(German)
Lecture by Martin Beck (Artist, Vienna/New York), followed by a conversation with Felix Vogel
(Curator, Berlin) 
April 7, 7 p.m.

In recent years, the concept of the display has become astonishingly popular in the art world, often serving as a placeholder for a whole series of complex issues relevant to exhibition practice that range from questions of format and the use of space to strategies of communication. This great variety of meanings lends the concept a certain fascination, but it also blurs its specificity and potential.

Martin Beck
Martin Beck is an artist and lives in New York and Vienna. His works examine questions of historicity and authorship, often drawing on discourses from architecture, design, and popular culture. His most recent exhibition projects include Panel 2—“Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes…,” Gasworks, London (2008), and, in collaboration with Julie Ault, No-Stop City High-Rise, presented as part of the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010).

Felix Vogel
Felix Vogel is an art historian and curator. He studied the history and theory of art and philosophy at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Research focuses include garden architecture and the culture of knowledge around 1800, the theory and practice of exhibiting, concepts of authorship, and documentary and historiographical practices in art and film. His most recent curatorial work includes the 4th Bucharest Biennial Handlung. On Producing Possibilities (2010).