Kunstraum of Lüneburg University

The art room at the University of Lüneburg, in the field of contemporary art, a cross-faculty institution of the University of Lüneburg. Since its renaming in 2007 is now full name art space of the University of Lüneburg.

History

The Art Space was founded in 1993 by an interdisciplinary group of scientists from the University of Lüneburg, holds the artistic and scientific management today. This group includes:

  • Art historian Beatrice von Bismarck (since 1999 at the School of Visual Arts, Leipzig)
  • Mathematician Diethelm Stoller ( retired since 2005 )
  • Sociologist Ulf Wuggenig (current head of the university art space ).

The opening exhibition, entitled Services found in January 1994 in a former bakery in the Lüneburg field road instead. Curators of the exhibition were the first American artist Andrea Fraser and art theorist Helmut Draxler, then director of the Kunstverein Munich. The design for the logo used today of the art space comes from the Viennese artist Rockenschaub. In the initial phase, the Foundation of Lower Saxony supported the activities of the art space, which is included as a means institutionally independent of the faculties, but in teaching in the cultural studies programs of the University of Lüneburg.

As part of the conversion of the former Scharnhorst barracks in a university art space was in 1998 relate new exhibition, archive and working spaces in Hall 25 and Building 7 of the new campus, of which ten years later a part in the course of the spatial concentration of Leuphana University had to be abandoned. The original spaces in the field road took Heike Munder (now director of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art) and Bernd Milla ( now Managing Director of the Arts Foundation of Baden- Württemberg). They were founded as a student, as well as participants in art space projects 1995, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV. The involvement of students in the interdisciplinary project work of artists, curators and scientists in the context of research-based teaching is an up to the present characteristic feature of the art space.

The study conducted by the architect and artist group nOffice transformation of the art space in Hall 25 of the University was introduced in May 2011 with the competition on the Daniel Frese Prize for Contemporary Art to the public.

Contents of the work

A common theoretical basis of the founding members, the assumption of continuity of art and science. For this purpose, called the three founders - they are also active as curators and as a scientist - to Pierre Bourdieu, Nelson Goodman, Thomas S. Kuhn, and Howard S. Becker.

The nineties of the 20th century were marked both in the art world of the artistic collaboration with 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 as Christian Boltanski and Fabrice Hybert were realized. As a guest curator acted Hans- Ulrich Obrist, whose archive of the art space from 1999 to 2008 housed. With the beginning of the 21st century media theorist and conceptual artist Peter Weibel and oriented to Deleuze philosopher Gerald Raunig contributed pulses for theoretical concept. Together with Raunig and the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies ( eipcp ) in Vienna, several projects were implemented from 2001 to 2008, the 2000 program of the EU funding programs have been funded in Culture. In this way, the art room at the University of Lüneburg was able to strengthen its international focus at the institutional level. In this context, it was possible to promote the targeted since the establishment of interdisciplinary exchange between art, theory and science and to make it public.

In this time the collaboration with Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack, who together form the documentation shown 2007 12 initiated later falls. Buergel and Noack curated the exhibition forms shown in the July 2003 Art Space of the organization, have been shown in the work of thirteen artists. Ten of these artists invited Buergel and Noack four years later also to documenta 12. Buergel and Noack started the project, the government in November 2003 with an exhibition, which was later also shown at MACBA Barcelona, ​​at Miami Art Central, in the Vienna Secession and the Witte de With, Rotterdam. With one exception, all artists of forms of organization also participated in the government; group of participants was extended to 23 artists and artist collectives. Of the sixteen artists participating artists were invited to documenta 12 of Buergel and Noack.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011: Demanding Supplies - inquiring deals with Julia Moritz
  • 2010: Conceptual Paradise - the studio of interest, with Stefan Roemer
  • 2008: moire, with Astrid Wege
  • 2007: "The division of the earth" - Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference, with Dierk Schmidt
  • 2006: Making Worlds , Marion von Osten
  • 2005: Economies of Misery. Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria, with Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli
  • 2004: The government. Actions that put actions with Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack
  • 2003: Vivre en POF, with Fabrice Hybert
  • 2001: Crossing Services, with Martin Krenn and Oliver Ressler
  • 2000: greenhouse, with Dan Peterman
  • 1999: Inter archives, Hans -Peter Feldmann and Hans -Ulrich Obrist
  • 1998: The campus as a work of art, with Christian Philipp Müller - a permanent installation
  • 1997: Revisions of Abstract Expressionism, with Roger M. Buergel, Ruth Noack, Stefanie- Vera Kockot

Literature (selection )

  • 2011: Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Critique of Creativity. MayFlyBooks, London
  • 2010: Lotte Arndt, Clemens crumbs, Dierk Schmidt, Hemma Schmutz, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (ed. ): The Division of the Earth - Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference. König, Köln
  • 2009: Art Space University of Lüneburg and Astrid Wege (ed.): moire. Andreas Fogarasi, Katya Sander, Urtica. Publisher of science and contemporary art, Lüneburg
  • 2008: Beatrice von Bismarck, Therese Kaufmann, Ulf Wuggenig (ed. ): After Bourdieu: visuality, art and Politik.Turia Kant, Vienna
  • 2007: Gerald Raunig, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Criticism of creativity. Turia Kant, Vienna
  • 2005: Gerald Raunig, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Publicum. Turia Kant, Vienna
  • 2004: Christoph Behnke, Anna Schlosser, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Atlas. Spaces in Subjunctive. Publisher of science and contemporary art, Lüneburg
  • 2001: Beatrice von Bismarck, Diethelm Stoller, Astrid Wege, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Branding the Campus. Art, architecture, design, identity politics. Richter, Dusseldorf
  • 2002: Beatrice von Bismarck, Hans -Peter Feldmann, Hans -Ulrich Obrist, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Inter archives. Archival practices and spaces of action in the field of contemporary art. König, Köln
  • 1998: Beatrice von Bismarck, Thomas Locher, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig, Peter Zimmermann ( eds.): Public / Private. Richter, Dusseldorf
  • 1997: Diethelm Stoller, Klaus Werner, Jan Winkelmann (ed.): Oumeurt No. 3 Testoo Mustermesse. Fair Verlag, Leipzig
  • 1996: Beatrice von Bismarck, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig (ed.): Games, Fights, Collaborations. The game of limit and transgression. Cantz, Ostfildern -Ruit
  • 1994: Achim Könneke Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in collaboration with the Art Space at the University of Lüneburg ( ed.): Clegg & Guttmann. The open library. Cantz, Ostfildern -Ruit
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