An academies tour courtesy dOCUMENTA (13)

As part of the dOCUMENTA (13) art schools tour, a research and information tour to six different art academies in Germany.

The Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is running a series of workshops especially designed for students currently enrolled on an academic course. The workshops are followed by a public lecture.

In her workshop, Christov-Bakargiev will reveal the particular opportunities for students to become involved in dOCUMENTA (13).

The stops on the tour are:

October 17, 2011: Academy of Visual Arts (HGB), Leipzig

October 18, 2011: Academy of Fine Arts Münster, in collaboration with LWL Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Münster

October 19, 2011: Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

November 2, 2011: The University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (HFBK), in collaboration with the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstverein Hamburg

November 3, 2011: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

November 30, 2011: Kunsthochschule Kassel

This tour of German academies is part of the dOCUMENTA (13) research program, the aim of which is to identify interested and committed art students who would like to work during dOCUMENTA (13).

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), is a curator and writer based in Rome, Kassel, and New York. After organizing exhibitions as an independent curator in different countries, from 1999 to 2001 she was senior curator of exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA Affiliate.

She was the chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin from 2002 to 2008 (and interim director of the museum in 2009). She was the co-curator of the first Turin Triennial in 2005 and artistic director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008. As a writer, she has been interested in the relations between historical avant-gardes and contemporary art and has written extensively on the Arte Povera movement, such as in her book Arte Povera (London: Phaidon, 1999).

(Information courtesy: dOCUMENTA -13)