Tom Holert

Tom Holert (* 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian, publicist, curator and artist. He lives and works in Berlin .

Career

Holert studied art history , modern German literature and philosophy in Hamburg and Paris . In 1995 he received his doctorate in art history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2000 he founded the Institute for Studies in Visual Culture (ISVC, 2000–2015) with Mark Terkessidis . From 1992 to 1996 he was editor of Texts on Art (Cologne), from 1996 to 1999 editor and co-editor of Spex (Cologne). From the 2006/2007 winter semester to the 2011 summer semester, Holert taught and researched at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , with a focus on art as the production of knowledge. From 2012 to 2017 he was a founding member of the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. In autumn 2015 he and others founded the Harun Farocki Institute in Berlin.

Focus

As an art historian and art critic, Holert orientates himself on socio-historical and post-structuralist approaches, and since the late 1980s there has been an increased involvement of Anglo-American cultural studies and visual cultural studies, which also informs his work as a pop music critic. In the reconstruction of theories of artistic competence in the French 18th and early 19th centuries in the course of his dissertation "Artist Knowledge" (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 1995; as a book 1998) the interest in questions of knowledge processes and knowledge politics is based in the fine arts. Further topics, u. a .: Genealogies of glamor, politics and technologies of the military image, city and migration, the visual culture of the pedagogical, architectures of teaching and research, history and criticism of psychometrics.

Publications

Holert made contributions to anthologies of cultural theory and art catalogs etc. a. on the occasion of exhibitions by Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij , Nicole Wermers , Bettina Pousttchi , Katja Davar , Mathias Poledna , Mark Lewis , Peter Zimmermann , Jeanne Faust , Sanja Iveković , Omer Fast , Stephen Willats , Julian Göthe , Wolfgang Tillmans , Mirjam Thomann , Július Koller , Wendelien van Oldenburgh, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Thomas Bayrle, James Rosenquist and Danica Dakić . He wrote art-critical and cultural-theoretical essays for various periodicals such as texts on art , Artforum , Camera Austria , taz , Bidoun, Süddeutsche Zeitung , Jungle World , e-flux journal , Literatures , Der Freitag , Pop. Culture + criticism, Westend. New journal for social research and cargo. Film / media / culture .

Artistic work

Holert u. a. involved in "Mimétisme" (Extra City, Antwerp, 2007), "Manifesta 7" (Trento 2008), "Fake or Feint" (Berlin 2009), "Modernologies" (MACBA, Barcelona, ​​2009, and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw , 2010), "8th Gwangju Biennale" (Gwangju, South Korea, 2010), "Forum Expanded" (Berlinale, 2011), "Animism" (House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2012; e-flux, New York, 2012; OCAT, Shenzen, 2013), "Escape Transparency" (Vienna Biennial, MAK, 2015).

Exhibitions as a curator

The exhibitions curated by Holert include "The Future Has a Silver Lining. Genealogies of Glamor" (with Heike Munder); Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich (2004); "PALINDROM. Above and below with Rex Whistler & Friends" (with Michael Dreyer), Hermes and the Pfau, Stuttgart (2009); "Learning Laboratories: Architecture, Instructional Technology, and the Social Production of Pedagogical Space Around 1970", bak (basis voor actuele kunst), Utrecht (2016–2017); "Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, approx. 1930" (with Anselm Franke), HKW, Berlin (2018).

Fonts (selection)

• Ed. With Mark Terkessidis : Mainstream of the minorities. Pop in the control society. Berlin: Ed. ID archive 1996. ISBN 3-89408-059-0
• Artist knowledge. Studies on the semantics of artistic competence in France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Munich: Wilhelm Fink 1998. ISBN 978-3-7705-3181-3
• Ed. Imagineering. Visual culture and politics of visibility. Cologne: Oktagon 2000. ISBN 978-3-89611-094-7
• With Mark Terkessidis: unlocked. War as a mass culture in the 21st century . Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2002. ISBN 978-3-462-03163-8
• With Mark Terkessidis: Centrifugal Force: Society on the move - by migrants and tourists . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2006. ISBN 3-462-03743-9
• Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife [One Work]. London and Cambridge, MA: Afterall / MIT Press 2007. ISBN 978-1-84638-029-7
• Governing in the pictorial space . Berlin: b-books. 2008. ISBN 3-933557-79-8
• Edited with Marion von Osten: The educational picture: To the visual culture of the pedagogical . Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor 2010. ISBN 978-3-85160-183-1
• With Petja Dimitrova, Eva Egermann, Jens Kastner and Johanna Schaffer: Regime: How dominance is organized and expression is formalized . Münster: edition assemblage 2012. ISBN 978-3-942885-11-9
• Deadwood . Zurich and Berlin: diaphanes 2013. ISBN 978-3-03734-383-8
• Assaults. States and responsibilities of contemporary art . Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts 2014. ISBN 978-3-86572-688-9
• Edited with Carola Dertnig, Diedrich Diederichsen, Johannes Porsch, Johanna Schaffer, Stefanie Seibold, Axel Stockburger: Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts . Berlin: Sternberg Press 2014. ISBN 978-3-95679-020-1
• Edited with Maria Hlavajova: Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists' Practice) . Utrecht / Amsterdam: bak (basis voor actuele kunst) / Valiz 2017. ISBN 978-94-92095-14-5
• Edited with Anselm Franke: Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, ca.1930 . Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes 2018. ISBN 978-3-0358-0119-4 ; engl. Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 . ISBN 978-3-0358-0106-4
• Knowledge Beside Itself. Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics . Berlin: Sternberg Press 2020. ISBN 978-3-943365-97-9
• Ed. With House of World Cultures: Education shock. Learning, Politics, and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s . Berlin: De Gruyter 2020. ISBN 978-3-11-070126-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Tom Holert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ricostruzione Disertori / Libera, Manifesta 7
• Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne
• Tom Holert, perlentaucher.de
• Tom Holert academia.edu
• Harun Farocki Institute