Exchange Project with Prague
Excursion to Brno, size up photograph
1 Exhibition and 1 Workshop in Prag
Trial
Galerie Rakouského Kulturního Fóra
Kurátor výstavy Jiří Sevčík
Praha 1, Jungmannovo Nám. 18
Pondělí - Pátek 10 - 17 Hodin
10.12.2009 - 30.01.2010
Steffi Alte
Julia Haller
Benjamin Hirte
Simon Iurino
Eric Kläring
Imre
Nagy
Pia Niewöhner
Adeline Parrot
Osama Zatar
Workshop November 2010 (report by Pavel Humhal)
20.11. Students from Vienna arrived to Prague
21.11. Collective sightseeing of Prague
22.11. 10am-3pm a group excursion leaded by Pavel Humhal focused
on architecture: 1.Budova Dopravních podniků-funcionalismus, Tančící
dům (Dancing House), Gallery Tranzit-Display – a lecture, Church of St.
Ignatus – baroque
4pm a workshop leaded by Christian Kobald starts
Christian Kobald is an artist, editor of spike art quarterly (spikeart.at),
and, jointly with Severin Dünser, run COCO Kunstverein in Vienna (co-
co.at). His education: philosophy (University of Vienna), art history, cul-
tural history, and history of ideas (University of Applied Arts) in the 90s.
The title of workshop:... Paint, Chairs, Food, Electric and Neon Lights,
Smoke, Water, Old Socks, a Dog, Movies, a Thousand Other Things
This workshop was based on these phylosofical and critical texts:
Two texts on sculpture by Swiss critic and curator Daniel Baumann.
Paragraph from Allan Kaprow‘s »The Legacy of Jackson Pollock«,
Georges Perec‘s essay »Approaches to What?, and »Understanding«,
the last chapter of Pierre Bourdieu‘s »The Weight Of The World« , Lucy
Lippard‘s »Six Years«, Structural Anthropolgy 2« by Claude Levi-
Strauss
artists/work, important in the context:
Rachel Harrison, Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Koons, Heidi
Bucher, Manfred Pernice, the »Peter« Sculptures, the Pallet Sculptures,
and the »Sozialkistentransporter« by Martin Kippenberger, and Jeremy
Deller‘s and Alan Kane‘s»Folk Archive«
25.11. 12am, a collective visit of Müller villa, 4pm a lecture leaded by
Pavel Humhal focused on an architecture and a special technique „stucco“
26.11. 6pm a final meeting, visiting Code Mode
27.11. traveling to Brno, visiting the exhibitions: Wannieck Gallery,
House of Arts, Moravian Gallery
28.11. a collective lecture focused on Brno architecture leaded by Osama Okamura, group lunch in a funkcionalistic house, exhibition About
Flowers
Students from Austria taking part in the workshop: Kathrin Affentranger,
Steffi Alte, Martin Hotter, Wenzel Kersten, Stefan Klampfer, Diana Lam-
bert, Christian Ruchnewitz, Albert Sackl, Jutta Zimmermann
Students from Czech Republic taking part in the workshop: Petra
Mikolášová, Karel Kunc, Eliška Perglerová, Jan Rous, Viktor Takáč,
Tomáš Moravec, Tomáš Uhnák, Jaroslava Kadlecová, Jan Pfeiffer
A cooperation between Jiří Ševčík, Dominik Lang, Jiří Příhoda, Simone Bader, Roland Kollnitz, Heimo Zobernig
With friendly support from AKTION Austria - Czech Republic Science and Education Cooperation and the Czech Centre