Everyone is a critic today. But where is the criticism? We are all experts who evaluate each other. But where are the experts for the whole? Today, every theatre, every museum, every scientific institute is supposed to explain and promote its work itself – while independent mediation, classification, evaluation are dwindling with the general media. But without criticism there is no public. Without publicity, no arts. Without the arts, there is no democracy.
Image above: © Rimini Berlin
Now, of all times, when the monopolies of critique have been broken and more perspectives are finally being given space, critique is experiencing its greatest crisis. This crisis serves as a lens for the congress “The Future of Criticism” to look at the fundamental changes in the public sphere, institution and society. Over 100 international guests from architecture, the visual arts, film, literature, music, theatre and the media will discuss the future of the public sphere over two weekends at the Akademie der Künste and the Bundeskunsthalle.
With, among others, Cem A. aka freeze_magazine, Artists at Risk, Elke Bippus, Kate Brown, Elke Buhr, Saba-Nur Cheema, Joshua Citarella, Eric D. Clark, Christian Demand, Helmut Draxler, Mara Delius, Nikita Dhawan, Gürsoy Doğtaş, Ulrike Draesner, Arnold Dreyblatt, Mat Dryhurst, Dorte Lena Eilers, Jochen Gerz, Birgit Glanz, Isabelle Graw, Ines Geipel, Julia Grosse, Jörg Heiser, Eva Illouz, Danson Kahyana, Melissa Koch-Makele, Robert Kudielka, Angela Lammert, Holger Liebs, Max Linz, Verena Lueken, Niklas Maak, Thorsten Michaelsen, Linn Micklitz, Yvette Mutumba, Marita Muukkonen, Sara Nabil, Carolin Naujocks, Florian Neuner, New Models, Anh-Linh Ngo, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Danièle Perrier, Hanno Rauterberg, Kolja Reichert, Leonie Reineke, Kathrin Röggla, Karin Sander, Henning Schmidgen, Sabine Scholl, Martin Schüttler, Georg Seeßlen, Barış Seyitvan, Alex Scrimgeour, Noemi Smolik, Beate Söntgen, Hito Steyerl, Ivor Stodolsky, Rüdiger Suchsland, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Cassie Thornton, Wolfgang Ullrich, Senthuran Varatharajah, Julia Voss, Christine Wahl, Wilfried Wang, Dena Yago, Zairong Xiang
“The Future of Criticism” is a cooperation of the Akademie der Künste and the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH in collaboration with the German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the DFG Research Training Group “Cultures of Criticism” at Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Institute for Art and Image Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin
Supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education
WHEN?
Framework programme
Bonn: 18. – 19.11.2022
Guided tours of the Chancellor’s Bungalow, Bonn
Berlin: 24.11. – 26.11.2022 –
“Kritik Ausstellen”: Student presentation of critical bequests from the archive of the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz.
Guided tours of the Picture Cellar of the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
WHERE?
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn
Helmut-Kohl-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
