Opening the Art Concept through the Participatory

21. Mai 2012, 11.00 bis 13.00 Uhr Interface Culture Lecture Room, Kollegiumgasse 2, 3.OG

Opening the Art Concept through the Participatory:
The Physical Involvement of the Viewer from the Historical Avant-garde to Contemporary Art.

The role and the meaning of the viewer in contemporary art has changed throughout the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. In many contemporary exhibitions, works of art are being presented which in one way or another are actively involving the audience – letting them make decisions and execute actions which turn their role into that of a participant.

Biography
Anna Karina Hofbauer
Born April 20, 1973 in Skælskør, Denmark
Lives in Vienna

Anna Karina Hofbauer works as a freelance curator and art critic. 
Curated shows at i.e: Kunstraum Dornbirn (Destroyed Worlds, Igor Sacharow-Ross, Nin Brudermann), Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark (Just Use It), Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and Atelier Augarten/Belvedere Wien (Making Nature), Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark (Lois & Franziska Weinberger), Landesgalerie Linz (Acting in Utopia), Assistant curator Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (Warhol & Basquiat), Kunsthalle Krems and Ordrupgaard, Denmark (Peder Balke. Pioneer of Modernism), Assistant Fondation Beyeler and Kunsthalle Würth (Edvard Munch Signs of Modern Art)

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