Konrad Fischer: a Context, an Attitude

Programme

Mondays, 17 and 31 May, 14 June, at 7 pm

Monday 17 May
Jürgen Harten: The Prospekt exhibition series (1968-1976)
Friedrich Meschede, head of temporary exhibitions at the MACBA, will introduce the presentation.

Jürgen Harten is an art curator, critic and historian. He was secretary of Documenta 4 in Kassel and in 1969 he joined the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf, first as a scientific assistant and later, from 1972 forward, as director. Between 1998 and 2000, he was the founding director of the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf. He has lived in Berlin since 2003.

Monday 31 May
Brigitte Kölle: okey dokey Konrad Fischer
Goethe Institut assembly hall (c/ Manso 24-28, Barcelona)

Brigitte Kölle is an exhibition curator and art historian. She was scientific director of the Kunsthalle Portikus in Frankfurt, and from 1999 to 2003 she was curator at the Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee (United States). As an independent curator she has been responsible for many exhibition projects in international institutions, like P.S.1 in New York, the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Venice Biennale. She is editor and contributor of the book Konrad Fischer: Okey Dokey (Walther König Verlag, Cologne, 2007) about the life and personality of the gallery owner.

Monday 14 June
Lynda Morris:: Unconcealed. Konrad Fischer and the Conceptual Art Network 1967-1977
Antònia M. Perelló, head of collection at the MACBA, will introduce the presentation.

Lynda Morris is a professor at Norwich University College of the Arts and curator at EASTinternational. For twenty-five years she was curator at the Norwich Gallery of the Norwich School of Arts and Design. She edited the book Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77 – Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (Ridinghouse, 2009) by Sophie Richard, crucial to an understanding of the emergence of conceptual art in northern Europe.