A project for the Contemporary Arts Centre
of Como
Thursday, 26 January 2011, 6pm
Marco De Michelis interviews Nikolaus Hirsch
www.fondazioneratti.org/calendarmostre/kunsthalle
The project of the most beautiful Kunsthalle in the World starts the New Year—and its last season—with its seventeenth encounter, which will be a conversation between Marco De Michelis and Nikolaus Hirsch about how to give life to The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world.
Nikolaus Hirsch is a professor, the dean of the Städelschule and director of Portikus, the art gallery, that constitute an important reference for contemporary art in Frankfurt and worldwide.
Hirsch has given important contributions for the reflection about the constitution of an exhibition space, through the projects developed in Cologne, Berlin, and recently in India. His work includes the internationally acclaimed Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, the European Kunsthalle in Cologne and United Nations Plaza (with Anton Vidokle) in Berlin. He has curated ErsatzStadt: Repräsentationen des Urbanen at the Berlin Volksbühne. His work has been awarded a number of prizes, including the World Architecture Award 2002, and has been shown in exhibitions such as New German Architecture in Berlin, Utopia Station at the Venice Biennial and Can Buildings Curate, AA London/Storefront Gallery in New York.
Marco De Michelis will face Nikolaus Hirsch with some crucial questions: what is the need to create a new exhibition art centre? On who’s advantage? Which is its bets location within the urban structure? It is preferable the use of a pre-existent building or the construction of a new venue? What forms of governance to use? Which should its terrains of activity be?
The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world is an international research project developed between 2010 and 2012 involving a wide range of curators, critics, historians of art, artists and professionals from diverse disciplinary fields and contexts, in an ongoing debate about exhibition practices of contemporary art in the beginning to the 21st century. The project is under the scientific responsibility of the Director of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Marco De Michelis, with the general coordination of Filipa Ramos. It is organized by Fondazione Antonio Ratti together with the Camera di Commercio di Como.
www.fondazioneratti.org/calendarmostre/kunsthalle
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19
22100 Como – Italy
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