Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s

Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s

Afterall

Ute Meta Bauer and Yvonne P. Doderer
Raumstruktur, 1994
Photo: Esther Thylmann
April 5, 2010
Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s

Friday 30 April 2010, 10.00 to 18.00

Tate Britain Auditorium
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

AfterallExhibition Histories project

Realised within the framework of FORMER WEST, a contemporary art research, education, publishing and exhibition project (2008-2013).

FORMER WEST is supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, EU Culture Programme, European Cultural Foundation, and the City of Utrecht.

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Art and the Social:
Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s

Tate Britain, London, Friday 30 April 2010

10.00 Welcome by Charles Esche

Exhibitions and Activism
10.10 Doug Ashford on the 1988-89 exhibition ‘Democracy’ at the DIA Art Foundation New York (a project by Group Material)

10.45 Renate Lorenz on the 1993 exhibition ‘Trap’ at Kunst-Werke, Berlin (curated by Minimal Club in Munich, Büro Bert in Düsseldorf, Art in Ruins in London)

11.20 Questions – led by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

11.40 Tea and coffee

Art in the Social Sphere?

12.00 Claire Bishop on three exhibitions from 1993, ‘Culture in Action’ in Chicago, ‘Unité d’Habitation’ in Firminy and ‘Sonsbeek’ in Arnhem

12.40 Christian Philipp Müller in response

13.00 Questions – led by Charles Esche

13.20 Lunch break

Context, Relationality, Participation

14.30 Sabeth Buchmann on Kontext Kunst and Institutional Critique in exhibition-making in Germany in the 1990s

15.00 Stéphanie Jeanjean on the viewer’s experience and the social dimension of the exhibitions that gave rise to the Relational Aesthetics label in France in the 1990s

15.30 Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt on the social dimension of artist-run spaces in the UK in the 1990s, specifically in Glasgow and London

16.00 Questions – led by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

16.30 Tea and coffee

Panel Discussion
17.00 Review of the day, with questions to all the speakers, led by Charles Esche

18.00 End

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