Trust Issues - Exhibiting as a Practice of Trust

They presuppose trust, which must also be continuously developed. Following the philosopher Martin Hartmann, the collective work on exhibitions involving artists, curators, and critics can be understood as a practice of trust, underpinned by a common goal and its value.


According to Hartmann, only consensus on the practical framework enables mutual trust. However, the current economic and political pressure on the exhibition industry is shaking up previously accepted agreements.


Hard-won achievements, from working conditions to political self-image, are being called into question again. This is where "Trust Issues" begins, discussing the reasons for the increasing loss of trust in the institutional structures that support exhibitions.


The theme of trust also encourages us to take seriously another core aspect of Leung's work: understanding dependencies not as limitations, but as liberation. If we once again understand our interdependence in the exhibition business as a potential, we can negotiate how, despite differing or even conflicting interests, a common framework of practice can be designed as a foundation of trust.


The panel discussion takes place in the Ghislaine Leung exhibition and follows on from the "Exhibition Politics" issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST, which examines current constellations of the numerous politics that converge in the exhibition business.


Program

7 p.m.
Exhibiting as a Practice of Trust
Discussion with Layla Burger-Lichtenstein (Curator, n.b.k.), David Joselit (Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge / USA), and Abbas Zahedi (artist, London), moderated by Antonia Kölbl (Editor-in-Chief, TEXTE ZUR KUNST)

In English


8:30 p.m.
Set by DJ Bootlicker


A project of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and TEXTE ZUR KUNST


Free admission