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14/9/2006

Academy. Learning from Art

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen M HKA, Antwerp

Two overarching motifs converge in the exhibition at MuHKA: that of the school or “academy" itself - the place where various art practices and theories are being taught and learned - and, more importantly, that of a broader assertion of “art" as a pedagogical experience in itself, in which both the museum and art as such are viewed as environments for various experiments in “learning and teaching".

Expanding our notions of the learning/ teaching process beyond the institutional framework of formal education, the exhibition at MuHKA shifts its focus from schooling per se to art as an aspirational drive, enabling new forms of interaction between subjects and social organisms. Above all, trying to think of art education in so many “other" ways, we look at art as a space and method to conceive of the world “differently": as an “other" way of learning.

Some of the participating artists have been invited to transform the exhibition spaces into such learning environments - places for discussion, discovery and understanding. To this end, their works - some of which have been created specifically for this exhibition - aim to create ideal situations for receiving art in order for us to learn from it - or to unlearn any given preconceptions we might have as to what constitutes teaching and learning. Another group of artists have been invited to respond to the exhibition’s general “theme" in a variety of ways - by way of an artwork, as an actual proposal for imagining different modes of learning, or even by a letter addressed to the curators.

During the exhibition the artist Apolonija Šušteršic will develop a “research department", a room for discussions and information that can also serve as a space for the accompanying lectures and workshops. Together with students from the region’s art schools and guests from the vicinity, she will produce a research project that investigates the questions: Can education serve as a model for a better social practice? How do we define artistic knowledge and what significance does experience have as part of this knowledge? Can education serve as the basis for developing an artistic practice?

ACADEMY is an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by Siemens Arts Program and realized in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. ACADEMY wishes to prompt reflections on the potential of the academy within society. It places itself amid the speculative tensions resulting from the questions of what one needs to know and what one can aspire to bring forth. Academy should be approached as a space that generates vital principles and activities, which can be taken and continued as a mode of lifelong learning. In spring 2005, the Kunstverein in Hamburg reflected on the situation of students and teachers at art schools in the exhibition entitled Academy. Teaching and Learning Art. ACADEMY consists of a total of three exhibitions and projects, a lecture series, two symposia, as well as a workshop and a conference to which in total over 70 artists, artists groups, art theorists, and cultural producers have been invited.

This project is the work of several curators and the result of years of dialogue between Bart de Baere en Dieter Roelstraete [MuHKA], Charles Esche en Kerstin Niemann [Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven], Irit Rogoff [Goldsmiths College, Londen] en Angelika Nollert [Siemens Arts Program].
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With
Uli Aigner, Herman Asselberghs, Dieter Lesage & Ina Wudtke, Nico Dockx & Jan Mast, Jimmie Durham, Gelitin, Johanna Kandl, Mary Kelly, Lia Perjovschi, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, RAQS Media Collective, The Martha Rosler Library, Eran Schaerf & Modulator, Apolonija Sustersic, Joelle Tuerlinckx.

Image: Gelitin , Brauner Garten , 2006 photo MuHKA

MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen Belgie
OPEN From Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m.
CLOSED On Mondays, 1st January, 1st May, Ascension Day, 25th December
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€ 3: -26, 60+, groups of 10 or more, those seeking employment, the physically challenged and their escorts, members of the NICC, inhabitants of Antwerp
Free: -13, BIG, Friends of the MuHKA, ICOM, VMV
€ 2,50: While the exhibition is being set up on the ground floor, the public may visit the collection for half-price (€ 2.50; € 1.50; free of charge).

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