„In recent years, the art world has been more often confronted with a classic dilemma of engagement or disengagement, in the face of political turmoils, corporate agendas or disrespect of human rights. It all gives a feeling that curating and art production cannot just carry on ‘as if nothing had happened’”, says Joanna Warsza in her course description. After she has conducted a workshop on boycotts in the art field at this year’s Summer Academy, next summer she will continue to research with the students former examples of groundbreaking exhibitions and will work on a “code of curatorial ethics”.

Joanna Warsza is curator of the Symposium “Perferct Harmony” within the 3rd Transitions festival “Central Europe” that will take place at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November 2015. The symposium will also be screened here.

Among others, Warsza was head of the “Public Program” of Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg (2014), curated the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2013), and served as associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2012). Currently she is a senior lecturer at CuratorLab at Konstfack in Stockholm.

In this video she presents the curatorial concept of the “Public Progam” of Manifesta 10, taking into account the difficult political circumstances of the exhibition that took place in Russia last year.

Greek artist Andreas Lolis will direct the four-week stone sculpture course in the Kiefer quarry in Fürstenbrunn at the Untersberg next summer. Fascinated by the relics of the 21st century, by all the things that as a society we discard on a daily basis, Lolis has been working since 2011 on a series of marble sculptures that are replicas of thrown-out boxes and styrofoam material. They are meticulously carved to give a trompe l’oeil effect; what seems real and warm turns out to be in fact cold and false, sculpted ironically from the rock-hard past of antiquity.

Lolis participated in the 3rd Athens Biennale in 2011 and most recently in the 2015 Biennale de Lyon, still running until the end of this year. See below a reportage on the Biennale including a short interview with Andreas Lolis.
If you happen to be in Athens, don’t miss the opening of his solo presentation „Undercurrents“ at The Breeder on Thursday, November 19, at 8 p.m, where he shows a new body of work.

Alya Sebti is a Berlin-based independent curator who in 2014 was the artistic director for the 5th edition of the Marrakech Biennale. She recently curated the solo show "Caverne" of Hicham Berrada that is still on view at Wentrup Gallery in Berlin until January 2016.

While, as Alya Sebti states, the art system’s pace gets faster, exhibition making becomes dictated by hyper productivity and the curator is expected to perform within a frenetic temporality punctuated by curatorial turns, she proposes slowing down and investigating the role of the curator since 2000 in her one-week summer academy course.

In this interview you can listen to Alya Sebti talking about the current North African art scene.

Alya Sebti. A Skype conversation about the current North African art scene. September 2015. from Radicate.eu on Vimeo.

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Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn are Brazilian artists and filmmakers. Since 2007 they form the duo DISTRUKTUR. After joining the collective LaborBerlin in the same year they started applying handmade techniques to the making of their films. Distruktur's body of work takes form as films, installations, film performances, photographs, text and graphic. It crosses the borders between art and film, experimental and narrative, photography and moving image.
With their film „In the traveler’s heart“ Distruktur currently participate in the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo.

In the traveler's heart trailer from DISTRUKTUR on Vimeo.

“The craft of comics” is the title of Nicolas Wild’s course next summer. He will explain all the steps of comic creation, from the idea of the story to the book launch in a festival. Wild’s graphic novels are published at La Boîte à Bulles in France. He was also commissioned to make graphic reportages for blogs of arte and Le Monde.
Still until Saturday, 7 November, you can see his graphic reportage included in the Comic Transfer exhibition in Hamburg, initialized by the Goethe-Institut.

In his last year’s Lunch Talk, Nicolas Wild presented his own work and talked about his experiences as a cartoonist in Afghanistan, Iran and Nepal: