Jens Hoffmann Rescheduled - Dec 7

About Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a writer and curator of exhibitions. He has worked as a curator since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He is currently a curator for the CIAC FOundation in Mexico City and Curatorial Director of the 101 Collection in San Francisco. He has curated over 30 exhibitions internationally since the late 1990s. Most recently he was co-curator of the 2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico, 2009 and is currently co-curating, with Harrell Fletcher, the People's Biennial, to be held in 2010 at five US museums, organized by Independent Curators International in New York. In 2009 Hoffmann founded The Exhibitionist: A Journal for Exhibition Making. He was nominated by the Menil Collection in Houston for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2008.

Hoffmann was trained as a theater director and studied Stage Directing, Dramaturgy and Cultural Sociology at the Ernst Busch School for Performing Arts in Berlin. He holds an MA in Theater from DasArts – School for Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies in Amsterdam.

Studio visit already posted

Lecture 7:30 pm

John Knight - Group Discussion, 7:00pm Monday Nov 16th @ Warner Studios








Since the late 1960s, the project of John Knight has managed to negate easy categorization, by assuming an immediate and critical distance from the overly generalized label of Conceptual Art. Instead, Knight assumed a more singular position, by not hesitating to re-employ object/subjects within the vernacular, beyond the simple reinterpretation of the ready made, or simulacrum, as in the case of so many other contemporary artists working at the same time. Recent projects include, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello / EAAC (2008), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009) and at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Macba (2009). He recently had an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art and is lecturing at the Hammer museum Nov 12th at 7pm. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ.


In liu of studio visits, John Knight will be leading a group discussion centered around his practices oscillation within and outside of art discourse and other social/economic structures. John has settled on the group discussion as his preferred format so feel free to bring any topics to the discussion. Here are some supplementary documents on his practice since most of it is difficult to present through visual documentation:

Who's Afraid of JK? interview with Benjamin Buchloh and Isabelle Graw:
http://www.textezurkunst.de/59/whos-afraid-of-jk-en/

Knights Moves, essay by Benjamin Buchloh:
www.computerwebsite.net/KnightsMoves_Buchloh.pdf


I would also highly recommend attending his hammer lecture tonight at 7pm:
http://hammer.ucla.edu/calendar/detail/type/program/id/319

Josephine Pryde Visits

Studio Visits for Josephine Pryde:

1:00-alexis
1:45-chadwick
2:30-kelly
3:15-nan
4:00-job
4:45-sanya

Josephine Pryde - Monday Nov 2

Josephine Pryde was born in 1967 in Alnwick, United Kingdom. Her most recent exhibition was in 2008 at Galerie

Bleich-Rossi and Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna with Sarah Staton:How They Met: Part 1 – Mother and Her House

and How They Met: Part 2 – Sex.

Josephine Pryde has exhibited in North America with Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York and in Europe with Galerie

Neu, Berlin and Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne. Since 2008, she has been Professor for Contemporary Photography

at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

Her first solo exhibition in LA opens saturday Oct 31st(tomorrow). Please attend if you can:

http://www.tellesfineart.com/exhibitions.html

Images/interview/reviews: http://www.reenaspaulings.com/JP.htm

Images/text: http://www.secession.at/art/2004_pryde_e.html

Images/Bio: http://www.galerieneu.net/artists/show/id/9

Visits will be at:

1:00
1:45
2:30
3:15
4:00
4:45

7pm: Lecture

Sign up will be posted at noon on Oct 31st(tomorrow)

Marilyn Minters Sign Ups Closed - Thurs Oct 22

Studio Visits will be Thursday Oct. 22 :

2-2:45 - Jane Parshall

2:45-3:30 - Jeff Hastings

3:30-4:15 - Ryan

4:15-5:00 - Alexis

Please sign up in the comments section.

Marilyn Minters - Thursday Oct 22

Marilyn Minter’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including a solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005 and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. In September, the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and La Conservera in Murcia, Spain will present installations of her work, including large scale projections of her video Green Pink Caviar. Green Pink Caviar was featured in Madonna’s recent European tour and will grace digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard as part of a public art project that coincides with her first exhibition at Regen Projects in October.

Click on the link below to watch Marilyn Minter's favorite YouTube videos of Green Pink Caviar on Madonna's Sticky and Sweet tour:

http://www.greenpinkcaviar.com/tour.php

Studio Visits will be Thursday Oct. 22 :

2-2:45

2:45-3:30

3:30-4:15

4:15-5:00

Sign ups will be post Wednesday Oct. 21 at 1:55 pm

Jens Hoffmann - Monday Oct 26 Sign Ups Closed

Sign-up in the comments section.

Monday Oct 26

3:30 - Kelly

3:50 - Tejpal

4:10 - david zuttermeister

4:30 - Alexis

4:50 - Meleko

5:10 - Max

5:30 - Jane Jin Kaisen

5:50 - Katrina

Warner Talk at 7:30