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Maximiliane Baumgartner
Auf Fassaden schauen oder Die vierte Wand der dritten Pädagogin
June 26 – August 20, 2021
In her practice, Maximiliane Baumgartner negotiates artistic and pedagogical models, in which concepts of education, urban planning, and public space can be traced. Her solo exhibition Auf Fassaden schauen oder Die vierte Wand der dritten Pädagogin (Looking at Facades or The Fourth Wall of the Third Pedagogue) addresses different spatio-temporal layers in and around the Kunstverein.
The notion of the façade functions as an extended figure of thought: the Kunstverein’s exhibition space is seen as a public site that stands in frictional relation to its surroundings and history. Adapted to the scale of the institution, the outlines of the façade of the Hof-Atelier Elvira appear on the wall. The building was commissioned by the women’s rights activists and couple Anita Augspurg and Sophia Goudstikker in 1889. Located just a few steps away from the Kunstverein, the photo studio with its female protagonists formed an important site of feminist self-assertion in the city. The façade was demolished by the National Socialists in the late ’30s. In the exhibition, the history of this site and its architecture is traced through the medium of painting, pointing to tensions between historiography and the politics of memory. Baumgartner’s engagement with Munich’s urban space goes back, among other things, to the Fahrende Raum, a space of action pedagogy, which she initiated and programmed in cooperation with others in Munich until 2019. Like Baumgartner herself, most of the progam’s collaborators have a hybrid understanding of their practice as artists, authors, or educators, such that their ideas of what constitutes artistic or mediating activities consciously overlap.
The exhibition is accompanied by Baumgartner’s first comprehensive publication. The book is a joint project between the Neuer Essener Kunstverein and Kunstverein München and includes new texts by Elke Krasny, Karolin Meunier, and Moritz Scheper as well as a conversation about Baumgartner’s artistic practice between Luca Beeler, Lucie Kolb, Maurin Dietrich, Gloria Hasnay, and the artist. The publication is designed by Ibrahim Öztaş.
Summer School
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
With manuel arturo abreu, Judith Barry, Europa Frohwein, Lena von Geyso, Charlotte Klonk, Julian Müller, Lucy Steeds, Eva Wilson & Adam Gibbons, Shira Wachsmann, among others
August 23–26, 2021
In the lead-up to the bicentenary of the Kunstverein in 2023, the Summer School explores forms of collective knowledge production and negotiates the conception of an institution intended for the public. The format invites participants to work together with guest lecturers on four topics—Architecture, Exhibition and Display History, Publishing, as well as Society and City History—within the context of the archive of the Kunstverein. The call for applications will open on June 18.
Schaufenster
The onsite and online series Schaufenster currently presents a video by Sky Hopinka. His works explore the relation between language, identity, and cultural constructions, thereby probing the boundaries of verbal and visual expression. The series has previously presented video works by Emanuel Almborg, Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP, Julie Becker, Jenna Bliss, Carolyn Lazard, Julika Rudelius, among others.
Writers Residency
The Writers Residency takes up the tradition of the town chronicler and aims to offer a temporary space for writing within the context of Munich. The next resident in July and August 2021 will be the artist, writer, and editor Isabelle Sully. Working with feminist histories in mind, she focuses on the mechanisms and materiality of administration. Sully is following Quinn Latimer, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, and Mahan Moalemi.
Director: Maurin Dietrich
Curator: Gloria Hasnay
Assistant Curator: Gina Merz
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