December 13, 2022, 10 am – 1 pm
Many thanks to the critic, artist and teacher Andreas Schlaegel for his lecture Art and Ownership & discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“This connects the subjects of the past week – across questions of genres, forms, styles and ideas from different times. From paying homage to ripping off, from plagiarism to the appropriation art of the pictures generation, and on to the surge – and most recently – the dramatic plunge of NFTs. Whatever happened to the concept of “good artists borrow, great artists steal“ in the digital era? What about mega-collectors and gallerists, what power do they wield? And how to think of this in relation to the ideas of art as the original gift, as suggested by sociologist Marcel Mauss or anthropologist Lewis Hyde? Is there art outside of the art market? ” (Text by courtesy of Andreas Schlaegel)
Andreas Schlaegel (*1966 in Kinshasa, DRC) lives in Berlin and is active as a critic, artist and teacher. He is currently a member of the curatorial team of the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, which will open in May 2022.
His essays, portraits, and reviews have appeared since the late 1990s in international art journals such as Flash Art International (Milan), Frieze (Berlin/London), Billedkunst (Oslo), /100 (Berlin), Kunstkritikk (Copenhagen), and others, as well as in publications of the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MUSAC, Leon; Aspen Museum, Colorado; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main; Thyssen Bornemisza Contemporary, Vienna; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf and Berlin, and many others. His artistic interests target the tension between individual artistic positions and collaborative and discursive formats. This practice also includes cross-genre music projects, such as ACO (Art Critics Orchestra, with Raimar Stange u. Micz Flor,), the duo Die!Landschaft with Manfred Peckl, as well as other collaborations, such as “Come early, avoid disappointment” with the group Gelitin at TBA21 in Vienna and the Venice Biennale, 2011, or “The Art of Conversation” with Paolo Chiasera and Matthew Antezzo, PSM Galerie, Berlin, 2013, or “t=600” with Nine Budde, Bretz/Holliger and Melou Vanggaard at Standortfriedhof Berlin (2019).
Since 2014 he teaches theory and history of photography at Hfg Offenbach.
