The next event within the frame of ACAX’s Check-in Budapest curatorial visitor program is
Cultural Politics Revisited – a public discussion
with the participation of
Cathérine Hug, curator, Kunsthalle Wien
Nicolaus Schafhausen, director, Kunsthalle Wien, and
Barnabás Bencsik, director, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary.
Moderated by János Szoboszlai, Head of Department of Art Theory and Curatorial Studies, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
Cultural politics follow both national and international developments and trends. In some cases, such national decisions of the utterly problematic kind are taken that are obviously intended rather to install so called stability, and most of all: control. There are, however, many regulations at work from which numerous are on the national level. What has to be considered and can be done to keep a specific national cultural policy in the loop of international discourse? Is the privatization of the cultural field the only solution? Where can we find parallels or differences regarding the various developments in state cultural politics across Europe?
Date: 1st March 2013 (Friday), 5 p.m.
Venue: Ludwig Museum Auditorium
(1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1., 1st floor)
The discussion will be held in English.
Free entrance. All are welcome!
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More about the participants:
Cathérine Hug studied IT, Media Science and Art History. Curatorial Assistant of Bice Curiger and Tobia Bezzola at Kunsthaus Zurich (2000-07). Curatorial Assistant of Simon Lamunière at Art Unlimited at the Art Basel (2005-08). Member among others of AICA; VKKS; IKT; and vice-president of the Alumni Art History UZH organization. Hug is a curator at the Kunsthalle Wien since 2008.
Nicolaus Schafhausen has been artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (1995-98), director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (1999-2005), and director of the Witte de With in Rotterdam (2006-12). Founding Director of the European Kunsthalle (2005-2006). Curator of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2009. Visiting lecturer at HISK
since 2011. Currently strategic director of Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and curator of the Bucharest Biennial in 2014. Schafhausen has been the director of Kunsthalle Wien since October 2012.
Barnabas Bencsik, director, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary. In 2012, he was chosen the most influental person in contemporary art in Hungary for second time. He has been a leading force of contemporary art since the middle of the 90s. Worked for the Studio Gallery, The Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Trafó Gallery, Műcsarnok, MEO, Demo, ACAX – his story covers the institutional story and cultural policy of Hungary during the last two decades. He has always been dedicated to the international integration of Hungarian contemporary art, and as the director of Ludwig Museum he established a remarkable position in the region through this aspiration.
János György Szoboszlai PhD, art historian, curator. Worked as a visual arts program coordinator for the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Budapest (1994-1996), director of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros (1997-2001), special visiting lecturer for the MA in Arts Administration program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001-2), later co-owned and led acb Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest (2003-2009). Currently, he works as the Head of the Department of Art Theory and Curatorial Studies, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, where he also teaches as Adjunct Lecturer.
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