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31/3/2011

San Keller

Fridericianum, Kassel

The development of the project Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Preview is entering the final phase. Following four public conversations between San Keller and Rein Wolfs revolving around the preparation of an exhibition by the Swiss artist, the concrete planning of the ideas they discussed begins on 1 April 2011 with Preview. The idea of public curating continues to play a key role. Keller would like the basis of the exhibition to be videotaped conferences that he carries out with different artists. Together with Rein Wolfs, Keller wants to extract drafts from these statements and from dialogues or conferences with several artists and combine different lines of thought into a presentation. For Wolfs, the curatorial challenge will be to transfer this collective creativity into a concrete exhibition.

On 2 and 3 April 2011, San Keller is offering his Digestiv (Walk) again. Visitors to the Kunsthalle Fridericianum are invited to discuss the exhibitions of Andro Wekua and Nina Canell with Keller during a stroll. The results will subsequently be published and, like the talks on previous exhibitions, be available at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum.

With the project Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Preview, San Keller (born in Berne, 1971) is making even the planning phase of his exhibition public. In doing so, he is undermining the boundaries of conventional formats and rendering institutional processes transparent. Visitors are directly incorporated in the process of development of his exhibition. He not only makes preparatory conversations between artist and curator Rein Wolfs in the conference room accessible to the public. Additionally, after they leave the Fridericianum, San Keller invites visitors to take a stroll, which he calls Digestiv (Walk), with him around the forecourt of the Fridericianum to discuss the current exhibitions.

With Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Preview San Keller is entering the second phase of public preparation for his exhibition project. After exchanging initial ideas and discussing basic approaches with artistic director Rein Wolfs on 11 December 2009, the Swiss artist will resume public conversations with Wolfs. Embedded in the context of the symposium Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? the project by the performance artist substantiates in exemplary fashion a kind of artistic practice that critically undermines conventional formats. In addition, San Keller is once again inviting visitors to take the Digestiv (Walk) around Friedrichsplatz.

Fri 1 April 5 p.m.
Preview San Keller and Rein Wolfs
Kunsthalle Fridericianum

Sat 2 April , 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Digestiv (Walk) San Keller
Friedrichsplatz, Kassel

Sun 3 April , 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Digestiv (Walk) San Keller
Friedrichsplatz, Kassel

Image: San Keller, Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Preview, 2009
Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Isabel Truniger

For reservations and questions please contact: Sandra Ortmann,
vermittlung@fridericianum-kassel.de

Kunsthalle Fridericianum
Friedrichsplatz 18 D-34117 Kassel
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday by 11 to 18

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