Narration: Points of View
Politics of institutions – politics of art

  • Narration: Points of View

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites to the first meeting organized in collaboration with the quarterly "View". During the meeting, Krzystof Pijarski will talk with Juliane Rebentisch about the relationship between politics and art.

During the first meeting in the series of “Points of View”, Juliane Rebentisch will be contemplating on the relationship and dependency between the politics of institutions and the politics of art, and afterwards, she will be discussing the role of museums and collections in contemporary societies, as well as the place of art and its potential for emancipation.
 

Juliane Rebentisch

Berlin-based philosopher, whose work focuses on aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. She teaches at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main, and is the coeditor of "WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung". She has published numerous essays and books, including Ästhetik der Installation (Suhrkamp, 2003), Kreation und Depression: Freiheit im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus (coedited with Christoph Menke, Kadmos, 2010), and "Die Kunst der Freiheit: Zur Dialektik demokratischer Existenz" (Suhrkamp, 2012). Lives and works in Berlin.

Krzysztof Pijarski

Art historian, artist working mainly with photography, translator. Lecturer at the Filmschool in Łódź. Recipient of a Fulbright Junior Research Grant at Hohns Hopkins University (2009-2010), and grants from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Shpilman Institute of Photography. His main fields of interest are contemporary art, theory and history of photography and the affective and political power of images. As an artist, he is interested in the (post)modern fate of images and objects – in museums, archives and other „machines of representation.” In 2010 a selection of the writings of Allan Sekula in his translation was published by Warsw University Press. He publishes in "Camera Austria", "Teksty Drugie", "Kultura Współczesna", "Obieg". Editor of The Archive as Project (2011). Currently works on an individual grant from the National Science Centre in Poland, „Objecthood, Temporality, Thetricality, and the Everyday. Michael Fried and Art After Modernism.”

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