ACAX cordially invites you to the
lecture of Katherine Bussard (Associate
Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago) and Andreas
Müller-Pohle (artist and publisher – editor of European
Photography magazine)
Date: 11
February 2010 (Thursday), 7 p.m.
Location: Nessim
Galéria (1061, Budapest, Paulay Ede utca 10.)
In her lecture Bussard will discuss the
series of contemporary photography exhibitions that she has initiated
and curated at the Art Institute since 2005, On the Scene. Occurring
every other year, the most recent On the Scene was installed in
the new Renzo Piano Modern Wing, and was the occasion for two
specially-commissioned installations by Jason Lazarus (b. 1975) and
Zoe Strauss (b. 1970).
Andreas Müller-Pohlewill present his recent projects and video works
in a panel discussion with Lajos Adamik (translator) and Gábor
Pfisztner (art critic).
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Katherine
Bussard (Indiana, 1976) is Associate Curator of Photography at the
Art Institute of Chicago and author of the exhibition catalogue So
the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia,
Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan. Bussard recently completed
her doctoral dissertation on street photography at the City
University of New York, and contributed a related essay to the
exhibition catalogue Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now.
She is currently co-curating a traveling exhibition on the history of
American color photography.
Andreas Müller-Pohle (Brunswick, 1951)
is artist and publisher. He is the editor of European Photography
magazine (Göttingen and Berlin) since 1980. Between 1985–94 he was
consultant for the European Photography Award. Müller-Pohle was
publisher of Vilém Flusser's Die Schrift – Hat Schreiben Zukunft?
(Scripture – The Future of Writing) as an electronic book on
diskette (1986). He is the founder of Edition Flusser (1996), and of
Eye-Mind (2005) – the workshop for contemporary
photography and new media. Between 1997–2004 he was engaged
as visiting professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp,
Belgium. His works were shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions
among others in Berlin, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Paris, Rio de Janeiro,
São Paulo, Philadelphia, Houston, Shanghai and Kyoto. Müller-Pohle
is recipient of the Reind M. De Vries European Photography Prize
(2001).
The curatorial
visitor program Check in Budapest is a series of events initiated by
ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange in the autumn of
2008. So far more than 40 curators and art critics
participated in the program. The different editions of Check
in Budapest consist out of two main activities: a curatorial
research, completed by public presentations and panel discussions. In
order to give an extensive insight into the Hungarian art scene and
the places of art production, the curatorial research program
includes tours to different galleries and museums, as well as
meetings with artists, curators and key cultural producers. In
the public lecture the visiting professionals present their work and
current fields of interest and share their ideas with each other in a
public debate.
The program aims to establish and
maintain channels of effective and continuous professional
communication among the actors of the Hungarian and international art
scene, as well as to promote and support the international appearance
and integration of Hungarian artists.
