Künstlerrollen ausbilden

08.12.2009

By the end of the 1960s the imagination of an independent and innovative artist educated in an individual relationship between master and student drifted into a crisis. In academies new professorships were established, theory did demand more a prominent role and the structures of classes are put into question. The lecture will present these upheavals, will analyse different models and investigates its impacts on artist roles.
After the lecture in an conversation between Antje Krause Wahl and Judith Hopf the current structures of artists education have been discussed.

Antje Kraus-Wahl holds a PHD in art history and is research assistant at the Academy of Fine Art in Mainz. She teaches at the Institute for Art History in Frankfurt a.M. and at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig. She curated different projects at Stadthaus Ulm. Her academic and curatorial work focuses on espescially modern and contemporary art, as well as identities of artists, education of artists, art and fashion and artist magazines.

The artist Judith Hopf (born in 1969) studied sculpting and painting at Academy for Fine Arts in Bremen (1990-1992), afterwards she studied Free Art at University of the Arts Berlin where she finished in 1997. Judith Hopf is mainly working with video film, drawing, performance and installation and examines forms of communication. In her artistic works as well as in her texts she investigates the methods of political and artistic mediation. Judith Hopf is Professor for Fine Art at State Academy for Fine Arts – Städelschule Frankfurt.