ART & MIGRATION
Talks by Kathrin Rhomberg und Marion von Osten

More and more people are leaving behind the places, countries and continents where they were born. This process means a great challenge as well as a potential change for societies of the 21st century. Exhibition planners and intellectuals, well-known international artists and colleagues are inviting to a series of lectures discussing the question if the process of migration has become a principle of realising and thinking in contemporary art and how it is visibly reflected in it.

MARIA HLAVAJOVA / BART DE BAERE

The first lecture will be held by Maria Hlavajova, director of BAK, basis voor actuele Kunst, in Utrecht/Netherlands. Fellow-countryman and curator Bart de Baere will join her in the dialogue.

Maria Hlavajova, born in 1971, is curator, art-historian und author of several publications on contemporary art. Since 2000 she is the artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele Kunst, in Utrecht/Netherlands, professor of „curatorial studies“ at Bard College, New York, as well as co-curator of Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana/Slowenia.

Bart de Baere, born in 1960, is curator, art-theorist and author of several publications on contemporary art. Since 2002 he is director of the MuHKA in Antwerp/Belgium. He was also co-curator of documenta IX in Kassel/Germany.

Wed., 25 May, 7 pm

LYNNE COOKE / TACITA DEAN

Lynne Cooke, author and curator Dia Art Foundation, New York.
Tacita Dean, born 1965 in Canterbury, England, lives and works in Berlin.

exhibitions (selection): Tate Britain, 2001, MACBA, Barcelona, 2001, Museu Serralves, Porto, 2002 and ARC Musée d’Art Modèrne de Paris, 2003.

Thurs., 2 June, 7 pm

KASPER KÖNIG / DAN PERJOVSCHI

Kasper König, *1943, curator, e.g. Andy Warhol 1968 in Stockholm, Westkunst 1979 Cologne fair, initiator of sculptureprojects
Münster 1977, 1987, 1997 and 2007. Professor at Städelschule / Frankfurt since 1988. Since 2000 director of Museum Ludwig Cologne.

Dan Perjovschi, * 1961 in Sibiu, Rumänien, Künstler, Publisher of the magazin „22“ in Bukarest. 1999 official contribution of the Rumanian pavillon at Biennial Venice. Exhibition at DC-Saal of Museum Ludwig, July to September 2005.

Thurs., 30 June, 7 pm

HELMUT DRAXLER / FAREED ARMALY

Helmut Draxler, lives in Berlin and teaches Cultural Theory at Merzakademie / Stuttgart; works about film- and biopolitics and about an aesthetic of substance.
In the series „PolyPen“ at b_books he will soon publish the book: Die Gewalt des Zusammenhangs. About / With / From Fareed Armaly

Fareed Armaly, * 1957 in Iowa, artist and curator as well as publisher of the magazine„Terminal Zone“ and „R.O.O.M.“, 1999 and 2000 artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

Thurs., 7 July, 7 pm

Project Migration – an initiative project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes

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