Museum Public
dal 25/10/2011 al 25/10/2011
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25/10/2011
Museum Public
MMK - Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
The museum's role as a public space demands redefinition. The impact of these development is the subject of a new series of MMK Talks. This wednesday 'The Global Museum', a talk with Tobias Berger and Penelope Curtis (Moderation: Peter Gorschluter): what are the consequences of the franchising and the exportation of museological competence to new 'markets'?
Recent changes in society, globalization, and the increasing significance of the media are a mix that presents the museum of the twenty-first century with new challenges. The museum’s role as a public space demands redefinition. In this context, more and more importance is being attached to communication and mediation. The impact of these developments on the museum of contemporary art is the subject of a new series of MMK talks: MUSEUM PUBLIC.
PROGRAM:
Wednesday, October 26, 7 pm, MainTor
The Global Museum
The major museums are expanding and opening branches all over the world, for example the Guggenheim in Bilbao or the Louvre in Abu Dhabi. What are the consequences of such franchising and the exportation of museological competence to new "markets"? Will art become more international and more diverse, or will it assimilate globally? How important is it to respond to these developments by strengthening national and regional networks?
Guests: Tobias Berger (Curator M+ Museum for Visual Art, Hong Kong), Penelope Curtis (Director Tate Britain, London)
Moderation: Peter Gorschlüter
Tuesday, November, 29, 7 pm, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
The Museum as Publisher
Increasingly, artists and museums are taking over the role of publisher and mediator of their own production. Alongside classical forms of distribution, the Internet and social media are becoming ever more significant, thus defining new publics.
Guests: AA Bronson (Artist and Publisher, New York), Hu Fang Creative (Artistic Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing / Guangzhou), Laura Wright (CEO of Tate Enterprise , London)
Moderation: Peter Gorschlüter
Tuesday, December 13, 7 pm, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Public/Private
Owing to changes in economic and societal structures, the relationship between private commitment and the public education mandate has also undergone transformation. What role does art patronage play today? Do private collectors and the ever more frequently established collectors' museums have any influence on the mediation of art and the development of "trends"? What are the consequences for the museum as a public institution?
Guests: Harald Falckenberg (Collector, Hamburg), Robert Fleck (Director Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn), Olaf Nicolai (Artist, Berlin), Rosa Schmitt-Neubauer (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Head of Demission "contemporary art"), Olaf Nicolai (Artist, Berlin)
Moderation: Susanne Gaensheimer
Tuesday, January 17, 7 pm, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
The Museum as Producer of Social Reality
The museum as a place for the preservation and presentation of art is developing into an institution, which not only mirrors society but also produces societal realities to an ever increasing degree itself, and thus inscribes itself into the social context of its respective urban environment. Its production can take place anytime and anyplace, is no longer tied to a building or specific opening hours, and seeks its public and themes outside institutional boundaries.
Guests: Claire Bishop (Art Critic, New York), Phil Collins (Artist, Berlin)
Moderation: Nikolaus Hirsch
Tuesday, January 24, 7 pm, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
The Artist Museum
Since the advent of modernism, artists have addressed themselves again and again to the question of what constitutes a museum. What role does the museum play in the definition and mediation of art, how does it change their significance, what makes up a collection? Artists who investigate such matters and develop them further with their work will discuss these questions and talk about the relevance of the museum for contemporary art.
Guests. Thomas Kellein (Director Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas), Pedro Reyes (Artist, Mexico City)
All “MMK Talks” are conducted in English. Only “Public/Private” will be held in German.
A collaboration between MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule.
The MMK Talks are generously supported by the Deutsche Bank Stiftung and the Freunde des MMK.
Press contact:
Christina Henneke
Telefon +49 69 21237761
Daniela Denninger, Karen Knoll
Telefon +49 69 21235844
Fax +49 69 21237882
presse.mmk@stadt-frankfurt.de
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