Course: What is Contemporary Art and Curating?

Course: What is Contemporary Art and Curating?
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter
Dates: 12 & 19 October 2024, 2–6 pm (CEST)
Fee: €250
Enroll by: 30 September 2024

Course Overview

How can we define “contemporary art” today? What processes of concretion are at work to distinguish “good art” from “non-art”? What does it mean that even individual artistic works often consist of a conglomeration of media, artefacts and explanations? What constitutes the art institution and how and in what way can art influence society? And what different discourses exist side by side in art?

In the second part of the workshop, we will look at curating. In what way is it a creative construction of meaning? How is curating involved in specific contexts, and how can we develop criteria to analyse curatorial practice? The workshop will include practical and theoretical parts.

About the Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter is a Berlin-based curator, author, filmmaker, and art historian. She is the founder and director of the OnCurating Academy Berlin, Head of the PhD in Practice in Curating at the University of Reading, and Editor-in-Chief of OnCurating.org.

For more online courses in contemporary curating, visit the OnCurating Academy Berlin.

Enroll here: What is Contemporary Art and Curating?

Image: Kathrin Böhm, »A Haystack for Zürich«, in “What’s Cooking?”, curated by Tanja Trampe & Anne Koskiluoma, 2014 (© the artists, curators and OnCurating)