Beatrice von Bismarck
Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 7 pm
On the Ambivalence of Hospitality
Lecture by Beatrice von Bismarck (Professor, art history, director of Cultures of the Curatorial, HGB Leipzig)
Examining hospitality means taking a look at the inherent aporia between absolute and regulated contingency: between absolute openness and acceptance of everything that is underway, hospitable openness and the exclusions and marginalization that are legitimated by rules placed in the field. Against the backdrop of the current socio-political situation, in recent years a series of art and culture initiatives of hospitality have emerged within this spectrum. In this conversation, we will interrogate practices of welcome, generosity, and receptiveness, in the cultural context in particular, for the ambivalence inscribed in them and discuss their possible socio-political relevance.
Beatrice von Bismarck teaches as professor for Art History and Visual Culture at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. In 2009 she initiated the MA-program Cultures of the Curatorial, the first MA in curatorial studies in Germany. From 1993 – 1999 she was co-founder and -director of the project-space „Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg“. Current research areas are the curatorial; effects of globalization on the cultural field; postmodern concepts of the artist. Recent publications: Nach Bourdieu: Visualität, Kunst, Politik (After Bourdieu. Visuality, Art, Politics) (ed. with Therese Kaufmann, Ulf Wuggenig, Vienna 2008); Auftritt als Künstler (Performance as Artist), Cologne 2010; Cultures of the Curatorial (ed. with Jörn Schaffaf and Thomas Weski, Berlin 2012); Timing – On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting (ed. with Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, and Thomas Weski, Berlin 2014).
Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Projektes Stadtkuratorin Hamburg.