Exhibition Histories
Exhibition Histories Series
Exhibition Histories focuses on exhibitions of contemporary art from the past fifty years that have changed the way art is seen and made. Each title in the series will address a different theme in the history of curatorial practice, with specific reference to a particular exhibition or cluster of exhibitions. Each book will include newly commissioned essays and interviews, key texts from the time (such as reviews) and comprehensive visual documentation. The series will launch in autumn 2010.
Initial titles will focus on the following exhibitions: 'When Attitudes Become Form' and 'Op Losse Schroeven' (both 1969); Lucy Lippard's 'number shows' (1969-74); 'Magiciens de la Terre' (1989) and The Third Bienal de La Habana (1989).
The books in the Exhibition Histories series are evolving from a dedicated and ongoing research project. The following events are part of this research endeavour:
'Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s', 30 April 2010, in collaboration with FORMER WEST and hosted by Tate Britain.
'Exhibitions and the World at Large', 3 April 2009, in collaboration with TrAIN and hosted by Tate Britain.
'Conceptual Art and its Exhibitions', 29 May 2008, in collaboration with and hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Paulo Herkenhoff on the 'XXIV Bienal de São Paulo' of 1998, 22 October 2009, in collaboration with TrAIN and the Royal College of Art, London.
This project is developed in partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, with the support of Arts Council England and MUDAM, Luxembourg.
Images: Installation view of the exhibition 'Magiciens de la Terre', at La Villette, Paris, 1989. Photograph © Deidi von Schaewen (above and previous page); work by Ger van Elk in the exhibition 'Op Losse Schroeven' at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1969. Photograph © Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (previous page); installation view of the exhibition 'Bolívar in Wood Carvings', works by various artists, Third Bienal de La Habana, 1989, Casa Benito Juárez, Havana. Photograph © Rachel Weiss (previous page).
