Kirsty Bell
The Artist’s House
From Workplace to Artwork
Kirsty Bell in conversation with Dominic Eichler
Thursday, November 28, 2013, 7–9pm
Münzsalon
Münzstraße 23
D-10178 Berlin
Germany
The artist’s house is a prism through which to view not only the artistic practice of its inhabitant, but also to apprehend broader developments in sculpture and contemporary art in relation to domestic architecture and interior space. Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space. In-depth analyses of these contemporary examples—including Jorge Pardo, Mirosław Bałka, Danh Vo, Gregor Schneider, Frances Stark, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Paweł Althamer, Mark Leckey, Monika Sosnowska, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Andrea Zittel—are contextualized by key artists of the twentieth century such as Kurt Schwitters, Alice Neel, Edward Krasiński, Carlo Mollino, and Louise Bourgeois. A two-way flow from the domestic arena to the exhibition space becomes apparent as the everyday has a significant role to play in the emergence of developments in installation art, relational aesthetics, expanded collage, and performance art.
Kirsty Bell is a critic and writer and publishes regularly in magazines including frieze (of which she is a contributing editor), Mousse, Art in America, and art-agenda. The Artist’s House is her first book.
Dominic Eichler is an art critic, artist, musician, curator, and cofounder of the contemporary art space Silberkuppe.
The Artist’s House: From Workplace to Artwork
October 2013, English
17.5 x 23 cm, 328 pages, 183 color and 41 b/w ills., softcover
ISBN 978-3-943365-30-6
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