OnCurating Issue 20 and Issue 21 out now !

OnCurating Issue 21  (New) Institution(alism)
Launch at Museum Bärengasse / Gasthaus zum Bären, Zurich 14th of May at 7 PM.

The On Curating Issue 21 (New) Institution(alism) centers on New Institutionalism as a self-reflexive artistic-curatorial practice in institutions, whose conditions, structures and implications resonate in the contemporary organization of art. Through the contributions assembled here, guest editors Lucie Kolb and Gabriel Flückiger focus on the critical approaches to thinking and speaking about the institutional organization of art that are at the root of New Institutionalism, and not least ask fundamental questions about the social potential of contemporary art institutions. The issue is an output resulting from the thematic focus ‘institutional studies’ at the Competence Center Art and Public Spheres at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art and Design.

With contributions by
Liesbeth Bik (Bik Van der Pol), Jonas Ekeberg, Charles Esche, Alex Farquharson, Lucie Kolb & Gabriel Flückiger, Maria Lind, Rachel Mader, Vanessa Joan Müller & Astrid Wege (European Kunsthalle), Felix Vogel.

Editors
Lucie Kolb & Gabriel Flückiger

Supported by
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art & Design,
Competence Center for Art in Public Spheres,


Postgraduate Programme in Curating,
Institute for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts, www.curating.org

OnCurating Issue 20 Total Abstraction


This issue of OnCurating, Total Abstraction began as one of the manifestations of the Zurich episode of the exhibition project Abstract Possible. The Zurich Test, curated by Maria Lind mediated and produced by students of the ZHdK Postgraduate Programme in Curating, which was held at White Space in Zurich between May and June 2011. The exhibition project Abstract Possible intended to explore different key characteristics of abstraction – intended as formal, economic and as “withdrawal”.
Initially intended as strictly developing the topic of formal abstraction, which was addressed in the Zurich show by artists Wade Guyton and Tommy Støckel, this issue of OnCurating has grown into a broader reflection, incorporating the urgent theme of funding, ethics, and precarity in the art world.
Editors
Amber Hickey, Dorothee Richter, Lindsey V. Sharman, Silvia Simoncelli
Contributors
Liam Gillick, Goldin+Senneby, Wade Guyton, Amber Hickey, Maria Lind, Damian Navarro, Roberto Nigro, Véronique Ribordy, Dorothee Richter, Meyer Shapiro, Lindsey V. Sharman, Silvia Simoncelli, Tommy Støckel, Stefan Wagner

Interviews conducted by
Melanie Büchel, Marina Lopes Coelho, Silvia Simoncelli
supported by Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ICS, DKV, ZHdK
www.curating.org __ Next Application Deadline 31st of May 2014