24 May–17 August 2014
Kunsthalle Zürich
Limmatstrasse 270
CH-8005 Zurich
T +41 44 272 15 16
In the context of the comprehensive exhibition once again the world is flat. Kunsthalle Zurich presents a series of public programmes that seeks to provide entryways for various audiences into the work and thought of Haim Steinbach.
Seminals—Lectures
David Joselit: How to Make the Many
In cooperation with the Institute of Art History, University of Zurich:
Saturday, 24 May, 3pm
Organised in cooperation with different educational institutions, this series of events hosts keynote lectures by leading theorists of art who will discuss their seminal work in relation to the current exhibition and in a subsequent seminar with students. The theme of “flatness” in the context of Haim Steinbach’s exhibition will be explored by influential art historian David Joselit from the perspective of his latest book After Art (2012), in which he examines the state of objects and/as images in digital times. Haim Steinbach will be present for the conversation.
Q&A—artist talks, questions and answers
Sunday, 15 June, 4pm
Haim Steinbach in conversation with Helen Marten and Tom Eccles
How do we experience our fabricated environment? How do we arrange the things we live with—including ourselves, and our social relations? How does art, such as Minimalism, Pop Art and Appropriation Art, tap into these all-too-human experiences—and how does it shift, negotiate and change them? Over the last four decades, the work of Haim Steinbach has provided a series of answers to these questions, but also raised further questions, which the artist will discuss with the young artist Helen Marten and curator Tom Eccles, and us.
Reality Check—encounters and talks:
10 July, 6.30pm, location to be announced
“The world as seen through the shelf.” With Rafael Horzon (in German)
This series of events involves encounters between experts from areas on the boundaries of art with a view to inspiring a broader discussion on the key issues of the exhibition. The evening will be shaped by the wide-ranging mutualities but also misunderstandings between the different perspectives of art, design, and craft; entrepreneurship, commodification, and everyday activity.
Guided tours
Sundays, 2pm: 8 June, 29 June, 6 July, 20 July, 17 August
Evenings, Thursdays, 6.30 pm: 12 June, 10 July, 7 August
Lunchtime, Wednesdays, 12.30pm: 28 May, 18 June
Making of – Theory and Programmes at Kunsthalle Zürich
How does an idea transform into an art object and an exhibition ultimately? And what is the relationship of these art works and exhibitions to their surrounding contemporaneity and to art history? These questions constantly pose themselves anew to different generations and different groups of visitors, collaborators, thinkers and artists. By fostering this dialogue, this series of theory and programmes hopes to create entries into the works of art shown at the Kunsthalle Zürich, as well as loopholes from there into broader questions of making and being made.
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Publication
A comprehensive catalogue will be published in cooperation with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, and the Serpentine Gallery. With essays by Johanna Burton and Germano Celant as well as a conversation between the artist and Tom Eccles, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Beatrix Ruf.
Generous loans by the following are integrated in the exhibition:
Collection Ellen and Michael Ringier, Kunsthaus Zürich, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen, Collection Maja Hoffmann, S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Collection Fonds regional dàrt contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
Kunsthalle Zürich receives regular support from:
Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Zürcher Kantonalbank – Partner of Kunsthalle Zürich, LUMA Foundation
Generous support for this exhibition was provided by:
Swiss Re – Sponsor of the exhibition, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim-Stiftung
