Art space of the University of Lüneburg

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The art space of the University of Lüneburg is a cross-faculty facility of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in the field of contemporary art . Since it was renamed in 2007, the now full name has been the Kunstraum of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

history

The art space was founded in 1993 by an interdisciplinary group of scientists from the University of Lüneburg, which is still in charge of the artistic and scientific direction to this day. This group includes the art historian Beatrice von Bismarck , the mathematician Diethelm Stoller (retired since 2005) and the sociologist Ulf Wuggenig (current university director of the art space).

The opening exhibition under the title Services took place in January 1994 in a former bakery in Lüneburg's Feldstrasse. The curators of the first exhibition were the American artist Andrea Fraser and the art theorist Helmut Draxler, then director of the Munich Art Association . The design for the logo of the art space, which is still used today, comes from the Viennese artist Gerwald Rockenschaub . In the initial phase, the Lower Saxony Foundation supported the activities of the art space, which as an institution is institutionally independent of the faculties, but is integrated into the cultural studies programs of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in teaching.

As part of the conversion of the former Scharnhorst barracks into a university, the Kunstraum was able to move into new exhibition, archive and work rooms in Hall 25 and Building 7 of the new campus in 1998, a part of which ten years later as part of the spatial concentration of Leuphana University had to be given up again. Heike Munder (today director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst ) and Bernd Milla (today director of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg ) took over the original rooms in Feldstrasse . As a student and as a participant in art space projects, you had the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e. V. founded. The involvement of students in the interdisciplinary project work of artists, curators and scientists within the framework of research-based teaching is a characteristic feature of the art space up to the present day.

The redesign of the art space in Hall 25 of the university carried out by the architects and artists group nOffice was presented to the public in May 2011 with the award of the Daniel Frese Prize for contemporary art .

Content of the work

A common theoretical basis of the founding members is the assumption of a continuity of art and science. To this end, the three founders - they are both active as curators and scholars - refer to Pierre Bourdieu , Nelson Goodman , Thomas S. Kuhn and Howard S. Becker .

The nineties of the 20th century in the art space were on the one hand characterized by the collaboration with artistic representatives of institutional critique and conceptual art . They include artists such as Andrea Fraser , Renée Green, Clegg & Guttmann , Christian Philipp Müller and Hans-Peter Feldmann . On the other hand, projects with artists from France such as Christian Boltanski and Fabrice Hybert were realized. Hans-Ulrich Obrist , whose archive the Kunstraum housed from 1999 to 2008, acted as guest curator . At the beginning of the 21st century, the media theorist and conceptual artist Peter Weibel and the Deleuze- oriented philosopher Gerald Raunig contributed to the theoretical concept with impulses. Together with Raunig and the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP) in Vienna, several projects were implemented from 2001 to 2008 that were financially supported in the Culture 2000 program of the EU funding programs . In this way, the art space of the University of Lüneburg was able to strengthen its international orientation at the institutional level. In this context, it was possible to promote the interdisciplinary exchange between art, theory and science that has been sought since the foundation and make it public.

During this time, he worked with Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack , who later jointly directed documenta 12, which was shown in 2007 . Buergel and Noack curated the exhibition Forms of Organization , shown in the Kunstraum in July 2003 , in which works by thirteen artists were shown. Buergel and Noack invited ten of these artists to documenta 12 four years later. Buergel and Noack began the project The Government in November 2003 with an exhibition that was later shown at MACBA Barcelona, ​​Miami Art Central, the Vienna Secession and Witte de With Rotterdam. With one exception, all artists from forms of organization also took part in The Government ; the group of participants was expanded to include 23 artists or artist collectives. Sixteen of the participating artists were also invited to documenta 12 by Buergel and Noack.

The collaboration with Franz Schultheis and the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation has also started. The cooperation with this foundation resulted in exhibitions, symposia and publications on visuality and the photographic practice of Pierre Bourdieu , partly together with the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Questions of colonialism and post-colonialism was devoted to a. a long-term project with the painter Dierk Schmidt using the example of the Berlin Conference on Africa. The thematic expansion of the projects in the art space is also evident in the attempt made jointly with Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann to build on the visual language program of Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz , the pioneers of the interplay between social science and avant-garde art as well as visual art, which has been revived in the art space Communication . With artists like Dan Peterman and Fabrice Hybert as well as environmental scientists from the university, the art space took up the discourse of sustainability . The thematic expansion of recent times includes critical impulses for the creativity discourse, with the participation of representatives of critical theory , postoperaism and cultural studies . The wiki project Conceptual Paradise with Stefan Römer , which was pursued for several years, followed the focus in the field of conceptual art .

Exhibitions / projects (selection)

  • 1994: The Open Public Library in Hamburg , with Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann
  • 1994 Services , with Andrea Fraser and Helmut Draxler
  • 1995: The grandparents ' archives , with Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  • 1996: Import / Export Funk Office - Digital Transformation , with Renée Green
  • 1996 Public / Private , with Thomas Locher and Peter Zimmermann
  • 1997: Revisions of Abstract Expressionism , with Roger M. Buergel, Ruth Noack, Stefanie-Vera Kockot
  • 1997: Testoo® sample , with Fabrice Hybert and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  • 1998: The campus as a work of art , with Christian Philipp Müller - a permanent installation
  • 1999: Interarchive , with Hans-Peter Feldmann and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • 2001: Service: Escape aid , with Martin Krenn and Oliver Ressler
  • 2000: Treibhaus , with Dan Peterman
  • 2003: Vivre en POF , with Fabrice Hybert
  • 2004: The government. Actions that take action , with Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack
  • 2005: Economies of Misery. Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria , with Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli
  • 2006: Making Worlds <reform break> , with Marion von Osten
  • 2007: "The division of the earth" - Tableaux on legal synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference , with Dierk Schmidt
  • 2010: Conceptual Paradise - the studio of interest , with Stefan Römer
  • 2008: Moirés , with Astridwege
  • 2011: Demanding Supplies , with Julia Moritz
  • 2013: Front, Field, Line, Plane , with Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Jeff Derksen)
  • 2014: Art and its Frames - Continuity and Change , Symposium with Beatrice von Bismarck , Julia Bryan-Wilson, Helmut Draxler, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green , Hannes Loichinger, Sven Lütticken, John Miller, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, André Rottmann, Stefan Römer, Simon Sheikh and Ulf Wuggenig

Literature (selection)

  • Achim Könneke, cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in cooperation with the art space of the University of Lüneburg (ed.): Clegg & Guttmann. The open library . Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1994
  • Beatrice von Bismarck, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Games, Fights, Collaborations. The game of border and crossing . Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1996
  • Diethelm Stoller, Klaus Werner , Jan Winkelmann (eds.): Oumeurt No. 3. Testoo sample fair . Messe Verlag, Leipzig 1997
  • Beatrice von Bismarck, Thomas Locher, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig, Peter Zimmermann (eds.): Public / Private . Richter, Düsseldorf 1998
  • Beatrice von Bismarck, Diethelm Stoller, Astridwege, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Branding the Campus. Art, architecture, design, identity politics . Richter, Düsseldorf 2001
  • Beatrice von Bismarck, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Interarchive. Archival practices and spaces for action in the contemporary art field . König, Cologne 2002
  • Christoph Behnke, Anna Schlosser, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Atlas. Spaces in Subjunctive . Publishing house for science and contemporary art, Lüneburg 2004
  • Gerald Raunig, Ulf Wuggenig (Ed.): Publicum . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2005
  • Gerald Raunig, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Critique of creativity . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2007
  • Beatrice von Bismarck, Therese Kaufmann, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): After Bourdieu: Visuality, Art and Politics, Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008
  • Art space of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Astrid Weg (ed.): Moirés. Andreas Fogarasi, Katya Sander, Urtica . Publishing house for science and contemporary art, Lüneburg 2009
  • Lotte Arndt, Clemens Krümmel, Dierk Schmidt, Hemma Schmutz, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): The division of the earth - Tableaux on legal synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference . König, Cologne 2010
  • Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Ulf Wuggenig (Eds.): Critique of Creativity . MayFlyBooks, London 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hall for Art Lüneburg
  2. ↑ Participants of forms of organization who were also invited to d12: Ibon Aranberri, Andreas Siekmann, Peter Friedl, Ines Doujak, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Sanja Ivekovic, Alejandra Riera, Dierk Schmidt, Simon Wachsmuth. Only Latifa Echakhch , Rainer Oldendorf and Lisl Ponger were not invited. Project website forms of organization
  3. ↑ The following 16 d-12 participants later took part in the exhibition: Ibon Aranberri, Maja Bajevic, Alice Creischer, Ines Doujak, Harun Farocki, Peter Friedl, Andrea Geyer, Dmitri Gutov, Sanja Ivekovic, Florian Pumhösl, Alejandra Riera, Dierk Schmidt , Allan Sekula, Andreas Siekmann, Tucuman Arde and Simon Wachsmuth. A total of 23 artists participated in the exhibition The Government, i. H. only seven of the participants (Maya Deren, Patrick Faigenbaum , Jean-Luc Godard, Emily Jacir, Jocelyne Lemaire-Darnaud, Rainer Oldendorf, Lisl Ponger) were not later invited to the d12. Project website The government
  4. ^ Announcement from the art space of the Leuphana University Lüneburg from June 6th, 2011: The line in the word studio is a reference from the artist Römer to the philosopher Derrida .