5 Days to the End of Art
A project of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum
Curator Workshop Programme
June 3-November 26, 2006
Kunsthalle Fridericianum
Friedrichsplatz 18
34117 Kassel
Tel. 49(0)561 70 72 720
Fax 49(0)561 77 45 78
Under the motto 5 Days to the End of Art taken loosely from Joseph Beuys, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum will be staging five exhibitions from June until December 2006. In this series, the four members of the curator workshop and the artistic director will be providing insight into their current work in independent exhibitions. The apodictic title of the exhibition series is by no means intended to proclaim the often evoked end of art but a search for the conditions of contemporary artistic and curatorial practice. The open structure of the programme allows each member to develop and stage his or her own exhibition idea for the exhibition series. All five exhibitions will dovetail in time, revealing substantive links and cross-references that have developed in processual and joint work in the workshop. At the same time, the distinctiveness of the individual approaches will mirror the varying perspectives, interests, and procedures of a young generation of curators.
Since 2003, the curator workshop has constituted a key element at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum. Over this period, young, international curators have accompanied the programme of the Kunsthalle, expanding it with independent exhibition projects. The approach adopted by the curator workshop is the practical integration of young curators in the day-to-day work of the institution. Over and beyond the theoretical discourse of university curator programmes, it permits members to test their own curatorial enterprise and to experiment in exhibition work from the first outline of an idea to the realisation stage.
undo redo
June 3 July 16 and September 2 17, 2006*
Lucas Ajemian | Mariana Castillo Deball | Martha Colburn | Gabriel Lester | Mads Lynnerup | Jan Mancuska | Melik Ohanian | Susan Philipsz | Kirstine Roepstorff | Tino Sehgal
undo redo focuses on contemporary strategies of appropriation. The different forms of montage, quotation or sampling of visual and sound material or texts have a long tradition in visual arts through Avant-garde, Pop and Conceptual Art. However the technical possibilities of downloading and remixing effect the perception of existing material, but also the creative ways of re-using it. Through the processes of combined deconstruction and reconstruction the artists of the exhibition transfer existing texts, images or pieces of music in new contexts. This exhibition is therefore dedicated to the prefix re and the role it plays in relation to current artistic strategies: record, recode, re-sample, revolve, redo. Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen
the far side
June 28 July 16 and September 2 October 3, 2006*
Henry VIII’s Wives | Jens Kloppmann | Susanne Kutter | Julien Maire | Pia Maria Martin
The artists participating in the exhibition the far side transfer collective images that are part of the creation of knowledge and meaning because of their publicity in journalism, art or science. In some works the original manufacturing process has been either reversed or it has been taken literally. But mainly, the artists make a shift in understanding images, sometimes playful, ironically or with appreciation for absurdity. These transformations not only create new subjects but also new contradictions. Obviously, all this rather happens productively, with enjoyment and not at least with art’s absolute freedom of expanding the visual forms of expression. Curated by Thomas Niemeyer.
Upcoming exhibitions of the series:
September 2 October 29, 2006 indirect speech
Nevin Aladag | Victor Alimpiev | Stefan Constantinescu | Ciprian Muresan | Ioana Nemes | Ovekk_Finn | Pablo Pijnappel
Curated by Alina Serban
September 24 November 26, 2006 Yael Bartana. Amateur Anthropologist
Curated by Birgit Eusterschulte
November 11 26, 2006 Fremd bin ich eingezogen
Curated by René Block
* Summer break: July 17 September 1, 2006
