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Venue: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Werner-Otto-Saal, Glockengießerwall 5, 20095 Hamburg The conference is dedicated to the exhibition series Kunst um 1800 (Art around 1800) realized at the Hamburger Kunsthalle from 1974 to 1981. This nine-part undertaking by the then director Werner Hofmann to visualise and write a different history of European Modernism was at the same time a research project, exhibition experiment, celebration of the visual arts, political statement - and has shaped the debates about scientific work in art museums in the German-speaking world for decades. The cycle also had a decisive influence on the practice of making exhibitions before the…
Venue: Ernst Barlach Haus, Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Jenischpark, Baron-Voght-Straße 50a, 22609 Hamburg We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Sunday, 5 January 2020 at 11 am. Between 1912 and 1929 Ernst Barlach (1870–1938) published seven plays. These texts, which decisively break with the stage conventions of the day, were considered unperformable – but their author thought very little of contemporary theatrical productions anyway. Barlach’s literary output is inseparable from the artist’s work as a whole. So the famous wooden sculptures, as Barlach noted in 1924, appear as ‘art-people’, comparable with hand puppets or marionettes, on…
Venue: Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, ESA West, Raum 119 This talk explores Isa Genzken's exhibition Oil at the Venice Biennale (2007). Genzken's show included rows of anti-monuments: assemblages featuring suitcases, taxidermied owls, toys, posters, and paint splatters. With such makeshift sculptures, Genzken explored mixtures of parodic, satirical, and ironic modes of presentation as means of treating political and topical subject matter—such as imperialism and greed—without losing sight of the perceived impossibility of direct action, hence allowing for the Beckett-like possibility of miscommunication and comic failure. Genzken's approach to assemblage depends on practices of disjunction and repetition that allow for the…
Lecture series, Monday, 6pm to 8pm, c. t. Venue: Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, main building: Hörsaal H, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg Organised by Petra Lange-Berndt, Isabelle Lindermann and Dietmar Rübel in the context of the research project around 1800. Exhibiting Art as Research In recent years, intense debates have been sparked on what exhibitions can be or can achieve. Since the 1960s at the latest, artistic strategies have challenged format and medium and put the conditions of the institutions, in particular the so-called White Cube, at the disposal of the public. At the same time, practices of exhibiting emerged, which today are discussed under the term…