Academy [Working Title]
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Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Academy [Working Title], 2017/2018
Photo: Katja Illner
An exhibition for the 50th anniversary of Kunsthalle Düsseldorf am Grabbeplatz.
In the winter of 2017/2018 the Kunsthalle together with KIT will respectively address the theme “Academy” from different angles. In the third show of the anniversary year, the present comes to the fore, but without having lost a view of history and the Kunsthalle’s archive. Inspired by the legendary exhibition series “between” (1969-1973), which emerged from student unrest and protests against the institution —particularly among students of the Kunstakademie— the Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf invites professors and students of the Düsseldorf and Münster Kunstakademies as well as the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) to Academy [Working Title] to confront from a critical, contemporary perspective a range of topics that attend the archive and to negotiate the significance of an historical legacy as well as the proximity of institutions and academies in the Rheinland to the production of art.
Alongside an immediate engagement with the Kunsthalle’s archive materials, more extensive and abstract engagement with the idea of the archive may ensue from consideration of the archive as a site of memory at the cross-section of heritage, historical burden, think tank, memory-architecture and much more. The category “archive” and the categories in which the archive is invested and so by which it is brought about such as art history, cultural identities and individual mythologies should be critically questioned. What role does the archive play for the individual artistic creation and the perception of an institution? How does the now-time [Jetzt-Zeit] deal with and evaluate the past? To what extent do not only collective, but also private archives themselves represent forms of artistic practice?
In collaboration with the curatorial team of the Kunsthalle, various medial formats can be worked through based on the different emphases and approaches of the professors and classes.
As the notion “Working Title” in the exhibition title indicates, the exhibition has an open-ended, experimental format. Permanent access not only to the perpetually renewed implementations of the exhibition
but also to the discursive exchange, work processes and structures will be open to the visitors. It is left up to each individual the extent to which they take part in the exchange, simply observe or deliberately interfere and in so doing enter into the artistic works and “final result” of the exhibition and, by
extension, into the history of the institution.
Further items on the program agenda between theater, performance, concerts, workshops and presentations from invited speakers will be held under the label “Performing Archive,” in search of ever new accents of the archive.
Please find here the catalogue of the exhibition.
Images

Emil Walde
Ohne Titel (Exterior View), 2017
Photo: Katja Illner

Malte Frey
Waffenarsenal – Schlagstock 1.1 –1.4, 2016

Sophie Isabel Urban
Everybody was here, 2017

Büro für dokumentarische Angelegeheiten, 2017

Klasse Katharina Grosse
Ein Drucker druckt Archiv in die Stadt., 2017
![Line up of artist “Academy [Working Title], 2017/2018](/media/w475/line_up_der_kuenstler.jpg)
Line up of artist “Academy [Working Title], 2017/2018

Concert Toresch, 20/10/2017
Photo: Katja Illner

Konstitutiv der Möglichkeiten, 2017
Photo: Katja Illner
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