Attention Artists: Curatorial Residency and Exhibition Project in Germany
Curatorial Residency and Exhibition Project: Call for Applications
Deadline: 10 Jul 2015
Time of residency: 5 months of choice between Dec 2015 and Oct 2016
From the open call:
We are pleased to announce the call for applications for a cooperation project of ifa Gallery Stuttgart and Akademie Schloss Solitude, which includes a residency in Akademie Schloss Solitude, conception and realisation of an exhibition in ifa Galleries Stuttgart and Berlin, and a publication dealing with the question of art and crafts:
European art history sees art and crafts as two different matters, in the canon, in training and teaching, and in research. Works of art and crafts are usually collected, bought and sold, and exhibited in independent and separate museums.
Attempts have been made to break with this division of two worlds, by the Arts and Crafts movement in England in the nineteenth century, and by the bauhaus. But in other parts of the world and cultures this European definition and distinction has been more or less imposed, at least in institutional terms in the academies and museums.
A cooperation project between the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and Akademie Schloss Solitude will focus on specific cases with the aim of investigating and presenting the following:
– How is the relationship between art and crafts seen from non-European perspectives?
– Have other cultures seen and do they still see a distinction between art and crafts?
– How and by whom is the art market, which is traditionally dominated by European art history and a Western norm, altered, transformed, or avoided?
The project includes research, planning, an exhibition, and a publication:
– Akademie Schloss Solitude offers a five-month bursary in (December 2015 until February 2016 and September/October 2016), which could be shared by three curators / co-curators if appropriate.
– ifa Gallery Stuttgart offers to plan and realize the exhibition and the accompanying publication within the scope of the available project budget. The exhibition will take place in October 2016 at ifa Gallery Stuttgart, and in spring 2017 at ifa Gallery Berlin.
Your application should contain your CV and your motivation letter, short information about relevant examples of your previous work and your proposal for this “Art / Crafts”-project, which should not be longer than 3 pages.
For more information and application form please visit the organizer’s website.
*NOTE: Hanoi Grapevine merely announces the open calls and cannot help in the application process. For further inquiries, please direct to the organizers.
