April 17, 2009

Württembergischer<br/>Kunstverein Stuttgart

May 30 - August 2, 2009

Württembergischer
Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2

Stuttgart

info@wkv-stuttgart.de

http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de

Press conference
Friday, May 29, 2009, 11 am

Opening
Friday, May 29, 2009, 7 pm

Symposium
May 30 - 31, 2009

Stuttgart.-From May 30 to August 2, 2009 the Württembergischer Kunstverein in
Stuttgart will be devoting itself to experimental and conceptual art
practices that had established between the nineteen-sixties and
eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military
dictatorships and communist regimes. Both the exhibition, comprising
around eighty artistic positions, as well as the related
complementary program have been developed by a team of thirteen
international curators in close collaboration with the Kunstverein.

The exhibition's nine sections will be focused on various contexts
and strategies of artistic production along with their positioning
vis-à-vis both political and cultural repression in the GDR,
Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union, Spain (under Franco), Chile,
Brazil, Argentina and Peru. Of equal concern here are both the
particularities of and the relations between the different temporal
and local environments.

The exhibition undertakes the experiment of a shifted cartograph and
an extended understanding of conceptual practices established well
beyond the Anglo-American canon. In this respect, the related
interdisciplinary, collaborative, and sociopolitical potentials of
theses practices are particularly emphasized—that is, the paradigm
shifts between visual arts, politics, society, education,
architecture, design, mass media, literature, dance, activism, and so
forth that have been educed by them.

Furthermore, the focus is on artistic practices that not only
radically question the conventional concept of art, the institutions,
and the relationship between art and public, but that have, at the
same time, subversively thwarted structures of censorship and opposed
the existing systems of power. The appropriation of communications
systems has thereby played a distinctive role in the establishment of
the widely ramified networks between (Eastern) Europe and South
America.

Artists
Carlos Altamirano, Gábor Altorjay, Ângelo de Aquino, Luis Arias
Vera, Horia Bernea, Artur Barrio, Autoperforationsartisten, László
Beke (Archiv), Teresa Burga, CADA, Ulises Carrión, Dalibor Chatrný,
Carlfriedrich Claus, Attila Csernik, Guillermo Deisler, Eugenio
Dittborn, Juan Downey, Jorge Eielson, Diamela Eltit, Miklós Erdély,
Roberto Evangelista, Constantin Flondor, Fernando França Cocchiarale,
Enric Franch (Archiv), Die Gehirne, Carlos Ginzburg, Ion Grigorescu,
Claus Hänsel, Rafael Hastings, Paulo Herkenhoff, Emilio Hernández
Saavedra, Taller E.P.S. Huayco, Joseph W. Huber, Pavel Ilie, Indigo
Group, Iosif Kiraly, Jiri Kocman, Kollektive Aktionen, Carlos Leppe,
Gastão de Magalhães, Francisco Mariotti, Alfredo Márquez, Fernando
Marzá (Archiv), Gonzalo Mezza, Ivonne von Mollendorff, Muntadas, Paul
Neagu, César Olhagaray, Clemente Padín, Letícia Parente, Grupo
Paréntesis, Catalina Parra, Gyula Pauer, Luis Pazos, Dan Perjovschi,
Julio Plaza, Féliks Podsiadly, Robert Rehfeld, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeld,
Herbert Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Romero, Lotty Rosenfeld, Jesús Ruiz
Durand, Juan Javier Salazar, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Cornelia Schleime,
Grupul Sigma, Petr Stembera, Gabriele Stötzer, Tamás Szentjóby,
Grup de Treball, Regina Vater, Sala Vinçon (Archiv), Cecilia
Vicuña, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Horacio Zabala,
Sergio Zevallos

Idea and Concept
Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ

Cocurators
Ramón Castillo / Paulina Varas (Santiago de Chile / Valparaíso)
Fernando Davis (Buenos Aires)
Cristina Freire (São Paulo)
Sabine Hänsgen (Cologne)
Miguel Lopez / Emilio Tarazona (Barcelona / Lima)
Ileana Pintilie Teleaga (Timisoara)
Valentín Roma / Daniel García Andújar (Barcelona)
Annamária Szöke / Miklós Peternák (Budapest)
Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Bremen)

Press release at
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/press/2009/press-releases