Radical Receptionist* II
24.10.–08.11.2024
RR, the radical receptionist, is a special figure: she is inviting and mediating, she does not exhibit anything, but produces. She communicates, receives and takes care of the sum of all the actors that constitute the space: the lighting, the bar, the plug-play station, the mobile walls and furniture, etc. But RR is also a format conceived by Isabel Lewis and Ilse Lafer that invites visitors to the HGB Gallery to a different form of encounter and social interaction based on an open score of rehearsal-like events, teaching formats and events.More information tba.
The gallery of the Academy of Fine Art sees itself as a membrane between the interior and exterior of the institution. The gallery's aim is to supplement and extend both the teaching contents and practices of the various departments as well as making a contribution to current inquiries in the arts, thereby establishing connections between internal and external discussions and - being situated in the centre of the academy - offering a social and discursive place for carrying out such debates. In the framework of the academy's specific capabilities, the gallery affords students, lecturers, invited artists, curators and theoreticians an experimental and reflective form of exhibition practice that can incorporate, beyond the presentations themselves, the active involvement with the exhibition and the reworking and reformulating discursive material.