!! This Exhibition Takes Place At M HKA!!

With the exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form" (Bern, 1969) process and ephemerality have been inscribed not only into the history of art but also into the rather younger history of exhibiting. While a number of other curatorial initiatives around the late 1960s and early 1970s offered similarly oriented contributions to the discourse, the Swiss show and its curator Harald Szeemann acquired a particularly outstanding, almost legendary reputation. The re-enactment this summer in Venice at the Prada Foundation under the title of "When Attitudes Become Form -Bern 1969/ Venice 2013" means a de-contextualisation and resulting shift of meaning not only in aesthetic terms. Hand in hand with the alterations of the temporal and material conditions of the exhibits go a number of capitalizations, which affect the artistic works, but also the participating artists, the curators and the exhibition itself.

Beatrice von Bismarck (Leipzig, Berlin) teaches art history, visual culture and cultures of the curatorial at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. From 1989 - 1993 she worked as a curator of the department of 20th Century art Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt/Main and until 1999 she taught at Lüneburg University. There she was co-founder and -director of the project-space „Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg“. In Leipzig she is also co-founder of the project-space „/D/O/C/K-Projektbereich“ and initiator of the M.A. Program “Cultures of the Curatorial” which started in autumn 2009. Current research areas: Modes of cultural production connecting theory and practice; curatorial practice; effects of neo-liberalism and globalization on the cultural field; postmodern concepts of the „artist“. She has published on a large scale.

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