Summer Academy Foundation at the Paul Klee Center
| Summer Academy Foundation at the Paul Klee Center (SAK) |
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| Legal form: | Private foundation |
| Purpose: | Further and advanced training for artists, curators and authors |
| Chair: | Jean-Claude Nobili (President) |
| Managing directors: | Jacqueline Burckhardt (Director) |
| Consist: | since 2005 |
| Founder: | Berner Kantonalbank |
| Seat: |
Bern , Switzerland
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| Website: | www.sommerakademie.zpk.org |
The Summer Academy Foundation at the Paul Klee Center in Bern is a private foundation that was established in 2005 by the Bern Cantonal Bank . It is not tied to a specific educational system and defines its existence by offering a group of international participants, artists , curators and authors the opportunity to experience time and space together in order to focus on fundamental questions and ideas. The exchange stimulates the professional situation and supports the developable and relevant work. The summer academy took place annually for ten days in August from 2006 to 2016.
founding
When the initiators of the Zentrum Paul Klee looked for founding partners in 2002 and also turned to the Berner Kantonalbank, what they had in common was their commitment to training and further education. The Berner Kantonalbank trains a quarter of all apprentices in the banking sector in the canton of Bern , and the Paul Klee Center "promotes ... the engagement with art through various media and the encounter of those interested in art and culture". The summer academy that has arisen from this connection is primarily intended to provide young artists with a range of training opportunities on the one hand, but also to promote art communication to the public on the other. The aim of the commitment was and is to ensure that the summer academy will run until 2016. The summer academy was opened in June 2005, and the first academy was held in the summer of 2006.
Program and participation
The academy, which takes place every year in August, lasted ten days and was headed by a guest curator newly elected by the specialist committee. He chose the annual theme and invited the guest speakers. A jury made up of the guest curator, the management and the specialist committee selected twelve fellows to participate. Applicants should be no more than 35 years old and have a degree from an art academy or proof of comparable performance. Around one hundred and fifty international nominators (artists, curators, critics, alumni of the Summer Academy, etc.) were able to propose a participant each year. Free applications were also allowed. The academy program consisted of workshops , lectures and excursions. Depending on the annual theme, the Summer Academy entered into partnerships with local and regional partner organizations. The public was involved through a supporting program consisting of demonstrations and lectures.
organization structure
During the first three years, the summer academy was headed by Norberto Gramaccini, Professor of Early Art History at the Institute for Art History at the University of Bern , followed from 2009 by Jacqueline Burckhardt , art historian and critic. The board of trustees consisted of seven members, the president was Jean-Claude Nobili. The management was led by Barbara Mosca from 2009, from 2010 in cooperation with Caroline Komor. The nominators were elected by the management and the technical committee and could propose a participant every year.
Summer academies 2006–2016
2006
The first edition of the Summer Academy under the title “Experiments in Pop. Departure into a new everyday life ”was led by Diedrich Diederichsen , Laura Hoptman and Marina Warner. The theme was everyday and popular culture in contemporary art. An exhibition with one to three works of art by the participants examined the term popular in relation to the artistic practice of the fellows (Hoptman 2006: 30). In addition to the public exhibition, workshops were held, led by the curators and the guest speakers.
2007
The second summer academy was directed by Brigitte Felderer and Herbert Lachmayer . The exhibition was about the everyday spectacle of an increasingly medialized world, the situations of which the museum visitor creates and experiences at the same time ("Spectacle and situation. Can artistic spontaneity be staged in the media?"). The topic was embedded in the program of the Zentrum Paul Klee , which this year included the exhibition 'Paul Klee. Theater staged everywhere. The academy program was supplemented by a public supporting program with lectures, performances, lectures and discussions.
2008
The curators of the 2008 Summer Academy were Clémentine Deliss and Oscar Tuazon . The title "dragged down into lowercase" was taken from a song text by Elliot Smith (Fear City, 2007) (Deliss, Tuazon, 2008: 4) and turns the classic way of exhibiting in museums on its head by placing works of art not in relation to a space or the landscape in which they are located, but can stand for themselves. The exhibition was shown in an underground structure designed by Tuazon in the vicinity of the Zentrum Paul Klee, which provides references to archaeological excavations , crypts , cellars, bunkers , but also to unexplored underground material.
2009
Tirdad Zolghadr was the curator of the 2009 Summer Academy. The title "Internal Necessity" refers to a concept by Wassily Kandinsky , which he presented in his work On the Spiritual in Art . In 2009, for the first time, no exhibition of the Fellows' work was shown. The academy took place in mobile rooms designed by Ethan Breckendrigde .
2010
Jan Verwoert (* 1972) curated the Summer Academy 2010. The topic was the implementation of the collaborative art production "When your lips are my ears, our bodies become radios". Inspired by the open discussion atmosphere of an imagined ancient Greek stoa , an attempt was made to dispense with an ideological codification. As in 2009, there was no exhibition this year. Instead, daily productions were produced in a joint decision-making process , which were published by the local radio station Radio RaBe , in the Berner Zeitung BZ and on eight advertising pillars in the city of Bern. In the Zentrum Paul Klee, these daily productions were presented on a display wall and made accessible at audio stations.
2011
The 2011 Summer Academy with the title “Juicy Contaminated Circle. From art to life and back ”was curated by Pipilotti Rist in collaboration with Franziska Dürr. The theme was the cycle that runs back to art between art, mediation and the public (Rist, Burckhardt 2011: 5). All participants filled specially constructed showcases with works produced on the topic.
2012
The 2012 Summer Academy was curated by Marta Kuzma. The title "Tin Soldiers and Nixon coming" refers to the song Ohio by Neil Young , which deals with the shooting of four students at Kent State University in 1970. The Jura-Paris trip undertaken by Marcel Duchamp in 1912 on the eve of the First World War, which among other things dealt with compulsory military service and the mechanization of life, spanned the current political events in summer 2012 such as the Arab Spring .
2013
In 2013 the summer academy was entitled “You are HERE. Here is wherever I lay my head ”and was directed by the South African artist and curator Sue Williamson . The topic explored the practice of internationally active artists and curators in a globalized world.
2014
For the 2014 Summer Academy, the Lithuanian guest curator Raimundas Malašauskas referred to the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rohrschach for his topic “HR” . The pipe shaft test named after him inspired Malašauskas to let the group of fellows he led look for connections between art and science.
2015
In 2015, the tenth edition of the Summer Academy was directed by the Egyptian musician, artist and curator Hassan Khan. Under the title “Teaser”, various questions about modernity, context, form, function and content of artistic practice were explored by the fellows and speakers.
2016
The eleventh and last academy took place in this form in 2016. Under the direction of guest curator Thomas Hirschhorn , the question “Where am I? What do I want? ”Asked. The renowned Swiss artist was a speaker at the first summer academy in 2006. With his program, Hirschhorn called on the Fellows to ask themselves what they consider to be an essential question for an artist about their own position, their own point of view, and how this is implemented and made visible in the respective practice.
Web links
literature
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (Ed.): Experiments in Pop. Departure into a new everyday life . Edition Atelier Bern, Diedrich Diederichsen / Laura Hoptman / Marina Warner, Hofstetten 2006.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (ed.): Spectacle and Situation. Can artistic spontaneity be staged in the media? . Edition Atelier Bern, Brigitte Felderer / Herbert Lachmayer, Hofstetten 2007.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (Ed.): Dragged down into lowercase . Edition Atelier Bern, Clémentine Deliss / Oscar Tuazon, Hofstetten 2008.
- Stiftung Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee (Ed.): Internal Necessity: a Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field , Tirdad Zolghadr, Bern 2009.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (Ed.): Notes on Collaborative Production. Summer Academy in the Paul Klee Center, Jan Verwoert , Bern 2010.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (ed.): Juicy Contaminated Circle - From Art To Life And Back , Bern, Pipilotti Rist, 2011.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (ed.): Afterlives , Marta Kuzma, Bern, 2012.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (ed.): HERE , Sue Williamson, Bern, 2013.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (ed.): HR , Bern, Raimundas Malašauskas, 2014.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (ed.): Twelve Clues , Hassan Khan, Bern 2015.
- Summer Academy Foundation in the Paul Klee Center (Ed.): Archive Notes , Thomas Hirschhorn, Bern 2016.