Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Friday, September 2nd, 2016 - University of Bern, Hauptgebäude, Hochschulstrasse 4, Lecture Hall 220
9.00-12.15 SECTION I: FRAMEWORKS
9.00
Welcome and Introduction to Section I
9.15
Damian Lentini (Haus der Kunst, Munich)
Performing the Kunsthalle
10.00
Susanne Neubauer (Freie Universität, Berlin)
An Architecture of Touch: The Kunsthalle as a Place where Form has Shaped New Attitudes
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00
Bernd Nicolai (Universität Bern)
The Wrapped Frame – Considerations about Art Gallery Architecture
11.45
Discussion
12.15-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-17.15 SECTION II: MISSIONS
14.00
Introduction to Section II
14.15
Darsie Alexander (Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York)
U.S. Kunsthallen and the Freedom to Not Collect
15.00
Sandra Zalman (University of Houston, School of Art, Houston, Texas)
When Modern Art Was Contemporary: The Museum of Modern Art as Kunsthalle
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00
Maija Koskinen (Helsinki University)
Kunsthalle Helsinki as an Artistic Battlefield of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s
16.45
Discussion
17.15-18.15 Break
University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Lecture Hall A003
18.15 Evening Lecture
Glenn Phillips (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)
Exposing the Foundation of the Kunsthalle
Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 - University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Lecture Hall A003
9.00-12.15 SECTION III: EXPLORATIONS
9.00
Introduction to Section III
9.15
Thierry Dufrêne, (Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris)
Donald Judd at the Kunsthalle in 1976: “Ideal Museum”, “Local History” and “Timeless Permanence”
10.00
Beatrice von Bismarck (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig)
Institutionalizing Process or Ephemerality and its Discontents. Exhibiting in the late 1960s in Europe and the USA
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00
Diego Mantoan (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice)
Mimicking the Space and Referencing Style. Young British Artists between the (Un)Myth of Kunsthallen and American Neo-Conceptual Trends
11.45
Discussion
12.15-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-17.15 SECTION IV: EXPECTATIONS
14.00
Introduction to Section IV
14.15
Nick Mauss (New York)
Intervals and Voids
15.00
Kari Conte (International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York)
Revivifying the Past: Exhibitions and Institutions
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00
Julia Bryan-Wilson (University of California, Berkeley)
The Matter of Nothing: Uncollecting Conceptual and Performance Practices
16.45
Discussion
17.15 Concluding Remarks
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