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Stefan Kalmár
Stefan Kalmár is a German curator who was the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London from 2016 until 2021. Kalmár was executive director and chief curator of Artists Space, New York from 2009 to 2016, director of Kunstverein München from 2004 to 2009, director of the Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge from 2000 to 2004 and artistic director of Cubitt Artists, Cubitt Gallery, London from 1997 to 1999. Education Kalmár studied Cultural Studies at University of Hildesheim, Germany before moving to London in 1995 to continue to study Cultural and Curatorial Studies at Goldsmiths College, London. Career Artists Space, 2009–2016 Notable exhibitions during Kalmár's tenure include presentations on and collaborations with artists and curators such as Chris Kraus (American writer), Chris Kraus and Julie Ault, Danh Vo, Bernadette Corporation, Cameron Rowland, Laura Poitras, Zilia Sánchez, Lukas Duwenhögger, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and The Estate of Charlot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an modernism, artistic and cultural centre on The Mall (London), The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. History The ICA was founded by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson (arts benefactor), Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Eric Craven Gregory, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson and E. L. T. Mesens in 1946. The ICA's founders intended to establish a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas outside the traditional confines of the Royal Academy. The model for establishing the ICA was the earlier Leeds Arts Club, founded in 1903 by Alfred Orage, of which Herbert Read had been a leading member. Like the ICA, this too was a centre for multi-disciplinary debate, combined with avant-garde art exhibition and performances, within a framework that empha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Posenenske
Charlotte Posenenske, née ''Mayer'' (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominantly worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper. Posenenske created series of sculptures that explored systems and structures derived from mass production and standardization. Background Posenenske was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. Her father was Jewish. Due to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, he killed himself when Posenenske was aged nine. Two years after this, Charlotte Posenenske went in to hiding to avoid persecution Before becoming a painter and sculptor, Posensenske worked several years as a set and costume designer. Posenenske studied painting with Willi Baumeister in the early 1950s at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She began creating her own artworks in 1956. Career Posenenske worked in a variety of mediums, her practice becoming more abstract through the course of the 1960s. After early, improvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). The prize is awarded at Tate Britain every other year, with various venues outside of London being used in alternate years. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the UK's most publicised art award. The award represents all media. As of 2004, the monetary award was established at £40,000. There have been different sponsors, including Channel 4 television and Gordon's Gin. A prominent event in British culture, the prize has been awarded by various distinguished celebrities: in 2006 this was Yoko Ono, and in 2012 it was presented by Jude Law. It is a controversial event, mainly for the exhibits, such as ''The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'' – a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst – and ''My Bed'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German Fine-art photography, photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photographer, and first non-British person, to be awarded the Turner Prize. He has been the subject of large-scale retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Moderna Museet. In 2023, Tillmans was named one of the Time 100, most influential people in the world by Time (magazine), Time. He lives in Berlin and London. Early life and education Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid in the German area of Bergisches Land. At the age of 14 to 16, visits to museums in Düsseldorf and to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne acquainted him with the photo-based art of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, which counts among his earliest influences. During his first visit to England as an exchan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Becker
Julie Becker (1972–2016) was an American artist, best known for her 1996 installation, ''Researchers, Residents, A Place to Rest''. Her work addresses themes of temporariness, social mobility, and imagination as they apply to domestic and commercial spaces. Installation, sculpture, photography, and video were Becker’s usual mediums, although her later work is characterized by drawing and assemblage. Becker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and earned both her BFA and MFA from CalArts. Her work has appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hessel Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery. Becker spent the majority of her adult life living in Echo Park, and died by suicide in 2016 at the age of 43. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality, language, identity, and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-''nouveau roman'' European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence. Biography Early life The only child of Donald and Claire (nee Weill) Lehman, Acker was born Karen Lehman in New York City in 1947, although the Library of Congress gives her birth year as 1948, while the editors of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' gave her birth year as April 18, 1948, New York, New York, U.S. She died on November 30, 1997, in Tijuana, Mexico. Most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture is a multidisciplinary research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London that uses architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state violence and violations of human rights around the world. The group is led by architect Eyal Weizman. He received a Peabody Award in 2021 for his work with Forensic Architecture. The agency develops new evidentiary techniques and undertakes advanced architectural and media research with and on behalf of communities affected by state violence, and routinely works in partnership with international prosecutors, human rights organisations and political and environmental justice groups. It consists of an interdisciplinary team of investigators including architects, scholars, artists, filmmakers, software developers, investigative journalists, archaeologists, lawyers, and scientists. It investigates alleged human rights violations by states or corporations on behalf of civil society groups. The group use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieze (magazine)
''Frieze'' is an international contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year from London. The publication is part of the London and New York–based media and events company Frieze. Frieze comprises two publications, ''frieze'' magazine and ''Frieze Week'', as well as international art fairs in London, Los Angeles, New York and Seoul. Its permanent exhibition space, No.9 Cork Street, is located in Mayfair, London. Frieze is part of IMG which owned by Endeavor. History ''Frieze'' was founded in 1991 by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, with artist Tom Gidley. The inaugural issue featured a Damien Hirst butterfly painting as its cover, and the magazine became closely linked with the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. Sharp and Slotover ceased direct involvement in editorial decisions in 2001. In 2003, the year that the Frieze Art Fair was founded, Sharp and Slotover assumed the roles of Publishing Directors of the magazine, and Directors of the fair. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregor Muir
Gregor Muir is Director of Collection at the Tate museum, with offices at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. He was previously Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London from 2011 to 2016 where he oversaw its transformation. He was also the director of Hauser & Wirth, London, at 196a Piccadilly, from 2004 to 2011. Prior to that he was the Kramlich Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate between 2001 and 2004. Life and career Muir continues to curate exhibitions at Tate Modern, such as Anthony McCall (2023–2024) and Andy Warhol (2019), the latter subsequently touring to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, AGO Toronto, and Aspen Art Museum. Since 2016, he has overseen seven international acquisition committees and is also responsible for acquiring numerous art works for the Tate Collection with the support of the Tate Americas Foundation (TAF) and Tate International Council (IC). Muir has been directly responsible for the acquisition of some of the first indigenous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decolonize This Place
Decolonize This Place is an art collective based in New York City that organizes around Indigenous rights, Black nationalism, Palestinian nationalism, de-gentrification, and economic inequality. Their actions often take place at museums and cultural institutions and focus on claimed colonialist tendencies within the art world. History Decolonize This Place emerged from an action at the Brooklyn Museum in May 2016, under the auspices of Decolonial Cultural Front which targeted two museum exhibitions that some have argued normalized the displacement of Palestinians and Brooklynites alike. An Autumn 2016 residency at Artists Space allowed for the organization to articulate its framework linking various global issues, for example, activism connecting Indigenous rights and people of color generally with the Palestinian Israeli conflict. The closing event of this residency, on December 17, 2016, was marred by an assault on four activists leaving the event by self-proclaimed suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amin Husain
Amin Husain is a Palestinian-American activist and adjunct professor at New York University, though he has been suspended from that position. Academic career He has a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Valparaiso University in 1998, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 2001, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2004. He joined the New York University faculty as a part-time adjunct professor in 2016. His academic work focuses on resistance and liberation and postcolonial theory. Prior to NYU, he taught at The New School, before leaving in 2019. In January 2024, Husain was suspended as an adjunct professor at NYU after denying sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October attack on Israel and describing New York as a "Zionist city" at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally. Activism He is a founding member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction; founding member and managing editor of the magazine ''Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy''; founding memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
