September 29, 2022, 10 am – 2 pm
Many thanks to the critic, artist and teacher Andreas Schlaegel for his lecture documenta fifteen – what remains to be seen & discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“Since 1955 every edition of documenta has set trends for the art interested public, established art historic currents and created stars but also scandals. Especially the current edition was marred by scandal, in particular in German media. But what are the currencies this edition traded in, who are the stars, what are the positions that we will continue to reference in the future? In other words: what are the conclusions we can draw from this show?
Andreas Schlaegel, artist and critic, presents a historic overview of significant events in previous issues of the quinquennial, and their reverberations across time. From here, the ambition is to present an analysis of the current exhibition along selected examples, and to examine its perception, as reflected in media feedback from around the globe. Based on this, his talk will center on the question what we, as artists working today, can take away at least as tentative lessons for our own practices and presentations.” (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.
