The museum in a school, Summer 2016,
Nürtingen School, Berlin
Photo: Aisha Stoby
Ruth Noack
19.07.2017 19:00 / A museum in a school
Location: Galerie 5020
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Language: English
Address: Residenzplatz 10, 5020 SalzburgIn the past fifteen years, Western-type museums have expressed a new interest in expanding their public beyond the scope of an educated middle class. But studies show that despite innovative educational programmes and contemporary approaches to audience-building, little has changed in terms of equal access to the pleasure and knowledge contained in museums. In this light, might it be the right step to take the museum into the school? The lecture will look at practice-based research into this field, which takes its inspiration from a few examples of non-Western museum practice. -
Ruth Noack, born in Heidelberg (DE) in 1964, trained as a visual artist and art historian; she has worked as author, art critic, university lecturer and exhibition-maker since the 1990s. Noack was curator of documenta 12 (2007). Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Programme, Royal College of Art, London (2012-13), she acted as Research Leader for the EU project MeLa - European Museums in an age of migrations. Noack was Šaloun professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (2013-14) and led the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014. Since 2015 she has been responsible for one of the DAI Roaming Academy trajectories.
ExhibitionsSleeping with a Vengeance − Dreaming of a Life (upcoming). Fragments and Compounds, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich (upcoming). 2015 Notes on Crisis, Currency and Consumption, curated by_Vienna, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna. 2012 Not Dressed for Conquering - Ines Doujak's Loomshuttles/Warpaths, Royal College of Art, London. 2007 documenta 12 (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Kassel (DE). 2003-05 The Government (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (ES), Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL), MAC, Miami (US), Secession, Vienna. 2000 Things We Don't Understand (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Generali Foundation, Vienna. 1995 Scenes of a Theory (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Depot, Vienna.
PublicationsThe Art Educator's Talk, Interview with Ruth Noack, https://arteducatorstalk.net/?interview=ruth-noack-aktiv-anti-professionell, (retrieved 20 November 2016).
Ruth Noack, Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle, One Work Series, Afterall Books, London 2013.
Ruth Noack (ed.), Agency, Ambivalence, Analysis. Approaching the Museum with Migration in Mind, Politecnico di Milano, Milan 2013.