Gespräch
Tom McCarthy & Clémentine Deliss: Just a Lump of Some Black Substance
Donnerstag, 6. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Tom McCarthy *1969 lives in London. His first two novels, Remainder and Men In Space, have been published internationally to much acclaim. Remainder, winner of the Believer Prize 2008, is currently being adapted for film by FILM 4. Tom's latest novel C was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010 and went on to win the highly valued new Win Windham-Campbell award in 2013.
McCarthy is also known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions that he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. A fluent commentator on both written and visual arts, Tom has made guest appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and writes for a wide variety of print publications such as the Independent, London Review of Books, TLS, and Another Magazine. His non-fiction book Tintin and the Secret of Literature was praised as innovative work of literary criticism.
Clémentine Deliss is a curator and publisher who has been the director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt am Main since 2010. In 2005, she published the first edition of Remainder by Tom McCarthy as part of her Metronome and Metronome Press, Paris, initiatives. Deliss studied contemporary art and social anthropology in Vienna, London and Paris and holds a PhD from the University of London (1988, SOAS). Her curatorial work extends beyond exhibitions and has included publishing and research.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Freitag, 31. Oktober 2014
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014
El Hadji Sy & Philippe Pirotte
Gespräch
El Hadji Sy & Philippe Pirotte
Dienstag, 4. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
El Hadji Sy was born 1954 in Dakar and studied Fine Art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar. As a painter, curator, and cultural activist, El Hadji Sy’s interdisciplinary practice represents a pioneering model within the context of post-Independence Africa. Exhibited internationally as a painter since the late-1970s and hailed by the late Senegalese poet and President, Léopold Sédar Senghor, he is equally known for his rebellious attitude towards state cultural policy. In his capacity as artist and activist, El Hadji Sy co-founded the avant-garde performance group Laboratoire AGIT’art, was the lead instigator of the international artist-led Tenq workshops and Villages des Arts in Dakar, and a key collaborator of the interventionist group Huit Facettes. Between 1985-89, he was commissioned by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt to develop a new collection of Senegalese art and to co-edit a critical anthology on visual practice in Senegal. In the mid-1990s, his work as artist-curator was presented at the Whitechapel Gallery London and Konsthalle Malmö in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, and he took part in several international exhibitions. Most recently, for the 31st Bienal of São Paulo, Sy developed a 16-metre-long painting-installation to be activated by dancers on the theme of marine archaeology.
Philippe Pirotte *1972, is a Belgian art historian, critic, curator of numerous international exhibitions and since 2014 Rector of Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. He studied Art History at Ghent University. In 1999 he co-founded the art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, from 2005 to 2011, he was Director of Kunsthalle Bern and since 2012 he is Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. As a writer, Pirotte contributed a.o. to Nka – Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Afterall magazine.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
El Hadji Sy & Philippe Pirotte
Dienstag, 4. November 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
El Hadji Sy was born 1954 in Dakar and studied Fine Art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar. As a painter, curator, and cultural activist, El Hadji Sy’s interdisciplinary practice represents a pioneering model within the context of post-Independence Africa. Exhibited internationally as a painter since the late-1970s and hailed by the late Senegalese poet and President, Léopold Sédar Senghor, he is equally known for his rebellious attitude towards state cultural policy. In his capacity as artist and activist, El Hadji Sy co-founded the avant-garde performance group Laboratoire AGIT’art, was the lead instigator of the international artist-led Tenq workshops and Villages des Arts in Dakar, and a key collaborator of the interventionist group Huit Facettes. Between 1985-89, he was commissioned by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt to develop a new collection of Senegalese art and to co-edit a critical anthology on visual practice in Senegal. In the mid-1990s, his work as artist-curator was presented at the Whitechapel Gallery London and Konsthalle Malmö in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, and he took part in several international exhibitions. Most recently, for the 31st Bienal of São Paulo, Sy developed a 16-metre-long painting-installation to be activated by dancers on the theme of marine archaeology.
Philippe Pirotte *1972, is a Belgian art historian, critic, curator of numerous international exhibitions and since 2014 Rector of Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. He studied Art History at Ghent University. In 1999 he co-founded the art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, from 2005 to 2011, he was Director of Kunsthalle Bern and since 2012 he is Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. As a writer, Pirotte contributed a.o. to Nka – Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Afterall magazine.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 27. Oktober 2014
Jordan Wolfson
Vortrag
Jordan Wolfson
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Over the past decade, Jordan Wolfson has become known for his thought-provoking works in a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, and the technology industries to produce ambitious and enigmatic narratives. However, instead of simply appropriating found material, the artist creates his own unique content, which frequently revolves around a series of invented, animated characters.
Wolfson was born in 1980 in New York. In 2003, he received his B.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2013, the artist joined David Zwirner. His first solo exhibition was presented at the gallery in New York from March 6 to April 19, 2014.
The artist recently participated in 14 Rooms, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist and presented during Art Basel in June 2014. The exhibition was a collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel.
Earlier this year, a selection of Wolfson's video work was shown at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow as part of the 6th Glasgow International. In 2013, Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo/le Poseur marked the most comprehensive survey of his work to date, organized by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent. Also in 2013 was his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom presented at the Chisenhale Gallery in London. Other institutions which have previously hosted solo shows include the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; REDCAT, Los Angeles (both 2012); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2011); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2009); Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York (2008); Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (2007); and the Kunsthalle Zürich (2004).
In 2009, he received the prestigious Cartier Award from the Frieze Foundation, which helps an artist from outside the United Kingdom realize a major project at Frieze Art Fair in London.
Work by Wolfson is held in public collections worldwide, including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Jordan Wolfson
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Over the past decade, Jordan Wolfson has become known for his thought-provoking works in a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, and the technology industries to produce ambitious and enigmatic narratives. However, instead of simply appropriating found material, the artist creates his own unique content, which frequently revolves around a series of invented, animated characters.
Wolfson was born in 1980 in New York. In 2003, he received his B.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2013, the artist joined David Zwirner. His first solo exhibition was presented at the gallery in New York from March 6 to April 19, 2014.
The artist recently participated in 14 Rooms, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist and presented during Art Basel in June 2014. The exhibition was a collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel.
Earlier this year, a selection of Wolfson's video work was shown at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow as part of the 6th Glasgow International. In 2013, Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo/le Poseur marked the most comprehensive survey of his work to date, organized by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent. Also in 2013 was his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom presented at the Chisenhale Gallery in London. Other institutions which have previously hosted solo shows include the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; REDCAT, Los Angeles (both 2012); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2011); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2009); Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York (2008); Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (2007); and the Kunsthalle Zürich (2004).
In 2009, he received the prestigious Cartier Award from the Frieze Foundation, which helps an artist from outside the United Kingdom realize a major project at Frieze Art Fair in London.
Work by Wolfson is held in public collections worldwide, including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014
Dan Graham & Mark von Schlegell
Gespräch
Dan Graham & Mark von Schlegell:
Rock n Roll, Puppetshows, Science Fiction and/or Comedy
23. Oktober 2014, 14 Uhr, Aula
Dan Graham *1942 in Urbana, Illinois is an artist based in New York. Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing, performance, installation, video, photography and architecture, his analytical bent first came to attention with Homes for America (1966–67), a sequence of photos of suburban development in New Jersey, accompanied by a text charting the economics of land use and the obsolescence of architecture and craftsmanship.
As admired for his writing as for his work in art, Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, becoming a figurehead for those movements, and an early supporter of Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth among many others. He published the book Rock/Music Writings. It includes such landmark essays as "Punk as Propaganda," which explicates the self-packaging and media critique of The Ramones, Devo, the Sex Pistols, the Desperate Bicycles and others.
He has had retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2006), Museu Serralves, Porto, (2001), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1997), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, (1993), Kunsthalle Berne (1983) and the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1981). He has participated in documenta 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992, 1997).
Mark von Schlegell is the author of the novels Venusia, Mercury Station and the forthcoming Sundogz from Semiotext(e) as well as of two books of literary theory, Realometer and Dreaming the Mainstream, from Merve Verlag, Berlin. His stories and essays occupy art publications over the world. Von Schlegell has directed the Pure Fiction Seminar at Staedelschule, Frankfurt since 2012. Among other things the seminar has published three experimental fiction compendia.
Dan Graham and Mark von Schlegell will talk about writings on rock music.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dan Graham & Mark von Schlegell:
Rock n Roll, Puppetshows, Science Fiction and/or Comedy
23. Oktober 2014, 14 Uhr, Aula
Dan Graham *1942 in Urbana, Illinois is an artist based in New York. Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing, performance, installation, video, photography and architecture, his analytical bent first came to attention with Homes for America (1966–67), a sequence of photos of suburban development in New Jersey, accompanied by a text charting the economics of land use and the obsolescence of architecture and craftsmanship.
As admired for his writing as for his work in art, Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, becoming a figurehead for those movements, and an early supporter of Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth among many others. He published the book Rock/Music Writings. It includes such landmark essays as "Punk as Propaganda," which explicates the self-packaging and media critique of The Ramones, Devo, the Sex Pistols, the Desperate Bicycles and others.
He has had retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2006), Museu Serralves, Porto, (2001), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1997), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, (1993), Kunsthalle Berne (1983) and the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1981). He has participated in documenta 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992, 1997).
Mark von Schlegell is the author of the novels Venusia, Mercury Station and the forthcoming Sundogz from Semiotext(e) as well as of two books of literary theory, Realometer and Dreaming the Mainstream, from Merve Verlag, Berlin. His stories and essays occupy art publications over the world. Von Schlegell has directed the Pure Fiction Seminar at Staedelschule, Frankfurt since 2012. Among other things the seminar has published three experimental fiction compendia.
Dan Graham and Mark von Schlegell will talk about writings on rock music.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 14. Juli 2014
Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann
Kabinettausstellung im Städel Museum: „Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann“
Master-Studierende der Curatorial Studies kuratieren Kabinettausstellung – Eröffnung am 17. Juli
Studierende des Masterstudiengangs „Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik“ der Goethe-Universität und der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule haben die Kabinettausstellung „Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann“ kuratiert, die am 17. Juli (Donnerstag) um 19 Uhr im Frankfurter Städel Museum eröffnet wird. Sie ist bis zum 21. September innerhalb der Sammlungspräsentation der Moderne des Städel Museums zu sehen.
Bei ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit der Sammlung des Städel Museums, insbesondere mit Werken aus dem Depot, entdeckten die Studierenden die Gemälde des Malers Helmut Kolle, von dem sich drei Werke im Besitz des Museums befinden. In der Kabinettausstellung werden diese nun gemeinsam den Besuchern präsentiert. Ergänzt werden die relativ unbekannten Gemälde Kolles durch zwei von insgesamt acht Bronzeskulpturen Max Beckmanns. „Dass die Wahl der Studierenden auf den Maler Helmut Kolle fiel, freut mich besonders. Der Künstler Kolle hat bislang wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren“, so Dr. Felix Krämer, Sammlungsleiter der Kunst der Moderne im Städel Museum.
Wie kommt es zu der Gegenüberstellung von Helmut Kolle (1899–1931) und Max Beckmann (1884–1950)? Welche Verbindungen lassen sich zwischen den beiden Künstlern aufzeigen? Worin unterscheiden sie sich? Annabel Ruckdeschel, eine der Master-Studierenden, zur Konzeption der Ausstellung: „Wir wollten an den nur wenig bekannten Maler Helmut Kolle erinnern, indem wir seine Verbindungen zu einem bekannten Meister sichtbar machen. Ein wesentlicher Zug seiner Gemälde wird vor dem Hintergrund von Beckmanns Skulpturen deutlich. Beckmann teilte mit ihm das Interesse an Körperlichkeit, besonders in seinen plastischen Arbeiten.“ Sowohl Beckmann als auch Kolle setzten sich mit ihren figurativen Arbeiten von den zunehmenden Abstraktionstendenzen in der Kunst seit 1900 ab. Während Kolles pastoser Farbauftrag die Malerei teilweise plastisch erscheinen lässt, sind Beckmanns Bronzeskulpturen darauf angelegt, die Flächigkeit im dreidimensionalen Objekt zu stärken.
Der 1899 in Charlottenburg geborene Maler Helmut Kolle lebte zusammen mit seinem Partner, dem Kunsthändler und -kritiker Wilhelm Uhde in Paris, wo er auch Erfolge mit Galerieausstellungen feierte. Durch Uhde war er mit der französischen Kunstszene vertraut, die seine künstlerische Arbeit stark prägte. Obwohl Uhde zeitlebens versuchte Kolles Werke in deutschen Museen zu platzieren, stießen sie dort auf nur geringen Anklang.
Das erste Gemälde Kolles gelangte auf Beckmanns Vermittlung hin 1932 an das Städel Museum. Anders als Kolle war Beckmann als Maler eine zentrale Figur im deutschen Kunstbetrieb. Mit Uhdes Unterstützung versuchte auch Beckmann sein Pariser Netzwerk weiter auszubauen. Zwischen 1936 und 1938 sowie um 1950 schuf er insgesamt acht Plastiken, die weniger bekannt sind als seine Gemälde.
Die drei im Seitenkabinett präsentierten Arbeiten von Kolle „Toreros“ (1925), „Junge mit Hampelmann“ (1929) und „Selbstbildnis“ (1930) zeigen deutlich den stilistischen Einfluss der europäischen Avantgarde. Ein motivisches Vorbild für Kolles Darstellungen von sportlichen, jungen Männerkörpern waren Aktfotografien aus Männermagazinen. Die Fotografie war ein Medium, das Kolles Arbeit weitergehend beeinflusste. Die Wahl des Bildausschnitts, sowie die reduzierte Farbigkeit machen dies sichtbar. In den drei Arbeiten von Kolle stehen nicht Posen des Triumphs im Mittelpunkt. Er malt die „Toreros“ während einer Pause, nachdenklich, nahezu verletzlich. Die Ideale und Stereotype des zeitgenössischen Bildes vom starken Mann werden in Frage gestellt, zuweilen auch umgekehrt. Das intime Selbstporträt des Künstlers zeigt ihn kurz vor seinem frühen Tod im Jahr 1930. Die ungelenke Haltung seines Körpers und das dominant ins Bild gesetzte rote Brusttuch lesen sich wie ein Verweis auf Kolles Herzleiden, dem er nur wenig später erliegen sollte.
Die beiden Skulpturen von Max Beckmann wurden von den Studierenden als Gegenposition zu den Werken Helmut Kolles ausgewählt. Die muskulöse Männerfigur der in der Ausstellung gezeigten Skulptur „Adam und Eva“ (1936) findet ihre Entsprechung in Kolles „Toreros“. Ihren Umgang mit Körperlichkeit sowie die Thematisierung von scheinbar gängigen Rollenbildern teilen beide Werke, womit sie bereits zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine bis heute andauernde Diskussion zum Gegenstand ihrer Arbeiten machten. Beckmann ließ sich ähnlich wie Kolle von französischen Künstlern beeinflussen. Seine „Tänzerin“ nimmt das Hauptthema des Malers Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) auf. Die übersteigerte Haltung der Ballerina in Aktion steht im Gegensatz zu der reduzierten Gestik und der Passivität der Dargestellten in den Gemälden Kolles.
Die von den Studierenden erarbeitete Kabinettausstellung ist das zweite kuratorische Projekt des Masterstudiengangs, der sich international durch die einzigartige Verbindung von Universität, Kunstakademie und Museen auszeichnet. „Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik“ wird in Kooperation mit dem Städel Museum und Liebieghaus, dem MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, dem Historischen Museum Frankfurt, dem Weltkulturen Museum und dem Portikus durchgeführt. Durch innovative Lehrformate können Studierende akademisches Lernen und wissenschaftliche Forschung mit kuratorischen Fragestellungen und berufsbezogenen Erfahrungen verbinden.
Eröffnung: 17. Juli (Donnerstag), 19 Uhr im Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63, Frankfurt (bis 21. September)
Öffnungszeiten: Di, Mi, Sa, So 10.00–18.00 Uhr; Do, Fr 10.00–21.00 Uhr
Montags geschlossen
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Master-Studierende der Curatorial Studies kuratieren Kabinettausstellung – Eröffnung am 17. Juli
Studierende des Masterstudiengangs „Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik“ der Goethe-Universität und der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule haben die Kabinettausstellung „Vergessene Körper: Helmut Kolle und Max Beckmann“ kuratiert, die am 17. Juli (Donnerstag) um 19 Uhr im Frankfurter Städel Museum eröffnet wird. Sie ist bis zum 21. September innerhalb der Sammlungspräsentation der Moderne des Städel Museums zu sehen.
Bei ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit der Sammlung des Städel Museums, insbesondere mit Werken aus dem Depot, entdeckten die Studierenden die Gemälde des Malers Helmut Kolle, von dem sich drei Werke im Besitz des Museums befinden. In der Kabinettausstellung werden diese nun gemeinsam den Besuchern präsentiert. Ergänzt werden die relativ unbekannten Gemälde Kolles durch zwei von insgesamt acht Bronzeskulpturen Max Beckmanns. „Dass die Wahl der Studierenden auf den Maler Helmut Kolle fiel, freut mich besonders. Der Künstler Kolle hat bislang wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren“, so Dr. Felix Krämer, Sammlungsleiter der Kunst der Moderne im Städel Museum.
Wie kommt es zu der Gegenüberstellung von Helmut Kolle (1899–1931) und Max Beckmann (1884–1950)? Welche Verbindungen lassen sich zwischen den beiden Künstlern aufzeigen? Worin unterscheiden sie sich? Annabel Ruckdeschel, eine der Master-Studierenden, zur Konzeption der Ausstellung: „Wir wollten an den nur wenig bekannten Maler Helmut Kolle erinnern, indem wir seine Verbindungen zu einem bekannten Meister sichtbar machen. Ein wesentlicher Zug seiner Gemälde wird vor dem Hintergrund von Beckmanns Skulpturen deutlich. Beckmann teilte mit ihm das Interesse an Körperlichkeit, besonders in seinen plastischen Arbeiten.“ Sowohl Beckmann als auch Kolle setzten sich mit ihren figurativen Arbeiten von den zunehmenden Abstraktionstendenzen in der Kunst seit 1900 ab. Während Kolles pastoser Farbauftrag die Malerei teilweise plastisch erscheinen lässt, sind Beckmanns Bronzeskulpturen darauf angelegt, die Flächigkeit im dreidimensionalen Objekt zu stärken.
Der 1899 in Charlottenburg geborene Maler Helmut Kolle lebte zusammen mit seinem Partner, dem Kunsthändler und -kritiker Wilhelm Uhde in Paris, wo er auch Erfolge mit Galerieausstellungen feierte. Durch Uhde war er mit der französischen Kunstszene vertraut, die seine künstlerische Arbeit stark prägte. Obwohl Uhde zeitlebens versuchte Kolles Werke in deutschen Museen zu platzieren, stießen sie dort auf nur geringen Anklang.
Das erste Gemälde Kolles gelangte auf Beckmanns Vermittlung hin 1932 an das Städel Museum. Anders als Kolle war Beckmann als Maler eine zentrale Figur im deutschen Kunstbetrieb. Mit Uhdes Unterstützung versuchte auch Beckmann sein Pariser Netzwerk weiter auszubauen. Zwischen 1936 und 1938 sowie um 1950 schuf er insgesamt acht Plastiken, die weniger bekannt sind als seine Gemälde.
Die drei im Seitenkabinett präsentierten Arbeiten von Kolle „Toreros“ (1925), „Junge mit Hampelmann“ (1929) und „Selbstbildnis“ (1930) zeigen deutlich den stilistischen Einfluss der europäischen Avantgarde. Ein motivisches Vorbild für Kolles Darstellungen von sportlichen, jungen Männerkörpern waren Aktfotografien aus Männermagazinen. Die Fotografie war ein Medium, das Kolles Arbeit weitergehend beeinflusste. Die Wahl des Bildausschnitts, sowie die reduzierte Farbigkeit machen dies sichtbar. In den drei Arbeiten von Kolle stehen nicht Posen des Triumphs im Mittelpunkt. Er malt die „Toreros“ während einer Pause, nachdenklich, nahezu verletzlich. Die Ideale und Stereotype des zeitgenössischen Bildes vom starken Mann werden in Frage gestellt, zuweilen auch umgekehrt. Das intime Selbstporträt des Künstlers zeigt ihn kurz vor seinem frühen Tod im Jahr 1930. Die ungelenke Haltung seines Körpers und das dominant ins Bild gesetzte rote Brusttuch lesen sich wie ein Verweis auf Kolles Herzleiden, dem er nur wenig später erliegen sollte.
Die beiden Skulpturen von Max Beckmann wurden von den Studierenden als Gegenposition zu den Werken Helmut Kolles ausgewählt. Die muskulöse Männerfigur der in der Ausstellung gezeigten Skulptur „Adam und Eva“ (1936) findet ihre Entsprechung in Kolles „Toreros“. Ihren Umgang mit Körperlichkeit sowie die Thematisierung von scheinbar gängigen Rollenbildern teilen beide Werke, womit sie bereits zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine bis heute andauernde Diskussion zum Gegenstand ihrer Arbeiten machten. Beckmann ließ sich ähnlich wie Kolle von französischen Künstlern beeinflussen. Seine „Tänzerin“ nimmt das Hauptthema des Malers Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) auf. Die übersteigerte Haltung der Ballerina in Aktion steht im Gegensatz zu der reduzierten Gestik und der Passivität der Dargestellten in den Gemälden Kolles.
Die von den Studierenden erarbeitete Kabinettausstellung ist das zweite kuratorische Projekt des Masterstudiengangs, der sich international durch die einzigartige Verbindung von Universität, Kunstakademie und Museen auszeichnet. „Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik“ wird in Kooperation mit dem Städel Museum und Liebieghaus, dem MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, dem Historischen Museum Frankfurt, dem Weltkulturen Museum und dem Portikus durchgeführt. Durch innovative Lehrformate können Studierende akademisches Lernen und wissenschaftliche Forschung mit kuratorischen Fragestellungen und berufsbezogenen Erfahrungen verbinden.
Eröffnung: 17. Juli (Donnerstag), 19 Uhr im Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63, Frankfurt (bis 21. September)
Öffnungszeiten: Di, Mi, Sa, So 10.00–18.00 Uhr; Do, Fr 10.00–21.00 Uhr
Montags geschlossen
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Montag, 7. Juli 2014
Simon Denny
Vortrag
Simon Denny: The Innovative Dilemma
Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Recently Simon Denny’s practice has dealt extensively with communication technology and business ideology. Touching on his projects "All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX" (Kunstverein Munich, Petzel Gallery NYC 2013), "The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom" (2013-2014 mumok Vienna, Firstsite Colchester) and "Disruptive Berlin" (Galerie Buchholz, 2014) Denny will reflect on the current technology business landscape and the images and culture it produces - from startup aesthetics to corporate culture. Denny will also talk about his upcoming exhibition "New Management" at Portikus and the complex processes behind it. He will speak towards ideas like the "disruption machine" and the "gospel of innovation" discussed in Jill Lepore’s recent article "The Annals of Enterprise: The Disruption Machine" (The New Yorker, 23 June 2014).
Simon Denny *1982 in Auckland / New Zealand, lives and works in Berlin. He holds an BFA 2005 from University Of Auckland and is Meisterschüler of Willem de Rooij, Städelschule 2009. Denny will represent New Zealand at the 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia 2015.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Simon Denny: The Innovative Dilemma
Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Recently Simon Denny’s practice has dealt extensively with communication technology and business ideology. Touching on his projects "All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX" (Kunstverein Munich, Petzel Gallery NYC 2013), "The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom" (2013-2014 mumok Vienna, Firstsite Colchester) and "Disruptive Berlin" (Galerie Buchholz, 2014) Denny will reflect on the current technology business landscape and the images and culture it produces - from startup aesthetics to corporate culture. Denny will also talk about his upcoming exhibition "New Management" at Portikus and the complex processes behind it. He will speak towards ideas like the "disruption machine" and the "gospel of innovation" discussed in Jill Lepore’s recent article "The Annals of Enterprise: The Disruption Machine" (The New Yorker, 23 June 2014).
Simon Denny *1982 in Auckland / New Zealand, lives and works in Berlin. He holds an BFA 2005 from University Of Auckland and is Meisterschüler of Willem de Rooij, Städelschule 2009. Denny will represent New Zealand at the 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia 2015.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dienstag, 24. Juni 2014
Paul Elliman
Vortrag
Paul Elliman: Body Alive with Signals
Dienstag, 1. Juli 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Paul Elliman *1961 lives and works in London. He will give an informal talk about recent and current work, and his interests in forms of processed language following the human voice, for example, through many of its social and technological guises, often imitating other languages and sounds of the city. As a commissioned artist for the New York biennial Performa 09 his project Sirens Taken for Wonders involved a series of siren-walks through the city on the hunt for emergency vehicle alerts. In 2012 a selection from his typographical archive of discarded letter-like machine parts and found objects was included in the exhibition ‘Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language’ curated by Laura Hoptman at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 he published Untitled (September Magazine), a 600 page glossy magazine using found images to explore connections between language and gesture.
Paul Elliman has exhibited internationally, including the XII Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius, LT (2014); KUMU Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, ES (2013); castillo/coralles, Paris, FR (2013); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US (2012-13); Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (2012); Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2011); Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, NL (2010); and Performa, New York, US (2009). He currently has a solo exhibition at Objectif in Antwerp and is taking part in Journal at the ICA in London, curated by Matt Williams.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Paul Elliman: Body Alive with Signals
Dienstag, 1. Juli 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Paul Elliman *1961 lives and works in London. He will give an informal talk about recent and current work, and his interests in forms of processed language following the human voice, for example, through many of its social and technological guises, often imitating other languages and sounds of the city. As a commissioned artist for the New York biennial Performa 09 his project Sirens Taken for Wonders involved a series of siren-walks through the city on the hunt for emergency vehicle alerts. In 2012 a selection from his typographical archive of discarded letter-like machine parts and found objects was included in the exhibition ‘Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language’ curated by Laura Hoptman at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 he published Untitled (September Magazine), a 600 page glossy magazine using found images to explore connections between language and gesture.
Paul Elliman has exhibited internationally, including the XII Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius, LT (2014); KUMU Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, ES (2013); castillo/coralles, Paris, FR (2013); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US (2012-13); Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (2012); Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2011); Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, NL (2010); and Performa, New York, US (2009). He currently has a solo exhibition at Objectif in Antwerp and is taking part in Journal at the ICA in London, curated by Matt Williams.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 23. Juni 2014
Peter Fischli & Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Why Airports?
Gespräch
Peter Fischli und Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Why airports?
Samstag, 28. Juni 2014, 16 Uhr, Aula
In Zusammenarbeit mit SAC – Städelschule Architecture Class.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung.
Peter Fischli and Hans-Ulrich Obrist will talk about the exhibition Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A stroll through a fun palace at the Swiss Pavilion, curated by Obrist in frame of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia 2014.
In a digital time of unlimited access to information, where everyone can be an architect, a curator, an intellectual thinker, Obrist revisits the recent past of architecture through retrospectives of Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) and Cedric Price (1934–2003), reflecting on its future in the 21st century. Lucius Burckhardt was a Swiss political economist, sociologist, art historian and planning theorist, known as founding father of ‘strollology’ – his science of the walk. He pioneered an interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, discussing both the visible and invisible aspects of our cities, landscapes, political processes and social relations, as well as the long-term effects of design and planning decisions. Cedric Price was guided by a fundamental belief that architecture must ‘enable people to think the unthinkable’. His project Fun Palace (1960–61), conceived as a ‘laboratory of fun’ and ‘university of the streets’, though never realised, established him as one of the UK’s most innovative and thought-provoking architects.
Hans Ulrich Obrist *1968 in Zurich, Switzerland, is co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup’ (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 exhibitions. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues – Loose Lips – Open Eyes – Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.
Peter Fischli *1952 in Switzerland is an artist based in Zurich and Professor for Fine Art at the Städelschule since 2013.
Das Gespräch findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Peter Fischli und Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Why airports?
Samstag, 28. Juni 2014, 16 Uhr, Aula
In Zusammenarbeit mit SAC – Städelschule Architecture Class.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung.
Peter Fischli and Hans-Ulrich Obrist will talk about the exhibition Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A stroll through a fun palace at the Swiss Pavilion, curated by Obrist in frame of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia 2014.
In a digital time of unlimited access to information, where everyone can be an architect, a curator, an intellectual thinker, Obrist revisits the recent past of architecture through retrospectives of Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) and Cedric Price (1934–2003), reflecting on its future in the 21st century. Lucius Burckhardt was a Swiss political economist, sociologist, art historian and planning theorist, known as founding father of ‘strollology’ – his science of the walk. He pioneered an interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, discussing both the visible and invisible aspects of our cities, landscapes, political processes and social relations, as well as the long-term effects of design and planning decisions. Cedric Price was guided by a fundamental belief that architecture must ‘enable people to think the unthinkable’. His project Fun Palace (1960–61), conceived as a ‘laboratory of fun’ and ‘university of the streets’, though never realised, established him as one of the UK’s most innovative and thought-provoking architects.
Hans Ulrich Obrist *1968 in Zurich, Switzerland, is co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup’ (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 exhibitions. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues – Loose Lips – Open Eyes – Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.
Peter Fischli *1952 in Switzerland is an artist based in Zurich and Professor for Fine Art at the Städelschule since 2013.
Das Gespräch findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Richard Mosse: The Enclave
Vortrag und Filmvorführung
Richard Mosse
Dienstag, 24. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
In his presentation Richard Mosse will go through his forty minute video installation, The Enclave, scene by scene, discussing context, background, and intent.
The Enclave is the culmination of Mosse’s four year project working in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Enclave comprises six monumental double-sided screens installed in a large darkened chamber creating a physically immersive experience. This disorienting and kaleidoscopic installation is intended to formally parallel eastern Congo’s multifaceted conflict, confounding expectations and forcing the viewer to interact spatially from an array of differing viewpoints. Its haunting, visceral soundscape is layered spatially by twelve-point surround sound, composed by Ben Frost from recordings gathered in North and South Kivu. It is a looping, non-linear narrative which documents civilians fleeing massacre, Mai Mai militia preparing for battle, as well as M23 rebels moving on, fighting for, and finally taking the city of Goma. This humanitarian disaster unfolds in a landscape of extraordinary beauty, on the shores of Lake Kivu, which Mosse records using a discontinued military film technology originally designed in WWII to reveal camouflaged enemy installations. This film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and pink. Mosse employed this film to document a humanitarian disaster in which 5.4 million people have died since 1998, yet which is largely overlooked by the mass media. Frequent massacres, human rights violations, and widespread sexual violence remain unaccounted for. In a kind of advocacy of seeing, Mosse attempts to cast this forgotten tragedy in a new spectrum of light.
Mosse was born in 1980 in Ireland. He earned an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art in 2008 and a PG Dip from Goldsmiths in 2005. Mosse represented Ireland at the 2013 Venice Biennale with The Enclave, for which he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting co-published his first monograph, Infra. His second monograph, The Enclave, was published by Aperture Foundation. Mosse is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism (2014), the B3 Award at the Frankfurt Biennale (2013), an ECAS Commission (2013), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), and a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2008-2010). Foreign Policy Magazine listed Mosse as a Leading Global Thinker of 2013.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Richard Mosse
Dienstag, 24. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
In his presentation Richard Mosse will go through his forty minute video installation, The Enclave, scene by scene, discussing context, background, and intent.
The Enclave is the culmination of Mosse’s four year project working in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Enclave comprises six monumental double-sided screens installed in a large darkened chamber creating a physically immersive experience. This disorienting and kaleidoscopic installation is intended to formally parallel eastern Congo’s multifaceted conflict, confounding expectations and forcing the viewer to interact spatially from an array of differing viewpoints. Its haunting, visceral soundscape is layered spatially by twelve-point surround sound, composed by Ben Frost from recordings gathered in North and South Kivu. It is a looping, non-linear narrative which documents civilians fleeing massacre, Mai Mai militia preparing for battle, as well as M23 rebels moving on, fighting for, and finally taking the city of Goma. This humanitarian disaster unfolds in a landscape of extraordinary beauty, on the shores of Lake Kivu, which Mosse records using a discontinued military film technology originally designed in WWII to reveal camouflaged enemy installations. This film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and pink. Mosse employed this film to document a humanitarian disaster in which 5.4 million people have died since 1998, yet which is largely overlooked by the mass media. Frequent massacres, human rights violations, and widespread sexual violence remain unaccounted for. In a kind of advocacy of seeing, Mosse attempts to cast this forgotten tragedy in a new spectrum of light.
Mosse was born in 1980 in Ireland. He earned an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art in 2008 and a PG Dip from Goldsmiths in 2005. Mosse represented Ireland at the 2013 Venice Biennale with The Enclave, for which he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting co-published his first monograph, Infra. His second monograph, The Enclave, was published by Aperture Foundation. Mosse is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism (2014), the B3 Award at the Frankfurt Biennale (2013), an ECAS Commission (2013), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), and a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2008-2010). Foreign Policy Magazine listed Mosse as a Leading Global Thinker of 2013.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 26. Mai 2014
Rosalind Nashashibi
Vortrag und Filmvorführung
Rosalind Nashashibi
Montag, 2. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
Rosalind Nashashibi will be screening a selection of her films with in depth introductions and a following discussion with the audience.
Nashashibi (*1973) is an English artist working in film, sculpture, print and photography. In her films social anthropologies are political questions: how do we work? How do we navigate our own institutions? The questions are approached through examining the archetypal within the everyday or by dropping a mythological event into a real situation. By combining different levels of reality the films seek out the friction created at their borders.
Nashashibi studied in Glasgow School of Arts. She has exhibited internationally over the last decade and has recently had solo exhibitions in New York, Antwerp, Rome and Milan. Nashashibi represented Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and has shown in Manifesta 7, Sharjah 10 and the 5th Berlin Biennial with Lucy Skaer in their collaboration as Nashashibi/Skaer.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Rosalind Nashashibi
Montag, 2. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
Rosalind Nashashibi will be screening a selection of her films with in depth introductions and a following discussion with the audience.
Nashashibi (*1973) is an English artist working in film, sculpture, print and photography. In her films social anthropologies are political questions: how do we work? How do we navigate our own institutions? The questions are approached through examining the archetypal within the everyday or by dropping a mythological event into a real situation. By combining different levels of reality the films seek out the friction created at their borders.
Nashashibi studied in Glasgow School of Arts. She has exhibited internationally over the last decade and has recently had solo exhibitions in New York, Antwerp, Rome and Milan. Nashashibi represented Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and has shown in Manifesta 7, Sharjah 10 and the 5th Berlin Biennial with Lucy Skaer in their collaboration as Nashashibi/Skaer.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2014
John Miller: The Ruin of Exchange
Vortrag
John Miller: The Ruin of Exchange
Mittwoch 4. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
John Miller's lecture will be a chronological overview of his artistic work, focussing especially on the topics of representation of value, models of subjectivity and the dialectic between the public and private spheres.
John Miller is an artist, writer and critic based in New York and Berlin. His work is currently featured in The Human Factor at the Hayward Gallery in London; he will also take part in a show of public works, B1/A40: die Schönheit der grossen Strasse, with a work in Dortmund. In 2011 Miller received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Contemporary Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2012 JRP-Ringer and the Consortium published a collection of his criticism titled The Ruin of Exchange: Selected Writings as part of their Positions series. He is currently writing a short book on Mike Kelley’s “Educational Complex” for Afterall Books. Miller is a Professor of Professional Practice in Barnard College’s Art History Department.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
John Miller: The Ruin of Exchange
Mittwoch 4. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
John Miller's lecture will be a chronological overview of his artistic work, focussing especially on the topics of representation of value, models of subjectivity and the dialectic between the public and private spheres.
John Miller is an artist, writer and critic based in New York and Berlin. His work is currently featured in The Human Factor at the Hayward Gallery in London; he will also take part in a show of public works, B1/A40: die Schönheit der grossen Strasse, with a work in Dortmund. In 2011 Miller received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Contemporary Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2012 JRP-Ringer and the Consortium published a collection of his criticism titled The Ruin of Exchange: Selected Writings as part of their Positions series. He is currently writing a short book on Mike Kelley’s “Educational Complex” for Afterall Books. Miller is a Professor of Professional Practice in Barnard College’s Art History Department.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Mads Brügger: The Ambassador
Leider fällt der Vortrag aus persönlichen Gründen aus!
Vortrag und Screening
Mads Brügger: The Ambassador
20. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Mads Brügger will show an Africa stripped of NGOs, Bono, child soldiers and kids with bloated bellies. The kind of people you never see in the documentaries: white businessmen and diplomats, the fat cats in the urban centers, all the people who are in post-colonial Francafrique having a great time. To show this Africa of the affluent, Mads Brügger uses "performative journalism": instead of disguising as a fly on the wall observing neutrally, he dresses for his part and interacts as an agent provocateur. With all the intentions of a journalist to disclose an unnoticed world, he went to CAR as a rich white businessman with diplomatic credentials pursuing all the perks that title brings (like reckless diamond hunts, practicing power misuse) and became a respected member of their society.
Mads Brügger *1972, is a Danish investigative film maker, journalist and TV host. His documentary films have been shown on various film festivals around the world, and 'The Ambassador' was nominated for the Grand Jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival. He is the host of the Danish talk show Den 11.time and the news program Deadline.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Leider fällt der Vortrag aus persönlichen Gründen aus!
Vortrag und Screening
Mads Brügger: The Ambassador
20. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Mads Brügger will show an Africa stripped of NGOs, Bono, child soldiers and kids with bloated bellies. The kind of people you never see in the documentaries: white businessmen and diplomats, the fat cats in the urban centers, all the people who are in post-colonial Francafrique having a great time. To show this Africa of the affluent, Mads Brügger uses "performative journalism": instead of disguising as a fly on the wall observing neutrally, he dresses for his part and interacts as an agent provocateur. With all the intentions of a journalist to disclose an unnoticed world, he went to CAR as a rich white businessman with diplomatic credentials pursuing all the perks that title brings (like reckless diamond hunts, practicing power misuse) and became a respected member of their society.
Mads Brügger *1972, is a Danish investigative film maker, journalist and TV host. His documentary films have been shown on various film festivals around the world, and 'The Ambassador' was nominated for the Grand Jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival. He is the host of the Danish talk show Den 11.time and the news program Deadline.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Leider fällt der Vortrag aus persönlichen Gründen aus!
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2014
Thomas Thiel: On Museum Off Museum
Vortrag Masterstudiengang Kuratieren und Kritik
Thomas Thiel: On Museum Off Museum
Dienstag, 3. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Warum interessieren sich KünstlerInnen wieder verstärkt für das Museum? Welche Rolle spielt dabei der Umgang mit historischen Bildern, Dokumenten und Artefakten? Welchen Einfluss haben künstlerische Interventionen auf Ausstellungskonzepte der Gegenwart? Diesen und anderen Fragen geht der Vortrag am Beispiel des Ausstellungsprojekts »Museum Off Museum« (07. September 2013 – 07. Februar 2014) und vorhergegangenen Präsentationen im Bielefelder Kunstverein nach. Mit einer fragmentarischen Programmstruktur, zwei Ausstellungsperioden, Vorträgen und einem Blog untersuchte »Museum Off Museum« die Aneignung und Erweiterung musealer Praxis, das Museum als Form der künstlerischen Handlung und Reflexionsraum einer globalisierten, medialisierten Welt. Der Vortrag reflektiert das subjektive Potenzial im Umgang mit der Geschichte, wissenschaftlichen Erzähltechniken und ihrer Repräsentation.
Thomas Thiel ist Direktor des Bielefelder Kunstvereins. Er studierte Kulturwissenschaften und Ästhetische Praxis in Hildesheim und Marseille. Er arbeitete für In Between, das offizielle Kunstprojekt der EXPO 2000, und für die Manifesta 4, Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. Von 2004 bis 2008 war er Kurator und zuletzt als Leiter des Bereichs Ausstellungen am ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, in Karlsruhe tätig. In Bielefeld kuratierte er Einzelausstellungen mit u. a. Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, David Adamo, Latifa Echakch, Luke Fowler, Dirk Fleischmann, Maryam Jafri, Gabriel Kuri, Maria Loboda, Flo Maak, Gareth Moore, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jessica Warboys und Katarina Zdjelar. Seine Themenausstellungen beschäftigten sich mit dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Design (»Beyond Gestaltung«), der Bedeutung diagrammatischer Bilder (»Schaubilder«) oder den Bedingungen des Ausstellens unter globalen Vorzeichen (»Von A nach B, von B nach P«, »Museum Off Museum«). Thomas Thiel ist außerdem Initiator der Ausstellungsreihe »Subjektive Projektionen« (2009-2013), die gegenwärtige Strategien im künstlerischen Film untersuchte und zudem online präsentiert wurde. Er schreibt regelmäßig zu Positionen der Gegenwartskunst und ist Herausgeber zahlreicher Ausstellungspublikationen. Sein Programm für den Bielefelder Kunstverein wurde mit dem ADKV-ART COLOGNE Preis für Kunstvereine 2014 ausgezeichnet.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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Why is there again a strong interest among artists in the »museum«? What kind of role are historical images documents, images and artifacts playing? What influence have artistic interventions within museums and on exhibition concepts in the present day? This talk revisits these and other questions of the exhibition »Museum Off Museum« as well as of previous presentations at the Bielefelder Kunstverein. Through a fragmentary program structure, two exhibition periods, lectures and a blog »Museum Off Museum« was investigating in an appropriation and expansion of the museum’s practice, in the museum as an artistic tool as well as a concept for reflection within a global, medialized world. The lecture will reflect on the subjective potential in dealing with history, academic narratives and their representation.
Thomas Thiel is the director of the Bielefelder Kunstverein. He studied Cultural Sciences and Aesthetical Practice in Hildesheim (Germany) and Marseille (France). Thiel worked for In Between, the art project of EXPO 2000 in Hanover and Manifesta 4, European Biennial for Contemporary Art in Frankfurt/Main. From 2004 to 2008 he was a curator and head of the exhibition department at ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In Bielefeld he curated solo presentations with amongst others Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, David Adamo, Latifa Echakch, Dirk Fleischmann, Luke Fowler, Maryam Jafri, Gabriel Kuri, Maria Loboda, Flo Maak, Gareth Moore, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jessica Warboys and Katarina Zdjelar. His thematic exhibitions were dealing with the relation of contemporary art and design (»Beyond Gestaltung«), the relevance of diagrammatic images (»Schaubilder«) or the condition of exhibition making within a global context (»Von A nach B, von B nach P«, »Museum Off Museum«). Thomas Thiel initiated the exhibition series »Subjektive Projections« (2009-2013), which presented current strategies in artistic films online. Thomas Thiel writes regularly on contemporary art and is editor of numerous exhibition publications. His program for Bielefelder Kunstverein has been awarded with the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Kunstvereine 2014.
The lecture will be in English.
Thomas Thiel: On Museum Off Museum
Dienstag, 3. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Warum interessieren sich KünstlerInnen wieder verstärkt für das Museum? Welche Rolle spielt dabei der Umgang mit historischen Bildern, Dokumenten und Artefakten? Welchen Einfluss haben künstlerische Interventionen auf Ausstellungskonzepte der Gegenwart? Diesen und anderen Fragen geht der Vortrag am Beispiel des Ausstellungsprojekts »Museum Off Museum« (07. September 2013 – 07. Februar 2014) und vorhergegangenen Präsentationen im Bielefelder Kunstverein nach. Mit einer fragmentarischen Programmstruktur, zwei Ausstellungsperioden, Vorträgen und einem Blog untersuchte »Museum Off Museum« die Aneignung und Erweiterung musealer Praxis, das Museum als Form der künstlerischen Handlung und Reflexionsraum einer globalisierten, medialisierten Welt. Der Vortrag reflektiert das subjektive Potenzial im Umgang mit der Geschichte, wissenschaftlichen Erzähltechniken und ihrer Repräsentation.
Thomas Thiel ist Direktor des Bielefelder Kunstvereins. Er studierte Kulturwissenschaften und Ästhetische Praxis in Hildesheim und Marseille. Er arbeitete für In Between, das offizielle Kunstprojekt der EXPO 2000, und für die Manifesta 4, Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. Von 2004 bis 2008 war er Kurator und zuletzt als Leiter des Bereichs Ausstellungen am ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, in Karlsruhe tätig. In Bielefeld kuratierte er Einzelausstellungen mit u. a. Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, David Adamo, Latifa Echakch, Luke Fowler, Dirk Fleischmann, Maryam Jafri, Gabriel Kuri, Maria Loboda, Flo Maak, Gareth Moore, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jessica Warboys und Katarina Zdjelar. Seine Themenausstellungen beschäftigten sich mit dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Design (»Beyond Gestaltung«), der Bedeutung diagrammatischer Bilder (»Schaubilder«) oder den Bedingungen des Ausstellens unter globalen Vorzeichen (»Von A nach B, von B nach P«, »Museum Off Museum«). Thomas Thiel ist außerdem Initiator der Ausstellungsreihe »Subjektive Projektionen« (2009-2013), die gegenwärtige Strategien im künstlerischen Film untersuchte und zudem online präsentiert wurde. Er schreibt regelmäßig zu Positionen der Gegenwartskunst und ist Herausgeber zahlreicher Ausstellungspublikationen. Sein Programm für den Bielefelder Kunstverein wurde mit dem ADKV-ART COLOGNE Preis für Kunstvereine 2014 ausgezeichnet.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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Why is there again a strong interest among artists in the »museum«? What kind of role are historical images documents, images and artifacts playing? What influence have artistic interventions within museums and on exhibition concepts in the present day? This talk revisits these and other questions of the exhibition »Museum Off Museum« as well as of previous presentations at the Bielefelder Kunstverein. Through a fragmentary program structure, two exhibition periods, lectures and a blog »Museum Off Museum« was investigating in an appropriation and expansion of the museum’s practice, in the museum as an artistic tool as well as a concept for reflection within a global, medialized world. The lecture will reflect on the subjective potential in dealing with history, academic narratives and their representation.
Thomas Thiel is the director of the Bielefelder Kunstverein. He studied Cultural Sciences and Aesthetical Practice in Hildesheim (Germany) and Marseille (France). Thiel worked for In Between, the art project of EXPO 2000 in Hanover and Manifesta 4, European Biennial for Contemporary Art in Frankfurt/Main. From 2004 to 2008 he was a curator and head of the exhibition department at ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In Bielefeld he curated solo presentations with amongst others Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, David Adamo, Latifa Echakch, Dirk Fleischmann, Luke Fowler, Maryam Jafri, Gabriel Kuri, Maria Loboda, Flo Maak, Gareth Moore, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jessica Warboys and Katarina Zdjelar. His thematic exhibitions were dealing with the relation of contemporary art and design (»Beyond Gestaltung«), the relevance of diagrammatic images (»Schaubilder«) or the condition of exhibition making within a global context (»Von A nach B, von B nach P«, »Museum Off Museum«). Thomas Thiel initiated the exhibition series »Subjektive Projections« (2009-2013), which presented current strategies in artistic films online. Thomas Thiel writes regularly on contemporary art and is editor of numerous exhibition publications. His program for Bielefelder Kunstverein has been awarded with the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Kunstvereine 2014.
The lecture will be in English.
Montag, 5. Mai 2014
Sven Augustijnen: Spectres
Filmvorführung
Sven Augustijnen: Spectres
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is still haunting Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Élisabethville (from 1966: Lubumbashi) on that tragic day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past. To the sound of St John Passion by J.S. Bach, Sven Augustijnens film "Spectres" plunges us into one of the darkest days of the Belgian Congo’s decolonisation. An examination of the biopolitical body, this feature-length film exposes the fine line separating legitimation and historiography and the traumatic question of responsibility and guilt.
Sven Augustijnen *1970, lives and works in Brussels. His films, publications and installations on political, historical and social themes constantly challenge the genre of the documentary, reflecting a wider interest in historiography and a predilection for the nature of storytelling: "Historiography is by no means a natural phenomenon. The way we use stories, images and fiction to construct reality and history fascinates me."
He had recently solo-shows at the Kunsthalle Bern; Wiels, Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels; de Appel, arts centre, Amsterdam; Malmö Konsthall; Vox, Centre pour l'Image contemporaine, Montréal. Upcoming group-shows include Once Documentary, Camera Austria, Graz; The Unfinished Conversation, The Power Plant, Toronto; Form and Symptom, MuZee, Ostend. Sven Augustijnen is represented by Jan Mot, Brussels/Mexico City and is a founding member of Auguste Orts, Brussels.
Augustijnen will screen his film "Spectres" and a discussion will follow afterwards.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sven Augustijnen: Spectres
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is still haunting Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Élisabethville (from 1966: Lubumbashi) on that tragic day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past. To the sound of St John Passion by J.S. Bach, Sven Augustijnens film "Spectres" plunges us into one of the darkest days of the Belgian Congo’s decolonisation. An examination of the biopolitical body, this feature-length film exposes the fine line separating legitimation and historiography and the traumatic question of responsibility and guilt.
Sven Augustijnen *1970, lives and works in Brussels. His films, publications and installations on political, historical and social themes constantly challenge the genre of the documentary, reflecting a wider interest in historiography and a predilection for the nature of storytelling: "Historiography is by no means a natural phenomenon. The way we use stories, images and fiction to construct reality and history fascinates me."
He had recently solo-shows at the Kunsthalle Bern; Wiels, Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels; de Appel, arts centre, Amsterdam; Malmö Konsthall; Vox, Centre pour l'Image contemporaine, Montréal. Upcoming group-shows include Once Documentary, Camera Austria, Graz; The Unfinished Conversation, The Power Plant, Toronto; Form and Symptom, MuZee, Ostend. Sven Augustijnen is represented by Jan Mot, Brussels/Mexico City and is a founding member of Auguste Orts, Brussels.
Augustijnen will screen his film "Spectres" and a discussion will follow afterwards.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Clemens von Wedemeyer: Casting Memory
Vortrag
Clemens von Wedemeyer: Casting Memory
Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
This talk will be about manifest interactions of film and history, focussing on von Wedemeyer’s last multi-film exhibition „The Cast“ Maxxi, Rome (2013) with more references to the feature film installation shown at documenta(13): „Muster“ as well as earlier short films.
Clemens von Wedemeyer was born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany. The artist creates installations and videos as a spatial form of the essay-film, full of historical references and metaphoric images as if they were documentaries. The linearity of the narrative, however, is often interrupted in order to show the changes and developments within the structures of power that, in his films, are primarily reflected on architecture and social attitudes.
Clemens von Wedemeyer lives and works in Berlin. After studying photography, in 2002 he graduated from the HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Solo exhibitions (selected): Kunstverein Braunschweig (2014, upcoming), MAXXI, Rome (2013); The Fourth Wall, St. Paul Gallery, Auckland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo (2012), The Repetition Festival Show, Galleria Civica Trento, Trento (2011); Sun Cinema, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (2011), Metropolis, Report from China, FrankfurterKunstverein, Frankfurt (2011). Group exhibitions (selected): dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012) Intense Proximity, La Triennale Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Eurasia: Geographic cross-overs in art, MART, Rovereto (2008), 4th Biennial of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2006), Moscow Biennial, 2005
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Clemens von Wedemeyer: Casting Memory
Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
This talk will be about manifest interactions of film and history, focussing on von Wedemeyer’s last multi-film exhibition „The Cast“ Maxxi, Rome (2013) with more references to the feature film installation shown at documenta(13): „Muster“ as well as earlier short films.
Clemens von Wedemeyer was born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany. The artist creates installations and videos as a spatial form of the essay-film, full of historical references and metaphoric images as if they were documentaries. The linearity of the narrative, however, is often interrupted in order to show the changes and developments within the structures of power that, in his films, are primarily reflected on architecture and social attitudes.
Clemens von Wedemeyer lives and works in Berlin. After studying photography, in 2002 he graduated from the HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Solo exhibitions (selected): Kunstverein Braunschweig (2014, upcoming), MAXXI, Rome (2013); The Fourth Wall, St. Paul Gallery, Auckland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo (2012), The Repetition Festival Show, Galleria Civica Trento, Trento (2011); Sun Cinema, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (2011), Metropolis, Report from China, FrankfurterKunstverein, Frankfurt (2011). Group exhibitions (selected): dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012) Intense Proximity, La Triennale Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Eurasia: Geographic cross-overs in art, MART, Rovereto (2008), 4th Biennial of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2006), Moscow Biennial, 2005
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dienstag, 29. April 2014
Peter Osborne: Art of the Contemporary: From Memory to History
Vortrag
Peter Osborne: Art of the Contemporary: From Memory to History
10. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
What formal conditions does the idea of an ‘art of the contemporary’, as a historical practice, critically impose on art today? This lecture will address this question via the relationship between narrative, image and information at the point of overlap between fictional and historical discourse. It will take as its point of reference some recent film works by Akram Zaatari.
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London, and an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy.
His books include: The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2005), El arte más allá de la estética: Ensayos filosóficos sobre el arte contemporáneo (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2010), and most recently, Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (Verso, 2013).
Catalogue essays include contributions to Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
Other recent publications include: two essays in Gerhard Richter: Fotographie und Malerei – Malerei als Fotographie: Acht Texte zu Gerhard Richters Medienstrategie: Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden, Band 8, Walter König, Cologne, 2011; The State of Things (co-ed. with Marta Kuzma and Pablo Lafuentes), Walter Koenig/OCA, Cologne/Oslo, 2012 – lectures from the Norwegian representation at the Venice Biennale 2011, of which he was a co-curator – and Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (co-ed. with Éric Alliez), Tate Publishing, London, 2013.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Peter Osborne: Art of the Contemporary: From Memory to History
10. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
What formal conditions does the idea of an ‘art of the contemporary’, as a historical practice, critically impose on art today? This lecture will address this question via the relationship between narrative, image and information at the point of overlap between fictional and historical discourse. It will take as its point of reference some recent film works by Akram Zaatari.
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London, and an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy.
His books include: The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2005), El arte más allá de la estética: Ensayos filosóficos sobre el arte contemporáneo (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2010), and most recently, Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (Verso, 2013).
Catalogue essays include contributions to Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
Other recent publications include: two essays in Gerhard Richter: Fotographie und Malerei – Malerei als Fotographie: Acht Texte zu Gerhard Richters Medienstrategie: Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden, Band 8, Walter König, Cologne, 2011; The State of Things (co-ed. with Marta Kuzma and Pablo Lafuentes), Walter Koenig/OCA, Cologne/Oslo, 2012 – lectures from the Norwegian representation at the Venice Biennale 2011, of which he was a co-curator – and Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (co-ed. with Éric Alliez), Tate Publishing, London, 2013.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Hu Fang: Dear Navigator and the Notes from the Glass Room
Buchvorstellung und Gespräch
Hu Fang: Dear Navigator, and the Notes from the Glass Room
Freitag, 13. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Dear Navigator,
Everything in this isolation module simulates an actual space capsule; the only thing that could not be simulated is weightlessness, which is just about as disappointing as a bride not showing up for her thoroughly planned luxury wedding.
If we want to reinvent ourselves in this world, what we really want is to cast off gravity; it is only when we float through the air that all daydreams really begin; and now, walking through this wooden cabin in summer clothes, it's like we're at a resort.
—Vladimir Xie, March 7
Dear Navigator,
My parents believed that martyr's blood could be exchanged for today's blissful living, and their energy shaped the future and afterlife for which they hoped, but, beyond the scope of renewing the energy that they invested, we have already been dispersed from the powers of the collective, atomized into scattered and aimless particles, returned to chaos.
—Vladimir Xie, June 7
Dear Navigator,
Once, I was able to capture the beauty of the light switching from afternoon to evening, the clouds suspended against the fading sky as it turned a deep blue, the street lights flickering on one after the other, having the effect of desk lamps–both condensing space, and yet infinitely expanding it into the gradually shifting colors of the skyline.
Sitting on the bus, a small girl who was sunk into the backrest of her seat watched her reflection in the window. And after a day’s work, even more people were drifting to sleep in the bumper-to-bumper congestion, the city emerging from evening like a submarine surfacing from the ocean depths.
—Vladimir Xie, September 22
Dear Navigator,
If everything that has ever happened to humanity cannot be echoed in this universe,then in the end to where has the vital energy emitted by the human body been dispersed?
—Vladimir Xie, December 6
Hu Fang is a fiction writer, art critic and curator who lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing, is the co-founder and artistic director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and the Pavilion in Beijing, and has been involved in various international projects including documenta 12 magazines as coordinating editor and Yokohama Triennale 2008 as co-curator.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Hu Fang: Dear Navigator, and the Notes from the Glass Room
Freitag, 13. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Dear Navigator,
Everything in this isolation module simulates an actual space capsule; the only thing that could not be simulated is weightlessness, which is just about as disappointing as a bride not showing up for her thoroughly planned luxury wedding.
If we want to reinvent ourselves in this world, what we really want is to cast off gravity; it is only when we float through the air that all daydreams really begin; and now, walking through this wooden cabin in summer clothes, it's like we're at a resort.
—Vladimir Xie, March 7
Dear Navigator,
My parents believed that martyr's blood could be exchanged for today's blissful living, and their energy shaped the future and afterlife for which they hoped, but, beyond the scope of renewing the energy that they invested, we have already been dispersed from the powers of the collective, atomized into scattered and aimless particles, returned to chaos.
—Vladimir Xie, June 7
Dear Navigator,
Once, I was able to capture the beauty of the light switching from afternoon to evening, the clouds suspended against the fading sky as it turned a deep blue, the street lights flickering on one after the other, having the effect of desk lamps–both condensing space, and yet infinitely expanding it into the gradually shifting colors of the skyline.
Sitting on the bus, a small girl who was sunk into the backrest of her seat watched her reflection in the window. And after a day’s work, even more people were drifting to sleep in the bumper-to-bumper congestion, the city emerging from evening like a submarine surfacing from the ocean depths.
—Vladimir Xie, September 22
Dear Navigator,
If everything that has ever happened to humanity cannot be echoed in this universe,then in the end to where has the vital energy emitted by the human body been dispersed?
—Vladimir Xie, December 6
Hu Fang is a fiction writer, art critic and curator who lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing, is the co-founder and artistic director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and the Pavilion in Beijing, and has been involved in various international projects including documenta 12 magazines as coordinating editor and Yokohama Triennale 2008 as co-curator.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Chris Dercon: Institutionalizing the Global View
Vortrag Masterstudiengang Kuratieren und Kritik
Chris Dercon: Institutionalizing the Global View
Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Chris Dercon is an art historian, a documentary filmmaker and cultural producer. In April 2011 he was appointed Director of Tate Modern in London. He was previously Director of Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, as well as Program Director of PS1 Museum in New York. He curated and co-curated, amongst others, exhibitions of André Cadere, Dan Graham, Konstantin Grcic, Hans Haacke, Carlo Mollino, Helio Oiticica, Paul Thek, Ai Weiwei and Franz West. He has published, contributed to and edited many catalogues, art publications, lectures and interviews worldwide. His current interest lies particularly with old and new textiles. He has made extensive cultural research and co operations with cultural producers in Brazil as of (1988), North Africa – Levant as of (1992), Japan as of (1993), China as of (1999), India as of (2005), and most recently in West Africa, The Gulf and Saudi Arabia.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Chris Dercon: Institutionalizing the Global View
Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Chris Dercon is an art historian, a documentary filmmaker and cultural producer. In April 2011 he was appointed Director of Tate Modern in London. He was previously Director of Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, as well as Program Director of PS1 Museum in New York. He curated and co-curated, amongst others, exhibitions of André Cadere, Dan Graham, Konstantin Grcic, Hans Haacke, Carlo Mollino, Helio Oiticica, Paul Thek, Ai Weiwei and Franz West. He has published, contributed to and edited many catalogues, art publications, lectures and interviews worldwide. His current interest lies particularly with old and new textiles. He has made extensive cultural research and co operations with cultural producers in Brazil as of (1988), North Africa – Levant as of (1992), Japan as of (1993), China as of (1999), India as of (2005), and most recently in West Africa, The Gulf and Saudi Arabia.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Neal White: Art as Event; John Latham and Flat Time Theory.
Vortrag
Neal White: Art as Event; John Latham and Flat Time Theory.
6. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
In this talk, Neal White will outline how the late British conceptual artist John Latham (1922-2006) viewed his art in relation to concepts of time, which were in turn applied to the incidental practice of the Artist Placement Group (APG - 1966-89). As White will discuss, to Latham’s frustration, many of the ideas that underline critical processes at play in his work and his concepts were never fully explored or understood beyond this context. In this talk, White discusses the issues that continue to haunt his ideas as well as the role that Latham played personally in the development of Whites own work, in which art can be seen as an epistemic thing or event. In this respect, the work of the individual artists is linked to collaborative, collective and critical practices; and in particular a range of instituent forms which are deconstructing territories and borders associated with knowledge and art.
Neal White is an artist who leads the contemporary art and research group, the Office of Experiments. In this capacity, he has undertaken commissions in Washington DC and Germany, research at the Centre for Land Use Interpretation, USA and with Arts Catalyst, UK. In addition, he has collaborated with artists and writers, academics and architects, from N55 (DK) to John Latham (UK). He recently co-curated Dark Places at John Hansard Gallery (UK) and has exhibited Internationally at Apexart - New York, Chelsea Space - London (2010), Casino Foundation for Contemporary Art - Luxembourg (2008), Barbican Gallery - London (2005), Natural History Museum, - London (2003) and Moderna Museet - Stockholm (1998). He was a founder of art and technology group Soda (1997-02), and a Director of O+I, from 2007-9 (formerly Artist Placement Group). He is currently Professor of Media Arts Practice, The Media School, Bournemouth University.
Following the lecture, there will be a "Skoob Performance" happening in the courtyard, an experiment in relation to the exhibition God is Great (10-19) – John Latham and Neal White at Portikus in Frankfurt. The performances, which were originally titled Skoob Tower Ceremonies and performed by John Latham, either in person or under instruction, were slow burnings of book towers constructed with volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which Latham initiated throughout his life at different intervals and in different sites, from the 1960s onwards.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Neal White: Art as Event; John Latham and Flat Time Theory.
6. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
In this talk, Neal White will outline how the late British conceptual artist John Latham (1922-2006) viewed his art in relation to concepts of time, which were in turn applied to the incidental practice of the Artist Placement Group (APG - 1966-89). As White will discuss, to Latham’s frustration, many of the ideas that underline critical processes at play in his work and his concepts were never fully explored or understood beyond this context. In this talk, White discusses the issues that continue to haunt his ideas as well as the role that Latham played personally in the development of Whites own work, in which art can be seen as an epistemic thing or event. In this respect, the work of the individual artists is linked to collaborative, collective and critical practices; and in particular a range of instituent forms which are deconstructing territories and borders associated with knowledge and art.
Neal White is an artist who leads the contemporary art and research group, the Office of Experiments. In this capacity, he has undertaken commissions in Washington DC and Germany, research at the Centre for Land Use Interpretation, USA and with Arts Catalyst, UK. In addition, he has collaborated with artists and writers, academics and architects, from N55 (DK) to John Latham (UK). He recently co-curated Dark Places at John Hansard Gallery (UK) and has exhibited Internationally at Apexart - New York, Chelsea Space - London (2010), Casino Foundation for Contemporary Art - Luxembourg (2008), Barbican Gallery - London (2005), Natural History Museum, - London (2003) and Moderna Museet - Stockholm (1998). He was a founder of art and technology group Soda (1997-02), and a Director of O+I, from 2007-9 (formerly Artist Placement Group). He is currently Professor of Media Arts Practice, The Media School, Bournemouth University.
Following the lecture, there will be a "Skoob Performance" happening in the courtyard, an experiment in relation to the exhibition God is Great (10-19) – John Latham and Neal White at Portikus in Frankfurt. The performances, which were originally titled Skoob Tower Ceremonies and performed by John Latham, either in person or under instruction, were slow burnings of book towers constructed with volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which Latham initiated throughout his life at different intervals and in different sites, from the 1960s onwards.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 28. April 2014
Renzo Martens: More news on the Institute for Human Activities
Vortrag
Renzo Martens: More news on the Institute for Human Activities
Mittwoch, 30. April 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Renzo Martens will talk on recent developments at the Institute for Human Activities, an organization dedicated to making critical art profitable for the people that inhabit the Congo, rather than people in New York or Berlin. The project started on a former Unilever plantation 800 miles north of Kinshasa on the Congo River, and is currently re-locating, after a series of dramatic events.
Renzo Martens is a Dutch artist and filmmaker and currently serves as director of the Institute. In his first film, Episode 1, Renzo travels to Chechnya to adopt a rarely defined role in contemporary war: that of its spectator. Episode 3, also known as Enjoy Poverty, is a meditation on the political claims of contemporary art and the result of Renzo’s two-year journey in the Congo. In the film, aided by a giant, portable neon sign reading “Enjoy Poverty,” he sets up an emancipation program to encourage local communities to think of their poverty as a resource.
His films have been shown at the 6th Berlin Biennial, Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Kunsthaus Graz, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as well as at numerous film festivals and on public broadcast channels. He co-founded the Institute for Human Activities in 2010 with legal structures in Amsterdam, Brussels and Kinshasa.
Renzo Martens: More news on the Institute for Human Activities
Mittwoch, 30. April 2014, 19 Uhr, Aula
Renzo Martens will talk on recent developments at the Institute for Human Activities, an organization dedicated to making critical art profitable for the people that inhabit the Congo, rather than people in New York or Berlin. The project started on a former Unilever plantation 800 miles north of Kinshasa on the Congo River, and is currently re-locating, after a series of dramatic events.
Renzo Martens is a Dutch artist and filmmaker and currently serves as director of the Institute. In his first film, Episode 1, Renzo travels to Chechnya to adopt a rarely defined role in contemporary war: that of its spectator. Episode 3, also known as Enjoy Poverty, is a meditation on the political claims of contemporary art and the result of Renzo’s two-year journey in the Congo. In the film, aided by a giant, portable neon sign reading “Enjoy Poverty,” he sets up an emancipation program to encourage local communities to think of their poverty as a resource.
His films have been shown at the 6th Berlin Biennial, Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Kunsthaus Graz, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as well as at numerous film festivals and on public broadcast channels. He co-founded the Institute for Human Activities in 2010 with legal structures in Amsterdam, Brussels and Kinshasa.
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