22.05.2016, 2 - 5 pm
Herbert Archive Seminar Day
in progress
Speakers: Yves Aupetitallot, Joris D’hooghe, Laura Hanssens, Moritz Küng
On Sunday, May 22, 2016, Herbert Foundation invites you for the Seminar Day in progress, a first opportunity to get acquainted with the Archive.
Laura Hanssens will explain the content and functioning of Herbert Archive within the structure of the Foundation. Subsequently three speakers, Yves Aupetitallot, Joris D’hooghe and Moritz Küng, will be discussing their personal selection of books and documents.
Programme (pdf)
2:00 welcome
2:15 Laura Hanssens on Herbert Archive
2:45 Moritz Küng on Heimo Zobernig
3:15 break
3:45 Joris D’hooghe on Marcel Broodthaers
4:15 Yves Aupetitallot on Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley or Franz West
4:45 questions from the audience
5:00 end
The Seminar Day takes place in the new space at the Raas van Gaverestraat 108 and will be accompanied by an archive exhibition.
Practical details
Language: English
Limited seating available
Reservations via Isadora Callens: reservation@herbertfoundation.org
Admission fee: 14 euro (8 euro for students)
About the speakers:
Yves Aupetitallot is an art historian, art critic, curator and author of publications on modern and contemporary art. He is lecturer at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Until 2015 he has been the director of Le MAGASIN – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble where he was also in charge of the École du MAGASIN, the first international curatorial training program in Europe. Yves Aupetitallot lives and works in Lyon.
Joris D’hooghe is preparing a Ph.D. at the Vrije Universeit in Brussels on the oeuvre of Marcel Broodthaers. As an art critic he published in rekto:verso, Ons Erfdeel and Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen and wrote for the catalogue Carte du monde poétique, published by Herbert Foundation in 2015.
Laura Hanssens is Artistic Coordinator and Archive Manager at Herbert Foundation. She studied art history at Vrije Universeit in Brussels and was an intern at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
Moritz Küng is an exhibition curator and book editor working at the intersection of contemporary art with architecture, film and performance. He lives in Barcelona where he is commissioner of ArtsLibris International Art Book Fair. From 2003 till 2011 he was head of the international art campus deSingel in Antwerp. In 2016, Küng edited the recent catalogue raisonnée on books and posters by Heimo Zobernig, published by Malmö Konsthal and Verlag Walther König.