting Researcher at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in the research project “Bildakt und Verkörperung”. Since October 2006, Alessandro Nova has served as Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Peter Kubelka: Essbare und nichtessbare Mitteilungen.

Vortrag
Peter Kubelka: Essbare und nichtessbare Mitteilungen
Dienstag, 30. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle

Peter Kubelka ist Künstler und Theoretiker. Von 1978 bis 2000 unterrichtete er an der Städelschule. 1980 änderte er mit Zustimmung des Rektors, des Rates und der Studierenden den Namen und die Ausrichtung seiner Filmklasse. Mit "Film und Kochen als Kunstgattung" wurde die Städelschule weltweit die erste Kunsthochschule, die die Disziplin "Kochen" als gleichwertig mit Malerei, Bildhauerei, Graphik und Film anerkannte und in das offizielle Curriculum aufnahm.

In der Halle der Städelschule möchte Peter Kubelka mit einem Vortrag, der auch essbare Beispiele bringt, die Bedeutung der Speisenbereitung als Ursprung aller mitteilenden Medien würdigen. Die Speisen werden von der Städelschule Filmküche unter der Leitung von Felix Bröcker zubereitet.

Seit den 1950er Jahren ist Peter Kubelka eine herausragende Figur der internationalen Filmavantgarde. Seine metrischen Filme waren Vorläufer der internationalen Bewegung des strukturellen Fims. Seine metaphorischen Filme definieren eine ausschliesslich filminherente Sprache, die zwischen den Grundelementen Ton und Bild artikuliert. Kubelka ist auch bekannt als nichtschreibender Theoretiker, der in seine Vorträge nichtverbale Elemente wie Mimik, Musik, Speisen, darstellende Objekte und Werkzeuge integriert.

Kubelka wurde im Jahr 1934 in Wien geboren. Seine Jugend verbrachte er auf dem Land in Taufkirchen (Oberösterreich). 1944-47 Wiener Sängerknaben. 1947-52 Gymnasium Linz und Wels. Beginn des Studiums aller romanischen Sprachen. Intensive Beschäftigung mit Literatur. Beginn der Loslösung aus religiöser Prägung. Ab 1949 Leichtathletik als Leistungssport. 1952-1967 Judo. 1953 Österreichischer Juniorenmeister im Diskuswerfen. 1956 Film: Mosaik im Vertrauen zur Biennale Venedig eingeladen, aber nicht von Österreich nominiert; läuft für Vietnam. 1958 Sommerakademie Alpbach, erste wirkliche Filmausstellung: "Adebar" auf einer Almwiese als dreidimensionale Skulptur auf Heuschoberpfosten aufgehängt. 1958 Weltausstellung Brüssel, begegnet amerikanischen Filmmacher (Brakhage, Breer, Anger). 1961 Unsere Afrikareise. 1962 Zerstörung aller Filmpartituren. 1964 Gründung des Österreichischen Filmmuseums. 1966 erste Amerikareise. Bis 1978 Aufenthalt hauptsächlich in den USA. Lectures an über 50 Universitäten. 1967 im Vorstand der Film Makers’ Coop, NY. Beginn der Entspezialisierung (autodidaktisches Neustudium aller Disziplinen und Kunstgattungen). 1967-1968: Arbeit an der Film Library der UNO. 1968 „Cooking Concert“ in NY. 1970 Mitbegründer der Anthology Film Archives; Design und Realisierung des ersten Invisible Cinemas. 1973 Restaurierung von Dziga Vertovs Entuziazm. 1980 Gründung von Spatium Musicum. 1976 Erstellung der Avantgardefilmsammlung für das Centre Pompidou. 1978 Professur an der der Städelschule, Frankfurt. Erstmalige Einführung der Speisenbereitung in das Curriculum einer Hochschule. Klasse für Film und Kochen als Kunstgattung.1989 Unsichtbares Kino in Wien. 1996 Zyklisches Programm: Was ist Film? 64 rotierende Programme für das Unsichtbares Kino im Filmmuseum: Das Wesen des Films in Beispielen. 2012 ANTIPHON, ein Gegenstück zu "Arnulf Rainer" und teil des Werkes MONUMENT FILM. (Peter Tscherkassky)

Kubelkas Filme:

MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN, 1955
ADEBAR, 1957
SCHWECHATER, 1958
ARNULF RAINER, 1960
UNSERE AFRIKAREISE, 1966
PAUSE!, 1977
DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT, 2002
ANTIPHON, 2012
MONUMENT FILM, 2012

Die Veranstaltung wird mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Städelschule Portikus e.V. ermöglicht.

Der Vortrag findet in deutscher Sprache statt.

Benedetta Tagliabue

Vortrag Architecture Class
Dean’s Honorary Lecture: Benedetta Tagliabue
Montag, 29. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr Uhr, Deutsches Architekturmuseum

Benedetta Tagliabue is a world-renown architect and the director of the architectural practice Miralles Tagliabue EMBT with offices in Barcelona and Shanghai.  Her husband, Enric Miralles, led the Städelschule Architecture Class from 1990 until his death in 2000.

Tagliabue founded the architectural firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT in 1994 in collaboration with Enric Miralles. Among EMBT’s most notable projects are the Edinburgh Parliament, Diagonal Mar Park, the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona, Campus Universitario de Vigo, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, which was awarded the prestigious prize, "Best International Building of 2011”, by RIBA.

Tagliabue has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University and Barcelona ETSAB and lectures regularly at architecture forums and universities. In addition to frequent jury appointments, she recently joined the jury for the Pritzker Prize. In 2004 she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Her work received the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005, the National Spanish Prize in 2006, the Catalan National Prize in 2002, City of Barcelona Prize in 2005 and 2009 as well as FAD prizes in 2000, 2003 and 2007. In 2013, Tagliabue received the 2013 RIBA Jencks Award, which is given annually to an individual or practice that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture.

In her lecture, Tagliabue will present the urban planning and regeneration processes currently being developed in her studio, such as for the metro station in Naples, The Grand Paris Metro Station in Clichy-Montfermeil and  Public Spaces in Hafencity Hamburg.  She will also address the work recently completed for the Expo Milano 2015.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Clemens Weisshaar: The Vanishing Line Between the Physical and the Digital

Vortrag Architecture Class
Clemens Weisshaar: The Vanishing Line Between the Physical and the Digital
Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

The work of Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram is situated on the vanishing line between the physical and digital world. In their projects an increasing degree of the integration of hard- and software systems is evident - throughout design, fabrication and operation. In his lecture, Clemens Weisshaar will speak about the Genesis and Exodus of these projects and give insights into the processes at Kram/Weisshaar.

Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar are rising stars in the field of design. They have been referred to as ‘the vanguard of the next generation of digital designers’ (Form Magazine) and ‘the poster boys of a new breed of designers’ (International Herald Tribune). Their office engages in the design of spaces, products and media. Key projects include the technology for Prada's Epicenter stores (2001-2004), the seminal Breeding Tables (2003), Hypersky (2006), Outrace (2010) and Robochop (2015).

Clemens Weisshaar was born in 1977 in Munich and did an apprenticeship as a metal worker before he studied product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. He worked as an assistant to Konstantin Grcic for three years before founding his first office for design in 2000.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Dan Rees: Civic Pride

Vortrag
Dan Rees: Civic Pride
Montag, 22. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Dan Rees will speak about his painting practice, specifically his Artex series which mimic once fashionable decorative ceiling patterns, popular in 1970's Britain. He will introduce his ongoing project concerning the ‘Welsh Nicaraguan Solidarity Campaign’ looking at the structure of grass-roots activism and bottom-up politics. In this video titled ‘Solidarity’ he interviews campaigners in an attempt to get closer to a sense of what 'care' means and how this can manifest itself in contemporary society. Rees will also speak about his project 'Kelp', an attempt to rebrand tinned seaweed, a largely untapped resource in the West.

Dan Rees (b. 1982 Swansea, U.K.) lives and works in Berlin. Rees studied at the Städelschule from 2007- 2009 and graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2004.

Rees’ solo exhibitions include: ‘Stimulate Surprise’, Tanya Leighton Gallery (2015), ‘Kelp’, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (2013); ‘Top Heavy’, T293, Rome (2013); Recent group exhibitions include: Extension du domaine du jeu [Expanding the field of play], Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris; The go-between Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, ‘Time Machine’, M-ARCO Foundation, Marseille (2013); ‘CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito’, MAMbo, Bologna (2012) and D’après Giorgio, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome (2012).

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Kerstin Cmelka

Vortrag
Kerstin Cmelka
Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

In her lecture Cmelka will talk about her ongoing series of „Microdramas“ – live performances, performance videos, photographs and artist books. Dramatic miniatures related to the popular play that she produces since 2008, often in collaboration with artist friends, actors, musicians and persons from the cultural field. They display dysfunctional relationships, gestures of care as well as the impossibilities of communication between people. In a new body of work she currently deals with professional acting techniques, coaching and the public and private personality of the performer.

Kerstin Cmelka is an artist who works primarily with performance, video and photography. Recent solo exhibitions include “Kerstin Cmelka mit Manuel Gorkiewicz, Mario Mentrup, Hanno Millesi und Mandla Reuter” at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2015, “Mikrodrama#11” at Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2014 and “Kunst und Lebensform”, Halle für Kunst und Medien (-KM), Graz/Austria, 2013. From 1999-2005 Cmelka studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule.
She lives in Berlin, where she currently works as a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. 

Sabeth Buchmann: Rehearsing Critique

Vortrag
Sabeth Buchmann: Rehearsing Critique
Dienstag, 16. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Sabeth Buchmann, art historian and critic, Berlin/ Vienna, Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her publications include: Co-ed. Texte Theorien der Moderne. Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik (with Rike Frank), Berlin: b_books/ PoLyPen, 2015;  Hélio Oiticica, Neville D'Almeida and others: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa (2013) with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz (co-author), Film Avantgarde Biopolitik (ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan Geene, 2009). Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (2006), Art After Conceptual Art (ed. with Alexander Alberro, 2006), Co-ed. of PoLyPen (b_books, Berlin). Since 1997 Advisory Board Member of Texte zur Kunst (Berlin). 1983-2000: Member of the theatre author group minimal club (Munich/ Berlin)

Regeln des (Un-)Möglichen.
Zur Kunstpraxis der späten 1980er und frühen 1990er

Von der klassisch-avantgardistischen Frage nach der gesellschaftlichen Funktionsbestimmung von Kunst geleitet, wurde diese zwischen Mitte der 1980er und 1990er Jahre zum alles bestimmenden Gegenstand künstlerischer (Institutions-)Analysen. Die (mehr oder weniger gelingende) Offenlegung herrschender Normen und Gesetze ging dabei mit dem (mehr oder weniger gelingenden) Entwurf neuer Regelwerke und ‚role models’ einher: Zu nennen wären hier Christian-Philipp Müllers Kleiner Führer durch die ehemalige Kurfürstliche Gemäldesammlung Düsseldorf (1986), Andrea Frasers (Video-) Performances Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989) oder die neo-situationistischen ‚dérives’ der Betreiberinnen des Wiener Fanzines Artfan, Linda Bilda und Ariane Müller. Unter Bezugnahme auf damals populäre Methoden der Soziologie, social history, cultural studies und Psychoanalyse galt die Aufmerksamkeit dem übergreifenden Systems aus Produzent_innen, Rezipient_innen, Kurator_innen, Sammler_innen, Kritiker_innen, Kunsthistoriker_innen etc.. Als ein in diesem Zusammenhang bezeichnendes Beispiel kann Klaus Scherübels Projekt - Melvin (1993) - insofern gelten, als es die Mechanismen der (Künstler-)Kritik im Sinne wertgenerierender Legendenbildung zu antizipieren suchte. Der Vortrag geht anhand exemplarischer Arbeiten dem ‚(re-)making of rules’ als einer Praxis nach, die schließlich auch die Wechselwirkung von Institutionskritik und neoliberalen Unternehmenskultur berührt.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Joshua Oppenheimer and Adi Rukun

Filmvorführung
The Act of Killing
Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015, 11:30 Uhr, Deutsches Filmmuseum
Einführung: Sung Tieu und Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

Filmvorführung
The Look of Silence
Montag, 15. Juni 2015, 18 Uhr, Deutsches Filmmuseum
Einführung: Joshua Oppenheimer

Für die Filmvorführungen bitten wir um Reservierung über folgenden Link:
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Podiumsdiskussion
Joshua Oppenheimer and Adi Rukun: Fictions Constituting Facts
Montag, 15. Juni 2015, 20:00 Uhr, Lichthalle

The panel discussion with Joshua Oppenheimer will focus on the psychological and philosophical, aesthetical and political dimensions of his approach to cinematography in The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) that redefines the relationship between filmmaker and subject, film and audience. While exploring the notions of cinéma vérité and “documentary of the imagination”, we will look into the role of fiction, fantasy, reenactment and dramatisation in Oppenheimer’s filmmaking philosophy. The interrelationships between self-perception and performance, history and cinema, past and present underlies this reflection on the complex process of directing both films within the socio-political context of Indonesia over the course of more than a decade.

Born in 1974, USA, Oscar-nominated film director Joshua Oppenheimer is recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” (2015-2019). His debut feature film, The Act of Killing (2012, 159 min and 117 min), was named Film of the Year in the 2013 by the Guardian and the Sight and Sound Film Poll, and won 72 international awards. His second film, The Look of Silence (2014, 99 min), premiered In Competition at the 71st Venice Film Festival, where it won five awards including the Grand Jury Prize, the international critics award (Fipresci Prize) and the European film critics award (Fedeora Prize). Since then, The Look of Silence has received the Danish Academy Award for Best Documentary and the prestigious Danish Arts Council Award. Oppenheimer is a partner at Final Cut for Real in Denmark, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster in London.

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. 

Jenny Sabin

Vortrag Architecture Class
Jenny Sabin: Matter Design Computation: Cells, Bits and Atoms
Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle

How might architecture respond to issues of ecology and sustainability whereby buildings behave more like organisms in their built environments? This talk will present ongoing trans-disciplinary research and design spanning across the fields of cell biology, materials science, physics, electrical and systems engineering, and architecture.

Jenny Sabin’s collaborative research, teaching and design practice focus on the contextual, material and formal intersections between architecture, science and technology. Through the visualisation and materialisation of dynamic and complex datasets, Sabin has generated a body of speculative and applied design work that aligns crafts-based techniques with digital fabrication alongside questions related to the body and information mediation. Her lecture will elucidate the research methods, prototypes and applications that Sabin and her collaborators have achieved, which aim to radically alter the paradigm of Responsive Architecture through architectural treatments, in the form of adaptive building skins, material assemblies, and architectural interventions that ultimately (re)configure their own performance based upon local criteria.

Jenny Sabin is an architect based in Philadelphia and Ithaca. She is currently the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Assistant Professor in the area of Design and Emerging Technologies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University and Director of the Sabin Design Lab at Cornell AAP, a hybrid research and design unit .
She holds degrees in ceramics and interdisciplinary visual art from the University of Washington and a master of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.Sabin is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Assistant Professor in the area of Design and Emerging Technologies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University.

Sabin's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally most recently at Nike Stadium NYC, the American Philosophical Society Museum and at Ars Electronic, Linz, Austria. Her work has been published in The Architectural Review, Azure, A+U, Metropolis, Mark Magazine, 306090, 10+1, ACM, American Journal of Pathology, Science, the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Metropolis and various exhibition catalogues and reviews. She co-authored Meander, Variegating Architecture with Ferda Kolatan, 2010.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Corin Hewitt

Vortrag
Corin Hewitt: All Window
Dienstag, 9. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Corin Hewitt will speak on his work both as an artist and as an educator. Hewitt’s materially rigorous work employs cycles of photography, video, performance, and sculpture in an investigation of image and object making systems. Hewitt will discuss the evolution of his work and thoughts. He will also discuss a series of projects he has done with students using color as a narrative structure to develop large both films and large scale performance works.

Hewitt has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, and the Seattle Art Museum. His work has recently been recently included in group exhibitions at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil, ; the Whitney Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Galerie Perrotin, Paris, with the Public Art Fund in New York, and the Wanas Foundation in Sweden.Hewitt is a recipient of the 2014/15 Rome Prize, a 2011/12 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2010/11. Mousse Publishing has just released a monograph on Hewitt’s work entiitled 7 Perfomances. Hewitt is represented by Laurel Gitlen Gallery in New York and Hewitt is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Mai-Thu Perret

Vortrag
Mai-Thu Perret: See you on the astral plane – Objects, Narration, Performance.
Montag, 8. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Mai-Thu Perret is an artist who lives in Geneva, Switzerland. She is known for her multi-disciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, painting, video and installation. Perret has created a complex oeuvre which combines radical feminist politics with literary texts, homemade crafts and 20th century avant-garde aesthetics. She was born in Geneva and studied at Cambridge University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. She has been awarded for both the 2011 Zurich Art Prize and le Prix Culturel Manor (2011) and took part in ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger) at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2016, Mai-Thu Perret will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Curating has played an important role in her practice since its inception. Among other shows she has organized Voids: A Retrospective (Centre Pompidou, Paris and Kunsthalle Bern, with John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, Gustav Metzger and Clive Philpot).

The lecture will focus on the interplay between narrative and materiality in her work, from early experiments with a story called The Crystal Frontier to her engagement with wider historical narratives about art and politics in video installations such as An Evening of the Book. She especially wants to discuss the recent performance piece Figures, which is a collaboration between herself and dancer Anja Schmidt, musician Beatrice Dillon and singer-songwriter Tamara Barnett-Herrin.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. 

Mario Carpo: The style of big data.

Vortrag Architecture Class
Mario Carpo: The style of big data.
Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Mario Carpo is an architectural historian and theorist. He is currently Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Carpo's lecture addresses the "big data", not a mere quantitative phenomenon. Carpo argues that it is a major shift in the history of science, technology and in post-modern culture at large. Our approach to digital computation is no longer that of the 90s, and today digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks the way it did twenty years ago. 

Carpo's research and publications focus on the relationship among architectural theory, cultural history, and the history of media and information technology.  His Architecture in the Age of Printing (2001) has been translated into several languages. His most recent books are The Alphabet and the Algorithm, a history of digital design theory (2011); and The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992-2012, an AD Reader. Mr. Carpo's recent essays and articles have been published in Log, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Grey Room, L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, Arquitectura Viva, AD/Architectural Design, Perspecta, Harvard Design Magazine, Cornell Journal of Architecture, Abitare, Lotus International, Domus, Artforum, and Arch+.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Philipp Demandt: Nur keine violetten Schweine!

Vortrag Curatorial Studies
Philipp Demandt: Nur keine violetten Schweine! (Die Anfänge der Nationalgalerie zwischen Ruhmeshalle der Hohenzollern und erstem Museum für die moderne französische Kunst.)
Dienstag, 2. Juni 2015, 18 Uhr, Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend, Cas. 1.802

Die Nationalgalerie auf der Berliner Museumsinsel stand wie kein zweites Museum in Deutschland seit ihrer Begründung 1861 und Eröffnung 1876 im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kunst und Politik, Akademie und Avantgarde. Zeigte die Gründungssammlung noch einen Zeitschnitt gesamtdeutscher Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im internationalen Kontext, so wandelte sich das Haus alsbald zur Sammelstelle für patriotische Gesinnungskunst, deren sich die Direktoren kaum erwehren konnten. Nach 1896 erwarb der neuberufene Direktor Hugo von Tschudi als erstes Museum weltweit - noch vor Frankreich - Gemälde des französischen Impressionismus und provozierte damit einen Skandal, der ihn schlussendlich sein Amt kosten sollte.

Philipp Demandt promovierte nach einem Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie und Publizistik 2001 über die klassizistischen Porträts der Königin Luise und die historische Mythologie des deutschen Reiches. 2004-2012 war er Dezernent der Kulturstiftung der Länder, seit 2012 ist er Leiter der Alten Nationalgalerie.

Der Vortrag findet in deutscher Sprache statt.

Louis Becker: People, Space, Daylight

Vortrag Architecture Class
Louis Becker: People, Space, Daylight
Donnerstag, 28. Mai 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Louis Becker is Principal Partner and Design Director at Henning Larsen Architects and adjunct Professor at Aalborg University Department of Architecture and Design. He has been one of the driving forces behind a number of significant Danish and international projects - from landmark buildings to complex masterplans. In 2011, he was awarded the Eckersberg Medal by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts as a special recognition of his contribution to the field of architecture and international achievements.

At Henning Larsen Architects, Becker oversees a design approach that is context driven and uses space and daylight strategies to stage human interaction. A commitment to social and environmental sustainability is inherent in all Henning Larsen Architects' projects; as society influences architecture, architecture influences society. In this presentation, Louis Becker will present recent, award-winning projects such as Moesgaard Museum, Southern University of Denmark - Campus Kolding, and Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre – winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Paul O´Neill: Curating beyond the Canon

Vortrag Curatorial Studies
Paul O´Neill: Curating beyond the Canon - The Exhibition-as-Medium, the Exhibition-as-Form, Co-productive Exhibition-making and Attentiveness.
Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

The group exhibition-form has become the primary site for curatorial experimentation and, as such, represents a relatively new discursive space around artistic practice. Paul O'Neill will look back at some of his exhibitions, and describe how cumulative and expanding exhibition-forms can constitute an investigation into how the curatorial role is made manifest through cohesive and co-operative exhibition-making structures applied during all stages of the exhibition production. This talk will demonstrate how exhibitions create spatial relations between different planes of interaction for the viewer, and how multiple agencies and actors are necessary for an understanding of the curatorial as a constellation of activities that can be can represented the final exhibition-form.

Paul O’Neill is a curator, writer, artist, and educator. He is currently Director of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is international tutor on the de Appel Curatorial Program, Amsterdam, and international research fellow with The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Philipp Demandt: Nur keine violetten Schweine!

Vortrag
Philipp Demandt: Nur keine violetten Schweine!
Dienstag, 02 Juni 2015, 18 Uhr
Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend, Cas. 1.802

Die Anfänge der Nationalgalerie zwischen Ruhmeshalle der Hohenzollern und erstem Museum für die moderne französische Kunst.

Die Nationalgalerie auf der Berliner Museumsinsel stand wie kein zweites Museum in Deutschland seit ihrer Begründung 1861 und Eröffnung 1876 im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kunst und Politik, Akademie und Avantgarde. Zeigte die Gründungssammlung noch einen Zeitschnitt gesamtdeutscher Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im internationalen Kontext, so wandelte sich das Haus alsbald zur Sammelstelle für patriotische Gesinnungskunst, deren sich die Direktoren kaum erwehren konnten. Nach 1896 erwarb der neuberufene Direktor Hugo von Tschudi als erstes Museum weltweit - noch vor Frankreich - Gemälde des französischen Impressionismus und provozierte damit einen Skandal, der ihn schlussendlich sein Amt kosten sollte.

Philipp Demandt promovierte nach einem Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie und Publizistik 2001 über die klassizistischen Porträts der Königin Luise und die historische Mythologie des deutschen Reiches. 2004-2012 war er Dezernent der Kulturstiftung der Länder, seit 2012 ist er Leiter der Alten Nationalgalerie.

Bisi Silva: Curating The Local

Vortrag
Bisi Silva: Curating The Local
Dienstag, 26. Mai 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Bisi Silva is an independent curator and the founder/director of Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos) which opened in December 2007. She was recently appointed as the Artistic Director of the 10th Bamako Encounters: African Biennale of Photography taking place in Nov/Dec 2015.

Silva co-curated The Progress of Love, a transcontinental collaboration across three venues in Nigeria and America. (Oct 2012 - Jan 2013). She was co-curator of J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere: Moments of Beauty, Kiasma, Helsinki (April - Nov 2011). She was co-curator for the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, ‘Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty’ September 2009. In 2006 Silva was one of the curators for the Dakar Biennale in Senegal. Bisi Silva has participated in several international conferences and symposia and written essays for many publications as well as for international art magazines and journals such as Artforum, Third Text, The Exhibitionist, and is on the editorial board of Art South Africa, N.Paradoxa. She is guest editor for Manifesta Journal: Around Curatorial Practices No17 (Sept 2013). She was a member of the international jury for the 55th Venice Biennale (June 2013). She has been the recipient of several prestigious international fellowships and residencies including Clark/Mellon Curatorial Fellowship at Clark Art Institute, MA, 2011, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Scholars’ Residency Programme, Italy in July 2012 and at Sacatar Institute, Bahia, Brazil, (July –Sept 2013).

The talk will be about Silvas curatorial work and specifically the way in which she tries to respond through CCA Lagos to the challenge of curating in a content in which infrastructure deficits - physical and discursive - exists. She will talk about the importance of creating local content that resonates globally. Her talk will highlight a flagship programme of CCA, Lagos, Asiko an innovative  programme that is part art academy, part art laboratory and part art residency and its impact on curatorial and educational development across the continent.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Bouchra Khalili: Foreign Office

Vortrag
Bouchra Khalili: Foreign Office
Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Bouchra Khalili is a Berlin-based Moroccan-French artist. Born in Casablanca, she later studied Film at Sorbonne Nouvelle and Visual Art at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy.

Through language, subjectivity, orality, and transitional territories, Khalili's work (film, video, installation, photography and prints) focuses on historical speculation and the representation of subjects rendered invisible by the nation-state, to investigate strategies and discourses of resistance as elaborated and narrated from the perspective of political minorities.

Khalili's work has been internationally exhibited, as at "Here & Elsewhere", New Museum (New York, 2014) ; "Positions", Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2014) ; "The Encyclopedic Palace", 55th Venice Biennale (2013) ; "Cross-Border", ZKM, Karlsruhe (2013); "Salon Der Angst", Kunsthalle Wien (2013); "La Triennale", Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012) ; The 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012); << Mapping Subjectivity >> at MoMA (New York, 2011); The 10th Sharjah Biennial (2011); among others. Recent solo exhibitions include: "Foreign Office" at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015) ; "Garden Conversation" at Macba, Barcelona (2015) ; "Speeches - Chapter 3: Living Labour" at PAMM, Miami (2013) ; "The Opposite of the Voice-Over", Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto (2013) ; "Wet Feet and More" at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, (2013). Khalili is also the recipient of numerous grants and awards, as such as: "Abraaj Group Art Prize, 2014"; "Sam Art Prize 2014", Sam Art Foundation, Paris ; "DAAD-Artist in Berlin" (2012) ; Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellowship (The New School, New York, 2011-2013) ; Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (2010).

"Foreign Office" combines a digital film, a series of photographs and a silkscreen print. Produced in Algier in Fall 2014 and currently on view at Khalili's solo show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, this new body of works investigates the period during which Algiers - between 1962 and 1972 - became the "capital of revolutionaries", hosting delegations of movements of liberation from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Taking as a starting point this forgotten part of post-independent Algeria, "Foreign Office" invites to reflect on the articulations between history, historiography and oral history, their transmission, and the status of forgotten utopias. For this lecture, Bouchra Khalili will introduce the project as well as the method she developed to conduct it.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Cara Benedetto: buy to possess, love to own

Vortrag
Cara Benedetto: buy to possess, love to own
Freitag, 15. Mai 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Cara Benedetto is an instructor and artist. Benedetto’s work is about the process of becoming woman. The voice is multiple, emotional, vulnerable, considerate, and assertive. It is the voice of a self that is becoming part of the social, a sexuate being, a citizen and member of the world, unafraid of imposed structures and psychologies of fear, domination, and subordination. A voice that is as angry as it is willing, desirous of being represented in a complex way. A voice that resists the enslavement of women for free labor that the patriarch and capitalism both demand and rely upon.

Benedetto will present recent work that refers to her Against Coming project that dissolves the notion of ‘coming’ as used in a phallocentric economy or patriarchy. She has exhibited at ICA Philadelphia; Chapter NY; Taxter and Spengemann, NY; Night Gallery, LA; and Metro Pictures, NY. Her work has been reviewed in Gallerist NY, Art in America, The Art Book Review, and NYT Magazine. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon School of Art.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Minouk Lim

Vortrag
Minouk Lim
Montag, 11. Mai 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

When war broke out in Korea in 1950, the South Korean government committed a series of massacres against the civilian population. Ordered by the leader of the South Korean government, Syngman Rhee, the mass murders were intended to annihilate those who were suspected of supporting the North or been accused of being traitors that had helped the Korean People’s Army. Even today, little is known about how and why these people died. Thirty years later, on May 18, 1980, people in Gwangju took to the streets to defend their country’s fledgling democracy. The newly installed military regime under Doohwan Chun slanderously portrayed the protesters as communists and commanded a massacre. Again, hundreds of people were killed and thousands wounded.

The work of South Korean artist Minouk Lim (*1968) explores these turning points in Korean political history: events that many prefer to forget and certainly do not wish to dwell on. Lim draws on historical and political reality to develop works including installations, sculptures, videos, and performance pieces that deal with South Korea and its capital, Seoul. The artist has devised a visual language designed to put the rapid growth and development that have remade the country’s face over the past decade on hold in order to initiate a process for which the German language has the peculiar word Vergangenheitsbewältigung: an effort to come to terms with the past.

During her presentation at Städelschule Minouk Lim will talk about her most recent works as well as on her upcoming exhibition at Portikus on May 15.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Loretta Fahrenholz

Vortrag
Loretta Fahrenholz
Dienstag, 28. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

During the past few years Fahrenholz has gained recognition for a style of digital cinema that merges an old school documentary ethic with the manipulations of contemporary image technologies. Inserting her camera into live social situations and institutional contexts, the artist constructs narratives with the real, using digital post-production to produce reconstructed documents. Her juxtaposition of pop culture references with intense human interactions creates an uneasy presence on screen and nods towards our interpersonal connections of the near future.

The talk will focus on Fahrenholz's New York films Implosion, an adaptation of a Kathy Acker script in a high rise condo near Ground Zero in Manhattan, Grand Openings Return of the Blogs, documenting a performance series of the collective Grand Openings at MoMA in 2011 and Ditch Plains, a futuristic disaster movie shot in Brooklyn at the time of Hurricane Sandy.

Loretta Fahrenholz lives in Berlin and New York. Recent films include: My Throat, My Air (2014); Ditch Plains (2013); Grand Openings Return of the Blogs (2012); Implosion (2011) and Haust (2010). Fahrenholz work has been shown at Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2015); Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York (2013), The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (2014); 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, (2014), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2014); Artists Space, New York (2013); Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (2013); Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2012); and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2012).

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Peter Wächtler

Vortrag
Peter Wächtler
Montag, 27. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Peter Wächtler works with sculpture, drawing and video. The most re-occurring element is the use of text, be it voice-over, subtitle, songtext or short story. His texts often share an distorted or exagerated tone and are mainly told by a multi-souled first person narrator (e.g. orphan, shoemaker, bad butler). These reports can remain text or eventually conclude into a video or a series of ceramic sculptures instead. Wächtler moves within a common system of imagery and connotations, describing a social grid of expectations, powers and limits, along with some of the blurred identities that haunt it.

In the lecture he will speak about his practice and will show excerpts of videos as well as images of his other works.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Zin Taylor: Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus

Ausstellung zur Nacht der Museen
Zin Taylor: Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus
Samstag, 25. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Portikus

"Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots" is a narrative video where lichen, a growth existing upon the surface of rocks, uses the characters of a stripe and dot to make visual the thoughts it has been thinking. This hallucinogenic proposition introduces the transference, and subsequent translation, of information from one form into another. The stripe and the dot, two analog building blocks of visual language, are seen giving form to the stories held within the ancient lichen organism.

"The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" is a radio-play imagining the translation of sound into form. A voice introduces a dot, and with the aid of an analog synthesizer, expands its characteristics into a series of stripes: the sign-wave of sound as an undulating stripe, led by the thoughts of an adventurous dot. Over the course of several minutes the characteristics of the stripe and the dot are developed and made audible as their movements describe different scenarios with sound.

Following the presentation of the video and audio works "A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych)" will unfold over the remaining hours of the evening. Taylor will play selections from his record collection of groups and individuals who seek to develop a language of psychedelia through the music they compose. Typically downtempo and contemplative, the collection presents a place where many of the ideas and observations employed within "Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots and The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" were developed. The music will be accompanied by projected footage of two people dressed as a stripe and a dot cavorting on a moon-ish landscape. The footage presenting a visual choreography to the music that is played, lending a visual setting to the audible soundtrack of the night.

Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Brussels. Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include "The Illustrator at 1646", Den Haag; "Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag", 21er Haus, Vienna;  "Karl’s Body", Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna; "The Tangental Zig-Zag", Kunstraum, London; "SUN MILK", Maison Gregoire, Brussels; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)", Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)", Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island; and "Parrot Soup", Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Writing by Zin Taylor, and his artist books, have been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Bywater Bros. Editions (Port Colborne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Mousse Publishing (Milan), Karma (New York), and Artforum (New York).

Nina Power: Philosophy and the public

Vortrag
Nina Power: Philosophy and The Public
Freitag, 24. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

This talk will examine the political and aesthetic conditions for the possibility of 'publicness' in the age of the destruction of the welfare state and the rise of repression of all kinds. It will also examine the role that philosophy can have, as a speculative critical practice and what this might mean for art and artists. Drawing on several current projects, I will try to identify some of the main pressures and problems of our age, particularly around our understanding of the state, of work and of value.

Nina Power has a wide range of interests, including philosophy, film, art, feminism and politics. She is the author of "One-Dimensional Woman" (Zer0, 2009) and is interested in independent publishing and reviving certain political forms and genres of writing (the polemic, the pamphlet, the declaration, the address, etc.). She writes for a variety of different publications and journals, in a variety of genres and on various different topics (including music, critical theory, film, policing and protests). Some of the publications she regularly contributes to include frieze, Wire, Radical Philosophy, the Guardian, Cabinet, Film Quarterly, Icon and The Philosophers’ Magazine.

Nina Power received her PhD in Philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of Humanism and Anti-Humanism in Post-War French Philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in Philosophy from Warwick. She has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College and Roehampton University, where she is also currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy. She is a fellow of the RSA and a member of the British Philosophical Association.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Zin Taylor: A Conversation on Lichen Voices

Vortrag
Zin Taylor: A Conversation on Lichen Voices
Donnerstag, 23. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

In "A conversation on Lichen Voices" Zin Taylor speaks about his audio and video works, which are on view in frame of "Nacht der Museen" at Portikus.

"Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots" is a narrative video where lichen, a growth existing upon the surface of rocks, uses the characters of a stripe and dot to make visual the thoughts it has been thinking. This hallucinogenic proposition introduces the transference, and subsequent translation, of information from one form into another. The stripe and the dot, two analog building blocks of visual language, are seen giving form to the stories held within the ancient lichen organism.

"The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" is a radio-play imagining the translation of sound into form. A voice introduces a dot, and with the aid of an analog synthesizer, expands its characteristics into a series of stripes: the sign-wave of sound as an undulating stripe, led by the thoughts of an adventurous dot. Over the course of several minutes the characteristics of the stripe and the dot are developed and made audible as their movements describe different scenarios with sound.

Following the presentation of the video and audio works "A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych)" will unfold over the remaining hours of the evening. Taylor will play selections from his record collection of groups and individuals who seek to develop a language of psychedelia through the music they compose. Typically downtempo and contemplative, the collection presents a place where many of the ideas and observations employed within "Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots and The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" were developed. The music will be accompanied by projected footage of two people dressed as a stripe and a dot cavorting on a moon-ish landscape. The footage presenting a visual choreography to the music that is played, lending a visual setting to the audible soundtrack of the night.

Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Brussels. Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include "The Illustrator at 1646", Den Haag; "Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag", 21er Haus, Vienna;  "Karl’s Body", Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna; "The Tangental Zig-Zag", Kunstraum, London; "SUN MILK", Maison Gregoire, Brussels; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)", Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)", Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island; and "Parrot Soup", Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Writing by Zin Taylor, and his artist books, have been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Bywater Bros. Editions (Port Colborne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Mousse Publishing (Milan), Karma (New York), and Artforum (New York).

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Gabi Ngcobo

Vortrag
Gabi Ngcobo: "What's love got to do with it?"
Mittwoch, 22. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Weltkulturen Museum

In her talk "What’s love got to do with it?" Ngcobo discusses her research work in the Weltkulturen Labor.
Ngcobo is guest artist and curator at the Weltkulturen Labor. During her residency, she has been critically engaging and reviewing the museum's collection of contemporary art from South Africa.

Gabi Ngcobo is a curator, artist and educator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2010, she co-founded the collaborative platform Center for Historical Reenactments and over the last four years has contributed curatorially, individually and collectively to a variety of projects organised by this platform. Ngcobo is a lecturer at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg. She is a member of the curatorial team for the forthcoming 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, to open in September 2016.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37, Frankfurt am Main
Eintritt: 5€ / ermäßigt 2,50€
(The Talk is free for students of Städelschule. Student ID necessary.)

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Raimundas Malašauskas

Vortrag
Raimundas Malašauskas
Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

The story of complex objects is told by apparently random structures that organize the attention and intensity of all that is around. That means you always have to watch out for them not to fall on your head. Yet on the positive side, it means that everything is here and available and you need no striving. You only need interferences and deviations to be able to move through them, in unexpected jerks and flows, a bit like the axolotl and the way it manages to swim without coordinating its limbs – sometimes it just freezes for a while. And this talk too is a projection device for a three-dimensional, possibly inconspicuous image to emerge, imprinted on time as their recording medium.

Raimundas Malašauskas was born in Vilnius (Lithuania), curates in the world, writes occasionally. His most recent public projects include In My Previous Life I Wanted To Be a Tablet, Instituto de Vision, Bogota (2015); Tomorrow night I walked to a dark black star, Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2014); and Oo, Lithuanian and Cyprus pavilions at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013).

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Stuart Bailey

Vortrag
Stuart Bailey: A * with a Scottish accent
Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

A talk that traces the genealogy of a work-in progress by The Serving Library, a *speaking asterisk*. This asterisk cross-pollinates a number of prior projects that were respectively concerned with: (a) what it might mean to communicate without language; (b) a typeface that consists in a number of meta-parameters rather than a fixed family; and (c) the late Scottish writer Gilbert Adair's overarching project of 'continuation'. The whole is offered as a timely instance of what we've come to think of as 'publishing in its most exploded sense'.

Stuart Bailey’s work circumscribes various aspects of graphic design, writing and editing, most consistently in close collaboration with artists. He co-edits the journal Bulletins of The Serving Library which follows the trajectory of its predecessor Dot Dot Dot. He works together with David Reinfurt under the name Dexter Sinister, and is currently involved in setting up a institution called The Serving Library with David along with Angie Keefer. He lives in Liverpool, UK.

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Isabelle Graw

Vortrag
Isabelle Graw: Portrait of the Artist as Strategic Painter. Notes on Avery Singer´s work.
Dienstag, 27. Januar 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Painting has since the 1990´s been regarded as an accepted - and even radical - form of social, conceptual and institutional critique. It came into fashion again under the slogan of network painting, a loose term which imagined the artist´s personal social sphere, and the passage of the art work within it, as intrinsic to the work´s materials and meanings. While finally breaking with the modernist idea of a pure and clearly delimited medium, this approach introduced new problems. It delivered precisely those social relations that today´s new economy is busy absorbing. Avery Singer´s paintings will be presented as a way of addressing, even dramatizing these problems artistically without offering a way out or a solution.

Isabelle Graw teaches art history at the Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Among her most recent publications are "High Price. Art between the Market and Celebrity Culture" (2010), "Texte zur Kunst. Essays, Reviews, Interviews (2011), "Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas" (co-editor, 2012) and "Über Malerei. Eine Diskussion" (with Peter Geimer, 2012)

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Isla Leaver-Yap

Vortrag
Isla Leaver-Yap
Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula

Isla Leaver-Yap is an independent curator and scholar who works with artists to produce essays, books, exhibitions, and events. She recently produced the second edition of the Artists Moving Image Festival at Tramway Glasgow, and she regularly works with LUX Artists Moving Image Agency, and Electra, both located in London. She is currently working on upcoming book projects with artists Andrea Büttner and James Richards. Recent project include work with Marcel Broodthaers, Maeve Connolly, Moyra Davey, Maria Fusco, Florrie James, Derek Jarman, Sam Korman, Park McArthur, Lucy McKenzie, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Jack Smith, Lucy Skaer, Patrick Staff, Cara Tolmie, Sue Tompkins, and Dena Yago.

In New York, Leaver-Yap was a guest curator of the exhibition series Short Stories at SculptureCenter; was a co-founding member of CAGE; and presented projects at Artists Space, Artists Institute, MoMA PS1, and Anthology Film Archives. She previously worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, where she co-organized the ICA’s landmark exhibition season, Nought to Sixty; founded the ongoing Artists Film Club series; and curated Rosalind Nashashibi’s solo show. She recently moved from Brooklyn to Glasgow, where she is currently guest editing the forthcoming issue of Maria Fusco’s art writing journal, The Happy Hypocrite.


Leaver-Yap received an MA in Art History and English Literature, and an MSc in Art History Research, both from University of Edinburgh. In 2013 she was a finalist in the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize for international curators under 30. She has served as guest faculty at the Stone Summer School (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and the Banff Visual Arts Program.


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Ellen Blumenstein

Vortrag Curatorial Studies

Ellen Blumenstein: Why Curating Thematically: Fire and Forget, an Exhibition Project at KW

Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

"Fire and forget" comes from military jargon, and is a term for weapons systems that are no longer used in direct combat with an enemy but are launched from a safe distance. The exhibition Fire and Forget takes the military expression as the starting point for an examination of the conventional ideas about war and armed force. The project revolves around the new dimensions of violence that go with the new technologies, and the new strategies required by this central challenge to our future coexistence. The exhibition is oriented towards the most visible agent of violence: weapons. Fire and Forget applies the means of art to address the long-term effects of these new weapons on the human psyche. The exhibition looks at the political aporia this new detachment between physical violence and imminent threat involves and at the meaning that history, recollection and forgetting may have for the outbreak or avoidance of violence under these new conditions. 

Ellen Blumenstein *1976 in Witzenhausen, Germany lives and works in Berlin. Blumenstein has been chief curator of KW Institute for contemporary art, Berlin since January 2013. In her first year, she realized the exhibitions "Relaunch", "Kader Attia: Repair. 5 Acts" and "Real Emotions: Thinking in Film", as well as launching comprehensive public programs and professional partnerships. In her second year she premiered the first solo exhibitions in Germany of artists Ryan Trecartin, Kate Cooper, Channa Horwitz and Elin Hansdottir. Before KW, she was an independent curator, member of the curatorial collective THE OFFICE and founder of the project space Salon Populaire. Between 1998-2005 she worked as a curator for KW Institute for Contemporary Art, where she realized the exhibition project "Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition" (with Klaus Biesenbach, Felix Ensslin, 2005). Since, she curated the exhibition "Between Two Deaths" at ZKM in Karlsruhe (with Felix Ensslin, 2007), and in 2011 she curated the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (Libia Castro and "lafur "lafsson).

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Josef Strau

Vortrag
Josef Strau
Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

The lecture can be understood as the second part of a lecture Josef Strau did in Städelschule already in 2011. It could be seen like a lecture but more as an exercise in extemporaneous talk, thus reintroducing a model of working, that appears a dominant figure in many of his productions, like in writing, exhibiting or jewelry making, albeit always following predetermined or ready made story lines, that interweave issues of art production, history, social hierarchy, theology or of traveling. In a similar way in his exhibition and publication The New World Josef Strau recently used fragments of historic first encounter reports of Europeans with Native Americans to retell in an improvised mode of production his own story of gratitude through moments of contemporary encounters within the United States and Mexico, trying to create through these both complex or sometimes simplified narratives a seamless whole of a partly fictional fantasy of redemption in contemporary culture.

Josef Strau worked in the last years in different roles, mostly as artist and as writer, but as well as jeweler, curator and art space organizer. Recent solo exhibitions include The New World, The Application, Renaissance Society, Chicago 2014 and House of Gaga, Mexico City 2013 and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2012. In 2002, Strau founded Galerie Meerrettich, an independent Berlin gallery that closed in 2006. Strau is also a writer, not only in most of his own art production but also contributing to independently produced art publications, catalogue essays and art magazines.

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Elif Erkan & Fabian Schöneich

Gespräch
Elif Erkan & Fabian Schöneich
Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

On the occasion of her exhibition Konzentration der Kräfte, German-Turkish artist Elif Erkan will talk with Fabian Schöneich, curator of Portikus, about the function of objects as reservoirs of memory. In her sculptural works, Erkan directs our attention away from the original purpose or provenance of daily objects and toward their social connotations: that mental image we see as we are confronted with these objects. The talk will focus on daily objects like tableware and cloth and their use in very bitter-sweet moments of life.

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David Ruy

Vortrag
David Ruy: With Regard to the Real
Montag, 24. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

There’s nothing worse for the architect than the phrase, “That’s not realistic.” That simple phrase can be a shorthand for many things: it’s too costly, it looks structurally unsound, it won’t work with the program, no one will know how to build it, etc. However, the most interesting version of why something seems unrealistic is this one: “It looks weird.” In other words, the proposed architecture doesn’t reflect how reality should look. Ever since the publication of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, but perhaps long before that as well, we’ve had reasons to doubt the mind’s ability to possess absolute knowledge. Even in antiquity, Plato describes our fate as one where we’re stuck in a world of shadows, doomed to never see things as they are. What’s interesting to me is that this has never been fully digested by our practices—all of which are built on assumptions about what constitutes the real. This is where philosophy becomes very valuable for questioning some of these assumptions. We will always have to assume some things about the real, but sometimes, our assumptions become too static and unproductive. Sometimes we need the real to change. If in fact we have no access to the thing itself, whatever we think the real is pertains more to how we think the real should look, rather than what it is in an absolute sense. Because of this, there is a representational problem with regard to the real, and this is where I think architecture is at its best. There is no other human practice that is so much about the problem of the real. Architecture is the first thing that tells us what reality looks like.

David Ruy is an architect, theorist, and director of Ruy Klein in New York City. Ruy Klein examines contemporary problems at the intersection of architecture, nature, and technology. Encompassing a wide array of experimentation, projects study the mutual imbrications of artificial and natural regimes that are shaping an ever more synthetic world. Widely published and exhibited, Ruy Klein has been the recipient of numerous awards recognizing the firm as one of the leading experimental practices in architecture today. David received his M Arch from Columbia University and his BA from St. John’s College with a concentration in philosophy and mathematics. David is currently an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at Pratt Institute.

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Zasha Colah

Vortrag Masterstudiengang Kuratieren und Kritik
Zasha Colah: The Curatorial Practices of Clark House Initiative Bombay.
Mittwoch, 19. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

Zasha Colah will reflect on notions of cultural transference and collective imagination in situations of political exigency, tracing a path through her most recent exhibitions and curatorial writing, framing questions about the role and premise of curatorial work. The talk will consider the political and philosophic motivations of choreography and the possibilities of fiction, to reflect on cultural sovereignty and the way works of culture address injustice and the law. Colah’s curatorial projects point to pending or under-represented art historical narratives that find common inheritances and solidarities beyond India and the subcontinent.

Zasha Colah co-founded the Clark House Initiative, a curatorial collaborative and a union of artists, in Mumbai in 2010, and a collaborative called ‘blackrice’ in the Indian state of Nagaland in 2008. She was the curator of 20th-century Indian Art at the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai, formerly known as the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, after completing degrees in art history at Oxford and curatorial practice at RCA, London. Prior to this she worked on public programs at the National Gallery of Modern Art (2004-2005) in Mumbai.

The Indian, Mumbai-based curator Zasha Colah is the first grantee of the program 'Curators in Residence: Curating Connections’, an initiative by KfW Stiftung and Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD. It provides emerging curators from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia with the opportunity to spend several months in Berlin. Besides encouraging research and critical reflection, the program facilitates encounters between those working in arts and culture. The curators-in-residence program of KfW Stiftung seeks to stimulate intercultural dialogue in curatorial practice. In addition to the Berlin program ‘Curating Connections’ a second program in Frankfurt, ‘Curating Collections’, has started in collaboration with the Weltkulturen Museum.

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Gabriel Lester

Vortrag
Gabriel Lester: Body Language
Dienstag, 11. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

Gabriel Lester’s lecture titled Body Language addresses the notion of language articulated through performance, sculpture and architecture. As a subdivision of the broader concept of Nonverbal Communication, the proposition is that: ”if a work of art has a body, it consequently must have a language, too”.

In his lecture, Lester will focus on such a notion of body language, through his body of work. A representation of a broad spectrum of his artworks, actions and inventions will illustrate and entertain, as well as provoking ideas about how to read, how to act and how to relate.

Lester’s artwork, films and installations originate from a desire to tell stories and construct environments that support these stories or propose their own narrative interpretation. In early years this led to writing prose and composing electronic music. Later, after studying cinema and eventually fine arts, his artworks became what could be typified as cinematographic, without necessarily employing film or video. Like cinema, Lester’s practice has come to embrace all imaginable media and occupy both time and space. The artworks propose a tension span and are either implicitly narrative, explicitly visual or both at once. These works seldom convey any explicit message or singular idea, but rather propose ways to relate to the world, how it is presented and what mechanisms and components constitute our perception and understanding of it. By dissecting, editing, cutting up, repositioning and forcing perspective, Lester aspires to captivate and engage. Ultimately his artworks suggest both rational consciousness as well as associative magic thought.

Gabriel Lester was born in Amsterdam (1972) where he currently lives and works. His artworks consist of installations, performances, film and video. Other activities include commissioned artworks for public space, film directing, teaching, writing, and sound and video editing.

Lester has exhibited at the Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Dilzis Rodeo Gallery, and SALT, Istanbul; Bloomberg Space, and IBID, London; Gallery BirteKleeman, Berlin; Bonniers Kusthalle, Stockholm; Wako Works of Art, Tokyo; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul; Sao Paulo Bienal 2010; Performa 11 Biennial, New York; Kadist Foundation, Paris; Kunsthalle Bern; MACCA San Francisco; Liverpool Biennial 2008; Biennale di Venezia 2007/2013; Documenta 13; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Bonner Kunstverein - among many others.


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Tom McCarthy & Clémentine Deliss

Gespräch
Tom McCarthy & Clémentine Deliss: Just a Lump of Some Black Substance
Donnerstag, 6. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

Tom McCarthy *1969 lives in London. His first two novels, Remainder and Men In Space, have been published internationally to much acclaim. Remainder, winner of the Believer Prize 2008, is currently being adapted for film by FILM 4. Tom's latest novel C was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010 and went on to win the highly valued new Win Windham-Campbell award in 2013.

McCarthy is also known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions that he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. A fluent commentator on both written and visual arts, Tom has made guest appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and writes for a wide variety of print publications such as the Independent, London Review of Books, TLS, and Another Magazine. His non-fiction book Tintin and the Secret of Literature was praised as innovative work of literary criticism.

Clémentine Deliss is a curator and publisher who has been the director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt am Main since 2010. In 2005, she published the first edition of Remainder by Tom McCarthy as part of her Metronome and Metronome Press, Paris, initiatives. Deliss studied contemporary art and social anthropology in Vienna, London and Paris and holds a PhD from the University of London (1988, SOAS). Her curatorial work extends beyond exhibitions and has included publishing and research.


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El Hadji Sy & Philippe Pirotte

Gespräch
El Hadji Sy & Philippe Pirotte
Dienstag, 4. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

El Hadji Sy was born 1954 in Dakar and studied Fine Art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar. As a painter, curator, and cultural activist, El Hadji Sy’s interdisciplinary practice represents a pioneering model within the context of post-Independence Africa. Exhibited internationally as a painter since the late-1970s and hailed by the late Senegalese poet and President, Léopold Sédar Senghor, he is equally known for his rebellious attitude towards state cultural policy. In his capacity as artist and activist, El Hadji Sy co-founded the avant-garde performance group Laboratoire AGIT’art, was the lead instigator of the international artist-led Tenq workshops and Villages des Arts in Dakar, and a key collaborator of the interventionist group Huit Facettes. Between 1985-89, he was commissioned by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt to develop a new collection of Senegalese art and to co-edit a critical anthology on visual practice in Senegal. In the mid-1990s, his work as artist-curator was presented at the Whitechapel Gallery London and Konsthalle Malmö in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, and he took part in several international exhibitions. Most recently, for the 31st Bienal of São Paulo, Sy developed a 16-metre-long painting-installation to be activated by dancers on the theme of marine archaeology.

Philippe Pirotte *1972, is a Belgian art historian, critic, curator of numerous international exhibitions and since 2014 Rector of Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. He studied Art History at Ghent University. In 1999 he co-founded the art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, from 2005 to 2011, he was Director of Kunsthalle Bern and since 2012 he is Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. As a writer, Pirotte contributed a.o. to Nka – Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Afterall magazine.

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Jordan Wolfson

Vortrag
Jordan Wolfson
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

Over the past decade, Jordan Wolfson has become known for his thought-provoking works in a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, and the technology industries to produce ambitious and enigmatic narratives. However, instead of simply appropriating found material, the artist creates his own unique content, which frequently revolves around a series of invented, animated characters.

Wolfson was born in 1980 in New York. In 2003, he received his B.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2013, the artist joined David Zwirner. His first solo exhibition was presented at the gallery in New York from March 6 to April 19, 2014.

The artist recently participated in 14 Rooms, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist and presented during Art Basel in June 2014. The exhibition was a collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel.

Earlier this year, a selection of Wolfson's video work was shown at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow as part of the 6th Glasgow International. In 2013, Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo/le Poseur marked the most comprehensive survey of his work to date, organized by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent. Also in 2013 was his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom presented at the Chisenhale Gallery in London. Other institutions which have previously hosted solo shows include the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; REDCAT, Los Angeles (both 2012); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2011); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2009); Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York (2008); Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (2007); and the Kunsthalle Zürich (2004).

In 2009, he received the prestigious Cartier Award from the Frieze Foundation, which helps an artist from outside the United Kingdom realize a major project at Frieze Art Fair in London.

Work by Wolfson is held in public collections worldwide, including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.


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Dan Graham & Mark von Schlegell

Gespräch
Dan Graham & Mark von Schlegell:
Rock n Roll, Puppetshows, Science Fiction and/or Comedy
23. Oktober 2014, 14 Uhr, Aula

Dan Graham *1942 in Urbana, Illinois is an artist based in New York. Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing, performance, installation, video, photography and architecture, his analytical bent first came to attention with Homes for America (1966–67), a sequence of photos of suburban development in New Jersey, accompanied by a text charting the economics of land use and the obsolescence of architecture and craftsmanship.

As admired for his writing as for his work in art, Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, becoming a figurehead for those movements, and an early supporter of Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth among many others. He published the book Rock/Music Writings. It includes such landmark essays as "Punk as Propaganda," which explicates the self-packaging and media critique of The Ramones, Devo, the Sex Pistols, the Desperate Bicycles and others.

He has had retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2006), Museu Serralves, Porto, (2001), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1997), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, (1993), Kunsthalle Berne (1983) and the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1981). He has participated in documenta 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992, 1997).

Mark von Schlegell is the author of the novels Venusia, Mercury Station and the forthcoming Sundogz from Semiotext(e) as well as of two books of literary theory, Realometer and Dreaming the Mainstream, from Merve Verlag, Berlin. His stories and essays occupy art publications over the world. Von Schlegell has directed the Pure Fiction Seminar at Staedelschule, Frankfurt since 2012. Among other things the seminar has published three experimental fiction compendia.

Dan Graham and Mark von Schlegell will talk about writings on rock music.


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Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann

Kabinettausstellung im Städel Museum: „Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann“
Master-Studierende der Curatorial Studies kuratieren Kabinettausstellung – Eröffnung am 17. Juli

Studierende des Masterstudiengangs „Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik“ der Goethe-Universität und der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule haben die Kabinettausstellung „Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann“ kuratiert, die am 17. Juli (Donnerstag) um 19 Uhr im Frankfurter Städel Museum eröffnet wird. Sie ist bis zum 21. September innerhalb der Sammlungspräsentation der Moderne des Städel Museums zu sehen.

Bei ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit der Sammlung des Städel Museums, insbesondere mit Werken aus dem Depot, entdeckten die Studierenden die Gemälde des Malers Helmut Kolle, von dem sich drei Werke im Besitz des Museums befinden. In der Kabinettausstellung werden diese nun gemeinsam den Besuchern präsentiert. Ergänzt werden die relativ unbekannten Gemälde Kolles durch zwei von insgesamt acht Bronzeskulpturen Max Beckmanns. „Dass die Wahl der Studierenden auf den Maler Helmut Kolle fiel, freut mich besonders. Der Künstler Kolle hat bislang wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren“, so Dr. Felix Krämer, Sammlungsleiter der Kunst der Moderne im Städel Museum.
Wie kommt es zu der Gegenüberstellung von Helmut Kolle (1899–1931) und Max Beckmann (1884–1950)? Welche Verbindungen lassen sich zwischen den beiden Künstlern aufzeigen? Worin unterscheiden sie sich? Annabel Ruckdeschel, eine der Master-Studierenden, zur Konzeption der Ausstellung: „Wir wollten an den nur wenig bekannten Maler Helmut Kolle erinnern, indem wir seine Verbindungen  zu einem bekannten Meister sichtbar machen. Ein wesentlicher Zug seiner Gemälde wird vor dem Hintergrund von Beckmanns Skulpturen deutlich. Beckmann teilte mit ihm das Interesse an Körperlichkeit, besonders in seinen plastischen Arbeiten.“ Sowohl Beckmann als auch Kolle setzten sich mit ihren figurativen Arbeiten von den zunehmenden Abstraktionstendenzen in der Kunst seit 1900 ab. Während Kolles pastoser Farbauftrag die Malerei teilweise plastisch erscheinen lässt, sind Beckmanns Bronzeskulpturen darauf angelegt, die Flächigkeit im dreidimensionalen Objekt zu stärken.
Der 1899 in Charlottenburg geborene Maler Helmut Kolle lebte zusammen mit seinem Partner, dem Kunsthändler und -kritiker Wilhelm Uhde in Paris, wo er auch Erfolge mit Galerieausstellungen feierte. Durch Uhde war er mit der französischen Kunstszene vertraut, die seine künstlerische Arbeit stark prägte. Obwohl Uhde zeitlebens versuchte Kolles Werke in deutschen Museen zu platzieren, stießen sie dort auf nur geringen Anklang.
Das erste Gemälde Kolles gelangte auf Beckmanns Vermittlung hin 1932 an das Städel Museum. Anders als Kolle war Beckmann als Maler eine zentrale Figur im deutschen Kunstbetrieb. Mit Uhdes Unterstützung versuchte auch Beckmann sein Pariser Netzwerk weiter auszubauen. Zwischen 1936 und 1938 sowie um 1950 schuf er insgesamt acht Plastiken, die weniger bekannt sind als seine Gemälde.
Die drei im Seitenkabinett präsentierten Arbeiten von Kolle „Toreros“ (1925), „Junge mit Hampelmann“ (1929) und „Selbstbildnis“ (1930) zeigen deutlich den stilistischen Einfluss der europäischen Avantgarde. Ein motivisches Vorbild für Kolles Darstellungen von sportlichen, jungen Männerkörpern waren Aktfotografien aus Männermagazinen. Die Fotografie war ein Medium, das Kolles Arbeit weitergehend beeinflusste. Die Wahl des Bildausschnitts, sowie die reduzierte Farbigkeit machen dies sichtbar. In den drei Arbeiten von Kolle stehen nicht Posen des Triumphs im Mittelpunkt. Er malt die „Toreros“ während einer Pause, nachdenklich, nahezu verletzlich. Die Ideale und Stereotype des zeitgenössischen Bildes vom starken Mann werden in Frage gestellt, zuweilen auch umgekehrt. Das intime Selbstporträt des Künstlers zeigt ihn kurz vor seinem frühen Tod im Jahr 1930. Die ungelenke Haltung seines Körpers und das dominant ins Bild gesetzte rote Brusttuch lesen sich wie ein Verweis auf Kolles Herzleiden, dem er nur wenig später erliegen sollte.
Die beiden Skulpturen von Max Beckmann wurden von den Studierenden als Gegenposition zu den Werken Helmut Kolles ausgewählt. Die muskulöse Männerfigur der in der Ausstellung gezeigten Skulptur „Adam und Eva“ (1936) findet ihre Entsprechung in Kolles „Toreros“. Ihren Umgang mit Körperlichkeit sowie die Thematisierung von scheinbar gängigen Rollenbildern teilen beide Werke, womit sie bereits zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine bis heute andauernde Diskussion zum Gegenstand ihrer Arbeiten machten. Beckmann ließ sich ähnlich wie Kolle von französischen Künstlern beeinflussen. Seine „Tänzerin“ nimmt das Hauptthema des Malers Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) auf. Die übersteigerte Haltung der Ballerina in Aktion steht im Gegensatz zu der reduzierten Gestik und der Passivität der Dargestellten in den Gemälden Kolles.

Die von den Studierenden erarbeitete Kabinettausstellung ist das zweite kuratorische Projekt des Masterstudiengangs, der sich international durch die einzigartige Verbindung von Universität, Kunstakademie und Museen auszeichnet. „Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik“ wird in Kooperation mit dem Städel Museum und Liebieghaus, dem MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, dem Historischen Museum Frankfurt, dem Weltkulturen Museum und dem Portikus durchgeführt. Durch innovative Lehrformate können Studierende akademisches Lernen und wissenschaftliche Forschung mit kuratorischen Fragestellungen und berufsbezogenen Erfahrungen verbinden.

Eröffnung: 17. Juli (Donnerstag), 19 Uhr im Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63, Frankfurt (bis 21. September)
Öffnungszeiten: Di, Mi, Sa, So 10.00–18.00 Uhr; Do, Fr 10.00–21.00 Uhr
Montags geschlossen

Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. 2014 feiert sie ihren 100. Geburtstag. 1914 gegründet mit rein privaten Mitteln von freiheitlich orientierten Frankfurter Bürgerinnen und Bürgern fühlt sie sich als Bürgeruniversität bis heute dem Motto „Wissenschaft für die Gesellschaft“ in Forschung und Lehre verpflichtet. Viele der Frauen und Männer der ersten Stunde waren jüdische Stifter. In den letzten 100 Jahren hat die Goethe-Universität Pionierleistungen erbracht auf den Feldern der Sozial-, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Chemie, Quantenphysik, Hirnforschung und Arbeitsrecht. Am 1. Januar 2008 gewann sie mit der Rückkehr zu ihren historischen Wurzeln als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an Eigenständigkeit. Heute ist sie eine der zehn drittmittelstärksten und drei größten Universitäten Deutschlands mit drei Exzellenzclustern in Medizin, Lebenswissenschaften sowie Geisteswissenschaften. Mehr Informationen unter www2.uni-frankfurt.de/gu100

Simon Denny

Vortrag
Simon Denny: The Innovative Dilemma
Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

Recently Simon Denny’s practice has dealt extensively with communication technology and business ideology. Touching on his projects "All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX" (Kunstverein Munich, Petzel Gallery NYC 2013), "The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom" (2013-2014 mumok Vienna, Firstsite Colchester) and "Disruptive Berlin" (Galerie Buchholz, 2014) Denny will reflect on the current technology business landscape and the images and culture it produces - from startup aesthetics to corporate culture. Denny will also talk about his upcoming exhibition "New Management" at Portikus and the complex processes behind it. He will speak towards ideas like the "disruption machine" and the "gospel of innovation" discussed in Jill Lepore’s recent article "The Annals of Enterprise: The Disruption Machine" (The New Yorker, 23 June 2014).

Simon Denny *1982 in Auckland / New Zealand, lives and works in Berlin. He holds an BFA 2005 from University Of Auckland and is Meisterschüler of Willem de Rooij, Städelschule 2009. Denny will represent New Zealand at the 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia 2015.

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Paul Elliman

Vortrag
Paul Elliman: Body Alive with Signals
Dienstag, 1. Juli 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula

Paul Elliman *1961 lives and works in London. He will give an informal talk about recent and current work, and his interests in forms of processed language following the human voice, for example, through many of its social and technological guises, often imitating other languages and sounds of the city. As a commissioned artist for the New York biennial Performa 09 his project Sirens Taken for Wonders involved a series of siren-walks through the city on the hunt for emergency vehicle alerts. In 2012 a selection from his typographical archive of discarded letter-like machine parts and found objects was included in the exhibition ‘Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language’ curated by Laura Hoptman at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 he published Untitled (September Magazine), a 600 page glossy magazine using found images to explore connections between language and gesture.

Paul Elliman has exhibited internationally, including the XII Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius, LT (2014); KUMU Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, ES (2013); castillo/coralles, Paris, FR (2013); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US (2012-13); Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (2012); Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2011); Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, NL (2010); and Performa, New York, US (2009). He currently has a solo exhibition at Objectif in Antwerp and is taking part in Journal at the ICA in London, curated by Matt Williams.


Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Peter Fischli & Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Why Airports?

Gespräch
Peter Fischli und Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Why airports?
Samstag, 28. Juni 2014, 16 Uhr, Aula

In Zusammenarbeit mit SAC – Städelschule Architecture Class.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung.

Peter Fischli and Hans-Ulrich Obrist will talk about the exhibition Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A stroll through a fun palace at the Swiss Pavilion, curated by Obrist in frame of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia 2014.

In a digital time of unlimited access to information, where everyone can be an architect, a curator, an intellectual thinker, Obrist revisits the recent past of architecture through retrospectives of Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) and Cedric Price (1934–2003), reflecting on its future in the 21st century. Lucius Burckhardt was a Swiss political economist, sociologist, art historian and planning theorist, known as founding father of ‘strollology’ – his science of the walk. He pioneered an interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, discussing both the visible and invisible aspects of our cities, landscapes, political processes and social relations, as well as the long-term effects of design and planning decisions. Cedric Price was guided by a fundamental belief that architecture must ‘enable people to think the unthinkable’. His project Fun Palace (1960–61), conceived as a ‘laboratory of fun’ and ‘university of the streets’, though never realised, established him as one of the UK’s most innovative and thought-provoking architects.

Hans Ulrich Obrist *1968 in Zurich, Switzerland, is co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup’ (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 exhibitions. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues – Loose Lips – Open Eyes – Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.

Peter Fischli *1952 in Switzerland is an artist based in Zurich and Professor for Fine Art at the Städelschule since 2013.

Das Gespräch findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Richard Mosse: The Enclave

Vortrag und Filmvorführung
Richard Mosse
Dienstag, 24. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula

In his presentation Richard Mosse will go through his forty minute video installation, The Enclave, scene by scene, discussing context, background, and intent. 

The Enclave is the culmination of Mosse’s four year project working in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Enclave comprises six monumental double-sided screens installed in a large darkened chamber creating a physically immersive experience. This disorienting and kaleidoscopic installation is intended to formally parallel eastern Congo’s multifaceted conflict, confounding expectations and forcing the viewer to interact spatially from an array of differing viewpoints. Its haunting, visceral soundscape is layered spatially by twelve-point surround sound, composed by Ben Frost from recordings gathered in North and South Kivu. It is a looping, non-linear narrative which documents civilians fleeing massacre, Mai Mai militia preparing for battle, as well as M23 rebels moving on, fighting for, and finally taking the city of Goma. This humanitarian disaster unfolds in a landscape of extraordinary beauty, on the shores of Lake Kivu, which Mosse records using a discontinued military film technology originally designed in WWII to reveal camouflaged enemy installations. This film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and pink. Mosse employed this film to document a humanitarian disaster in which 5.4 million people have died since 1998, yet which is largely overlooked by the mass media. Frequent massacres, human rights violations, and widespread sexual violence remain unaccounted for. In a kind of advocacy of seeing, Mosse attempts to cast this forgotten tragedy in a new spectrum of light. 

Mosse was born in 1980 in Ireland. He earned an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art in 2008 and a PG Dip from Goldsmiths in 2005. Mosse represented Ireland at the 2013 Venice Biennale with The Enclave, for which he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting co-published his first monograph, Infra. His second monograph, The Enclave, was published by Aperture Foundation. Mosse is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism (2014), the B3 Award at the Frankfurt Biennale (2013), an ECAS Commission (2013), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), and a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2008-2010). Foreign Policy Magazine listed Mosse as a Leading Global Thinker of 2013.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.