The Kunstraum of Lüneburg University is an institution for contemporary art working across different faculties of
Lüneburg University. Since its renaming in 2007 the complete name is Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg.
History
In 1993 the Kunstraum has been founded by an interdisciplinary group of researchers, which is up to today in charge for the academic and artistic projects. Members of this group are:
* Art historian
Beatrice von Bismarck (since 1999 at the
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The academy has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media ar ...
)
* Mathematician Diethelm Stoller (retired since 2005)
* Sociologist Ulf Wuggenig (currently the acting director of Kunstraum)
The official opening in 1994 coincided with the project Services, which has been organized in collaboration with the art historian Helmut Draxler, at this time director of
Kunstverein Munich, and the artist
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Rose Fraser (born 1965) is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is a professor and area head of the Interdisciplinary Studio of the UCLA Scho ...
.
The program of the subsequent years has been influenced and inspired by writings of
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (, ; ; ; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influ ...
,
Nelson Goodman
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906 – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics.
Life and career
Goodman was born in Somerville, Ma ...
,
Thomas S. Kuhn, and, amongst others,
Howard S. Becker and included collaborations with artists and theoreticians associated with
Institutional Critique
In art, institutional critique is the systematic inquiry into the workings of art institutions, such as galleries and museums, and is most associated with the work of artists like Michael Asher (artist), Michael Asher, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel B ...
.
Exhibitions
* 1994: ''Services'', with Andrea Fraser and Helmut Draxler
* 1994: ''The Open Public Library in Hamburg'', with Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann
* 1995: ''The Grandparents' Archives'', with
Christian Boltanski
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style.
Early life
Boltanski wa ...
and Hans Ulrich Obrist
* 1996: ''Import/Export Funk Office − Digital Transformation'', with
Renée Green
* 1996: ''Public / Private'', with Thomas Locher and Peter Zimmermann
* 1997: ''Revisions of Abstract Expressionism'', with
Roger M. Buergel,
Ruth Noack, Stefanie-Vera Kockot
* 1997: ''Testoo® Muster'', with Fabrice Hybert and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
* 1998: ''The Campus as a Work of Art'', with Christian Philipp Müller
* 1999: ''Interarchive'', with
Hans-Peter Feldmann and
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and art historian. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...
* 2000: ''Greenhouse'', with
Dan Peterman
* 2001: ''Border Crossing Services'', with
Martin Krenn and
Oliver Ressler
* 2003: ''Vivre en POF'', with Fabrice Hybert
* 2004: ''The Government'', with
Roger M. Buergel and
Ruth Noack
* 2005: ''Economies of Misery. Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria'', with Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli
* 2006: ''Making Worlds
'', with Marion von Osten
* 2007: ''"The Division of the World"- Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference'', with Dierk Schmidt
* 2008: ''Moirés'', with Astrid Wege
* 2010: ''Conceptual Paradise − the studio of interest'', with Stefan Römer
* 2011: ''Demanding Supplies − Nachfragende Angebote'', with Julia Moritz
* 2013: ''Front, Field, Line, Plane'', with Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber)
* 2014: ''Art and its Frames – Continuity and Change'', Symposium with Beatrice von Bismarck, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Helmut Draxler, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Hannes Loichinger, Sven Lütticken, John Miller, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, André Rottmann, Stefan Römer, Simon Sheikh, and Ulf Wuggenig
Literature
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References
External links
Official website of Kunstraum of University Lüneburg
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Contemporary art galleries in Germany
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
1993 establishments in Germany