July 06, 2023, 10 am – 3 pm
Many thanks to the critic, curator and artist Andreas Schlaegel for his lecture Skillz, Talent, Style, Taste – what makes a great artist? and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“A frequently asked question is what it takes to be a great artist – do you have the skill set it takes in your respective field? Can you demonstrate the talent or the tenacity? Do you have the taste to reflect the cutting edge style? Or does it simply boil down to business acumen that makes an artist succeed? In this session we will discuss what these ideas mean to us today, but also look at examples to trace their origins, and let different role models lead us to their inherent concepts of what it means to be an artist. En route we will discover contemporary contradictions and misconceptions, but maybe, hopefully, also some viable ways towards artistic greatness today.” (Text by courtesy of Andreas Schlaegel)
Andreas Schlaegel (*1966 in Kinshasa, DRC) lives in Berlin and is active as a critic, artist and teacher.
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). He was a member of the curatorial team of the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, which opened in 2022. From 2014 – 2022 he taught theory and history of photography at Hfg Offenbach.
More information on the Andreas Schlaegel Instagram Account.
