Christoph Draeger / Jens Hoffmann / Bojana Pejic / Bisi Silva

This section will examine the condition and the significance of places where art is produced, and the historical development of these places over recent decades. Regional differences will be discussed, as will changes due to globalisation. Questions here include similar or divergent developments in Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, etc. On the one hand, artists today live and work globally; on the other, the respective local conditions, lifestyle, political and social systems obviously not only influence their work, but are frequently also a constitutive element. The discussion will also look at the history of this field of tension between global and local, present in any artistic production intended as supra-regional.

Moderation: Georg Schöllhammer is founding editor of springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, freelance writer and curator. He lives and works in Vienna.