Warum brauchen wir eine Biennale? Diese Frage habe ich mich oft gestellt. Vor COVID-19 habe ich viele Orte mit internationalen Kulturveranstaltungen besucht. In der Lockdownzeit habe ich ein Künstlerresidenzprogramm mitorganisiert, um über die Auswirkungen, Bedrohungen und Chancen von COVID-19 für Kulturschaffende nachzudenken. Alles lief anders als erwartet. Jetzt versucht jeder, zur Normalität zurückzukehren. Haben wir die Billionen von Euro und Dollar gedankenlos ausgegeben, um ein System aufrechtzuerhalten, das dringend eine Veränderung braucht?
Amitabh Sengupta’s works display a broad spectrum of styles and reflect the challenges faced by Indian artists in the 20th century. A major exhibition of his works is currently on view at the Kalakendra Art Gallery. Learn more about his influences and his significance for the Indian art scene.
“the eye thinks even more than it listens” (Deleuze) I now remember that, before I began reading Deleuze, I had struggled with an aesthetics of process. I put together a 100-page manuscript with notes, quotations, sketches of structures. I wanted to move away from the idea that art consists of objects perceived in a particular way, because this produces two main strands of thought: 1.) What constitutes an object that we call art, and 2.) why is the perception of…
For some time I have been waiting. Actually, I like waiting. Waiting is a space and a time in which there is nothing else to do but wait for time to pass. Usually, you cannot do much else except read or talk, or think. Waiting times are therefore always free spaces for me. I especially like waiting in citizens’ service centers, for example; here, all people are equal. Together with others, I am in a space where there is nothing…
I love complexity, but sometimes also radical simplification—to gain a little clarity. For example, the history of ideas in the visual arts. In Europe, after the great migrations, art history can be sketched in broad strokes as a history of ideas: In medieval art, stories were told visually – mainly the stories of the Bible. Most people could not read, after all, certainly not Latin or Greek. The wood-panel painting of the altars is therefore a kind of comic, and…
When I first came ‘home’ again from India, I looked at my library and saw that almost nothing in it interested me anymore. What had happened? What is in this library and what is not? My library is that of a philosopher and art historian who taught in Europe and the USA. It contains many books concerned with discourses of modernity and postmodernity—theoretically, historically, analytically, comparatively… Often it is about the subject of representation. What is depicted how, for what…
