Academy of the Arts of the World

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
@Studio Quentin Walesch

The Akademie der Künste der Welt is a cultural institution founded in Cologne in 2012 with an international focus and to which artists and cultural workers - especially non-Europeans - are appointed. It can be traced back to an idea of ​​the writer Navid Kermani and the director of the House of World Cultures, Bernd M. Scherer. The aim of the academy is to promote intercultural dialogue in the arts as a supplement to the existing range of art and culture in the city of Cologne.

History and profile

The idea for the Akademie der Künste der Welt dates back to 2007. It should be founded first in 2009 and then in 2010. Its installation was postponed due to the difficult situation of the municipal budget of the city of Cologne. For the first time , the city ​​council provided one million euros in the 2011 budget for implementation . This sum is updated annually. The project management lay with the former head of the cultural office, Jürgen Noldt, and his successor in office, Konrad Schmidt-Werther. The academy intends to cooperate with existing cultural institutions and existing structures in the city. With the help of a scholarship program, non-European artists, art theorists, art critics and curators in particular are invited to Cologne. Since July 2012 the Akademie der Künste der Welt has been an independent legal entity as a non-profit GmbH.

In 2012, a selection committee made up of Ralph Christoph (strategic director of the pop culture festival c / o pop ), Amelie Deuflhard (director of the Internationale Kulturfabrik Kampnagel ), Kasper König (curator), Jan Krauthäuser (music journalist and DJ), Louwrens Langevoort (director of Cologne Philharmonie ) and Regina Wyrwoll (former General Secretary of the Kunststiftung NRW ) the 14 founding members of the Academy of the Arts of the World: Ali Samadi Ahadi , Galit Eilat , Madhusree Dutta , Monika Gintersdorfer, Tom Holert , Liza Lim , Faustin Linyekula , Hans-Ulrich Obrist , Lemi Ponifasio , Walid Raad , Rosemarie Trockel , Stefan Weidner , Liao Yiwu and Tom Zé . New academy members are appointed by the respective members of the academy. The members have a predominantly non-European artistic background and decide on the selection of the scholarship holders who can then carry out their projects in Cologne. They also determine the program work. Each academician has his own project fund.

In addition to an extensive public event program, the program also includes an artists-in-residence program . Selected fellows can live and work in Cologne for a period of three months to one year . The academy also supports external best practice projects in the fields of migration and non-European art and migration, which are then advertised anew every year. Cultural and scientific institutions as well as artists of all branches and from all over the world can submit their projects, which must be realized in Cologne.

By reducing the annual budget by 40% to the current EUR 600,000, decided by the Cologne City Council in November 2017, the validity of the content of the academy is seriously jeopardized. Some of the academy members have therefore already resigned or have announced such a step.

Fellowship program

As part of the fellowship program , curators, contemporary artists and theorists from non-European countries are invited to Cologne, who are proposed and appointed by the academy members themselves. You can live and work in Cologne for between three and 12 months.

Young Academy

The Young Academy of the Arts of the World, one of the main pillars of the academy and platform for young artists' voices in Cologne, elected the first eleven members in March 2013. They are the pupils and students Arif Baynaz, Isabelle Houben, Marvin Ilonga, Naomi Khimji-Feld, Anna Kozikowski, Gerlin Mabanza, Anna Verena Müller, Walter Guilherme Benjamin Solon, Josephine Stamer, Julian Vethacke and Lena Wontorra. The Young Academy offers adolescents and young adults a creative platform to work together to develop artistic projects on music, dance, theater, literature, painting, visual art, etc. in the Cologne area. It is aimed at 16 to 25 year olds "who want to get involved artistically, socially and politically and who want to organize cultural events. The three guiding principles of the Junge Akademie are presentation of their own work, learning from others and passing on knowledge to others, and networking of the Cologne art scene ".

management

Artistic Director

The Israeli writer Galit Eilat was elected President of the Academy in October 2012 . Until March 2014 the artistic interim team consisted of Ekaterina Degot , Liza Lim and Tom Holert . Ekaterina Degot was elected Artistic Director in March 2014 for a period of two years. Ekaterina Degot took over the management of Styrian Autumn on January 1, 2018 . In mid-December 2017, the Indian filmmaker and founding member of the Madhusree Dutta Academy was appointed as the new Artistic Director, who took office on March 1, 2018. She is expected to shape the academy's artistic program until 2021.

Executive management

Members

Current members

  • Kader Attia , French artist
  • Ute Meta Bauer , German curator, professor and founding director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore
  • Binna Choi , South Korean curator
  • Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Bolivian-German author, editor and philosopher
  • Ekaterina Degot , Russian art historian, author and curator
  • Madhusree Dutta , Indian filmmaker and curator, founding member of the Academy
  • Monika Gintersdorfer, director and co-founder of Gintersdorfer / Klaßen , founding member of the academy
  • Inti Guerrero, art critic and curator
  • Nanna Heidenreich, German cultural scientist, since October 2016 Professor for Digital Narratives - Theory at the ifs international film school in Cologne
  • Soyoung Kim (aka Jeong Kim ), filmmaker and writer
  • Olivier Marboeuf, French author, critic and independent curator
  • Tienchi Martin-Liao , Chinese author and publicist
  • Lemi Ponifasio , choreographer and founder of the theater and dance company MAU, founding member of the academy
  • David Riff , writer, translator, artist and curator
  • Stefan Weidner , German author, translator and literary critic, founding member of the academy
  • Mi You, Chinese curator and researcher
  • Ala Younis Kuwaiti artist, curator and architect
  • Percy Zvomuya, author, journalist and critic

former members

  • Ali Samadi Ahadi , German director and screenwriter, founding member of the academy
  • Galit Eilat , Israeli freelance curator and founding director of The Israeli Center for Digital Art (DAL), founding member of the academy
  • Tom Holert , German art historian, publicist and artist, founding member of the academy
  • Liza Lim , Australian composer and philosopher, founding member of the Academy
  • Faustin Linyekula , choreographer and dance teacher, founding member of the academy
  • Hans-Ulrich Obrist , Swiss curator and author, founding member of the academy
  • Walid Raad , Lebanese artist and lecturer at the Cooper Union School of Art , founding member of the academy
  • Mark Terkessidis , German author, psychologist and pedagogue (involved in the conception of the academy as a member of the initiative group)
  • Terre Thaemlitz , American multimedia producer, writer, audio remixer and DJ
  • Rosemarie Trockel , German visual artist and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , founding member of the academy
  • Liao Yiwu , Chinese writer and poet, founding member of the academy
  • Tom Zé , Brazilian singer, composer, author and performance artist, founding member of the academy

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage Akademie der Künste der Welt Köln Chronik ( memento from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 30, 2012
  2. Karin Fischer, Mark Terkessidis: Sudden budget cut in Cologne. "The end of the academy as we know it so far". . Deutschlandfunk . November 7, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017.
  3. Homepage Academy of the Arts of the World Press release of March 19, 2013: The Young Academy of the Arts of the World is in the starting blocks: The first eleven members have been elected ( Memento of June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 19 kB), Retrieved April 6, 2013
  4. http://www.academycologne.org/fileadmin/presse/Neue%20Leitung%20und%20jahresprogramm%202014(dt).pdf Genealogie {Dead Link | url = http: //www.academycologne.org/fileadmin/presse/ New% 20Leitung% 20und% 20 Jahresprogramm% 202014 (dt) .pdf | date = 2018-12 | archivebot = 2018-12-02 13:01:01 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
  5. derStandard.at culture head of the day from April 7, 2017: Ekaterina Degot: A Russian woman with a great love for the fine arts , by Colette M. Schmidt , accessed on April 7, 2017
  6. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Kultur & Medien dated December 14, 2017: Akademie Der Künste: Dutta becomes director , by Michael Kohler , accessed on December 14, 2017
  7. Michael Kohler: Interview with Madhusree Dutta: "In Cologne everyone does their own thing". December 13, 2018, accessed on July 22, 2019 (German).
  8. ^ Academy of the Arts of the World Press release of December 19, 2013: Academy of the Arts of the World: Ms. Elke Moltrecht becomes the new managing director. The Academy has three new members ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 25, 2013
  9. KStA: Imke Itzen to the Academy of Arts of the world. April 17, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2019 (German).

Web links

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 55.5 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  E