Winter School 2025
Continuing Education,
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
https://www.zhdk.ch/weiterbildung/sws
Open Call for “Baustein 20”:
Participatory Exhibitionary Practices
Analyzing and conceptualizing innovative exhibitions
6–8 Feb 2025
Zurich, Switzerland
Fee: CHF 800.–
Application deadline: January 3, 2025 / Organization: Dr Ronald Kolb
Application form here.
Further information:
For inquiries: ronald.kolb@zhdk.ch.
We will visit Zurich art institutions, please bring weatherproof clothing.
Recommended: Bring your own project/idea.
The course is in English.
Our modern societies are marked by diverse living conditions, translocal experiences, and various transcultural influences. Art and exhibition practices reflect these changes. This Winter School will focus on participatory practices in the arts, aiming to understand exhibitions that encourage engagement and collaboration among diverse audiences.
Participants will analyse how these practices shape cultural dialogue, gain theoretical insights, and have the opportunity to interact with curators and artists from Zurich. The program includes a one-day visit to local art institutions.
Participate to deepen your understanding and skills related to participatory practices in art and contribute to the evolving world of contemporary art.
For:
Curators & artists, art mediators, transdisciplinary researchers, cultural producers, social workers, city administrates
Dr Ronald Kolb, Continuing Education ZHdK, recently published his dissertation entitled “Curating as Governmental Practices. Post-Exhibitionary Practices under Translocal Conditions in Governmental Constellations,” in which he critically examines contemporary exhibitionary practices from a governmental perspective and explores their dynamics between representational power and participatory operations in both global and situated contexts. A characteristic feature of his practice is the orchestration of exhibiting and teaching as an exercise in participation in contexts of situated knowledges. This is also evident in the international symposia and workshops he has co-organized, such as Situated Knowledges, a digital event with Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK and the Migros Museum (2021), the Summer School “Commoning Curatorial and Artistic Education” at documenta fifteen (2022) and the workshop Commoning Collective Care in collaboration with TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (2023) and the experimental study trip “Post-/Exhibitionary Practices: Art and Curating in Expanded Ecological Thought” with local art practioners in Córdoba, Spain (2024).
Caption: Exhibition view, LABORSCHULE BERLIN: Education of the future for Hellersdorf, nGbK, Hellersdorf, Berlin, Germany, 25.07.2024. Photo: Keabetswe Boccomino.
