WEEK 1: The Home of Art

Artist Talk: Why art in the home?

Dagmara Genda will open the course with a home exhibition she curated in 2019. Faced with an eviction and living alone with her partner in a Berlin apartment block, she seized the opportunity to turn attention to the still existent housing crisis and create new in-situ work. Eight artists were invited to complete new site-specific works for a home that was on the brink of disappearing.

Topics Discussed:

• Etwas Kam Auf Uns Zu
• Berlin Art Link Article on home exhibitions in Berlin

Lecture: Where is Art’s Home?

The changing landscape of exhibition spaces will be presented and some iconic and now historical examples of how homes have been used as semi-public alternatives to the institution.

The lecture will be followed by participant introductions and a discussion of the first assignment. Each participant will receive a summary of the lecture per e-mail.

Topics Discussed:

• The White Cube Gallery
• The evolution of the museum
• Vadim Zhakarov and the APT-Art movement in the U.S.S.R.
• The Kitchen Show by Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Minerve in Brussels