Score, Sketch, Script? The Infinite Art Conversation
03.12.24-30.01.25, Opening 12.12.24
Exhibition – Seminar – Talks
Who or what is really speaking when we talk with, through and about art? How does art communicate, both within and outside of academic conventions? Is this conversation merely a translation exercise, one that follows a mysterious script – stuttering, mumbling, pausing, or falling silent? Where is this conversation happening, and what is it really about? Something fleeting, fluid, radically uneconomical, or subjective? Something that continues silently – even as we eat or sleep – and could once again turn into art?
With works by: Lygia Clark, Moyra Davey, Michael Franz, Andrea Fraser, Ken Lum, Park McArthur, Ketty La Rocca, Georgie Nettell, Inka Meissner, Sam Pulitzer, Anne Speier, François Pain / Min Tanaka, Matteo Visentin, Frauke Zabel, Katarina Zdjelar
(artist)books/artifacts by: Marcel Broodthaers, Annika Bender, Moyra Davey, Mike Kelley/John Miller, Lee Lozano, Ima Abasi Okon, Ian Wilson, Amy Sillman
Talks with: Sabeth Buchmann, Amanda Carneiro, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Tanja Widmann
Screenings: tba
Exhibition seminar: Ilse Lafer, Marc Rölli with Michael Franz, Anna Lena von Helldorf, Inka Meißner, Frauke Zabel
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.