MMK Talks
MMK Talks – The Artists, October 2012 – January 2013
The third series of the MMK Talks will be devoted to the topic of The Artists. Six prominent artists who are represented in the MMK collection have been invited to talk about their work. The artists will each hold a conversation with a partner of their choice, someone who has played an important role in their career or has a significant connection with their work.
On six evenings between October 2012 and January 2013 the artists will discuss their perspective on museums, their collaboration with directors and heads of collections and how this influences their work.
MMK Talks Dates
Friday, 5 October, 7pm
Juergen Teller in conversation with Charlotte Roche.
Monday, 22 October, 7pm
Hans-Peter Feldmann in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Friday, 30 November, 7pm
Katharina Fritsch in conversation with Julian Heynen
Tuesday, 4 December, 7pm
Thomas Scheibitz in conversation with Beate Söntgen
Monday, 10 December, 7pm
Andreas Slominski in conversation with Mario Kramer
Thursay, 31 January, 7pm
Carsten Höller in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum
A collaboration between the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule.
Free admissionIn German language.
In cooperation with
Review
Recent changes in society, globalization, and the increasing significance of the media are a mix that presents the museum of the twenty-first century with new challenges. The museum’s role as a public space demands redefinition. In this context, more and more importance is being attached to communication and mediation. The impact of these developments on the museum of contemporary art is the subject of a new series of MMK talks: MUSEUM PUBLIC.
The Artist Museum
Tue, 24 January, 7 pm, MMK
The Artist Museum
Since the advent of modernism, artists have addressed themselves to the question of what constitutes a museum. What role does the museum play in the definition of art, how does it change their significance, what makes up a collection? Artists who investigate such matters and develop them further with their work, talk about the relevance of the museum for contemporary art.
Guests:
Thomas Kellein (Director Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas)
Pedro Reyes (Artist, Mexico City)
Moderation: Nikolaus Hirsch (Director of Städelschule/Portikus)
The Museum as Producer of Social Reality
Tue, 17. January, 7 pm, MMK
The Museum as Producer of Social Reality
The museum as place for the preservation and presentation of art is developing into an institution which not only mirrors society but also produces societal realities to an ever increasing degree itself, and thus inscribes itself into the social context of its respective urban environment. Its production can take place anytime and anyplace, is no longer tied to a building or specific opening hours, and seeks its public and themes outside institutional boundaries.
Guests:
Claire Bishop (Art Critic, New York)
Phil Collins (Artist, Berlin)
Moderation: Nikolaus Hirsch (Director of Städelschule/Portikus)
Public/Private
Tue, 13. December, 7 pm, MMK, 3rd Exhibition level
Public / Private
Owing to changes in economic and societal structures, the relationship between private commitment and the public education mandate has also undergone transformation. What role does art patronage play today? Do private collectors and the more frequently established collectors' museums have any influence in the mediation of art and the development of ”trends”? How is the relationship of private collectors, the ever more frequently established collectors’ museums and public institutions?
In German language.
Guests:
Harald Falckenberg (Collector Hamburg)
Robert Fleck (Director of Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
Olaf Nicolai (Artist, Berlin)
Rosa Schmitt-Neubauer (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Head of Demission "contemporary art")
Moderation: Susanne Gaensheimer (Director of MMK)
The Museum as Publisher
Increasingly, artists and museums are taking over the role of publisher and mediator of their own production. Alongside classical forms of distribution, the Internet and social media are becoming ever more significant, thus defining new publics.
Guests:
AA Bronson (Artist and Publisher, New York)
Hu Fang Creative (Artistic Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing / Guangzhou) Laura Wright (CEO of Tate Enterprise, London)
Moderation: Peter Gorschlüter (Deputy Director MMK)
The Global Museum
Wed, 26. October, 7 pm, MainTor
The Global Museum
The major museums are expanding and opening branches all over the world.
What are the consequences of such franchising and the exportation of museological competence to new “markets”? Will art become more international and more diverse, or will it assimilate globally? How important is it to respond to these developments by strengthening national and regional networks?
Guests:
Penelope Curtis (Director Tate Britain, London)
Tobias Berger (Curator M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong)
Moderation: Peter Gorschlüter (Deputy Director of MMK)