Talk with Yilmaz Dziewior

If the Academy is art’s cradle does that make the Museum its grave? Is that why we don’t speak in the gallery? And what does that make of the people working in these houses? Are they custodians, doctors, or mourners? Are they struggling keeping art alive or merely putting it to bed, tucking it in? If each museum is a kind of mausoleum, what categories of art does it enshrine and what modalities of spectatorship does it produce?

MUSEUM is a lecture series about the museum and its function. We ask artists and curators: What are you preserving? How do you work on a site where art is laid to rest? Do we still need these repositories of the truly peculiar. We invite people who work in these houses to tell us if and why.

Yilmaz Dziewior is an art historian, curator and director of Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Dziewior has previously curated the German and Austrian pavilions at the Venice Biennale and has been director of both Kunsthaus Bregenz and Kunstverein Hamburg. He publishes regularly in journals such as Artforum and Texte zur Kunst and has been involved in the publication of more than 50 books and catalogs. Dziewior has been a significant figure in contemporary art institutions over the past 30 years. At Kunsthal Charlottenborg he will talk about how fine art is institutionalized and developed.

The event will be in English and takes place Tuesday May 13, 6-7PM in our cinema. It is free to participate.

MUSEUM is organised by Simon Dybbroe Møller and Emil Leth Meilvang.

Earlier in this series:
Art historian and curator Susanne Titz
Writer and curator Aram Moshayedi