Projects 2003

Art Institutions

Exhibition
3 December 2003 - 5 January 2004

Seminar
3 - 4 December 2003

KIASMA – Museum of Contemporary Art
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Helsinki, Finland

Organized by NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in collaboration with KIASMA – Museum of Contemporary Art

Art Institutions: The ethics and Aesthetics of Working with Contemporary Art

Institution2 is an exhibition and a seminar that posit an inquiry into the work of ten contemporary art institutions in Europe. The program is part of The Process a sequence of exhibitions, performances, workshops, and lectures, which together form the program of KIASMA from September 2003 till January 2004. The objective of Institution2 is to presents different examples of institutional work from various cultural and geographic contexts that manifest a flexible and progressive approach to a critical engagement with art and the exchange with the public. The program will examine the different institutional models in order to formulate an outlook of the diverse landscape of art institutions and their different strategies.

• BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
• Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
• Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
• Index, Stockholm
• Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt
• Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
• Rooseum, Malmö
• Witte de With, Rotterdam

In addition the organizing institutions, KIASMA and NIFCA, will take part in the program and present their specific models in the seminar as well as the exhibition.


REGISTRATION
Please register for the panel discussion to sanna.juntunen@kiasma.fi
The panel discussion is free. NIFCA will contact all the participants and give more information about the dining possibilities and accommodation in the end of November.

For more information please contact
Jens Hoffmann tel. +49 173 295 0556 or Jens@jenshoffmann.org
and please see www.kiasma.fi and www.nifca.org

Institution2 is curated by Jens Hoffmann.
The seminar has been organized in collaboration with NIFCA curator Nina Möntmann.