Mediation
MMK Talks
MUSEUM PUBLIC
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.
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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)
Educational Turn
September, 6, 2011, 19 h, MainTor-Areal
Mediation has became an essential aspect of museum work. This is a circumstances reflected in various formats in the institutional as well as the non-institutional area. Relevant mediation work is today no longer directed solely towards an educated elite but addresses a substantially wider public. The title ”Educational turn” refers to increasing importance of and changes in education, knowledge production and research in contemporary art. To art ever greater degree, museums and exhibitions have become places of training and research in contemporary art. To an ever greater degree, museums and exhibitions have become places of training and research where current topics are debated and forms of knowledge are negotiated.
The consequences of these developments for artistic practise and new ways of shaping institutional research and mediation worldwide will be discussed by:
Simon Njami (Curator, author and art critic, Paris)
Tania Bruguera (Artist, New York)
Maria Hlavajova (Founder and artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht)
Moderation: Nikolaus Hirsch (Director, Städelschule/Portikus)
All MMK Talks will be held in English (except Oublic/Private).
A Cooperation of Hochschule für Darstellende Künste Städelschule and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
The series of lectures is supported by:
Documentation MMK Talks 2010
To find a Docuemtation of MMK Talks 2010 please click here MMK Talks 2010.