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12.12.2008 - 01.03.2009 10 Reasons to be a Member #18 Judith Raum: Contemporary Arts Library Services Pristina-Berlin
Opening: December 11th 2008, 7 pm
Judith Raum: "The Contemporary Arts Library",
Workshop with Elke Marhöfer, Pristina, January 2008
Foto: Judith Raum
Born in 1977 in Werneck, Judith Raum studied fine art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at The Cooper Union in New York City, as well as philosophy at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. She lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt. With her presentation of “Contemporary Arts Library Services Pristina – Berlin” in the 10 Reasons to be a Member space at the Frankfurt Kunstverein, Judith Raum shows how the project first came into being as well as its actual development thereafter. “Contemporary Arts Library” is a book collection of international contemporary art and theory, which is located in Pristina (Kosovo) and was initiated in 2005 by Shannon Bool and Adrian Williams. Since then it has functioned as a library consisting of an inventory of 10,000 books, magazines and films that provide urgently required resources on contemporary art. Judith Raum has extended this facility further from 2006 onwards, in cooperation with artists in Pristina, into an open structure for events while also changing the main focus of the collection towards publications and artistic approaches of the region. Over the course of this time, the resources that form this “library” have made it possible for participatory projects in and beyond Kosovo to be realised, with the aim of an exchange to occur between artists from Kosovo and the international community.
Judith Raum: Lecture-Performance and book presentation
"Becoming The Contemporary Arts Library Pristina - Berlin", Bunkier Sztuki Krakau, November 2007
Foto: Judith Raum
The library will not be on show at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Rather one will see, embedded within a wooden frame structure that is covered with fabric, material that allows for a critical reflection on the project. The work of Judith Raum concerns a questioning process that relates to spiritual, political and financial dependence and independence, as well as the possibilities and limits of cooperation and feasibility.
Accompanying the presentation, Judith Raum has invited international guests lectures that are involved in the project:
December 16, 2008: Judith Raum in conversation with Kerstin Meyer (Frankfurt)
January 13, 2009: Kittens Talk - Judith Raum, guest: Céline Condorelli (London)
January 30, 2009: Artist Talk with Elke Marhöfer (Berlin)
February 18, 2009: Lecture and film screening by Sezgin Boynik (Pristina)
The presentation, Contemporary Arts Library Services Pristina - Berlin by Judith Raum, takes place as part of the Königinnenwege IV series, which is organized by maecenia. It is shown in cooperation with the foundation.
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