Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Press information Territories of the In/Human April 30 – August 1, 2010 Press Conference Thursday, April 29, 2010, 2:00 pm bankleer (D), Bernd Behr (D/UK), Frederico Câmara (BR/UK), Matilde Cassani (I), Lukas Einsele (D), Edgar Endress (CHL), Björn Franke (D/UK), Pia Fuchs (CND/D), Mariam Ghani (USA), Matthew Gottschalk (USA), Dagmar Keller / Martin Wittwer (D/CH), Iosif Kiraly (RO), Prince Tshime Kalumbwa (DRK), Anna Konik (PL), Aglaia Konrad (A/B), Korpys / Löffler (D), Elke Marhöfer (D), Christine Meisner (D), Olivier Menanteau (F), Monika Oechsler (D/UK), p. t. t. red (D), Danilo Prnjat (SRB), Dubravka Sekulić (SRB), Helene Sommer (N/D), Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag (D), Krassimir Terziev (BG), Lan Tuazon (RP/USA), Nomeda und Gediminas Urbonas (LT) Artur Żmijewski (PL) An exhibition by Akademie Schloss Solitude in cooperation with Württembergischer Kunstverein In the framework of 20 Years Akademie Schloss Solitude! / Design of the (In-)Human The project From April 30 to August 1, 2010 the Württembergischer Kunstverein will be showing, together with the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the exhibition Territories of the In/Human in celebration of the twenty-year anniversary of the Akademie’s founding. With this exhibition, the Kunstverein is following this year’s thematic focus at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, namely, the question as to how pervasive concepts of the human and inhuman have become. The twenty-year history of the Akademie Schloss Solitude coincides with a series of far-reaching political, social, economic, and cultural upheavals: from the disintegration of the communist and socialist states, to the establishment of new borders and enemy stereotypes, to significant changes in structures of information and communication. While in the early nineteen-nineties the triumphant success of Western models of democracy and free market economy were still being celebrated, it soon became evident that its promises of never-ending peace and prosperity for all were not going to prove sustainable: in face of wars such as those in former Yugoslavia, Africa, Afghanistan, or Iraq; an ever expanding divide between wealth and poverty; the scramble for natural resources like water, oil, and gas; or the bursting of diverse economic bubbles, not least in the context of the most recent collapse of the financial and real-estate markets. The accelerated and apparently boundless mobility of people, goods, information, or capital flows—as has been conjured in the scope of rhetorics of progress within the age of globalization—goes hand in hand with those fatal acts of inclusion and exclusion to which nearly half a million people have fallen prey over the past two decades on trails of migration. “If in the system of the nation-state,’’ writes G i orgio Agamben, “the refugee represents such a disquieting element, it is above all because by breaking up the identity between man and citizen, between nativity and nationality, the refugee throws into crisis the original fiction of sovereignty.” It is against this backdrop that the exhibition of the Kunstverein sets out to explore questions pertaining to concepts of the human and inhuman. Being shown are works from around thirty Solitude scholarship recipients, both current and former—works created between the nineteen-nineties and today. Taking a central role here is an exploration of spatial and societal acts of inclusion and exclusion that have proven inherent to the concept of the modern man. The dichotomies of human and inhuman, subject and object, norm and deviation, guilt and innocence are critically questioned with similar intensity as are the open and hidden structures of violence within the struggle to secure a position within a shifting world order. Continuing along these lines is an exhibition focus on patterns of angst and control, on concepts of functionality or on hierarchical patterns—including how these are inscribed in the territories of the private and the public. The objective of the exhibition does not—and cannot feasibly—include an exhaustive negotiation of the question as to how pervasive concepts of the human and inhuman have become. It moreover attempts to treat selected aspects of this complex and sweeping radius of problematic issues. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive lecture and film program. In the fall of 2010 a performance series will be held at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, likewise commemorating twenty years of the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Artists bankleer, Karin Käsbock (*1969) and Christoph Leitner (*1968), Berlin Fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2003/04 Bernd Behr (*1976 in Hamburg), London Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2009/11 Frederico Câmara (*1971 in Governador Valadares, Brazil), London Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2002/03 Matilde Cassani (*1980 in Domodossola, Italien) Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2010/11 Lukas Einsele (*1963), Mannheim Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 1997/98 Edgar Endress (*1970 in Osorno, Chile), Santiago de Chile Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2004 Björn Franke (*1975 in Cuxhaven), London Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2009/10 Pia Fuchs (German ID of Patricia Reed) (*1977 in Ottawa), Berlin Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2003/05 Mariam Ghani (*1978 in New York), New York Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2006/07 Matthew Gottschalk (*1979 in Fortuna, USA) Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2009/11 Prince Tshime Kalumbwa (*1983 in Lubumbashi, Kongo) Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2010/11 Dagmar Keller / Martin Wittwer, Dagmar Keller (*1972 in Donaueschingen) and Martin Wittwer (*1969 in Lausanne), Düsseldorf Fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2006/07 Iosif Király (*1957 in Resita, Rumänien), Bukarest Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 1997/98 Anna Konik (*1974 in Lubliniec, Poland), Berlin, Warsaw and Dobrodzień Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2003/04 Aglaia Konrad (*1960 in Salzburg), Brussel Jury at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2000/01 Korpys/Löffler, Andree Korpys (*1966 in Bremen) and Markus Löffler (*1963 in Bremen), Bremen and Berlin Fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 1999 Elke Marhöfer (*1967 in Adenau), Berlin Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2003/04 Christine Meisner (*1970 in Nürnberg), Berlin Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2002/03 Olivier Menanteau (*1956), Paris Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2002/03 Monika Oechsler (*in Munich), London Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2002 Danilo Prnjat (*1982 in Herceg Novi, Montenegro), Belgrad, Serbia p.t.t.red, Stefan Micheel (*1955 in Bochum) and Hans Winkler (*1955 in Rott am Inn) Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2000 Dubravka Sekulić (*1980 in Niš, Serbia) Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2008 Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (*1965 in Lübeck), Berlin Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude für Komposition: 1999/2000 Helene Sommer (*1978 in Oslo), Oslo, Berlin Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2007/09 Krassimir Terziev (*1969 in Dobritch, Bulgaria), Sofia Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2005/06 Lan Tuazon (*1976 in Mabalacat, Philippinen), New York Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2009/11 Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas (*1968, *1966), Vilnius Fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2002 Artur Zmijewski (*1966 in Warsaw), Waraw Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude: 2002 Territories of the In/Human April 30 – August 1, 2010 Press contact WKV Iris Dressler: Fon: +49 (0)711 – 22 33 711 / [email protected] Presse images and -information http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/press DATES Press conference Thursday, April 29, 2010, 2:00 pm Opening Thursday, April 29, 2010, 8:30 pm Artist’s talk and tour (English) Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30 pm With: Matthew Gottschalk, Anna Konik, Christine Meisner, Olivier Menanteau, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Lan Tuazon Curator’s talk Thursday, May 20, 2010, 7:00 pm With: Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ, Philip Ursprung, Jean-Baptiste Joly Lecture and film program June and July 2010 More information will follow soon INFO / CREDITS Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart Schlossplatz 2, 70173 Stuttgart Fon: +49 (0)711 - 22 33 70 / Fax: +49 (0)711 - 29 36 17 [email protected] / www.wkv-stuttgart.de Hours Tue, Thu–Sun: 11 am – 6 pm; Wed: 11 am – 8 pm An exhibition by Akademie Schloss Solitude in cooperation with Württembergischer Kunstverein In the framework of 20 Years Akademie Schloss Solitude! / Design of the (In-)Human Idea Philip Ursprung Concept and Curated by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler Lenders Die KünstlerInnen; Art Station Foundation Poznan; Galerie Foksal, Warschau; Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Galerie Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe; Stiftung MUSEION. Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen; Galerie Nadia Vilenne, Lüttich Supported by Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg Kulturamt der Stadt Stuttgart Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg
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