Kuratorische Etik. 3 days of conferences at Kunsthalle Wien
Kuratorische Etik (Curatorial Ethics) is a three-day conference at Kunsthalle Wien, concepted by Vanessa Joan Müller and Nicolaus Schafhausen, in which international representatives of various sectors of the art world will present their viewpoints.
The verb ‘curate’ derives from the Latin curare, and it means to attend to something and thus also to take responsibility – for an exhibition, for the participating artists, for the artwork, etc. In the business world the code of ethics, which defines what is legitimate and what is not, is becoming ever more important. In the curatorial field too, important parameters have been shifting in recent years. We have seen subtle but lasting changes in the relationship between public and private collections, together with the handling of the latter, in the relationship between the institutional art establishment and the art market, and finally in the relationship between curators and artists.
So the time is ripe to talk about a curatorial code of ethics: where are the boundaries, what are the grey areas?
With (amongst others) Pernille Albrethsen („Kunstkritikk“, Copenhagen); Defne Ayas (Witte de With, Rotterdam); John Beeson (Art critic, Berlin); Lorenzo Benedetti (De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam); Tobia Bezzola (Folkwang Museum, Essen); Beatrice von Bismarck (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig); Eva Blimlinger (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna); Nicolas Bourriaud (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris); Matti Bunzl (Wien Museum); Bart de Baere (MUHKA, Antwerp / 6th Moscow Biennale); Clémentine Deliss (Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main); Fulya Erdemci (13th Istanbul Biennale); Harald Falckenberg (Private collector, Hamburg); Anselm Franke (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin); Zoë Gray (WIELS, Brussels); Jörg Heiser (Frieze, Berlin); Nikolaus Hirsch (Architect and Curator, Frankfurt am Main); Lolita Jablonskienė (Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius); Catrin Lorch (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Tom McDonough (Comparative Literature, Binghamton University), Deimantas Narkevičius (Artist, Vilnius); Peter Pakesch (Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz); Susanne Pfeffer (Fridericianum, Kassel); Fabian Schöneich (Portikus, Frankfurt am Main); Eva Maria Stadler (University of Applied Arts Vienna); Barbara Steiner (Curator); Monika Szewczyk (Documenta 14); Julia Voss (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung); Markus Weisbeck (Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar / Surface)
Thursday, April 9, 2015, 6 – 8 pm
Friday, April 10, 2015, 2 – 8 pm
Saturday, April 11, 2015, 2 – 8 pm
Kuratorische Etik (Curatorial Ethics) at Kunsthalle Wien, April 9-11, 2015
