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Academy. Learning from Art 

September 15 – November 26, 2006 

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Belgium 

Academy. Learning from the Museum 

September 16 – November 26, 2006 

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands 

An initiative of Siemens Arts Program in cooperation with the Department of Visual 

Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst 

Antwerpen, and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. 

Curators: Bart De Baere and Dieter Roelstraete (Museum van 

Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Charles Esche and Kerstin 

Niemann (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Irit Rogoff 

(Goldsmiths College, London), and Angelika Nollert (Siemens 

Arts Program) 

Artists Antwerp: Uli Aigner 

Herman Asselberghs, Dieter Lesage & Ina Wudtke 

Dockx & Mast 

Jimmie Durham 

Gelitin 

Johanna Kandl 

Mary Kelly 

Modulator 

Lia Perjovschi 

Adrian Piper 

Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte – 

Fondazione Pistoletto 

Raqs Media Collective 

Martha Rosler Library 

Apolonija Šušteršič 

Joëlle Tuerlinckx 

Contributors Eindhoven: Irit Rogoff & Deepa Naik 

Charles Esche & Kerstin Niemann 

Christiane Berndes 

Diana Franssen 

Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert & 

Florian Schneider 

Liam Gillick & Edgar Schmitz 

Janna Graham, Valeria Graziano & Susan Kelly 

Jean-Paul Martinon & Rob Stone 

John Palmesino, Anselm Franke & Eyal Weizman 

Willem Jan Renders 

Mårten Spångberg & Bojana Cvecić

Press release 

Symposium survey 

Workshops, Talks, Round table and Conference 

Information about the artists and contributors and their projects 

Artists Antwerp 

Uli Aigner 


Dockx & Mast 

Jimmie Durham 

Gelitin 

Johanna Kandl 

Mary Kelly 

Modulator 


Adrian Piper 

Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto 





Contributors Eindhoven 

Irit Rogoff & Deepa Naik 











Mårten Spångberg & Bojana Cvecić 

About the series Academy 

Siemens Arts Program 

Goldsmiths College London 

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen 

Van Abbemuseum 

Photos for the press (overview) 

CD-Rom with photos for the press


September 15 – November 26, 2006 

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, MuHKA, Belgium 

Press Talk September 14, 2006, 11 a.m. 

Opening September 14, 2006, 9 p.m. 


September 16 – November 26, 2006 

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 

Press Talk September 15, 2006, 11 a.m. 

Opening September 15, 2006, 7 p.m. 

“Academy” is an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by Siemens Arts 

Program and realized in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Department 

of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst 

Antwerpen, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. 

“Academy” wishes to prompt reflections on the potential of the academy within society. 

It places itself amid the speculative tensions resulting from the questions of what one 

needs to know and what one can aspire to bring forth. Academy should be approached 

as a space that generates vital principles and activities, which can be taken and continued 

as a mode of lifelong learning. 

In spring 2005, the Kunstverein in Hamburg reflected on the situation of students and 

teachers at art schools in the exhibition entitled “Academy. Teaching and Learning Art”. 

In September 2006, the series will be continued at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst 

Antwerpen and at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. These two simultaneous approaches 

are devoted to two different aspects of the same subject – albeit aspects that 

mutually determine and complement one another, and which are closely linked with the 

institution of the museum and its educational potential. 

“Academy” consists of a total of three exhibitions and projects, a lecture series, two symposia, 

as well as a workshop and a conference to which in total over 70 artists, artists groups, 

art theorists, and cultural producers have been invited. 

Academy. Learning from Art (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, MuHKA) 

Two overarching motifs converge in the exhibition at MuHKA: that of the school or “academy” 

itself – the place where various art practices and theories are being taught and 

learned – and, more importantly, that of a broader assertion of “art” as a pedagogical experience 

in itself, in which both the museum and art as such are viewed as environments 

for various experiments in “learning and teaching”. Expanding our notions of the learning/teaching 

process beyond the institutional framework of formal education, the exhibition 

at MuHKA shifts its focus from schooling per se to art as an aspirational drive, enabling 

new forms of interaction between subjects and social organisms. Above all, trying to think 

of art education in so many “other” ways, we look at art as a space and method to conceive 

of the world “differently”: as an “other” way of learning. 

Some of the participating artists have been invited to transform the exhibition spaces into 

such learning environments – places for discussion, discovery, and understanding. To this 

end, their works – some of which have been created specifically for this exhibition – aim to 

create ideal situations for receiving art in order for us to learn from it – or to unlearn any 

given preconceptions we might have as to what constitutes teaching and learning. Another 

group of artists have been invited to respond to the exhibition’s general “theme” in a 

variety of ways – by way of an artwork, as an actual proposal for imagining different 

modes of learning, or even by a letter addressed to the curators. 

On the opening day of “Academy. Learning from Art”, MuHKA will host a symposium; a 

keynote address will be delivered by Irit Rogoff, followed by a round table with contributions 

by Jimmie Durham, Mary Kelly and Dieter Lesage, and chaired by Jan Verwoert. 

Press Release 

September 2006 

Cooperating Partners 

The Department of Visual Cultures 

at Goldsmiths College in London, 

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst 

Antwerpen, MuHKA, Van Abbemuseum 

in Eindhoven, and Siemens 

Arts Program 


Uli Aigner; Herman Asselberghs, 

Dieter Lesage & Ina Wudtke; Dockx 

& Mast; Jimmie Durham; Gelitin; 

Johanna Kandl; Mary Kelly; 

Modulator; Lia Perjovschi; Adrian 

Piper; Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte 

– Fondazione Pistoletto; Raqs 

Media Collective; Martha Rosler 

Library; Apolonija Šušteršič, and Joëlle 

Tuerlinckx 


Irit Rogoff & Deepa Naik; Charles 

Esche & Kerstin Niemann; Christiane 

Berndes; Diana Franssen; Jan Gerber, 

Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert & 

Florian Schneider; Liam Gillick & Edgar 

Schmitz; Janna Graham, Valeria Graziano 

& Susan Kelly; Jean-Paul Martinon 

& Rob Stone; John Palmesino, Anselm 

Franke & Eyal Weizman; Willem Jan 

Renders; Mårten Spångberg & Bojana 

Cvejić; et al. 

Curators 

Bart De Baere & Dieter 

Roelstraete (MuHKA), Charles 

Esche & Kerstin Niemann (Van 

Abbemuseum), Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths 

College), and Angelika 

Nollert (Siemens Arts Program) 

Publication 

Academy, ed. by Angelika Nollert, 

Irit Rogoff, Bart De Baere, Yilmaz 

Dziewior, Charles Esche, Kerstin 

Niemann, and Dieter Roelstraete, 

280 pages, Revolver Verlag, 

ISBN 3-86588-303-6, € 25

During the exhibition the artist Apolonija Šušteršič will develop a “research department”, 

a room for discussions and information that can also serve as a space for the accompanying 

lectures and workshops. Together with students from the region’s art schools and 

guests from the vicinity, she will produce a research project that investigates the questions: 

Can education serve as a model for a better social practice? How do we define 

artistic knowledge and what significance does experience have as part of this knowledge? 

Can education serve as the basis for developing an artistic practice? 

Under the title “Teaching, Learning, Research and Crossovers in further Education”, a 

number of talks and discussions will take place between students, tutors and other interested 

groups, along with a round table composed of representatives from the local art 

colleges. 

Academy. Learning from the Museum (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) 

“Academy. Learning from the Museum” is a developing project that takes the Van Abbemuseum 

itself as a point of departure. It is not an exhibition in the usual sense. Instead, 

groups of activists, theorists, artists, students, archivists, librarians, and philosophers 

have been invited as contributors and worked together with the visible and invisible 

structures and people of the museum to answer and address the following questions: 

“What does the museum make possible beyond itself? How can the museum become a 

series of exchanges and responses, and how can it move beyond acting as a vehicle of 

established values?” 

The contributors have worked with the collection, the archive, the storerooms, and the 

staff, using resources both inside and outside the museum. Eight projects have now 

emerged and they are all presented in the Nieuwbouw of the museum as a series of 

questions and interactions for the public to follow. Each project uses different methods 

and ways of looking at the material that a museum gathers together. “Academy. Learning 

from the Museum” is a pilot project, brought together it presents a set of possibilities 

for rethinking the value and use of the museum in the future. Some of the initiatives will 

be taken up in other museum projects such as the award winning program “Be[com]ing 

Dutch in the Age of Global Democracy” which was awarded the Cultural Diversity Development 

Award 2006 by the Mondriaan Foundation. 

Projects within “Academy. Learning from the Museum” 

“Inverted Research Tool” - Contributors: Liam Gillick & Edgar Schmitz 

“I Like That” - Contributors: Jean-Paul Martinon, Rob Stone 

“Imaginary Property” - Contributors: Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert, and 

Florian Schneider in collaboration with Willem Jan Renders 

“Sounding Difference – The Gate Collection” - Contributors: Irit Rogoff and Deepa Naik 

“The Ambulator; or, what happens when we take questions for a walk?” - Contributors: 

Susan Kelly, Valeria Graziano, and Janna Graham 

“The Conspired World – Think Tank Strategies” - Contributors: John Palmesino, Anselm 

Franke, and Eyal Weizmann, Research Architecture Centre, Goldsmiths College, London 

“yourspace” - Contributors: Charles Esche, Kerstin Niemann and Mårten Spångberg 

“Learning from the Collection” - Contributor: Christiane Berndes 

On the opening day of “Academy. Learning from the Museum”, the Van Abbemuseum 

will host a symposium “Radical Pedagogies”; an introduction will be delivered by Irit 

Rogoff, followed by a round table with contributions by Franco Beradi, Rosi Braidotti, and 

Anton Vidokle, chaired by Jan Verwoert. A preparatory conference on November 16 th has 

been planned by the contributors Irit Rogoff and Florian Schneider with the topics that 

have arisen from the so-called “non-aligned” initiatives in education, art, and culture. The 

preparatory conference “Academy Now” will be continued in 2007. 

The publication Academy will appear to the opening of the exhibitions. It regards itself as 

its own independent contribution to the project. Alongside statements from the curators, 

the publication brings together a number of scientific and artistic essays that present 

the subject in all its complexity and illumines it from a variety of angles. 

Symposium 

September 14, 2006, MuHKA: 

Jimmie Durham, Mary Kelly, Dieter 

Lesage, Francis van Loon, Irit Rogoff, 

and Jan Verwoert 

September 15, 2006, 

Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven: 

Franco Berardi, Rosi Braidotti, Anton 

Vidokle, Irit Rogoff, and Jan Verwoert 

Talks 

November 16 and 21, 2006, 

MuHKA, Antwerp 

Round Table 

November 26, 2006, MuHKA, 

Antwerp 

Preparatory Conference 

November 16, 2006, Van Abbemuseum, 

Eindhoven 

Information and Visuals for 

Journalists 


Annika Schoemann 

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80333 Munich, Germany 

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annika.schoemann@siemens.com 

www.siemensartsprogram.com 

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst 

Antwerpen 

Kathleen Weyts 

Leuvenstraat 32 

2000 Antwerp, Belgium 

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kathleen.weyts@muhka.be 

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Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven 

Nicole de Boer 

Bilderdijklaan 10 

5611 NH Eindhoven, Netherlands 

T. +31 / 40 / 2 38 10 19 

F. +31 / 40 / 2 46 06 80 

n.de.boer@vanabbemuseum.nl 

www.vanabbemuseum.nl 

Goldsmiths College, London 

Deepa Naik 

New Cross 

SE14 6NW, London, Great Britain 

T. +44 / 77 91 95 06 04 

F. +44 / 20 72 47 94 10 

deepa.naik@de-regulation.org 

www.goldsmiths.ac.uk

Symposium: Learning and Teaching 

September 14 / 15, 2006 

Organised by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, in 

collaboration with University Antwerpen, Karel de Grote Hogeschool en Hogeschool Antwerpen, 

Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, and Siemens Arts Program 


September 14, 2006, Antwerp 


MuHKA_media auditorium 

Waalsekaai 47 


www.muhka.be 

2.00 – 2.30 p.m. Opening remarks: “Questioning modes of research in Antwerp. 

On the relation between academia and academies from an Antwerp perspective” 

Francis Van Loon, Rector University of Antwerp 

2.30 – 3.15 p.m. “Academy as Potentiality” 

Irit Rogoff 

3.15 – 4.30 p.m. “Art and research” 

Mary Kelly, Dieter Lesage, and Jimmie Durham 

5.00 – 6.30 p.m. Round table chaired by Jan Verwoert 

9.00 p.m. Opening 


September 15, 2006, Eindhoven 


Bilderdijklaan 10 

5611 NH Eindhoven, The Netherlands 

www.vanabbemuseum.nl 

1.30 – 3.00 p.m. Academy. Learning from the Museum 

Guided tour by project contributors 

3.00 – 3.15 p.m. Introduction by Irit Rogoff 

3.15 – 5.00 p.m. “Radical Pedagogies” 

Franco Berardi, Rosi Braidotti, and Anton Vidokle 



Further Information: 


Annika Schoemann 

T: + 49 / 89 / 63 63 35 08 

www.siemensartsprogram.com

Symposium: Learning and Teaching 

September 14 / 15, 2006 

Organised by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Van 

Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, in collaboration with University Antwerpen, Karel de Grote 

Hogeschool en Hogeschool Antwerpen, Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths 

College in London, and Siemens Arts Program. 


September 14, 2006, Antwerp 


2.00 – 2.30 p.m. Opening remarks: "Questioning modes of research in Antwerp. 

On the relation between academia and academies from an 

Antwerp perspective" 

Francis Van Loon, Rector University of Antwerp 

2.30 – 3.15 p.m. "Academy as Potentiality" 

Irit Rogoff 

3.15 – 4.30 p.m. "Art and research" 





September 15, 2006, Eindhoven 


1.30 – 3.00 p.m. Academy. Learning from the Museum 

Guided tour by project contributors 

3.00 – 3.15 p.m. Introduction by Irit Rogoff 

3.15 – 5.00 p.m. "Radical Pedagogies" 




Workshops, Talks, Round table and Conference

Antwerp September 14, 2006 

Irit Rogoff 

Lives and works in London, UK. Writer, curator, director of the research project “AHRB. 

Translating the Image: Cross-Culture Contemporary Arts”. Professor of Visual Cultures at 

Goldsmiths College, London. 

"Academy as Potentiality" 

So thinking "academy" as "potentiality" is to think the possibilities of not doing, not 

making, not bringing into being at the very centre of acts of thinking, making and 

doing. It means dismissing much of the instrumentalising that seems to go hand in 

hand with education, much of the managerialism that is associated with a notion of 

"training" for this or that profession or market. Letting go of many of the 

understandings of "academy" as a training ground whose only permitted outcomes are 

a set of concrete objects or practices. It allows for the inclusions of notions of both 

fallibility and actualisation into a practice of teaching and learning, which seems to me 

to be an interesting entry point into thinking creativity in relation to different moments 

of coming into being. 


Marry Kelly 

Born in 1941 in Fort Dodge/IA, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Artist, writer. 

Jimmie Durham 

Born in 1940 in Washington/Arkansas, USA, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Artist, 

editor, since the 1960s political organizer in the American Indian Movement. 

Dieter Lesage 

Born in 1966 in Belgium, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium. 

Lecturer in philosophy and research coordinator at the Department for Audiovisual and 

Performing Arts RITS of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel. Dramatic advisor (theater and 

film), writer, editor, translator. 

"Art and Research" 

"The artist as a researcher" 

One the one hand the Bologna Declaration had as a positive effect that European art 

academies should conceive of a pedagogy in which artistic research has an important 

place. However, on the other hand, the idea that the output of artistic research should 

be evaluated according to academic criteria identical with or even only analogous to 

those which already determine in a perverse way the direction of research at 

universities, is a completely false one. The quality of European higher arts education 

should be improved by cooperations in research and education between European art 

academies, not by bureaucratic talks with the nearest university.

Eindhoven September 15, 2006 


Franco Berardi 

Born in 1949 in Bologna, Italy. Lives and works in Bologna. Writer, media-theorist and 

media-activist. Has founded numerous magazines (incl. "A/traverse"), was a free radio 

pioneer, worked with Guattari . Numerous contributions to journals incl. "Semiotexte", 

"Chimerees", "Metropoli" and "Musica 80". Currently teaches at Accademia di Brera in 

Milan. 

Rosi Braidotti 

Rosi Braidotti is distinguished professor in the Humanities at Utrecht University in the 

Netherlands. She has published extensively in feminist philosophy, epistemology, 

poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. Her books include "Patterns of Dissonance". 

Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991; "Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference 

in Contemporary Feminist Theory". New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994; 

"Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming" Polity Press, 2002. Her 

latest book is: "Transpositions.On Nomadic Ethics", Polity Press, 2006. 

Anton Vidokle 

Anton Vidokle is a Moscow-born, New York based artist. His work has been exhibited in 

shows such as the Venice Biennale, Dakar Biennale, Lodz Biennale, and at Tate Modern, 

London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musee d'art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo 

Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, 

New York; amongst others. With Julieta Aranda, he put together e-flux video rental. As 

founding director of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should 

Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image 

Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Anton Vidokle was a cocurator 

of Manifesta 6. 

"Radical Pedagogies" 

Anton Vidokle will discuss plans for the Institute for New Social Research – an art 

project in the form of a temporary school. Structured as a seminar/residency program, 

the project will involve collaboration with artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of 

audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its 

events will be also open to all those interested to take part in the activities in the city of 

Berlin at large. The main goals of the project are to develop a new model of the 

contemporary art institution by shifting emphasis from representation to research, 

production and discussion, and to ultimately shape a different public.

Workshops, Talks, Round table and Conference 

Workshop: "Learning from the context" 

October 2006, MuHKA, Antwerp 

The artist Apolonija Šušteršič has devised a “research department”, a room for discussions 

and information that can also serve as a space for the accompanying lectures and 

workshops. Together with students from the region’s art schools and guests from the 

vicinity, she has developed a research project that investigates the questions: Can education 

serve as a model for a better social practice? How do we define artistic knowledge and what 

significance does experience have as part of this knowledge? Can education serve as the 

basis for developing an artistic practice? 

Talks: "Teaching, Learning, research and Crossovers in further Education" 

November 16 & 21, 2006, MuHKA, Antwerp 

Under the title “Teaching, Learning, Research and Crossovers in further Education”, a number 

of talks and discussions will take place between students, tutors and other interested groups 

along with a round table composed of representatives from the local art colleges. Keynote 

speakers: Koen Brams, director Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, and Max Bruinsma, lecturer 

for design and contemporary art. 

Round table: “Art and Public Space” 

November 23, 2006, MuHKA, Antwerp 

With Sven Augustijnen, Nico Dockx and Luc Tuymans, chaired by Jeroen Boomgaard 

(in Dutch) 

Round table “Concepts and Views on Research and Phd’s in the Arts” 

November 26, 2006, MuHKa, Antwerp 

(in Dutch) 

Conference "Academy Now" 

November 2006, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 

A conference have been planned for November 2006 by the contributors Irit Rogoff and 

Florian Schneider with the topics that have arisen from the so-called "non-aligned" initiatives 

in education, art and culture. The concept of "non-aligned" has been taken from the "Non- 

Aligned Movement", whose alliances are aimed at developing outside of the customary 

classifications and attributions. The conference "Academy Now" – which is to be continued 

in 2007 – has set its sights on linking up the topics activism, participation and artistic 

practice, and demarcating education not only as a model, but also as a field for political 

participation and cultural creativity. 

Current dates and information under www.siemensartsprogram.com


Uli Aigner 


Dockx & Mast 

Jimmie Durham 

Gelitin 

Johanna Kandl 

Mary Kelly 

Modulator 


Adrian Piper 





Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Uli Aigner 

Born in 1965 in Scheibbs, Austria. Lives and works in Munich, Germany, and Vienna, 

Austria. Artist, visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 2004. Works 

currently as artistic director of Lothringer13. 

"ghostAkademie" (2005) 

Installation: 11 Videolectures / DVCAM, 5.30 h, beanbags and classschedules 

Aigner founded the "ghostAcademy" in Munich in 2005. It consists of twelve fictitious 

teaching chairs which are directed by students and/or graduates of Munich’s Academy 

of Visual Arts. The "ghostAcademy" is based on the realization that relevant didactic 

contents are immanent in the works of the twelve art students and artists. The contents 

for possible didactic events can be distilled from the conditions that actually lead to the 

creation of an artwork. The "ghostAcademy’s" founding document and course catalogue 

were among the other items on display at the "Academy: Teaching and Learning Art" 

exhibition in Hamburg. 

In the meantime, twelve films have been made, and these will now be presented in the 

exhibition in Antwerp.


Herman Asselberghs 

Born in 1962 in Mechelen, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Visual artist, 

curator for concerts and multimedia shows, author and, lecturer in the film department 

at Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel. 

"Repérage" (2006) 

Filmed interviews on TV monitors 

With the support of Transmedia and the Arts Research Platform of the K.U.Leuven. 

"Repérage" is part of "An Anthropology of World-Mapping" (2004–2007). Fellows of this 

research project are Herman Asselberghs and Steven Devleminck of Transmedia, 

Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, in collaboration with Filip De Boeck and Koen Stroeken 

of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University Leuven. 

"Proof of Life" (2006) 

Video, 30 min. 

10 interviews with Rosi Braidotti, Dieter Lesage, et al. 

Dieter Lesage 

Born in 1966 in Belgium, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium. 

Lecturer in philosophy and research coordinator at the Department for Audiovisual and 

Performing Arts RITS of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel. Dramatic advisor (theater and 

film), writer, editor, translator. 

"Output" (2006) 

Installation: Showcase, publications by Dieter Lesage from 1988–2006. 

produced with the support of the Department for Audiovisual and Performing Arts RITS 

of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel (research project "Performing Theory", 2005–2006). 

"Output" comments on the Bologna Declaration and on the idea that the output of 

artistic research should be evaluated according to academic criteria which are identical 

with or even merely analogous to those that already perversely determine the direction 

of research at universities. Lesage shows his published “output” as a professor.

Ina Wudtke 

Born in 1968 in Germany, lives and works in Berlin. Visual artist, writer and DJ, cofounder 

and editor of the Neid magazine as well as the dj collective "Femmes with Fatal 

Breaks". 

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Worker" (2006) 

Video, 10 min. 

produced with the support of the Department for Audiovisual and Performing Arts RITS 

of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel (research project 'Performing Theory', 2005–2006). 

Ina Wudtke examines the social structures of the display or shows and the presentation 

of bodies along the border between public and private representation, especially within 

Western cultures. People primarily convey these structures/textures through everyday 

life. Cultural forms inscribe themselves in the medium of the person and can be directly 

observed and read from the dress codes, postures, gestures and body language on 

display. 

In her video work, Ina Wudtke performs Dieter Lesage’s academic text "The Artist as a 

Researcher".

Dockx & Mast 

Nico Dockx 

Born in 1974 in Antwerp, Belgium, lives and works in Antwerp. Artist, visiting Professor 

at CCA Kitakyushu in 2005. 

Jan Mast 

Born in 1980 in Antwerp, Belgium, lives and works in Ghent. Artist, visiting Professor at 

CCA Kitakyushu in 2005. 

"CRYPTICCRYSTALCLOUD" (2006) 

Animated painting 

Courtesy: Lightmachine.info 

The Belgian artists Dockx & Mast will develop a site-oriented work with their audiovisual 

installation "CRYPTICCRYSTALCLOUD". This work in progress looks at new ways of 

organizing data and parallel universes. It moves through an interactive, intuitive 

application of internal complexity towards an evolutive architecture of time in which 

information transforms into meaning. Different, shuffled relationships create a 

complementary white room where a growing archive of papers starts dancing with the 

colors red, green, and blue.

Jimmie Durham 

Born 1940 in Washington/Arkansas, USA into a family of carvers and political activists, 

multidisciplinary artist Jimmie Durham also performed, wrote, and edited poetry in 

Houston, Texas in the late sixties. Upon completing a degree in sculpture at Geneva's 

École des Beaux-Arts in 1972, Durham worked full-time for the American Indian 

Movement, serving as head of the International Indian Treaty Committee at the United 

Nations (leading to the drafting of the International Declaration of the Rights of 

Indigenous Peoples). As part of a first generation of contemporary artists working in 

elite high art contexts, Durham's contribution has been compounded by his activities 

and lucidity as a writer, editor (Art and Artists Newspaper, 1982-86), and critic. Durham 

currently lives and works in Europe. 

"Untitled" (Letters), (2006) 

Paper, Din A4 

Jimmie Durham writes letters to the curators of "Academy. Learning from Art".

Gelitin 

Art group comprised of four artists who met first in 1978, from 1993 they began 

exhibiting internationally. (Tobias Urban, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Wolfgang Gantner) 

"Brauner Garten" (2006) 

Mixed Media, 350 x 500 x 400 cm 

Courtesy: Galerie Meyer Krainer, Vienna, Austria 

"Brauner Garten" is a landscape sculpted entirely out of Plasticene and stuffed figures. 

It was shown in a first version 2005 under the title "Skulptur für einen Flughafen" in the 

Kindermuseum in Vienna.

Johanna Kandl 

Born in 1954 in Vienna, Austria, lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna. Artist, 

Student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Belgrade, lecturer at the University of 

Applied Arts, Vienna. 

"Untitled (Love it, Leave it, or change it)" (2005) 

Tempera / Wood, 243 x 170 cm 

Courtesy: Christine König Galerie, Vienna 

"Untitled (Employee-hour costs)" (2005) 

Tempera / Wood, 170 x 243 cm 


"Untitled (The empire is a...)" (2002) 

Tempera / Wood, 115 x 150 cm 


"Untitled (The world is ready for leadership)" (2002) 

Tempera / Wood, 115 x 150 cm 


"Untitled (Joj, Mamàn, Bruderherz….)" (2003) 

Tempera / Wood 


"Untitled" (1995/96) 

Tempera / Canvas, 290 x 420 (three parts) 


"Ajnstajn, Novi Sad", (2005) 

Helmut & Johanna Kandl, film 15 min. 

Kandl’s painted artworks focus on apparently quotidian scenes and moments in which 

economic and political topics are rendered visible and tangible in condensed form. For 

Antwerp, she focuses her attention on the space and, in addition to six assembled 

artworks, also shows the film "Ajnstajn, Novi Sad".

Mary Kelly 

Born in 1941 in Fort Dodge/IA, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Artist, writer. 

"Circa 1968" (2004) 

Installation: compressed lint and projected light, 100 x 105 x 1,25 inches 

Courtesy: Postmasters Gallery, New York 

Mary Kelly’s work is made of lint generated from doing thousands of pounds of laundry. 

"Circa 1968" plays with photographic, pictorial, and cinematic images. 

"Circa 1968" is an ephemeral reconstruction of the past, giving material incarnation to 

an emblematic image of demonstrators in Paris, May 13, 1968 taken by photojournalist 

Jean-Pierre Rey and seen in many contexts including Life Magazine.

Modulator 

Mareike Bernein, Nadine Droste, Gunnar Fleischer, Axel Gaertner, Oliver Gemballa, 

Heiko Karn, Jeong Hyun Kim, Alexander Mayer, Katrin Mayer, Nicole Messenlehner, 

Karolin Meunier, Stefan Moos, Miriam Pietrusky, Christoph Rothmeier, Eran Schaerf, 

Eske Schlüters, Jochen Schmith, Robert Schnackenburg, Mirjam Thomann, Sabin 

Tünschel, Gunnar Voss, Karsten Wiesel, Benjamin Yavuzsoy, Jo Zahn, and Jenni Zimmer 

"Modulator Update" (2006) 

videoprojections, sound, posters 

Continuing from the construction of the "Modulator" project for "Academy: Teaching 

Art. Learning Art" as fictive software, the conditions of an update with regard to the 

altered context shall be examined for Antwerp. Whereas individual contributions and 

commentaries were guided by the programming in the first version, the principle is 

reversed now: an informal communicative process that occurs at various real and virtual 

locations first generates the contents, which afterwards make possible the structureengendering 

development of specific software and site-related hardware. The results 

will now be visualized in the form of the test run in the circular room of the MuHKA.


Born 1961 in Sibiu, Romania, lives and works in Bucharest. Her way was from working 

body art to working with the body of art. Her research into modern and contemporary 

art takes various forms from diagram drawings to files rooms and installations. She 

established the Archive of Contemporary Art later Center for Art Analysis as a platform 

for criticism and intellectual attitudes. Both a private and public project CAA is active 

under different names and shapes since 1990. Lia Perjovschi solo shows include "CAA- 

Time Line" at Kunstraum Innsbruck Project Room (2006) and "Endless Collection" at 

Kunstverein Göppingen (2003). Recently she participated at exhibitions like "Again for 

Tomorrow" at Royal College of Art London (2006), "Interrupted Histories" at Museum of 

Modern Art Ljublijana (2006), "On Difference" at Württembergischen Kunstverein 

Stuttgart (2005) and "The New Europe. Culture of Mixing and Politic of Representation" 

at Generali Foundation Wien (2005). 

"Diagrammes" (1999–2005) 

35 Printed Drawings 

208 cm x 105 cm 

"Exhibitions EU US" (1990–2000) 

Photo Print 

140 cm x 100 cm x 2 cm 

"My art history from modernism till today" (1990–2004) 

35 pages 

105 x 297 mm 

"Mind map ID" (2006) 

Printed Drawing 

100 cm x 73 cm 

The Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi gives a commentary of the theme of "Academy" in 

the form of her "Mind Maps", as well as her visual archive on art and contemporary 

history. Collecting, filing, communicating, and distributing knowledge are essential for 

her art practice. In keeping with this, in 1990 she and her companion Dan Perjovschi 

also founded the "Contemporary Art Archive" in Bucharest, a collection of material on 

the theory and practice of contemporary international art that is open to all who are 

interested.

Adrian Piper 

Born in 1948 in Harlem/New York, USA, works and lives in Berlin, Germany. Artist, 

writer, philosopher, and critic. 

"Shiva dances with the Art Institute of Chicago" (2004) 

DVD, 1 hour, 45 min. 

Structured by a Fall 2003 lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago that transformed into a 

spontaneous and moving group performance, Piper situated the Video of "Funk 

Lessons" first in the evolving tradition of recent mainstream films that highlight the 

teaching of popular dance as a medium of self-transcendence and cross-cultural 

contact; and second within the broader philosophical context of "The Color Wheel 

Series", which this video completes.


Born in 1933 in Biella, Italy, lives and works in Turin, painting restorer, artist. 

Pistoletto established Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto – a center for the study and 

promotion of creative activity – in Biella in 1998. 

"Uffizi Porte" (2003) 

In 1994, Pistoletto wrote the manifesto Progetto Arte in which he mapped out an art 

project that could be described as an ongoing dialogue with the world. From 1996 

onwards, this project was materialised in Cittadellarte – a contraction of "cittadella" 

(citadel) and "città dell’arte" (city of the arts). "Citadel" stands for an enclosed space 

protecting the arts, whereas "city" is a metaphor of dynamism and of a complex of 

relations with the outside world. Cittadellarte was concretised in an old mill in 

Pistoletto’s native city of Biella and, for the realisation of its aims, relies on the 

Fondazione Pistoletto which was created for this very purpose. It is more of a new way 

of interacting with culture, politics and economy than being merely a place. In the 

twelve "Uffizi" (referring to the renaissance concept of that name), artists work with 

regard to several social fields such as politics, economics, work, production, religion, 

art, education, and communication.


A collective of media practitioners founded in 1991 by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, 

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, based in Delhi, India. New media & digital art practice, 

documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory & research, writing, criticism, and 

curation, co-initiator of Sarai. 

Series "Sarai Readers 01–05" (2001–2005) 

Installation (Books, computer, printer) 

"Lexwiki" (2006) 

Digital Lexicon 

Raqs Media Collective is a collective of media practitioners that works in new media and 

digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory and research, 

writing, criticism, and curating. 

Raqs is the initiator of "Sarai": The New Media Initiative, a programme for 

interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space, and urban culture based at 

the Centre for Study of Developing Socities, Delhi. 

"Lexwiki", the lexicon of digital commons, is a conceptual annotation on both urban an 

new Media concepts and the idea is to have the whole thing available as entries that 

people can either modify or write new.

Martha Rosler 

Born in 1943 in Brooklyn/New York, USA, lives and works in New York, artist, critic, 

writer, and lecturer at the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University, New 

Brunswick, New Jersey. 

"The Martha Rosler Library" (2005) 

The project was initiated by Martha Rosler and e-flux. Martha Rosler presents her entire 

private collection of books, which she has amassed over the past forty years and which 

simultaneously embody the archive, basis of research, storehouse of ideas and 

theoretical superstructure of her own artistic work. The archive contains nearly 10,000 

books in the fields of American cultural theory, art history, and political theory, as well 

as science fiction, photo albums, posters, postcards, and newspaper clippings. Martha 

Rosler critically questioned her immediate surroundings and her social environment, 

both of which she subjected to a precise analysis. The medium of text served as the 

means of representation and depiction, and also functioned as a conceptual 

description. The diverse sources and formats of knowledge, interests and stimulating 

items that await discovery by Martha Rosler here can generally be understood as the 

basis for the crystallization of a critical consciousness. 

Location: 

NICC 

Museumstraat 35 – 37 

2000 Antwerp 

T: +32 (0) 3 216 07 71 

Tue - Fri 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

Sat 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. 

Further information under www.nicc.be and www.e-flux/projects/library


Born in 1965 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and 

Ljubljana, architect and artist. 

"Research Department" 

Workshop: "Learning from the Context" (2006) 

Apolonija Šušteršič will create a space for a debate on the subject suggested with the 

exhibition, a meeting point for people who would be interested into discussing ideas 

around education and knowledge production. She will accommodate and facilitate 

groups coming from various directions, professionally, and geographically to exchange 

their ideas and views. During one week Šušteršič likes to perform at the MuHKA a 

process of research together with students from different academies.


Born in 1958 in Brussels, Belgium, lives and works in Belgium, conceptual artist. The 

work is site specific to the degree that it has to be experienced to be fully 

comprehended. She finds her space, interprets it, teases out abstract notions and 

thoughts and gently makes us look at it again. 

"Instant Academy" (2006) 

Questions of permanence (preservation and archive), designation (identity) and 

signification (symbol), of the monumental and of completion (as object, product) are 

integral to Tuerlinckx’s ceaseless activities of subjectively exploring the role of 

movement and time in space.






Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert & Florian Schneider 




John Palmesino, Anselm Franke, & Eyal Weizman 


Mårten Spångberg & Bojana Cvecić


Irit Rogoff 

Lives and works in London. Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London 

University and Director of an AHRB funded international research project "Cross Cultural 

Contemporary Arts". She writes extensively on conjunctions of critical theory and 

contemporary arts with particular interest in issues of geography, location, 

performativity and cultural difference. Currently curator of "De_Regulation – with the 

work of Kutlug Ataman" (Antwerp, Herzliya, Berlin 2006/07) and "Academy – Learning 

from the Museum". 

Deep Naik 

Born in 1976 in London, UK, raised in Lusaka, Zambia, lives and works in London. 

Educator, artist, curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of Ontario; since 2005 she has 

worked closely with Irit Rogoff on the exhibition "De-Regulation – with the work of 

Kutlug Ataman". 

"Sounding Difference – The Gate collection" (2006) 

Irit Rogoff and Deepa Naik will work with the collection of the Gate Foundation, which 

has been recently donated to the Van Abbemuseum. The Gate collection has served as a 

state funded general library and video collection of the work by artists who are of other, 

non-European, cultural heritages. Its recent transfer to the Van Abbemuseum has raised 

a series of questions of how to actualise its contents without reverting to outmoded 

practices of "representing the other" and of giving visibility to the seemingly invisible. 

This project will attempt to make the collection resonate within the spaces of the 

museum while opening up the sphere of "other" beyond the designation of "cultural 

elsewheres". 

"Sounding Difference" will be an installation/film project that will initially decant the 

entire Gate Collection from the crates it has been housed in during the transfer to the 

museum. In addition there will be three video wall projections, among which a series of 

filmed interviews with people working in the Van Abbemuseum in different capacities, 

about their experience of inhabiting the museum in various states of difference.


Charles Esche 

Born in 1962, lives and works in xx. Curator and writer, Co-editor of Afterall Journal, cocurator 

of the 9th Istanbul Biennial and the Gwangju Biennale, founder of 

Protoacademy in Edinburgh, director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, 

Netherlands. 

Kerstin Niemann 

Born 1974 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany. Lives and works in Eindhoven, 

Netherlands, and Hamburg, Germany. Cultural scientist, curator and writer in 

interdisciplinary positions. Founder of FILTER, a project space for international 

contemporary art in the city center of Hamburg. Currently guest curator at the Van 

Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. 

"yourspace" (2006) 

In one of the museum spaces of the Academy project "yourspace" will invite artists, 

cultural activists and various groups of other disciplines from Eindhoven and the region 

to present their ideas or works. These presentations, consisting in an informal 

exchange of knowledge and opinions, will be stimulated by the projects in the 

"Academy. Learning from the Museum" without being directly determined by these, 

rather creating a comfortable activation zone and space for discussion in the museum. 

Starting in the museum and possibly continuing in other spaces outside, the informel 

events will take place on Thursday evenings.


Born in Venlo in 1955, lives and works in Eindhoven, Netherlands, art historian and 

curator of the collection at the Van Abbemuseum. Participant of the Jan van Eyck 

Academy in Maastricht. 

"Learning from the Collection" (2006) 

Throughout the duration of "Academy. Learning from the Museum", Christiane Berndes 

will organize three guided tours, in which she will specifically relate issues debated or 

presented in this project to works from the collections of the Van Abbemuseum. One of 

the tours is called "Learning from the Collection".


Born in 1954, lives and works in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Curator, head-librarian at the 

Van Abbemuseum, co-founder of the artists run gallery De Beeldunie in Tilburg and codirector 

of the artist initiative De Fabriek in Eindhoven. 

"Untitled" (2006) 

The insight knowledge of Diana Franssen provides a valuable support in the process of 

integrating information from the museum archive into the different projects of 

"Academy. Learning from the Museum".

Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert & Florian Schneider 

Jan Gerber 

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Media activist, engaged in network research and 

development of new forms of distribution and production. 

Susanne Lang 

Lives and works in Berlin. Psychologist, researcher, and organizer. She has designed and 

organized numerous workshops, events, and festivals. 

Sebastian Lütgert 

Born in1972 in Bielefeld, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. Author, programmer, and 

artist. Founder of the Agency "Partner gegen Berlin" and co-founder of the "Bootlab 

Media Lab". Various theoretical, technical, and artistic projects dealing with the concept 

of "Intellectual Property". 


Filmmaker, writer, and researcher in the fields of new media, networking and open 

source technologies, lecturer for theory at the art academy in Trondheim, Norway. 

"Imaginary Property" (2006) 

"Imaginary property" is the title of the project by the media-activists Jan Gerber, 

Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert and Florian Schneider. In the collection of Van 

Abbemuseum they are going to work on the pilot film for a project that researches the 

question: "What does it mean to own an image?" In the era of digital reproduction and 

networked distribution the museum is facing ever-increasing challenges, as a place that 

is supposed not only to grant access to images but also to valuate them. What is the 

actual impact of the public domain and how can this potential be realized today beyond 

or in contrary to the scenarios of digital rights management?


Liam Gillick 

Born in 1964 in Aylesbury, UK. Lives and works in London, UK, and New York, USA. 

Artist and writer, lecturer at Columbia University in New York since 1997. 

Edgar Schmitz 

Born in 1968 in Dortmund, Germany, lives and works in London, UK. Artist, writer, 

curator, and lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London. 

"Untitled" (2006) 

In the library of the Van Abbemuseum, Liam Gillick and Edgar Schmitz will install a 

multifunctional banner/screen that appropriates the library as setting for fictions 

outside of its original remit. It will serve as a text panel and projection surface for a film 

program and will cut across all three floors of the library structure. A reversed and an 

upside down version of the banner will be raised on two flagpoles outside the museum. 

The insert will produce a sub-architectural modification that might indicate the 

possibility of altered attitudes and modes of attention within the existing set-up of a 

space for archived knowledge.


Janna Graham 

Lives and works in London, UK. Writer, curatorial and education projects, PhD Candidate 

at Goldsmiths College. 

Valeria Graziano 

Lives and works in Italy and London, UK. Curator, writer, cultural mediatior, PhD 

candidate in Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmith College, University of London. 

Susan Kelly 

Lives and works in London, UK. Artist, writer, PhD student, and lecturer in Fine Art at 

Goldsmiths College, London. 

"The Ambulator: School of Questions" (2006) 

With assistance from the British Council 

Starting from their experience as researcher, artists and theorists, of moving in an 

economy of questions and answers, Susan Kelly, Valeria Graziano and Janna Graham 

will set up a school that takes up this grammar of inquiry, but widens the circle of 

questioners and pushes the collaborative potential of questioning as mobilization (or 

ambulation), and as a political and social act. "The Ambulator: School of Questions" will 

be a mobile question-relay through which people within the museum and outside of its 

doors are invited to: 

1) Select a question 

2) Take a walk and answer it (with a stranger or a friend) 

3) Leave another behind 

The questions, answers and talks will accumulate and be the source material for 

reflectors, analyses and actions. Some of these reflective activities will include a series 

of radio plays to be performer by a local amateur acting group and a newspaper-like 

publication that will be created with local students.


Jean-Paul Martinon 

Lives and works in London, UK. Co-founder and curator of Rear Window (1991–1998), 

publisher, writer and lecturer in Museum Studies and Curatorial Theory in the 

Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London. 

Rob Stone 

Lives and works in London, UK. Writer, publisher, and Senior Research Fellow at 

Middlesex University. 

"I Like That" (2006) 

"I Like That" is a project developed by writers Jean-Paul Martinon and Rob Stone. They 

will select in a spontaneous act a few works from the collection of the Van 

Abbemuseum, which they will display one at a time through rotation in the space 

dedicated to the project "Academy. Learning from the Museum". These works will not 

be labeled in the space, nor will the visitor receive any official contextualization apart 

from a series of sounds and recorded read texts that will be played through speakers in 

the gallery. The texts and sounds will be chosen according to their relevance to the 

works selected, from a wide range of sources.


John Palmesino 

Born in 1970 in Lugano, Switzerland. architect, writer, and urbanist. Co-founder of 

PALMESINO RÖNNSKOG Territorial Agency, Basel. Head of research at ETH Zurich, 

Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute. Founding member of multiplicity, a research 

agency on territorial transformations. 

Anselm Franke 

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in 

Berlin (until fall 2006) and other exhibitions, writer, editor. PhD candidate in Visual 

Cultures/Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London. 

Eyal Weizman 

Born in 1970 in Israel. Architect, writer, editor, curator, lecturer, and human rights 

researcher. Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, 

University of London and recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 

2006–2007. 

"Think Tank / Genre Spaces" (2006) 

How does the museum operate within the contemporary city? How can we understand 

it amongst the multiple clusters of introverted, almost self-referential economical, 

political, cultural innovation spaces and enclosed knowledge circuits that appear to be 

the critical hallmarks of today’s city and cultural climate? Research Architecture will 

chart the relations between the production of knowledge embedded within the Van 

Abbemuseum, as in the attentive discourses around its major Lissitzky collection, and 

the set of other expert enclaves, the many think tanks within the region of Eindhoven. 

The project is an investigation on the architectures of modernity where genre 

discourses are carried out and their role in the specialization of the construction process 

of the contemporary city.


Lives and works in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Head of education and interpretation in the 

Van Abbemuseum since 2000. 

"UNOVIS" (2006) 

Willem Jan Renders will work on a documentary display organized in relation to a work 

by El Lissitzky newly aquired by the Van Abbemuseum, and to the Vitebsk Art Academy, 

where El Lissitzky has taught. Initiated by Marc Chagall in 1919 and then gathering 

around Malevich the group called themselves Founders of the New Art (UNOVIS), this 

Academy helped turning Vitebsk in one of the major centers of the avant-garde in 

Russia. Willem Jan Renders will present the results of an open, ongoing research on 

what it is considered to be one of the first experimental art schools in the 20th century.

Mårten Spångberg & Bojana Cvecić 

Bojana Cvecić 

Bojana Cvejić (Belgrade, 1975) is musicologist, performance theoretician, performer 

and dramaturg, engaging with choreography, theater, and contemporary music, based 

in Brussels. Since 1995 she has been involved in the performance practices. As a cofounder 

and member of the performance-theory group Walking Theory (Teorija koja 

Hoda, Belgrade) she instigated, along with a number of artists and theoreticians, a 

political practice of performing theory against the theater and Academy doxa in Serbia 

since 2000. 

Mårten Spångberg 

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Artist, writer, and curator. Visiting Professor at the 

University of Giessen (2000–03), head of the department of dramaturgy at P.A.R.T.S. 

(2001–04). He was teaching long-term classes both at the arts academy in Maastricht 

as well as at Royal School of Theatre in Stockholm. 

"IFU" (2006) 

This project, initiated by Mårten Spångberg and Bojana Cvejić in collaboration with Tor 

Lindstrand, together with whom he's working on the knowledge intensive project 

International Festival, addresses the museum as public space and a place for particular 

modes of knowledge production. Through a series of lectures, organized together with 

local individuals and institutions, different notions of knowledge production and 

information facilitation, in relation to public and private in the context of the processes 

of democratization, will be explored. The local interventions will be given an 

international interface through the internet, in order to bridge micro and macro 

perspectives, as well as confront new altered notions of the local.

Academy 

"Academy" is an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by Siemens Arts 

Program in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Department of Visual 

Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, 

and Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven. 

"Academy" wishes to prompt reflection on the potential of the academy within society. 

It places itself amid the speculative tensions resulting from the questions of what one 

needs to know and what one can aspire to bring forth. Academy should be approached 

as a space that generates vital principles and activities, which can be taken with you 

and applied beyond its walls as a mode of lifelong learning. 

In spring 2005, the Kunstverein in Hamburg reflected on the situation of students and 

teachers at art school in a series entitled "Academy. Teaching and Learning Art". The 

exhibition, featuring in part processual artworks as well as an accompanying series of 

talks, related directly to the original meaning of an academy as a forum for exchanging 

ideas and for open, informal get-togethers, and further addressed the question of 

institutionalised art training and art mediation. 

In September 2006 the series continues simultaneously at the Museum van 

Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen with "Academy. Learning from Art" and at the Van 

Abbemuseum in Eindhoven with "Academy. Learning from the Museum". 

These parallel exhibitions and projects are dedicated to two separate aspects of a 

common theme that are closely linked with the institution “museum” and its agenda. 

Curators: Yilmaz Dziewior (Kunstverein Hamburg), Bart de Baere and Dieter Roelstrate 

(Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Charles Esche and Kerstin Niemann 

(Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven), Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths College), and Angelika Nollert 

(Siemens Arts Program)


Siemens Arts Program was established in 1987 with the goal of developing a cultural 

program specifically for Siemens AG. From its beginnings with in-house cultural 

activities, Siemens Arts Program evolved in the early 1990s into a diverse international 

program fostering contemporary art and culture. With this department, a cultural 

institution developed within the enterprise that went beyond classical cultural 

sponsoring to initiate and implement cooperative projects in the field of contemporary 

art and culture. One focus which is always present is to seek out new cultural approaches 

and themes, and to include these in the current discussion in the charged field between 

culture, business, and science. 

The lack of its own event venue allows Siemens Arts Program to respond flexibly to 

current tendencies in the cultural landscapes. The project managers in the fields of Visual 

Arts, Music, Performing Arts, and Contemporary Culture approach and present their 

ideas for events to public institutions, artists, and scientists. Various projects are 

conceived, financed, and organized on the basis of dialogues conducted in a spirit of 

partnership. 

In its “Culture Times” series of events, the Internal Cultural Communications project area 

conveys current artistic approaches to Siemens employees. At the same time, artists are 

invited to the enterprise, where they collaborate with Siemens employees to work 

artistically on themes from the working environment. 

Further information is available at www.siemensartsprogram.com 

Information for the Press 

Dr. Annika Schoemann 


Wittelsbacherplatz 2 

80333 Munich 

Germany 

T. +49 / 89 / 6 36 – 3 35 08 

F. +49 / 89 / 6 36 – 3 36 15 

annika.schoemann@siemens.com 

www.siemensartsprogram.com

Since 1989 Goldsmiths has been a full College of the University of London with its 

own distinctive role as an independent university institution. 

The Visual Cultures Department brings together researchers, lecturers and students 

committed to exploring – and producing – new forms of contemporary art-theoretical 

practice in an environment that is culturally diverse and intellectually challenging. 

We specialise in the histories and theories of modern and contemporary visual 

practices from around the world. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we look at 

ways in which art engages with urgent social, cultural and political issues in the 

world. Therefore we explore visual culture within a framework of critical theory, 

philosophy and cultural studies. Included are issues of cultural difference, 

performativity, visual display, aurality, encounters with audiences and the production 

of subjectivities. 

Our approach to learning, teaching and research at all academic levels is exploratory 

and innovative, yet rigorous. All students are encouraged to develop independence 

of thought by discovering, evaluating and making appropriate use of a wide range of 

historical, theoretical and creative approaches to research and writing. 

It is both what we teach and research, and how we do so, that give our 

undergraduate and postgraduate programmes their distinctive character in academia. 

Goldsmiths College London 

Department of Visual Cultures 

Deepa Naik 

Lewisham Way, New Cross 

London, SE14 6NW 

T. +44 (0) 20 7919 7496 

F. +44 (0) 20 7919 7398 

deepa.naik@de-regulation.org 

www.goldsmiths.ac.uk


MuHKA 

MuHKA is the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, a place where showing art, research 

into and reflection about art are paired with each other and where audiences are viewed as 

active and dynamic participants in the exhibition projects. In its presentations it represents 

the complexity of artistic actuality and elucidates the underlying lines of force, possible 

questionings and relations with previous or contemporary phenomena. Although its emphasis 

is on art in a wide international perspective, Belgian art occupies and will continue to occupy 

an important place in the museum. For many of its projects, such as Academy, the MuHKA 

collaborates with external partners who also have an input in the form of research expertise. 

The MuHKA organises four large-scale temporary exhibitions per year, following the rhythm 

of the season. Its collection of international contemporary art (from 1970 onwards) is shown 

in regularly changing constellations, rather than in one ‘ideal’ version, more or less like a 

series in which each chapter resonates with a different voice. Artists are invited to make 

interventions in these collection presentations. They are thus given the opportunity to 

experiment in and with a museum context. Apart from the exhibitions the MuHKA organises 

lectures, symposiums and colloquiums, guided tours, bookpresentations, artist talks and 

workshops. 

In 2003 the MuHKA merged with the Centrum voor Beeldcultuur (Centre for ImageCulture). 

Ever since its scope goes beyond the visual arts and encompasses image culture. In its 

MuHKA_media department the museum searches for cross-links between the past and 

future of film, between film and visual art, between art and society. 


Kathleen Weyts 

Head of Communication 

Leuvenstraat 32 


T. +32 / 32 / 60 80 97 

F. +32 / 32 / 16 24 86 

kathleen.weyts@muhka.be 

www.muhka.be


The Van Abbemuseum is one of the leading museums for modern and contemporary art in Europe. 

Opened in 1936, the Van Abbemuseum celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2006. During this period, the 

museum has shown many acclaimed exhibitions and built an extensive, internationally renowned 

collection of more than 2700 works of art. The collections reputation is due to the quality of the 

individual works of art, among which are masterpieces by Picasso, Chagall, El Lissitzky, Beuys, Weiner, 

Gordon and McCarthy. 

In 2003 the Van Abbemuseum officially reopened with the renovation of the old museum building and 

the addition of a expansive new wing. This gave the museum the opportunity to respond visibly to the 

ongoing changes in museum culture and the growing expectations of the public. In the Oudbouw (old 

building) temporary exhibitions exploring topics of general political and social concern alongside 

focused presentations of individual artists are held. In the Nieuwbouw (new building), a radical new 

approach called Plug In has been developed to exhibit the famous collection. This principle allows the 

museum to activate the contemporary possibilities of modern art in different configurations and 

relationships to our changing culture. The Nieuwbouw is also the location of ‘Living Archive’, a series 

of documentary exhibitions based on the museum archive. 

The aim of the Van Abbemuseum over the coming years is to work with the two contrasting aims of 

radicalism and hospitality. Experimentation with the subjects and forms of exhibitions and museum 

projects will be addressed to our public in the museum, the city of Eindhoven and beyond. The 

museum thus becomes an institution dedicated to widening imaginative possibility for the many rather 

than the few, challenging familiar thought patterns and ideas to suggest other ways of being in the 

world and working closely with artists and others in the process. 

Further information is available at www.vanabbemuseum.nl 

Information for the Press 

Nicole de Boer 


Postbus 235 

5600 AE Eindhoven 

The Netherlands 

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Photos for the press 


Dockx & Mast 

"CRYPTICCRYSTALCLOUD", 2006 


© Dockx & Mast 

Dieter Lesage 

"Part of my Output", 2006 

Photo: Georg Rohlfing 

© Dieter Lesage 

Gelitin 

"Brauner Garten", 2006 

Courtesy: Galerie Mayer Keiner, Vienna 

© Gelitin 

Dockx & Mast 

"CRYPTICCRYSTALCLOUD", 2006 


© Dockx & Mast 

Ina Wudtke 

"A portrait of the artist as a worker", 2006 

Photostill from the video 

© Ina Wudtke 

Gelitin 

"Brauner Garten", 2006 

Courtesy: Galerie Mayer Keiner, Vienna 

© Gelitin

Johanna Kandl 

"O.T. (Employee-hour costs)", 2005 


© Johanna Kandl 

Johanna Kandl 

"O.T. (The empire is a bread and butter 

question)", 2002 




"Diagrammes", 1999–2005 

© Lia Perjovschi 

Johanna Kandl 

"O.T. (Love it, Š)", 2005 




"Diagrammes", 1999–2005 

© Lia Perjovschi 

Mary Kelly 

"Circa 1968", 2004 

Courtesy: Postmasters Gallery, New York 

© Mary Kelly


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Kiosk "Modes of Multiplication" by "Liam Gillick 

and Edgar Schmitz", 2005 

Installation View Institute of Contemporary Art in 

London 

© Liam Gillick & Edgar Schmitz 

Janna Graham, Valeria Graziano and Susan Kelly 

"The Ambulator; or what happens when we take 

questions for a walk?”, 2006 

© Janna Graham, Valeria Graziano and Susan 

Kelly 



"Untitled", 2006 

Image: Armin Linke 

© Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Sebastian Lütgert & 



Kiosk "Modes of Multiplication" by "Liam Gillick 

and Edgar Schmitz", 2005 

Installation View Institute of Contemporary Art in 

London 

© Liam Gillick & Edgar Schmitz 

Janna Graham, Valeria Graziano and Susan Kelly 

"An Open Interview with the City of Leeds… 

and Lunch at Warp: Woof Conference", 2003 

Photo: Vera Frenkel 

© Janna Graham, Valeria Graziano and Susan 

Kelly 

John Palmesino, Anselm Franke & Eyal 

Weizmann 

"Neutrality", 2006 

© John Palmesino, Anselm Franke & Eyal 

Weizmann

Irit Rogoff and Deepa Naik 

Visual Essay: What Can We Learn from the 

Museum, 2006 

for 'Academy. Learning from the Museum' 

© Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 

Academy. Learning from the Museum, 

2006 

Museum staff in their natural working 

environment 

Design Dejan Krsic, photography Bram 

Saeys and Kerstin Niemann 

© Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Academy. Learning from Art September 15 – November 26 ... - MuHKA

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