Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Ausstellung
Dan Graham presents New Jersey
Eröffnung: Freitag 29. Mai, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 30. Mai - 12 Juli 2009
Die Ausstellung im Portikus - Dan Graham Presents New Jersey - zeigt neue Fotografien Dan Grahams, die 2006 in Kollaboration mit dem Architekturlehrstuhl der Columbia University in New York entstanden sind, Seite an Seite mit Fotografien aus seiner Serie Homes for America aus dem Jahr 1966. Bereits in den frühen 1960er Jahren entstanden letztere, bewusst im Stil eines Amateurs oder Photojournalisten, mit einer preiswerten und handlichen Kodak Kamera aufgenommene Bilder suburbaner Wohnhäuser, Gewerbeanlagen und städtischer Randzonen in New Jersey – Orte die das gewöhnliche und unspektakuläre, aber auch uniforme Amerika zeigen. Die Beschäftigung mit dem Seriellen, mit Standardisierung und Kontinuität stehen bei sowohl den älteren, als auch den jüngeren Fotografien im Mittelpunkt. Das wiederkehrende Interesse an der Aufwertung des Alltäglichen findet hier präzise Form, gebunden an Fragen nach der individuellen Wahrnehmung von sozialem Raum und Raumbildung durch soziale Gruppen.
Dan Graham wurde 1942 in Urbana, Illinois geboren und wuchs zeitweilig im Bundesstaat New Jersey auf. Er lebt und arbeitet in New York.
Lecture
Dan Graham presents New Jersey
Sunday, 31st May, 17 h, Portikus
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dan Graham’s art is concerned with complex issues of cultural ideologies and ordering principles, with the reflection on the question related to the autonomy of the artwork playing a significant role. Urban surfaces, architectural décor and the discourse on forms, in general, are at the fore of his considerations. He always makes reference to concrete elements of everyday culture, combining minimalist forms with playful humor. He is also strongly dedicated to the relation of the subject to postmodern developments and architectures.
Dan Graham’s career as an artist did not progress in the classical sense. In 1964 he founded the John Daniels Gallery with friends, where the first shows of Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, among others, were on view. A year later, after the gallery was closed, Graham began with his own artistic work. From the very start, his artistic career was shaped in a very interdisciplinary way, since he simultaneously worked as a music journalist, photographer, art theorist, and culture critic.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Jesko Fezer: Design Problem Reality
Tuesday, 02. June, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
If anyone out there still believes that architects are people with strong mathematical skills who build houses (and there are many who do) then they should look out for Jesko Fezer. Being active as a publisher, curator, artist, and exhibition designer Berlin-based Fezer renegotiates the traditional media of architecture. He is the co-founder and manager of the thematic bookshop “Pro qm” in Berlin and the co-editor of the political architecture magazine “An Architektur” which also initiated the international “Camp for Oppositional Architecture” in Berlin and Utrecht. In the frame of his cooperation “ifau und Jesko Fezer” he realized projects in Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Utrecht, Graz, New York und London. Having taught at various universities, he was a visiting professor for Urban Research in the master’s degree course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and currently leads the research project “Civic City” at the ZHDK in Zürich.
Fezer´s publications include „Hier entsteht. Strategien partizipativer Architektur“, „Lucius Burckhardt: Wer plant die Planung?“, „Planungsmethodik gestern“. He has curated the exhibitions “Urban Conditions” at the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2004), „Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered” (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2008), “In the Desert of Modernity. Colonias Planung and After“ (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2008).
Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2009
Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009
SARAH MORRIS / CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Sarah Morris: If Direction is a Look
Tuesday, 26th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sarah Morris is a painter and filmmaker who lives and works in New York and London. Her films include „Midtown“(1998), „Capital“(2001), Los Angeles (2004), „1972“ and „Beijing“ (2009). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the 4th Site Santa Fe Biennial (2001), 25th São Paolo Biennial (2002) and „Days Like These“, Tate Triennial (2003). Solo shows include Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005) and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Her most recent exhibition „Gemini Dressage“ (including the European premiere of her latest film “Beijing”) will be on show at MMK in Frankfurt am Main.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Che fare? What has to be done?
Thursday, 28th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In her lecture at the Städelschule newly appointed Documenta director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev asks „Che fare? What has to be done?“. Referring to her curatorial practice she investigates the current condition of the visual arts and its consequences on exhibition making.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a curator and writer based in Rome, Turin and New York. She is currently the Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin and was the Artistic Director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney “Titled Revolutions – Forms That Turn” in 2008. From 1999 to 2001 she was Senior Curator of exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. She curated the first retrospective exhibition of Janet Cardiff’s works (PS1, 2001), “Matrix.2” by Francis Alÿs, the group show “The Moderns / I Moderni” (2003), a survey exhibition of works by William Kentridge (2004), and “The Pantagruel Syndrome” (2005).
Sarah Morris: If Direction is a Look
Tuesday, 26th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sarah Morris is a painter and filmmaker who lives and works in New York and London. Her films include „Midtown“(1998), „Capital“(2001), Los Angeles (2004), „1972“ and „Beijing“ (2009). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the 4th Site Santa Fe Biennial (2001), 25th São Paolo Biennial (2002) and „Days Like These“, Tate Triennial (2003). Solo shows include Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005) and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Her most recent exhibition „Gemini Dressage“ (including the European premiere of her latest film “Beijing”) will be on show at MMK in Frankfurt am Main.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Che fare? What has to be done?
Thursday, 28th May, Aula, 19h
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In her lecture at the Städelschule newly appointed Documenta director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev asks „Che fare? What has to be done?“. Referring to her curatorial practice she investigates the current condition of the visual arts and its consequences on exhibition making.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a curator and writer based in Rome, Turin and New York. She is currently the Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin and was the Artistic Director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney “Titled Revolutions – Forms That Turn” in 2008. From 1999 to 2001 she was Senior Curator of exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. She curated the first retrospective exhibition of Janet Cardiff’s works (PS1, 2001), “Matrix.2” by Francis Alÿs, the group show “The Moderns / I Moderni” (2003), a survey exhibition of works by William Kentridge (2004), and “The Pantagruel Syndrome” (2005).
Freitag, 15. Mai 2009
SARAH THORNTON
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Talk:
Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World
With Julia Voss (FAZ) and Nikolaus Hirsch (Städelschule)
Tuesday, 19th May, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton is an ethnography and a social history of the recent past. Set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, the book is populated by characters who espouse conflicting definitions of art. Some see it as a luxury good or entertainment, others view it as an intellectual calling, a job description, or a kind of alternative religion.
The Canadian Sarah Thornton has a BA in Art History and made her PhD in Sociology on Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Once a member of faculty at Sussex University where she ran the MA in Media Studies, Thornton then became a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a freelance journalist and author she contributes on regularly basis amongst others to The Economist, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker.
Julia Voss is co-editor (with Niklas Maak) of the art department of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Nikolaus Hirsch is currently guest professor for Art and Architecture at the Städelschule and host of the lecture series.
In cooperation with the S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Die Vorlesung von Boris Groys über Politics of Installation ist verschoben auf Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009.
The lecture by Boris Groys on Politics of Installation is postponed to Wednesday, July 1st 2009.
Talk:
Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World
With Julia Voss (FAZ) and Nikolaus Hirsch (Städelschule)
Tuesday, 19th May, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton is an ethnography and a social history of the recent past. Set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, the book is populated by characters who espouse conflicting definitions of art. Some see it as a luxury good or entertainment, others view it as an intellectual calling, a job description, or a kind of alternative religion.
The Canadian Sarah Thornton has a BA in Art History and made her PhD in Sociology on Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Once a member of faculty at Sussex University where she ran the MA in Media Studies, Thornton then became a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a freelance journalist and author she contributes on regularly basis amongst others to The Economist, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker.
Julia Voss is co-editor (with Niklas Maak) of the art department of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Nikolaus Hirsch is currently guest professor for Art and Architecture at the Städelschule and host of the lecture series.
In cooperation with the S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Die Vorlesung von Boris Groys über Politics of Installation ist verschoben auf Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009.
The lecture by Boris Groys on Politics of Installation is postponed to Wednesday, July 1st 2009.
Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009
RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER / SYLVIA LAVIN
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Rivane Neuenschwander:
Misunderstanding
Wednesday, 13th May, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Rivane Neuenschwander's art has the precisely orchestrated, unforced economy of what she has termed "ethereal materialism". Often apparent is her fascination with serendipity and the agency of living systems, such as garden snails that munch away at rice-paper squares or ants that orchestrate a parade of confetti dots. The activation of sensory memory and trusting the realization of her work to the generosity of other people or nonhuman organisms frequently sparks Neuschwander's work to life. In I Wish Your Wish, the artist invites viewers to select a ribbon imprinted with a wish and leave behind a wish of their own. The ribbon can be tied to the wrist and worn until it falls off at which point the wish may be realized. Another work, the video Pangaea (2008), takes its title from the vast land mass that existed on earth about 250 million years ago, before this "supercontinent" broke apart into the land masses we know today. Neuenschwander used a stop-frame animation technique to record hundreds of ants as they crawled over and ate a plate of carpaccio meat, giving the viewer the sense that these tiny insects are moving and shaping an evolving map of the world.
Rivane Neuenschwander lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Her work was shown in major group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale 2005, São Paulo Biennale 2008, „Life on Mars“ at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (2008) and „50 Moons of Saturn“ (Torino Triennale, 2008). Her solo shows include „Spell“ at Portikus (2001), „Suspension Point“ at Sounth London Gallery (2008), and „To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander“ at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2008).
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Sylvia Lavin:
Kissing Architecture. Super-Disciplinarity and Confounding Media
Thursday, 14th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at Princeton University's School of Architecture. A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design.
She has published „Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1992) and „Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture“ (MIT Press, 2005). Her next book, „The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity“ will be published by MIT Press in 2009 and she is working on a series of exhibitions on design culture of the late 1960s. She is an editor of „Crib Sheets“, a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli press.
Rivane Neuenschwander:
Misunderstanding
Wednesday, 13th May, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Rivane Neuenschwander's art has the precisely orchestrated, unforced economy of what she has termed "ethereal materialism". Often apparent is her fascination with serendipity and the agency of living systems, such as garden snails that munch away at rice-paper squares or ants that orchestrate a parade of confetti dots. The activation of sensory memory and trusting the realization of her work to the generosity of other people or nonhuman organisms frequently sparks Neuschwander's work to life. In I Wish Your Wish, the artist invites viewers to select a ribbon imprinted with a wish and leave behind a wish of their own. The ribbon can be tied to the wrist and worn until it falls off at which point the wish may be realized. Another work, the video Pangaea (2008), takes its title from the vast land mass that existed on earth about 250 million years ago, before this "supercontinent" broke apart into the land masses we know today. Neuenschwander used a stop-frame animation technique to record hundreds of ants as they crawled over and ate a plate of carpaccio meat, giving the viewer the sense that these tiny insects are moving and shaping an evolving map of the world.
Rivane Neuenschwander lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Her work was shown in major group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale 2005, São Paulo Biennale 2008, „Life on Mars“ at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (2008) and „50 Moons of Saturn“ (Torino Triennale, 2008). Her solo shows include „Spell“ at Portikus (2001), „Suspension Point“ at Sounth London Gallery (2008), and „To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander“ at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2008).
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Sylvia Lavin:
Kissing Architecture. Super-Disciplinarity and Confounding Media
Thursday, 14th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at Princeton University's School of Architecture. A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design.
She has published „Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1992) and „Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture“ (MIT Press, 2005). Her next book, „The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity“ will be published by MIT Press in 2009 and she is working on a series of exhibitions on design culture of the late 1960s. She is an editor of „Crib Sheets“, a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli press.
Donnerstag, 30. April 2009
TAKAHARU TEZUKA
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Takaharu Tezuka: Roof-less Architecture
Thursday, 7th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and “”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. In their small-scale houses as much as in their large public buildings Takaharu and Yui Tezuka explore architecture as an elementary discipline that defines and removes physical boundaries. Boundaries such as roof, floor and wall become the basic media of an architecture that negotiates the relationship between the users and their environment. The Tezuka couple aim for a new definition of architecture: “Since any kind of form is possible in these days, futuristic appearance is not an issue anymore ... We are seeking a future beyond shape or form. The roof is the most basic element of architecture. Anything with a roof can be called architecture.“
The projects of Tezuka Architects include the Museum of Natural Science in Matsunoyama, the pavilion for the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Visionary Arts in Tokyo, Thin Wall Office HQ#01, and the Open Houses 1 to 11. Since 2003 Takaharu Tezuka is an Associate Professor at Musashi Institute of Technology. In 2005 and 2006 he has taught at Salzburg Summer Academy and in 2006 he was a Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as at Archilab held in Orléans (2002) and currently at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Takaharu Tezuka: Roof-less Architecture
Thursday, 7th May, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and “”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. In their small-scale houses as much as in their large public buildings Takaharu and Yui Tezuka explore architecture as an elementary discipline that defines and removes physical boundaries. Boundaries such as roof, floor and wall become the basic media of an architecture that negotiates the relationship between the users and their environment. The Tezuka couple aim for a new definition of architecture: “Since any kind of form is possible in these days, futuristic appearance is not an issue anymore ... We are seeking a future beyond shape or form. The roof is the most basic element of architecture. Anything with a roof can be called architecture.“
The projects of Tezuka Architects include the Museum of Natural Science in Matsunoyama, the pavilion for the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Visionary Arts in Tokyo, Thin Wall Office HQ#01, and the Open Houses 1 to 11. Since 2003 Takaharu Tezuka is an Associate Professor at Musashi Institute of Technology. In 2005 and 2006 he has taught at Salzburg Summer Academy and in 2006 he was a Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as at Archilab held in Orléans (2002) and currently at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
Freitag, 24. April 2009
JÜRG HALTER / HARUN FAROCKI
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Jürg Halter liest aus "Nichts, das mich hält"
Dienstag, 28. April, 19 Uhr, Aula
“Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit
trafen sich Suizid und Heldentod
in einer Konkurs gegangenen Bar
zum Gespräch über den Nutzen der Sehnsucht.”
Jürg Halter, erschienen am 23. Juni 1980 in Bern, wo er lebt. Studium an der dortigen Hochschule der Künste. Halter ist Dichter und man kennt ihn unter dem Namen Kutti MC auch als Mundart-Rapper. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen Debut-Gedichtband “Ich habe die Welt berührt” und durch Lesungen und Poetry Performances bei internationalen Literaturfestivals in Europa, Afrika und den USA.Mit seiner bestechend anschaulichen Sprache beweist Jürg Halter nicht zuletzt, daß sich weit jenseits des Lyrikzentrums Berlin eine Stimme erhoben hat, der es zuzuhören gilt. Neben dem Gedichtband “Nichts, das mich hält” (Ammann Verlag, 2008) erschien zuletzt von ihm das Spoken-Word-Hörbuch “Aber heute ist der Tag, an dem ich mehr als sprechen will” (Verlag Der Gesunde Menschenversand, 2007). Seit 2007 schreibt Halter zusammen mit dem bekannten japanischen Dichter Tanikawa Shuntaro an einem Lang-Gedicht (Renshi). Er arbeitete auch als Herausgeber der “art.21-zeitdruck” (1999 bis 2002), und ist Veranstalter u.a. von “words'n'beats” und “Tintensaufen”.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Harun Farocki: Shopping / Risk
Thursday, 30th April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process. On the occasion of his lecture at the Städelschule Harun Farocki will show –besides his film “Nothing Ventured“- the documentary „The Creators of Shopping Worlds“ (2001), a film that explores the work of architects, experience designers and executive managers in charge of the creation of today’s shopping malls. Farocki filmed business meetings at which professionals brooded over architectural plans, and ‘walk-through’ simulations that are intended to optimize the flow of consumer traffic and maximize the saturation of the shopper’s visual field with focus points designed to capture his or her attention.
The Berlin-based artist and film-maker Harun Farocki (born 1944 in Novy Jicen, Czechoslovakia) has produced over a hundred films and installations over the past 40 years: films that in their style and visual language do away with traditional genres and alternate between experiment, documentary and essay. Since producing the autobiographical video installation “Interface” for a group exhibition at the Musée d’art Villeneuve d’Ascq in Lille in 1995, Farocki – who is also active as an author, curator, teacher and as a screenwriter for the Berlin director Christian Petzold – has increasingly shown his work outside the cinema context in art institutions. Important stages were documenta X and documenta 12, where he showed “Still Life” in 1997 and “Deep Play” in 2007. His films have been shown in numerous retrospectives, such as at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris (2002) and MoMA in New York (2001). Since 2004 he teaches as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Jürg Halter liest aus "Nichts, das mich hält"
Dienstag, 28. April, 19 Uhr, Aula
“Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit
trafen sich Suizid und Heldentod
in einer Konkurs gegangenen Bar
zum Gespräch über den Nutzen der Sehnsucht.”
Jürg Halter, erschienen am 23. Juni 1980 in Bern, wo er lebt. Studium an der dortigen Hochschule der Künste. Halter ist Dichter und man kennt ihn unter dem Namen Kutti MC auch als Mundart-Rapper. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen Debut-Gedichtband “Ich habe die Welt berührt” und durch Lesungen und Poetry Performances bei internationalen Literaturfestivals in Europa, Afrika und den USA.Mit seiner bestechend anschaulichen Sprache beweist Jürg Halter nicht zuletzt, daß sich weit jenseits des Lyrikzentrums Berlin eine Stimme erhoben hat, der es zuzuhören gilt. Neben dem Gedichtband “Nichts, das mich hält” (Ammann Verlag, 2008) erschien zuletzt von ihm das Spoken-Word-Hörbuch “Aber heute ist der Tag, an dem ich mehr als sprechen will” (Verlag Der Gesunde Menschenversand, 2007). Seit 2007 schreibt Halter zusammen mit dem bekannten japanischen Dichter Tanikawa Shuntaro an einem Lang-Gedicht (Renshi). Er arbeitete auch als Herausgeber der “art.21-zeitdruck” (1999 bis 2002), und ist Veranstalter u.a. von “words'n'beats” und “Tintensaufen”.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Harun Farocki: Shopping / Risk
Thursday, 30th April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process. On the occasion of his lecture at the Städelschule Harun Farocki will show –besides his film “Nothing Ventured“- the documentary „The Creators of Shopping Worlds“ (2001), a film that explores the work of architects, experience designers and executive managers in charge of the creation of today’s shopping malls. Farocki filmed business meetings at which professionals brooded over architectural plans, and ‘walk-through’ simulations that are intended to optimize the flow of consumer traffic and maximize the saturation of the shopper’s visual field with focus points designed to capture his or her attention.
The Berlin-based artist and film-maker Harun Farocki (born 1944 in Novy Jicen, Czechoslovakia) has produced over a hundred films and installations over the past 40 years: films that in their style and visual language do away with traditional genres and alternate between experiment, documentary and essay. Since producing the autobiographical video installation “Interface” for a group exhibition at the Musée d’art Villeneuve d’Ascq in Lille in 1995, Farocki – who is also active as an author, curator, teacher and as a screenwriter for the Berlin director Christian Petzold – has increasingly shown his work outside the cinema context in art institutions. Important stages were documenta X and documenta 12, where he showed “Still Life” in 1997 and “Deep Play” in 2007. His films have been shown in numerous retrospectives, such as at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris (2002) and MoMA in New York (2001). Since 2004 he teaches as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Freitag, 17. April 2009
NINA KÖNNEMANN / MARK WIGLEY / PEACHES
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Nina Könnemann: Screening
Wednesday, 22nd April, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Könnemann came to prominence above all with documentary videos like M.U.D. (2000), unrise (2001) and Pleasure Beach (2001) in which she takes an unmediated look at phenomena of the postmodern amusement society. Könnemann's work characteristically makes use of a hand-held camera that reacts to movements in the crowd, tracing their aimlessness and drawing the viewer into what is going on. In the show “Free Mumia” at Portikus, this fleeting point of view is brought to a standstill, focusing attention on objects which - in among a wealth of details and inessentials - could have appeared in the videos mentioned above. The exhibition in Portikus including two of her most recent videos Laughing Sailor (2008) and Cone (2008) is ongoing till 17th May.
Nina Könnemann was born in Bonn and studied at Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Mark Wigley: Network Radicals: The Architecture of the Streaming City
Thursday, 23rd April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Starting the summer semester lecture series on „Post-Medium Architecture“ Mark Wigley focuses on the “network” as a primary medium of contemporary architecture. Defining the architect as someone who does more than designing buildings but as public intellectual who speculates on possible new worlds, Wigley will - among others - refer to his research on a symposium on the evolution of human settlement that was held on the Greek urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis´ yacht „New Hellas“ and included Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan and thirty-two other protagonists.
Mark Wigley is the Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and also teaches as a Guest Professor at Städelschule Architecture Class. He curated „Deconstructivist Architecture“; he has also served as curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. An accomplished scholar and design teacher, he has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture, and is the author of „The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt“ (MIT Press, 1993); „White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1995); and „Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire“ (Uitgeverij 010, 1998). In addition to numerous essays on art and architecture, he co-edited, with Catherine de Zegher, „The Activist Drawing: Situationist Architectures From Constant's New Babylon to Beyond“ (MIT Press, 2001) and is one of the founding editors of Volume magazine.
Peaches: The Teaches of Peaches
Friday, 24th April, 19h, Hall
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“Do I dare to eat a peach?” – T.S. Eliot
„I first met Peaches in Berlin 2002 at the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant on a Sunday morning after being out a couple of days. Peaches was deejaying their premiere Sunday morning After Hours. I was with an old friend, he introduced us; we were WAY EARLY. As she was deejaying, I went and sat down with the only customer in the venue.
As I slung back the Vodka Cran's and talked this poor women's ear off, the entire time thinking: "who is she this Berliner Lady hangin' out by herself in this empty restaurant in a fur that her body has thoroughly succumb to?"
I stumbled off to the bar; then back via the deejay area to commend Peaches on the sheer vastness of her fan base. Peaches goes, "oh you met my Mom." Real calm and sweet as she is, no hint of surprise.
This snippet should prepare you all for the diversity she represents. We have no idea what she will do; none-the-less, I ain't worried.
You think you know Peaches? Wanna bet? “ - Eric D. Clark
Nina Könnemann: Screening
Wednesday, 22nd April, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Könnemann came to prominence above all with documentary videos like M.U.D. (2000), unrise (2001) and Pleasure Beach (2001) in which she takes an unmediated look at phenomena of the postmodern amusement society. Könnemann's work characteristically makes use of a hand-held camera that reacts to movements in the crowd, tracing their aimlessness and drawing the viewer into what is going on. In the show “Free Mumia” at Portikus, this fleeting point of view is brought to a standstill, focusing attention on objects which - in among a wealth of details and inessentials - could have appeared in the videos mentioned above. The exhibition in Portikus including two of her most recent videos Laughing Sailor (2008) and Cone (2008) is ongoing till 17th May.
Nina Könnemann was born in Bonn and studied at Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
The Architecture Class presents:
Post-Medium Architecture – Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2009
Mark Wigley: Network Radicals: The Architecture of the Streaming City
Thursday, 23rd April, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Starting the summer semester lecture series on „Post-Medium Architecture“ Mark Wigley focuses on the “network” as a primary medium of contemporary architecture. Defining the architect as someone who does more than designing buildings but as public intellectual who speculates on possible new worlds, Wigley will - among others - refer to his research on a symposium on the evolution of human settlement that was held on the Greek urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis´ yacht „New Hellas“ and included Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan and thirty-two other protagonists.
Mark Wigley is the Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and also teaches as a Guest Professor at Städelschule Architecture Class. He curated „Deconstructivist Architecture“; he has also served as curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. An accomplished scholar and design teacher, he has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture, and is the author of „The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt“ (MIT Press, 1993); „White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1995); and „Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire“ (Uitgeverij 010, 1998). In addition to numerous essays on art and architecture, he co-edited, with Catherine de Zegher, „The Activist Drawing: Situationist Architectures From Constant's New Babylon to Beyond“ (MIT Press, 2001) and is one of the founding editors of Volume magazine.
Peaches: The Teaches of Peaches
Friday, 24th April, 19h, Hall
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“Do I dare to eat a peach?” – T.S. Eliot
„I first met Peaches in Berlin 2002 at the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant on a Sunday morning after being out a couple of days. Peaches was deejaying their premiere Sunday morning After Hours. I was with an old friend, he introduced us; we were WAY EARLY. As she was deejaying, I went and sat down with the only customer in the venue.
As I slung back the Vodka Cran's and talked this poor women's ear off, the entire time thinking: "who is she this Berliner Lady hangin' out by herself in this empty restaurant in a fur that her body has thoroughly succumb to?"
I stumbled off to the bar; then back via the deejay area to commend Peaches on the sheer vastness of her fan base. Peaches goes, "oh you met my Mom." Real calm and sweet as she is, no hint of surprise.
This snippet should prepare you all for the diversity she represents. We have no idea what she will do; none-the-less, I ain't worried.
You think you know Peaches? Wanna bet? “ - Eric D. Clark
Donnerstag, 19. März 2009
NINA KÖNNEMANN
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Ausstellung:
Nina Könnemann: Free Mumia
Eröffnung: 27. März 2009, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 28. März - 17. Mai 2009
Die Künstlerin Nina Könnemann ist vor allem durch dokumentarische Videos wie "M.U.D." (2000), "unrise" (2001) oder "Pleasure Beach" (2001) aufgefallen, in denen sie auf unmittelbare Weise Phänomene der postmodernen Vergnügungs-Gesellschaft beobachtet. Ähnlich der Tradition des kulturanthropologischen Arbeitens folgt ihre Kamera scheinbar zufällig Menschen im öffentlichen Raum oder steht unauffällig am Rand des Geschehens und zeichnet soziale Begegnungen auf. Dabei werden Muster gesellschaftlicher Interaktion in der Peripherie von Raves und anderen Großveranstaltungen freigelegt. Charakteristisch bei Könnemann ist das Filmen „aus der Hand“ das auf Bewegungen in der Masse reagiert, ihre Ziellosigkeit nachzeichnet und den Betrachter gleichzeitig in das Geschehen hineinzieht. In der Ausstellung im Portikus wird dieser flüchtige Blick angehalten. Drei Gegenstände, die in den oben genannten Videos inmitten einer Fülle von Details und Nebensachen hätten auftauchen können, werden in den Fokus gerückt.
Nina Könnemann wurde 1971 in Bonn geboren und studierte von 1992 - 1998 Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Zur Ausstellung wird ein Katalog erscheinen.
Ausstellung:
Nina Könnemann: Free Mumia
Eröffnung: 27. März 2009, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 28. März - 17. Mai 2009
Die Künstlerin Nina Könnemann ist vor allem durch dokumentarische Videos wie "M.U.D." (2000), "unrise" (2001) oder "Pleasure Beach" (2001) aufgefallen, in denen sie auf unmittelbare Weise Phänomene der postmodernen Vergnügungs-Gesellschaft beobachtet. Ähnlich der Tradition des kulturanthropologischen Arbeitens folgt ihre Kamera scheinbar zufällig Menschen im öffentlichen Raum oder steht unauffällig am Rand des Geschehens und zeichnet soziale Begegnungen auf. Dabei werden Muster gesellschaftlicher Interaktion in der Peripherie von Raves und anderen Großveranstaltungen freigelegt. Charakteristisch bei Könnemann ist das Filmen „aus der Hand“ das auf Bewegungen in der Masse reagiert, ihre Ziellosigkeit nachzeichnet und den Betrachter gleichzeitig in das Geschehen hineinzieht. In der Ausstellung im Portikus wird dieser flüchtige Blick angehalten. Drei Gegenstände, die in den oben genannten Videos inmitten einer Fülle von Details und Nebensachen hätten auftauchen können, werden in den Fokus gerückt.
Nina Könnemann wurde 1971 in Bonn geboren und studierte von 1992 - 1998 Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Zur Ausstellung wird ein Katalog erscheinen.
Freitag, 6. Februar 2009
MAX BECKMANN / STÄDELSCHULE RUNDGANG 2009
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Max Beckmann – Lehrer an der Städelschule
Montag, 9. Februar, 19 Uhr, Halle
Anlässlich des 125. Geburtstags von Max Beckmann lädt die Städelschule zu einem Gespräch mit Mayen Beckmann und Klaus Gallwitz ein.
Beckmann lebte siebzehn Jahre in Frankfurt am Main und leitete von 1925 bis 1933 eine Meisterklasse an der Städelschule.
Begrüssung: Prof. Michael Krebber (Rektor)
Einleitung: Brigitte von Ribbentrop (Vorstand Städelschule Portikus e.V.)
Im Anschluss besteht in der Mensa die Möglichkeit zu einem Gedankenaustausch.
Rundgang 2009 – Jahresausstellung der Studierenden der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule
Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 13. Februar, 18 Uhr, Dürerstrasse 10
Rundgang-Party ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Ausstellungsdauer: 13. bis 15. Februar 2008
Öffnungszeiten: 10 – 20 Uhr
Eintritt: Frei
Vom 13. bis zum 15. Februar präsentiert sich die Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule wieder der interessierten Öffentlichkeit. Die etwa 160 Studierenden der Bildenden Kunst und Architektur der Klassen Christa Näher, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Willem de Rooij, Mark Leckey, Ben van Berkel, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger zeigen ihre aktuellen Arbeiten während des gesamten Wochenendes in den Ateliers im Hauptgebäude Dürerstrasse 10 und in den Bildhauerateliers in der Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36.
Highlights:
Fr. 13.2. 18 Uhr, Mensa Dürerstr.: offizielle Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung
Fr. 13.2. 22 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Rundgang-Party Live-Musik: „Tyger, Tyger“ und „Barnwave“ (Kevin Blechdom/Christopher Fleeger). DJs: Michael Lasch/Huen (Hauptbahnhof-Musik); Special Guest DJ und Gastprofessor Eric D. Clark.
So. 15.2. 17 Uhr, Aula Dürerstr.: Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich) im Gespräch mit Prof. Tobias Rehberger
Weitere Informationen zum Filmprogramm und Performances entnehmen Sie bitte dem ausliegenden Programm.
Kulinarisch:
Es gibt durchgehend kalte und warme Küche in der Dürer- und Daimlerstrasse.
Besonders hinweisen möchten wir auf:
Sa. 14.2. ab 13 Uhr, Halle Dürerstr.: Kochwerkstatt: Bouhlou Houcine und Studierende.
So. 10.2. ab 11 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Musikalischer Frühschoppen mit Martin Wagner (Akkordeon) und Hanns Höhn (Kontrabaß).
Service:
Die Bibliothek der Städelschule hat während des Rundgangs von 11 - 18 Uhr geöffnet.
Publikationen und Editionen sind dort erhältlich, ebenso wie weitere Informationen die Städelschule betreffend.
Freitags ab 15 Uhr, Samstags und Sonntags ab 11 Uhr verkehren Shuttlebusse zwischen Daimlerstrasse und Dürerstrasse.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!
Der Rundgang wird unterstützt durch:
1822 Stiftung - Delbrück Bethmann Maffei ABN AMRO - Ermenegildo Zegna - Linklaters LLP - Verein der Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e.V - Lohr und Schach - Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank - Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V.
Max Beckmann – Lehrer an der Städelschule
Montag, 9. Februar, 19 Uhr, Halle
Anlässlich des 125. Geburtstags von Max Beckmann lädt die Städelschule zu einem Gespräch mit Mayen Beckmann und Klaus Gallwitz ein.
Beckmann lebte siebzehn Jahre in Frankfurt am Main und leitete von 1925 bis 1933 eine Meisterklasse an der Städelschule.
Begrüssung: Prof. Michael Krebber (Rektor)
Einleitung: Brigitte von Ribbentrop (Vorstand Städelschule Portikus e.V.)
Im Anschluss besteht in der Mensa die Möglichkeit zu einem Gedankenaustausch.
Rundgang 2009 – Jahresausstellung der Studierenden der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule
Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 13. Februar, 18 Uhr, Dürerstrasse 10
Rundgang-Party ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Ausstellungsdauer: 13. bis 15. Februar 2008
Öffnungszeiten: 10 – 20 Uhr
Eintritt: Frei
Vom 13. bis zum 15. Februar präsentiert sich die Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule wieder der interessierten Öffentlichkeit. Die etwa 160 Studierenden der Bildenden Kunst und Architektur der Klassen Christa Näher, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Willem de Rooij, Mark Leckey, Ben van Berkel, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger zeigen ihre aktuellen Arbeiten während des gesamten Wochenendes in den Ateliers im Hauptgebäude Dürerstrasse 10 und in den Bildhauerateliers in der Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36.
Highlights:
Fr. 13.2. 18 Uhr, Mensa Dürerstr.: offizielle Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung
Fr. 13.2. 22 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Rundgang-Party Live-Musik: „Tyger, Tyger“ und „Barnwave“ (Kevin Blechdom/Christopher Fleeger). DJs: Michael Lasch/Huen (Hauptbahnhof-Musik); Special Guest DJ und Gastprofessor Eric D. Clark.
So. 15.2. 17 Uhr, Aula Dürerstr.: Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich) im Gespräch mit Prof. Tobias Rehberger
Weitere Informationen zum Filmprogramm und Performances entnehmen Sie bitte dem ausliegenden Programm.
Kulinarisch:
Es gibt durchgehend kalte und warme Küche in der Dürer- und Daimlerstrasse.
Besonders hinweisen möchten wir auf:
Sa. 14.2. ab 13 Uhr, Halle Dürerstr.: Kochwerkstatt: Bouhlou Houcine und Studierende.
So. 10.2. ab 11 Uhr, Mensa Daimlerstr.: Musikalischer Frühschoppen mit Martin Wagner (Akkordeon) und Hanns Höhn (Kontrabaß).
Service:
Die Bibliothek der Städelschule hat während des Rundgangs von 11 - 18 Uhr geöffnet.
Publikationen und Editionen sind dort erhältlich, ebenso wie weitere Informationen die Städelschule betreffend.
Freitags ab 15 Uhr, Samstags und Sonntags ab 11 Uhr verkehren Shuttlebusse zwischen Daimlerstrasse und Dürerstrasse.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!
Der Rundgang wird unterstützt durch:
1822 Stiftung - Delbrück Bethmann Maffei ABN AMRO - Ermenegildo Zegna - Linklaters LLP - Verein der Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e.V - Lohr und Schach - Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank - Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V.
Freitag, 30. Januar 2009
NIKOLAUS HIRSCH
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 5th February, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion on pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", his growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (recently being exhibited at Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" (Manifesta 7 and Delhi), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations.
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at Städelschule who has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, and numerous exhibition structures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel) and "Indian Highway" (Serpentine Gallery, 2008). Hirsch´s ongoing research in institutional models has resulted in projects such as the Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), Unitednationsplaza in Berlin (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi and currently a studio structure for Rirkrit Tiravanija´s “The Land”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of essays and interviews that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 5th February, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion on pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", his growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (recently being exhibited at Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" (Manifesta 7 and Delhi), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations.
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at Städelschule who has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, and numerous exhibition structures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel) and "Indian Highway" (Serpentine Gallery, 2008). Hirsch´s ongoing research in institutional models has resulted in projects such as the Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), Unitednationsplaza in Berlin (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi and currently a studio structure for Rirkrit Tiravanija´s “The Land”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of essays and interviews that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
Freitag, 23. Januar 2009
TIRDAD ZOLGHADR / MORGAN FISHER / FRANK BARKOW
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Tirdad Zolghadr: Only You. Thoughts on the Artworld and its Peculiar Sense of Expertise
Tuesday, 27 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How does art do it? What’s the unique selling point that lets art get away with murder, again and again. Whether you’re lecturing, writing, curating, or helping yourself to context as an artist, the art reference will open doors to an unquestioned ambivalence that remains out of bounds for other professions. When is the artistic colonization of architectural, theoretical, activist traditions a blessing, and when is it a case of unwittingly aping the “architects”, “academics”,“activists” etc. In other words, when does the post-medium, post-disciplinary condition offer the productivity of unpredictable combinations, and when is it a fashionable display of semi-knowledge. And when can it be both. Trouble is, if the world is our oyster, then there’s no situation where the artworld can be expected to sit down and shut up. So even if attempts to delineate the arts-as-field have amounted to ignoble acts of intellectual malice, committed by pompous old cretins in corduroy, even then, it might be worth the risk.
Tirdad Zolghadr is an independent writer and curator based in Berlin. He currently teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (NY), and writes for magazines such as Frieze, Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, and Afterall. He has curated “Ethnic Marketing” at the Kunsthalle Geneva 2004) and „Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie“ (2006-09). His novel "Softcore" is still available on Amazon, used and new.
Morgan Fisher: Painting Work
Wednesday, 28 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
While studying art history and film, the American artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher worked as a film editor for Hollywood productions, and his first film projects were clearly shaped by these experiences. He first appeared at the end of the 1960s with film works such as The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2), Documentary Footage or Production Stills (1968 and 1970). In 1984 he produced his well-known 35-minute Standard Gauge, in which found footage was compiled according to a precise formal model. With these conceptual approaches, Fisher reflects on the parameters of cinematographic depiction. In the early 1970s, these works were already shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the end of the 1990s, Fisher expanded his work to include painting, drawing and spatial installations. Today, Morgan Fisher ranks as one of the best-known and most influential artists of the American West Coast who has decisively influenced an entire generation of young artists. For many years, he was professor at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Frank Barkow: Revolution of Choice
Thursday, 29 January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Parallel to their internationally acclaimed buildings Berlin-based architects Barkow Leibinger have continuously developed a series of pavilions, temporary structures and applied research modules. These include Barkow Leibinger´s “Formation (Re) Formation: A Nomadic Garden” for the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2008, the Marcus Prize Pavilion in Milwaukee, and most recently the project for a pavilion for the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. Resulting in a variety of prototypes the applied research addresses advanced techniques such as revolved lasercutting (Tubematic), bending (Trumabend V-series) and casting of ceramic elements.
Frank Barkow is an architect and partner of Berlin-based Barkow Leibinger. He currently teaches at Harvard Design School and has previously held academic positions at Cornell University, the Architectural Association in London, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Barkow Leibinger´s work includes Trudec Building in Seoul, the service and Training Center in Dietzingen, the Campus restaurant and auditorium in Dietzingen and Biosphere in Potsdam.
Ausstellung:
Morgan Fisher: Portikus Looks at Itself
Eröffnung: 30. Januar, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 31. Januar 2009 - 15. März 2009
Tirdad Zolghadr: Only You. Thoughts on the Artworld and its Peculiar Sense of Expertise
Tuesday, 27 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How does art do it? What’s the unique selling point that lets art get away with murder, again and again. Whether you’re lecturing, writing, curating, or helping yourself to context as an artist, the art reference will open doors to an unquestioned ambivalence that remains out of bounds for other professions. When is the artistic colonization of architectural, theoretical, activist traditions a blessing, and when is it a case of unwittingly aping the “architects”, “academics”,“activists” etc. In other words, when does the post-medium, post-disciplinary condition offer the productivity of unpredictable combinations, and when is it a fashionable display of semi-knowledge. And when can it be both. Trouble is, if the world is our oyster, then there’s no situation where the artworld can be expected to sit down and shut up. So even if attempts to delineate the arts-as-field have amounted to ignoble acts of intellectual malice, committed by pompous old cretins in corduroy, even then, it might be worth the risk.
Tirdad Zolghadr is an independent writer and curator based in Berlin. He currently teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (NY), and writes for magazines such as Frieze, Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, and Afterall. He has curated “Ethnic Marketing” at the Kunsthalle Geneva 2004) and „Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie“ (2006-09). His novel "Softcore" is still available on Amazon, used and new.
Morgan Fisher: Painting Work
Wednesday, 28 January, 19 h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
While studying art history and film, the American artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher worked as a film editor for Hollywood productions, and his first film projects were clearly shaped by these experiences. He first appeared at the end of the 1960s with film works such as The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2), Documentary Footage or Production Stills (1968 and 1970). In 1984 he produced his well-known 35-minute Standard Gauge, in which found footage was compiled according to a precise formal model. With these conceptual approaches, Fisher reflects on the parameters of cinematographic depiction. In the early 1970s, these works were already shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the end of the 1990s, Fisher expanded his work to include painting, drawing and spatial installations. Today, Morgan Fisher ranks as one of the best-known and most influential artists of the American West Coast who has decisively influenced an entire generation of young artists. For many years, he was professor at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Frank Barkow: Revolution of Choice
Thursday, 29 January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Parallel to their internationally acclaimed buildings Berlin-based architects Barkow Leibinger have continuously developed a series of pavilions, temporary structures and applied research modules. These include Barkow Leibinger´s “Formation (Re) Formation: A Nomadic Garden” for the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2008, the Marcus Prize Pavilion in Milwaukee, and most recently the project for a pavilion for the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. Resulting in a variety of prototypes the applied research addresses advanced techniques such as revolved lasercutting (Tubematic), bending (Trumabend V-series) and casting of ceramic elements.
Frank Barkow is an architect and partner of Berlin-based Barkow Leibinger. He currently teaches at Harvard Design School and has previously held academic positions at Cornell University, the Architectural Association in London, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Barkow Leibinger´s work includes Trudec Building in Seoul, the service and Training Center in Dietzingen, the Campus restaurant and auditorium in Dietzingen and Biosphere in Potsdam.
Ausstellung:
Morgan Fisher: Portikus Looks at Itself
Eröffnung: 30. Januar, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 31. Januar 2009 - 15. März 2009
Montag, 19. Januar 2009
SABETH BUCHMANN / JAN VERWOERT / CHARLES WALKER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Sabeth Buchmann
Thinking against the thinking.
Production, Technology, Subjectivity
Tuesday, 20th January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Based on works by Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica and Yvonne Rainer as well as some central shows from the 1960/70s dealing with "Art and technology", Sabeth Buchmann turns attention from "Thinking against the thinking" to the various interrelations between social production codes and artistic works. This includes the American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and the relativization of author and creation based catagories while referring to industrial catagories of production that address aspects of motion, psyche, emotions, sexuality and intersubjective relations.
Investigating exemplary choreographies and films, Buchmann shows that the (self-) interpretation of the performer is always to be understood in direct confrontation with the technological and media constructions of physical presence which have been vital for (post-) avantgarde concepts. In this connection she considers the current receptions of the 60/70s post-aventgarde, which identify a parallel-development to the postfordistic and biopolitical organisation forms of social works.
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic who teaches as a Professor for Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a regular contributor to art magazines such as "Texte zur Kunst" and a co-editor of 'Polypen' - a publication series on art criticism and political theory.
Jan Verwoert
Why are conceptual artists painting again?
Because they think it’s a good idea.
Wednesday, 21st January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models could we use to open up the potentials at the heart of these developments in art after Conceptualism? The dominant models no longer satisfy. It makes no sense to melodramatically invoke the “end of painting” (or any other medium-specific practice for that part) when the continous emergence of fascinating work obviously proves apocalyptic endgame scenarios wrong. Yet, to pretend it were possible to go back to business as usual seems equally impossible because the radical expansion of artistic possibilities through the landslide changes of the 1960s leave medium-specific practices in the odd position of being one among many modes of artistic articulation, with no preset justification. How can we describe then what medium-specific practices like painting or sculpture can do today?
Unfortunately, a certain understanding of conceptualism has had incredibly stifling effects on how people approach their practice, namely the idea that to have a concept in art means to know exactly why you do what you do - before you ever even do it. This assumption has effectively increased the pressure on artists to occupy the genius-like position of a strategist who would clearly know the rules of how to do the right thing, the legitimate thing. How could we invent a language that would describe the potentials of contemporary practice, acknowledge a sense of crisis and doubt, yet break the spell of the senseless paranoia over legitimation - and instead help to transform critical art practice into a truly gay science based on a shared sense of appreciation and irreverence?
Jan Verwoert is a critic, who lives in Berlin, teaches art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, works as a contributing editor to frieze magazine, writes for different publications and co-curated the city-wide exhibition Art Sheffield 08, Yes, No, Other Options in Sheffield in 2008.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Charles Walker
Get Real!
Thursday, 22nd January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Canadian-born Charles Walker returns to Städelschule to give a share his vast experience in directing and realizing projects ranging from small pavilions to large urban masterplans. Currently working for Zaha Hadid Architects in London,Walker has previously practiced design-based engineering with Atelier One as well as Ove Arup & Partners. The latter firm he joined in 1998 and in 2000, he co-founded its Advanced Geometry Unit with Cecil Balmond.
Leading this unit, Walker was projector director and masterplanner for the Battersea Power Station Project, but - not the least in light of this lecture series, he was responsible for the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilions, including Daniel Libeskind's, Toyo Ito's and Oscar Niemeyer's structures.Educated an architect in Canada, Charles Walker went on to undertake post-graduate structural engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1992. Since 2003, he has been teaching an Intermediate School Unit at the Architectural Association in London.
Sabeth Buchmann
Thinking against the thinking.
Production, Technology, Subjectivity
Tuesday, 20th January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Based on works by Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica and Yvonne Rainer as well as some central shows from the 1960/70s dealing with "Art and technology", Sabeth Buchmann turns attention from "Thinking against the thinking" to the various interrelations between social production codes and artistic works. This includes the American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and the relativization of author and creation based catagories while referring to industrial catagories of production that address aspects of motion, psyche, emotions, sexuality and intersubjective relations.
Investigating exemplary choreographies and films, Buchmann shows that the (self-) interpretation of the performer is always to be understood in direct confrontation with the technological and media constructions of physical presence which have been vital for (post-) avantgarde concepts. In this connection she considers the current receptions of the 60/70s post-aventgarde, which identify a parallel-development to the postfordistic and biopolitical organisation forms of social works.
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic who teaches as a Professor for Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a regular contributor to art magazines such as "Texte zur Kunst" and a co-editor of 'Polypen' - a publication series on art criticism and political theory.
Jan Verwoert
Why are conceptual artists painting again?
Because they think it’s a good idea.
Wednesday, 21st January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models could we use to open up the potentials at the heart of these developments in art after Conceptualism? The dominant models no longer satisfy. It makes no sense to melodramatically invoke the “end of painting” (or any other medium-specific practice for that part) when the continous emergence of fascinating work obviously proves apocalyptic endgame scenarios wrong. Yet, to pretend it were possible to go back to business as usual seems equally impossible because the radical expansion of artistic possibilities through the landslide changes of the 1960s leave medium-specific practices in the odd position of being one among many modes of artistic articulation, with no preset justification. How can we describe then what medium-specific practices like painting or sculpture can do today?
Unfortunately, a certain understanding of conceptualism has had incredibly stifling effects on how people approach their practice, namely the idea that to have a concept in art means to know exactly why you do what you do - before you ever even do it. This assumption has effectively increased the pressure on artists to occupy the genius-like position of a strategist who would clearly know the rules of how to do the right thing, the legitimate thing. How could we invent a language that would describe the potentials of contemporary practice, acknowledge a sense of crisis and doubt, yet break the spell of the senseless paranoia over legitimation - and instead help to transform critical art practice into a truly gay science based on a shared sense of appreciation and irreverence?
Jan Verwoert is a critic, who lives in Berlin, teaches art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, works as a contributing editor to frieze magazine, writes for different publications and co-curated the city-wide exhibition Art Sheffield 08, Yes, No, Other Options in Sheffield in 2008.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Charles Walker
Get Real!
Thursday, 22nd January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Canadian-born Charles Walker returns to Städelschule to give a share his vast experience in directing and realizing projects ranging from small pavilions to large urban masterplans. Currently working for Zaha Hadid Architects in London,Walker has previously practiced design-based engineering with Atelier One as well as Ove Arup & Partners. The latter firm he joined in 1998 and in 2000, he co-founded its Advanced Geometry Unit with Cecil Balmond.
Leading this unit, Walker was projector director and masterplanner for the Battersea Power Station Project, but - not the least in light of this lecture series, he was responsible for the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilions, including Daniel Libeskind's, Toyo Ito's and Oscar Niemeyer's structures.Educated an architect in Canada, Charles Walker went on to undertake post-graduate structural engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1992. Since 2003, he has been teaching an Intermediate School Unit at the Architectural Association in London.
Freitag, 9. Januar 2009
MARIA LIND / BEATRIZ COLOMINA
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Maria Lind: The Collaborative Turn: On Collaborative Practices and Contemporary Art
Wednesday, 14th January 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
What can we make of collaboration as one of the most important strands of recent art? Artists, curators, writers, architects, activists and others collaborate on a short-term basis, as well as on more long-term bases; they spread their attention across various subjects, methods, lifestyles, different political orientations, often hoping for some kind of emancipation. Furthermore, in a variety of projects, the form and basis of collective activities have been presented, examined, and called into question. At the same time, these collaborative efforts often constitute a response to specific, at times local, situations, and they constantly run the risk of being swallowed up and incorporated into the very systems against which they are reacting.
Since 2008 Maria Lind is the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (NY). Previously she was the director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007) and the director of Kunstverein München (2002-2004) where she ran a program which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective was explored in a one-year long exhibition with Christine Borland, only ever showing one piece at a time and a retrospective project in the form of a 7-day long workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija. The group project “Totally motivated: A sociocultural manoeuvre” was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between ”amateur” and ”professional” art and culture. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She is the co-editor of the books “Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter” (Revolver), “Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art” (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report “European Cultural Policies 2015” and “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art”.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Beatriz Colomina: The Pavilions of Modern Architecture
Thursday, 15th January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Re-commencing the current lecture series after New Year’s, architectural historian and theorist, Beatriz Colomina, will talk about the pavilions of modern architecture. Her lecture draws on her extensive scholarship, which focuses in particular on questions of architecture and media.
Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Her books include, amongst other, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects; Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and Architectureproduction (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988). Her latest book is Domesticity at War (Barcelona: ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007). She has also curated a number of exhibitions.
In her essay, Pavilions of the Future (in Your Black Horizon, Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Walter Konig, Cologne, 2007), Colomina argues that historically, 'pavilions made dreams seem real, and reality seem dreamlike...the unique role of a pavilion (is) to fuse image and structure...The pavilion is the key instrument for negotiating the relationship between image and physical structure.'
Maria Lind: The Collaborative Turn: On Collaborative Practices and Contemporary Art
Wednesday, 14th January 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
What can we make of collaboration as one of the most important strands of recent art? Artists, curators, writers, architects, activists and others collaborate on a short-term basis, as well as on more long-term bases; they spread their attention across various subjects, methods, lifestyles, different political orientations, often hoping for some kind of emancipation. Furthermore, in a variety of projects, the form and basis of collective activities have been presented, examined, and called into question. At the same time, these collaborative efforts often constitute a response to specific, at times local, situations, and they constantly run the risk of being swallowed up and incorporated into the very systems against which they are reacting.
Since 2008 Maria Lind is the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (NY). Previously she was the director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007) and the director of Kunstverein München (2002-2004) where she ran a program which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective was explored in a one-year long exhibition with Christine Borland, only ever showing one piece at a time and a retrospective project in the form of a 7-day long workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija. The group project “Totally motivated: A sociocultural manoeuvre” was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between ”amateur” and ”professional” art and culture. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She is the co-editor of the books “Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter” (Revolver), “Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art” (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report “European Cultural Policies 2015” and “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art”.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Beatriz Colomina: The Pavilions of Modern Architecture
Thursday, 15th January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Re-commencing the current lecture series after New Year’s, architectural historian and theorist, Beatriz Colomina, will talk about the pavilions of modern architecture. Her lecture draws on her extensive scholarship, which focuses in particular on questions of architecture and media.
Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Her books include, amongst other, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects; Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and Architectureproduction (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988). Her latest book is Domesticity at War (Barcelona: ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007). She has also curated a number of exhibitions.
In her essay, Pavilions of the Future (in Your Black Horizon, Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Walter Konig, Cologne, 2007), Colomina argues that historically, 'pavilions made dreams seem real, and reality seem dreamlike...the unique role of a pavilion (is) to fuse image and structure...The pavilion is the key instrument for negotiating the relationship between image and physical structure.'
Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008
JACQUES RANCIERE
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Jacques Rancière: The Politics of Images
Wednesday, 7 January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“After the reign of the spectacle, the death of the image and an ethics of the non-representable have each been proclaimed, it seems timely to rethink the consistency of the image and the forms of its efficiency.”
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis) where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He came first to prominence when he co-authored "Reading Capital" (1968) with the Marxist philosopher and his mentor Louis Althusser, with whom he later split over the proper response to the student revolt of May 1968. Today, Rancière is most well known for his writings on emancipatory politics, aesthetics and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. He also writes extensively on cinema. His recent publications in german are Zehn Thesen zur Politik (diaphanes 2008) and Ist Kunst widerständig? (Merve 2008).
Jacques Rancière: The Politics of Images
Wednesday, 7 January, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
“After the reign of the spectacle, the death of the image and an ethics of the non-representable have each been proclaimed, it seems timely to rethink the consistency of the image and the forms of its efficiency.”
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis) where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He came first to prominence when he co-authored "Reading Capital" (1968) with the Marxist philosopher and his mentor Louis Althusser, with whom he later split over the proper response to the student revolt of May 1968. Today, Rancière is most well known for his writings on emancipatory politics, aesthetics and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. He also writes extensively on cinema. His recent publications in german are Zehn Thesen zur Politik (diaphanes 2008) and Ist Kunst widerständig? (Merve 2008).
JUDITH HOPF / PHILIPPE RAHM
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Judith Hopf: Doors - Count
Wednesday, 17 December, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Judith Hopf takes the Portikus exhibition "Türen" (2007 in collaboration with Henrik Olesen) as an starting point of her lecture to exemplify further and recent projects and works.
Doors showed a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. Doors offered passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asked the viewer to come to a new decision. The different possibilities of action - opening doors, moving (backward) in space - engender new spatial constellations. They affect what is behind, what remains initially hidden from view, and necessitate unforeseen changes in direction and sidestepping gestures. This sculptural space, conceived as a model and designed in the manner of a stage setting, at once also presents an exaggerated delineation of social patterns, in which limitations, compulsions, contradictions and strictures, but also possibilities for decisions emerge into view. In a similar manner, Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen also approached the subject of spatial and personal demarcation by means of film.
The new Film of Jdith Hopf, Zählen! (Count!) is about the unusual story of Wilhelm Von Osten, a Berlin high school mathematics teacher, phrenologist, showman and mystic. At the beginning of the twentieth century, working from Darwinian postulates, Von Osten successfully managed to train his horse Hans in elementary arithmetic. The horse quickly became a sensation, making the front cover of The New York Times and prompting the German board of eduction to convene a 13-man board of inquiry. The Hans Commission reported back in 1907. Analyzing the Hans’ arithmetical acumen in terms of what would henceforth be called the ‘Clever Hans effect’, the commission concluded that the horse’s true acuity lay in the realms of psychology. Zählen! is her most recent exhibition in the Gallery Croy Nielsen, Berlin, which ended last week.
Judith Hopf is professor for Fine Art at Städelschule.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Philippe Rahm: Meteorological Architecture
Thursday, 18 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Philippe Rahm´s lecture at the Städelschule investigates the concept of architecture as a physiological environment. Dealing with physiological and often invisible aspects of space the Paris-based architect raises the possibility that climate can replace the typology, function and form of what we use and define as architecture.
Philippe Rahm´s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as the Swiss Pavilion at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and "Digestible Gulf Stream" at Architectural Venice Biennale 2008, San Francisco MoMA (2001), Museum of Modern Art in Paris (2001), Tirana Biennial 2001, "Form & function follow climate“ at CCA Kitakyushu (2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), Centre Pompidou (2003-2007 and Manifesta 7. He has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts of Paris (2003), Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (2005/06) and at the ETH Lausanne (2006/07). He is a professor at the ECAL Lausanne and teaches at the School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais in Paris. He has published „Physiological Architecture“ (Birkhäuser) and is currently working on several projects such as the „Winter House“ for Fabrice Hybert in France and the „Second summer“ in Austria.
Judith Hopf: Doors - Count
Wednesday, 17 December, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltungen findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Judith Hopf takes the Portikus exhibition "Türen" (2007 in collaboration with Henrik Olesen) as an starting point of her lecture to exemplify further and recent projects and works.
Doors showed a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. Doors offered passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asked the viewer to come to a new decision. The different possibilities of action - opening doors, moving (backward) in space - engender new spatial constellations. They affect what is behind, what remains initially hidden from view, and necessitate unforeseen changes in direction and sidestepping gestures. This sculptural space, conceived as a model and designed in the manner of a stage setting, at once also presents an exaggerated delineation of social patterns, in which limitations, compulsions, contradictions and strictures, but also possibilities for decisions emerge into view. In a similar manner, Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen also approached the subject of spatial and personal demarcation by means of film.
The new Film of Jdith Hopf, Zählen! (Count!) is about the unusual story of Wilhelm Von Osten, a Berlin high school mathematics teacher, phrenologist, showman and mystic. At the beginning of the twentieth century, working from Darwinian postulates, Von Osten successfully managed to train his horse Hans in elementary arithmetic. The horse quickly became a sensation, making the front cover of The New York Times and prompting the German board of eduction to convene a 13-man board of inquiry. The Hans Commission reported back in 1907. Analyzing the Hans’ arithmetical acumen in terms of what would henceforth be called the ‘Clever Hans effect’, the commission concluded that the horse’s true acuity lay in the realms of psychology. Zählen! is her most recent exhibition in the Gallery Croy Nielsen, Berlin, which ended last week.
Judith Hopf is professor for Fine Art at Städelschule.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Philippe Rahm: Meteorological Architecture
Thursday, 18 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Philippe Rahm´s lecture at the Städelschule investigates the concept of architecture as a physiological environment. Dealing with physiological and often invisible aspects of space the Paris-based architect raises the possibility that climate can replace the typology, function and form of what we use and define as architecture.
Philippe Rahm´s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as the Swiss Pavilion at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and "Digestible Gulf Stream" at Architectural Venice Biennale 2008, San Francisco MoMA (2001), Museum of Modern Art in Paris (2001), Tirana Biennial 2001, "Form & function follow climate“ at CCA Kitakyushu (2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), Centre Pompidou (2003-2007 and Manifesta 7. He has held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts of Paris (2003), Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (2005/06) and at the ETH Lausanne (2006/07). He is a professor at the ECAL Lausanne and teaches at the School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais in Paris. He has published „Physiological Architecture“ (Birkhäuser) and is currently working on several projects such as the „Winter House“ for Fabrice Hybert in France and the „Second summer“ in Austria.
Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008
NIKOLAUS HIRSCH
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 11 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", a growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" at Manifesta 7 (Bolzano, 2008), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at Städelschule who has hold academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, and numerous exhibition architectures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel), “Frequencies-Hz” at Schirn Kunsthalle and "Indian Highway" (Serpentine Gallery, 2008). Hirsch´s ongoing research in institutional models has resulted in projects such as the Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), Unitednationsplaza in Berlin (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi and currently a studio structure for Rirkrit Tiravanija´s “The Land”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of texts that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corps
Thursday, 11 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Nikolaus Hirsch contributes to the discussion pavilions in light of some of his most recent projects. Referring to "Exquisite Corpse", a growing institutional model for the European Kunsthalle (Showroom London, 2008), and the "Cybermohalla Hub" at Manifesta 7 (Bolzano, 2008), he questions the relationship between stable and unstable spatial configurations
Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and guest professor at Städelschule who has hold academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, and numerous exhibition architectures such as “Making Things Public” at the ZKM (curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel), “Frequencies-Hz” at Schirn Kunsthalle and "Indian Highway" (Serpentine Gallery, 2008). Hirsch´s ongoing research in institutional models has resulted in projects such as the Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), Unitednationsplaza in Berlin (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi and currently a studio structure for Rirkrit Tiravanija´s “The Land”.
His work has been shown in “Neue Welt” (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001), “Utopia Station“ at the Venice Biennial 2003, “Can Buildings Curate” (Architectural Association London / Storefront Gallery, New York, 2005), Thomas Bayrle´s “40 Years Chinese Rock 'n Roll” (MMK Frankfurt, 2006), "Horn Please" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), and Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. Nikolaus Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban“ at Volksbühne Berlin and is a member of the „Curating Architecture“ program at Goldsmiths College in London. Recently he has published „On Boundaries“ (Sternberg Press), a collection of texts that focuses on the relationship between architectural, artistic and curatorial models.
Montag, 1. Dezember 2008
TOBIAS REHBERGER
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tobias Rehberger: Halbe, viertel und ganze Eier
Thursday, 4 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule graduate and art professor since 2001, produces work of great artistic complexity and intimacy with design. The production flirts with the contemporary status of objects, space, commodification and innovation. Yet, for all its extravagance, humor and disciplinary ambiguity, Rehberger's work reflects his own clear identification as an artist. As he has put it, the work emerges from a paradigm of art - that is, the thinking and production of an artist. When the work is at its most potent in terms of design and spatial implications (such as in Private Matters (Whitechapel, London, 2004), On Otto (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2007) and The-Chicken-and-Egg-No-Problem Wall Painting, (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2008)), Rehberger seems to insist on a resistance to the most immanent interpretation of his own work.
Hence, Rehberger's art is probably less about "chance connections" than it is about a carefully calculated play of contradictions, paradoxes and conflicts. It is probably less about "unexpected encounters" than it is about a spatial scenography revolving around disciplinary and productive tension.
To a discussion about architecture, art and the typology of the pavilion, Tobias Rehberger brings ideas and a portfolio of work that bespeaks the disciplinary and typological strictures, yet suspend the same relative to an urgency of production.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tobias Rehberger: Halbe, viertel und ganze Eier
Thursday, 4 December, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule graduate and art professor since 2001, produces work of great artistic complexity and intimacy with design. The production flirts with the contemporary status of objects, space, commodification and innovation. Yet, for all its extravagance, humor and disciplinary ambiguity, Rehberger's work reflects his own clear identification as an artist. As he has put it, the work emerges from a paradigm of art - that is, the thinking and production of an artist. When the work is at its most potent in terms of design and spatial implications (such as in Private Matters (Whitechapel, London, 2004), On Otto (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2007) and The-Chicken-and-Egg-No-Problem Wall Painting, (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2008)), Rehberger seems to insist on a resistance to the most immanent interpretation of his own work.
Hence, Rehberger's art is probably less about "chance connections" than it is about a carefully calculated play of contradictions, paradoxes and conflicts. It is probably less about "unexpected encounters" than it is about a spatial scenography revolving around disciplinary and productive tension.
To a discussion about architecture, art and the typology of the pavilion, Tobias Rehberger brings ideas and a portfolio of work that bespeaks the disciplinary and typological strictures, yet suspend the same relative to an urgency of production.
Mittwoch, 19. November 2008
EYAL WEIZMAN / WILL BRADLEY / BEN VAN BERKEL
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Eyal Weizman investigates the conflicts and contradictions within contemporary spatial practice. Referring to his book "Hollow Land" and his most recent project "The Lesser Evil" he discusses the notion of political agency as one of the key questions of the current cultural debate.
London-based Eyal Weizman is one of the most prolific figures in the ongoing renegotiation of cultural agency. As the founder and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London he has initiated a „Roundtable“ that involves a variety of curators, architects and artists. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His books include „A Civilian Occupation“ (Verso Books, 2003) and „Hollow Land“ (Verso Books, 2007. Weizman is a regular contributor to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007. As a curator he has co-organized „Territories“ (KW Berlin, 2003, with Anselm Franke). Most recently his work has been shown at Manifesta 7 and Brussels Biennial.
Will Bradley: What Are You Doing Here?: Art in the Place of Politics at OSRAM China Lighting Ltd.
Tuesday, 25 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Will Bradley´s lecture discusses the relationship between art and politics centred on the project “What are you doing here?” (2006), produced by the Siemens Art Program, in which 'the artist Cao Fei works with employees from OSRAM China Lighting to turn their individual ideas, hopes and expectations into art.' The talk will examine how this process worked, and discuss its implications.
Will Bradley is an Oslo-based critic and curator who is currently a guest professor at the Städelschule. He is researching social and economic experiments in contemporary art and has co-founded “The Modern Institute” in Glasgow that produces artists' projects and represents artists. He has co-edited “Self Organisation / Counter-Economic Strategies” (Lukas & Sternberg, 2006) and "Art and Social Change" (Tate, 2007). As a curated he has organized the exhibition "Radical Software" (CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco 2006) and „Forms of Resistance“ (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007). He is currently working (with curator Cristina Ricupero) on „Manufacturing Today“, a polemical survey of alternatives and oppositions to the neo-liberal instrumentalisation of art and art education.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Ben van Berkel: Switching On & Off
Thursday, 27 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Ben van Berkel and UNStudio designed and developed over the years a series of pavilions with which they have explored specific themes in architecture. These themes have ranged from the problem of formal and geometric continuity, via circulation and time, to informed surface conditions.
According to Ben van Berkel small and temporary projects are often a great way to test new ideas, to advance themes that form part of longer-lasting preoccupations. ‘What we like to do is work in series. To us, each project is like a still from a film.’
For the Architecture Biennale 2008 in Venice, UNStudio produced the pavilion ‘The Changing Room’. The pavilion explores inside-outside relationships with a geometric organization that twists and folds into itself. As the continuous surfaces peel back and expose the interior, the visitors are confronted with a choreography that summons the intimacy of the changing room and weaves the public and private domains to one another.
Ben van Berkel is Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class.
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In his lecture at the Städelschule Eyal Weizman investigates the conflicts and contradictions within contemporary spatial practice. Referring to his book "Hollow Land" and his most recent project "The Lesser Evil" he discusses the notion of political agency as one of the key questions of the current cultural debate.
London-based Eyal Weizman is one of the most prolific figures in the ongoing renegotiation of cultural agency. As the founder and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London he has initiated a „Roundtable“ that involves a variety of curators, architects and artists. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His books include „A Civilian Occupation“ (Verso Books, 2003) and „Hollow Land“ (Verso Books, 2007. Weizman is a regular contributor to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007. As a curator he has co-organized „Territories“ (KW Berlin, 2003, with Anselm Franke). Most recently his work has been shown at Manifesta 7 and Brussels Biennial.
Will Bradley: What Are You Doing Here?: Art in the Place of Politics at OSRAM China Lighting Ltd.
Tuesday, 25 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Will Bradley´s lecture discusses the relationship between art and politics centred on the project “What are you doing here?” (2006), produced by the Siemens Art Program, in which 'the artist Cao Fei works with employees from OSRAM China Lighting to turn their individual ideas, hopes and expectations into art.' The talk will examine how this process worked, and discuss its implications.
Will Bradley is an Oslo-based critic and curator who is currently a guest professor at the Städelschule. He is researching social and economic experiments in contemporary art and has co-founded “The Modern Institute” in Glasgow that produces artists' projects and represents artists. He has co-edited “Self Organisation / Counter-Economic Strategies” (Lukas & Sternberg, 2006) and "Art and Social Change" (Tate, 2007). As a curated he has organized the exhibition "Radical Software" (CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco 2006) and „Forms of Resistance“ (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007). He is currently working (with curator Cristina Ricupero) on „Manufacturing Today“, a polemical survey of alternatives and oppositions to the neo-liberal instrumentalisation of art and art education.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Ben van Berkel: Switching On & Off
Thursday, 27 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Ben van Berkel and UNStudio designed and developed over the years a series of pavilions with which they have explored specific themes in architecture. These themes have ranged from the problem of formal and geometric continuity, via circulation and time, to informed surface conditions.
According to Ben van Berkel small and temporary projects are often a great way to test new ideas, to advance themes that form part of longer-lasting preoccupations. ‘What we like to do is work in series. To us, each project is like a still from a film.’
For the Architecture Biennale 2008 in Venice, UNStudio produced the pavilion ‘The Changing Room’. The pavilion explores inside-outside relationships with a geometric organization that twists and folds into itself. As the continuous surfaces peel back and expose the interior, the visitors are confronted with a choreography that summons the intimacy of the changing room and weaves the public and private domains to one another.
Ben van Berkel is Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class.
Freitag, 14. November 2008
FRANCES STARK / TOMAS SARACENO
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Tuesday, 18 November, 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Frances Stark’s (b. 1967, lives and works in Los Angeles) works arise mainly out of a complex system of references comprising texts and images. Thus the metaphorical significance and composition of the written word on the canvas or the paper form the starting point from which her collages and texts draw their creative sustenance. Equally important for her method of working are visual templates from the world of art; they can be derived from classical art, but can also be taken from textual and pictorial material from a more contemporary or sub-cultural genre. She creates networks made up of different found and discovered symbols, cuttings and graphic elements, quotations from literature and autobiographical references in the delicate ornament of her collages. Equally characteristic for the contextual composition of the works is the illumination of and engagement with her own personal creative process as well as with the diverse roles and attitudes she adopts as an artist and author. Stark’s approach is accordingly characterized by a repeated self-referentiality within her own work. Motifs and textual fragments, but also complete thematic threads can weave their path through several cycles of work. Frances Stark’s two publications Frances Stark: Collected Writing, 1993-2003 (2003, Bookworks, London) and Frances Stark: Collected Works (2007, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne) trace this development most beautifully. Frances Stark’s works are informed for the most part with a fine sense of humour; it manifests itself both in the special choice of motif and in the minimal composition of the respective elements when engaging with the dynamic tension inherent in »public and private« or »gravity and irony, i.e. posing«.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tomas Saraceno
in Conversation with Klaus Bollinger, Johan Bettum and Nikolaus Hirsch
Thursday, 20 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Meeting with Klaus Bollinger, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, Städelschule alumnus Tomas Saraceno will discuss aspects of his work with respect to issues in art and architecture. The panel will investigate Saraceno’s visionary approach to architecture, engineering, and physics, while addressing spatial and conceptual questions related to art.
Tomas Saraceno was trained as an architect in Argentina before commencing his post-graduate training in art and architecture in Argentina, Germany and Italy. Already during his studies at the Städelschule (2001-2003), Saraceno had begun exhibiting his work, and upon graduation he soon established a career as an artist. He has had numerous prestigious solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions all over the world, including “Infinitive Actives” at Portikus (2006), Venice Biennial (2003) and his project on the world's largest salt lake, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. His permanent installations are “On Clouds (Air port city)” at Towada Arts Center in Japan, and “Flying Garden” in Munich. Currently he holds a residency at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where he is preparing a major solo exhibition in 2009.
Ausstellung:
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Eröffnung: 21. November, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 22. November 2008 - 11. Januar 2009
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Tuesday, 18 November, 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Frances Stark’s (b. 1967, lives and works in Los Angeles) works arise mainly out of a complex system of references comprising texts and images. Thus the metaphorical significance and composition of the written word on the canvas or the paper form the starting point from which her collages and texts draw their creative sustenance. Equally important for her method of working are visual templates from the world of art; they can be derived from classical art, but can also be taken from textual and pictorial material from a more contemporary or sub-cultural genre. She creates networks made up of different found and discovered symbols, cuttings and graphic elements, quotations from literature and autobiographical references in the delicate ornament of her collages. Equally characteristic for the contextual composition of the works is the illumination of and engagement with her own personal creative process as well as with the diverse roles and attitudes she adopts as an artist and author. Stark’s approach is accordingly characterized by a repeated self-referentiality within her own work. Motifs and textual fragments, but also complete thematic threads can weave their path through several cycles of work. Frances Stark’s two publications Frances Stark: Collected Writing, 1993-2003 (2003, Bookworks, London) and Frances Stark: Collected Works (2007, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne) trace this development most beautifully. Frances Stark’s works are informed for the most part with a fine sense of humour; it manifests itself both in the special choice of motif and in the minimal composition of the respective elements when engaging with the dynamic tension inherent in »public and private« or »gravity and irony, i.e. posing«.
The Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Tomas Saraceno
in Conversation with Klaus Bollinger, Johan Bettum and Nikolaus Hirsch
Thursday, 20 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Meeting with Klaus Bollinger, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, Städelschule alumnus Tomas Saraceno will discuss aspects of his work with respect to issues in art and architecture. The panel will investigate Saraceno’s visionary approach to architecture, engineering, and physics, while addressing spatial and conceptual questions related to art.
Tomas Saraceno was trained as an architect in Argentina before commencing his post-graduate training in art and architecture in Argentina, Germany and Italy. Already during his studies at the Städelschule (2001-2003), Saraceno had begun exhibiting his work, and upon graduation he soon established a career as an artist. He has had numerous prestigious solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions all over the world, including “Infinitive Actives” at Portikus (2006), Venice Biennial (2003) and his project on the world's largest salt lake, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. His permanent installations are “On Clouds (Air port city)” at Towada Arts Center in Japan, and “Flying Garden” in Munich. Currently he holds a residency at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where he is preparing a major solo exhibition in 2009.
Ausstellung:
Frances Stark: The New Vision
Eröffnung: 21. November, 20 Uhr, Portikus
Ausstellungsdauer: 22. November 2008 - 11. Januar 2009
Eyal Weizman: Future Archeology
Sunday, 23 November 19h, Aula
Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese Veranstaltung um einen Tag vorverlegt wurde.
Please note this lecture is rescheduled for one day earlier.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Donnerstag, 6. November 2008
ANTON VIDOKLE / JOCHEN VOLZ
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Anton Vidokle: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About __ But Were Too Afraid To Ask.
Tuesday, 11 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Anton Vidokle is an artist based in New York and Berlin. His work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale and at Tate Modern, London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musee d'art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental, which traveled to numerous institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt; KW, Berlin; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and others. As founder of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin alled Unitednationsplaza - a twelve-month exhibition-as-school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, theorists, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP's program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations. Unitednationsplaza recently traveled to Mexico City and a parallel project called the Night School will continue at the New Museum through January 2009.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Jochen Volz: Unfolding an Institution: Finding Inhotim
Thursday, 13 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Jochen Volz is the artistic director of Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, a large museum complex which was founded in 2005, situated in Brumadinho, 60 km from the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The museum is unique for its combination of a botanical garden with the collection of important Brazilian and international art. In addition to a collection that includes important Brazilian and international art from the 1960s and on, Inhotim numbers a sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden. The botanical garden has been partly developed along guidelines formulated by famed landscape artist, Roberto Burle Marx. The enormous variety of plants at Inhotim makes it one of the largest botanical collections in the world, with rare tropical species and a forest reserve which is part of the Atlantic Forest biome. The pavilions and botanical garden form the core of the museum complex and, together with the art collection, support the institution’s ongoing development of research, scientific innovation and education.
In 2006 Jochen Volz guest curated the 27th São Paulo Biennial: How to Live Together, with a special exhibition project in homage to Marcel Broodthaers with Juan Araujo, Mabe Bethônico, Marcel Broodthaers, Marilá Dardot, Tacita Dean, Meschac Gaba, Goshka Macuga, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Haegue Yang. Between 2001 and 2004, he was curator of Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. As a critic he is writing for magazines and catalogues. Together with Daniel Birnbaum, he will be organizing the international section of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial 2009. Jochen Volz currently holds the Heinz und Giesela Friederichs Stiftung professorship for Art and Architecture 2008-09 at Städelschule.
Anton Vidokle: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About __ But Were Too Afraid To Ask.
Tuesday, 11 November, 19h, Aula
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Anton Vidokle is an artist based in New York and Berlin. His work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale and at Tate Modern, London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musee d'art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental, which traveled to numerous institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt; KW, Berlin; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and others. As founder of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin alled Unitednationsplaza - a twelve-month exhibition-as-school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, theorists, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP's program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations. Unitednationsplaza recently traveled to Mexico City and a parallel project called the Night School will continue at the New Museum through January 2009.
the Architecture Class presents:
The Pavilion: Interim Passage and Polemics in Art & Architecture - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2008-9
- a series of public lectures that address the pavilion as typology and idea in relation to architecture and the arts.
Jochen Volz: Unfolding an Institution: Finding Inhotim
Thursday, 13 November, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Jochen Volz is the artistic director of Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, a large museum complex which was founded in 2005, situated in Brumadinho, 60 km from the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The museum is unique for its combination of a botanical garden with the collection of important Brazilian and international art. In addition to a collection that includes important Brazilian and international art from the 1960s and on, Inhotim numbers a sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden. The botanical garden has been partly developed along guidelines formulated by famed landscape artist, Roberto Burle Marx. The enormous variety of plants at Inhotim makes it one of the largest botanical collections in the world, with rare tropical species and a forest reserve which is part of the Atlantic Forest biome. The pavilions and botanical garden form the core of the museum complex and, together with the art collection, support the institution’s ongoing development of research, scientific innovation and education.
In 2006 Jochen Volz guest curated the 27th São Paulo Biennial: How to Live Together, with a special exhibition project in homage to Marcel Broodthaers with Juan Araujo, Mabe Bethônico, Marcel Broodthaers, Marilá Dardot, Tacita Dean, Meschac Gaba, Goshka Macuga, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Haegue Yang. Between 2001 and 2004, he was curator of Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. As a critic he is writing for magazines and catalogues. Together with Daniel Birnbaum, he will be organizing the international section of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial 2009. Jochen Volz currently holds the Heinz und Giesela Friederichs Stiftung professorship for Art and Architecture 2008-09 at Städelschule.
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