Elke Krasny: Curating Architecture - Curating Art: Contemporary Encounters

19. 11. 2015, Ljubljana, architecture ≠ art programme

Even though we now have a body of work on the historiography of contemporary art curation and an emerging body of work on the historiography of architecture curation, there have rarely been attempts to work out a joined historiographical project. This lecture identifies key moments of exhibition-making and project-based curating with respect to the intersection of art and architecture. On this basis I will tease out differences, contradictions, as well as possible alliances for future architecture-art-encounters.

Elke Krasny is a curator, cultural theorist, and writer. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. Her theoretical and curatorial work is firmly rooted in socially-engaged art, architecture and spatial practices, urban epistemology, post-colonial theory, and feminist historiography. She curated Hands-on Urbanism 1850-2012. The Right to Green (Architekturzentrum, Vienna, 2012), which was presented also at the 2012 Architecture Biennale in Venice.

Organized by: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory and the Museum of Architecture and Design, with the support by: ERSTE Foundation