Andrea Fraser
dal 19/4/2013 al 20/7/2013
Segnalato da
19/4/2013
Andrea Fraser
Museum Ludwig, Koln
Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Fraser is to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for 2013, awarded annually by the Museum. The presentation will take place on april 20, 2013. A retrospective of her work will open there on the same evening. Two slightly older performances will also be staged during the opening.
Exhibition curator: Barbara Engelbach
Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Fraser (* 1965 in Billings, Montana) is to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for 2013, awarded annually by the Museum Ludwig's Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst. The presentation will take place in the museum on April 20, 2013. A retrospective of her work will open there on the same evening.
For over 25 years Andrea Fraser has made a vital contribution to current issues in contemporary art. Fraser's wide-ranging oeuvre - performances, videos and texts - consists not only of incisive analyses but also critical, at times also humorous commentaries on the art business. The performances are researched and choreographed by Andrea Fraser right to the finest detail, and are also realized by her in person.
Andrea Fraser first gained attention in the mid-eighties with her Gallery Talks, which she conducted in museums and galleries. Her performances, which come under the banner of institutional critique and deal with sociological issues, analyze the art world and its actors - the artists, collectors, gallerists, and the museum curators and visitors: what are the images and myths of the artist that colour our picture of them? What motivations compel the collectors to buy art or donate it? How do public collections come into being, and what do they and their buildings tell us about social commitment in cities? And how can one describe the interactions between the actors in the art field?
Over the last ten years Fraser has subjected her own work and her institutional critique to a thorough revision, which she has presented in many important essays. Following the fiscal crisis and its repercussions, Fraser has turned to investigating the art market and its relation to the financial crisis from a sociological point of view, focusing rather on an economical discourse than cultural theory.
After Fraser's last survey exhibition in Europe in 2003 at the Hamburger Kunstverein, this large presentation at the Museum Ludwig will investigate the artist's new critical direction. Fraser's early works will be documented, along with her new alignment in recent works. Over and beyond this, the exhibition will focus on Andrea Fraser as a performance artist. She will give the first European performance of her latest full-length piece, Men on the Line, which she premiered in 2012 in Los Angeles. Two slightly older performances will also be staged during the opening by Fraser herself, while May I Help You from 1991 will be performed for the visitors during the exhibition by specially-instructed actors.
Catalogue editor: Carla Cugini, Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
On Sunday April 21, 2012 at 4 p.m. Andrea Fraser will present the performance "May I Help You?" (1991)
in the Museum Ludwig (3rd floor)
Beginning April 28, every Sunday at 4 p.m. and on Thursday June 6 at 8 p.m.: actors will present the performance "May I Help You?" in German in the Museum Ludwig (3rd floor)
Friday June 7, 7 p.m.
Lecture: Shannon Jackson: „Staging Institutions? Andrea Fraser and Performance Studies"
Lecture in the series "Kunst im Kontext" of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig
Friday June 21 at 7 p.m.: the European premiere of the performance "Men on the Line" (2012) in the auditorium of the Museum Ludwig (2nd floor)
Image: Projection, 2008, dual-channel, HD Video-Projectionsinstallation, 50 min. Videostill. Courtesy: Andrea Fraser und Galerie Nagel Draxler, Köln/Berlin
Press contact:
Anne Niermann / Leonie Pfennig
tel +49 (0)221 22123491, +49 (0)221 22123003 niermann@museum-ludwig.de - leonie.pfennig@museum-ludwig.de
Opening and Award Ceremony: Saturday, April 20, 7 p.m.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Heinrich-Böll-Platz 50667 Cologne
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Monday
Admission
Adults: € 10, concessions: € 7 (Children under 14, school students, college students, trainees (Azubis), military/alternative service conscripts on production of a valid ID, owners of the "Köln-Pass")
Families: € 20,00
Groups (20 people and over): € 7.50 per person
School classes incl. teacher: free entrance to the collection
€ 4 per pupil/teacher for the special exhibition