26. / 27. März 2010
Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique?
Symposium

Kunsthalle Fridericianum and Postgraduate Program in Curating,
ICS, DKV, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, are hosting the
symposium Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional
Critique? on Friday, 26 and Saturday, 27 March, 2010.

www.fridericianum-kassel.de/symposium
www.curating.org

The two-day symposium Institution as Medium. Curating as
Institutional Critique? intends to put the possibilities,
opportunities as well as the limitations of current critical
curating up for discussion based on the presentation of
exemplary projects, curatorial programmes, theoretical analyses
and artist talks. The symposium will focus on art institutions,
exhibition formats and exhibition paradigms. It will include
presentations and discussions and additionally serves as a
communicative platform enabling curators, students, scholars
and artists to engage with curating.

If we view exhibitions and art projects as an institutional
apparatus that allows curators to convey certain meanings and
new viewpoints to a broader public, then what is important is
how new audiences are addressed, how knowledge circulates and
which social spaces and institutions are created and addressed.
Thus, criticism through the medium of the institution "art"
may have only just begun and we have to take the issue of the
messages of exhibitions seriously. So what are the opportunities,
possibilities and impossibilities of critical curating? How and
for whom are programmes shaped, which deviations from formats
change content?

Friday 26 March 2010
12.00 Welcome Rein Wolfs / Dorothee Richter, Introduction
12.30 Oliver Marchart, The Politics of Biennialisation
13.30 Dorothee Richter with Damian Jurt, Irene Grillo, Maren
Brauner, Postmodern Education. Round and Round it Goes, Where
it Stops Nobody Knows
14.30 Visit exhibition (WHITE REFORMATION CO-OP) MENS SANA IN
CORPORE SANO by Thomas Zipp at Kunsthalle Fridericianum
16.00 Maria Lind, Contemporary Art and its Institutional
Dilemmas
17.00 San Keller, Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Preview / Rein Wolfs
18.30 Carina Plath, From Curatorial Studies over Kunstverein
to Sculpture Projects and Museum. Curatorship between Liberties,
Conditions and Conservation
19.30 Panel 1, Curatorial Appeal: with a.o. Marysia Lewandowska,
Renée Padt (Konstfack, Stockholm), Lisa Le Feuvre (Goldsmith
College, London), Sissel Lillebostad (Creative Curating, Bergen,
Norway), Tim Brennan (University of Sunderland, MA Curating)

Saturday 27 March 2010
9.30 Welcome Rein Wolfs / Dorothee Richter, Introduction
10.00 Helmut Draxler, Ecstasy in Mediation
11.00 Axel Wieder, Institutions and Crisis
12.00 Giovanni Carmine / Hassan Khan, Possible Encounters
14.00 Stella Rollig, Legitimating
15.00 Stih & Schnock, Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes
16.30 Søren Grammel, A Series of Acts and Spaces
17.30 Panel 2, Educational Critique: How to Swot Curating
Hyunjoo Byeon, Lisa Boström, Övül Durmusoglu, Alhena Katsof,
Natalie Hope O’Donnell, Alessandra Sandrolini, Andrea Roca,
Adnan Yildiz. Moderators: Maja Ciric, Isin Onol
18.30 Comments & Conclusions

Location: documenta-Halle, Du-Ry-Straße, Kassel
Accreditation until 17 March 2010:
symposiumfridericianum-kassel.de

Fee for drinks, snacks and admission to Kunsthalle Fridericianum:
1 day: 15 Euro, students 10 Euro, free of charge with annual ticket
2 days: 25 Euro, students 15 Euro free of charge with annual ticket

Programme updates on www.fridericianum-kassel.de/symposium and
www.curating.org

Next application deadline for the Postgraduate Program in Curating,
ICS, Zurich University for the Arts: June 2010