"The symposium “Revisiting Black Mountain College: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments and Their Potential for Democratization (in Times of Post-Democracy)” asked these questions in relation to anti-democratic tendencies in many countries worldwide. How can education still hold up democratic values, while at the same time presumably measuring its success by careers in the market? The symposium—from 25–27 May 2018—was organized by Prof Dr Doro ..."
"Artistic and curatorial practices can be seen as the prime testimonies of transformative movements—on the one hand situated in a specific site and region, and on the other, transgressing disciplines, classes, norms—proposing new forms and relations of living and establishing these practices (building centres along the way) but at the same time always changing their positions, never staying at the centre, but instead unfolding on the per ..."
"The symposium “Revisiting Black Mountain College: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments and Their Potential for Democratization (in Times of Post-Democracy)” asked these questions in relation to anti-democratic tendencies in many countries worldwide. How can education still hold up democratic values, while at the same time presumably measuring its success by careers in the market? The symposium—from 25–27 May 2018—was organized by Prof Dr Doro ..."
"On-Curating Issue 26 dis one of three publications on the Curating Degree Zero Archive. The Curating Degree Zero Archive (CDZA) documents the work of over 100 contemporary art curators who are known internationally for their critical and experimental positions. This collection of exhibition documentation, gifted to the archivists by the curators themselves, contains, among other materials, catalogues, DVDs, magazines and ephemera. In t ..."
"This 27th issue of OnCurating is dedicated to artistic ephemera with contributions by Daniel Baumann, Michael G. Birchall, AA Bronson, Martin Jäggi, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Marianne Mueller, David Senior, and Barbara Preisig, Maja Wismer, Dorothee Richter (eds) Ephemera not only serve to announce an exhibition but they are also the material evidence of a performance, or the work itself in the sense of conceptual art, their classificatio ..."
"De-Colonizing Art Institutions: Artists’ Book For the Oncurating Issue 34, we asked artists, theorists, and researches to send us their proposals for a decolonized art practice, or how to deal with institutions in that regard. The 34 invited artists were given a carte blanche to contribute to the topic of decolonising art institutions. The aim: to provide a platform for a multiplicity of voices from the arts. These voices would propose ..."
"The Oncurating Issue 35 "De-Colonizing Art Institutions" compiles the outcome of the symposium at the Kunstmuseum Basel and a summer academy at the Zurich University of the Arts. The symposium “De-colonizing Art Institutions” took place at Kunstmuseum Basel, June 21 and 22, 2017, with the speakers Sabih Ahmed (Asia Art Archive), Jeebesh Bagchi (Raqs Media Collective), Binna Choi (Casco), Eyal Danon (Holon Digital Art Archive), Kadiatou ..."
"OnCurating Issue 33: documenta. Curating the History of the Present On the occasion of documenta’s 14th edition, this special issue scrutinizes the ways in which the Kassel-based periodic exhibition has been contributing to curating the history of the present since its inception in 1955. From diverse perspectives, the authors engage with questions of how documenta’s iterations played a significant role not only in the making of a histo ..."
"“Work, Migration, Memes, Personal Geopolitics” is being published within the framework of the Parallel Events accompanying Zurich’s Manifesta 11 devoted to the theme “What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures”. Unlike the Manifesta concept, the contributions to this journal relate the changes that have come about in working conditions and circumstances since the early 1990s directly to the multifarious migration movements in Europe. ..."
"Curators and their partners are working in a contested field, in which the meanings of institutions, their power structures and modes of participation can be debated and reshaped. The number and diversity of high-profile major museum exhibitions in the twenty-first century that have been devoted to the themes of feminist and women’s art has attracted an unprecedented critical attention to the practice of feminist curation. The diversity ..."
"This issue of OnCurating consists of a variety of texts and interviews, which were developed out of interviews from participants connected to the Postgraduate programme in Curating (www.curating.org). Many of the authors and interviewees gave lectures and participated in the programme over the last four years, adding to the dialogue in the postgraduate programme, as well as other curators in the field. In the spirit of slowing down, in ..."
OnCurating Issue 14 From the World of Art Archive (Volume 14) by DorotheeRichter Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-4823-6473-6, ISBN: 1-4823-6473-5
"The cooperation between the World of Art programme (in frame of of the SCCA−Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Art) from Ljubljana and the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zürich, has taken place on different levels from spring 2011 till summer 2012; it has involved intensive visits of students and lecturers in both cities as well as a shared project that was carried out at International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) in Ljubljana; th ..."
"This issue of ONCURATING.org brings together a collection of interviews and two essays from artists, curators, theorists and artist-curators, relating to the topic of authorship in contemporary art. Since the 1990s the position of the curator as a producer of ideas and an author has been debated amongst artists and scholars. How this relates to new working paradigms and existing power relations in contemporary art is reflected on, from ..."
OnCurating Issue 16 Precarious Labour in the Field of Art by DorotheeRichter Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-4823-6514-6, ISBN: 1-4823-6514-6
"The general shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment has effected also the field of visual art, changing the labour market for curators. Their position in the division of labour has become closer to the one of artists, in the sense becoming much more unstable, flexible, and exploited."
"Performing the Exhibition: On exhibition practices between performance and installation. This issue of the journal brings together contributions from an international group of art practitioners, curators and theorists exploring the relationship between performance and installation in the context of the contemporary art exhibition. Key amongst the concerns of the journal is the possibility for rethinking the static model of exhibition an ..."
OnCurating Issue 25 Social Sculpture re-visited by Dr. DorotheeRichter, Michael Birchall Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5123-3080-9, ISBN: 1-5123-3080-9
"On Curating Issue 25 Social Sculpture Revisited Edited by Dorothee Richter & Michael Birchall With contributions from Grandhotel Cosmopolis Augsburg, Marina Belobrovaja, Søren Berner, Ursula Biemann, Michael Birchall, Dario & Mirko Bischofberger, Fabrizio Boni & Giorgio de Finis, Eyal Danon, Altes Finanzamt, San Keller, Beta Local, Oliver Ressler, Planting Rice, Dorothee Richter and Martin Schick , featuring works by Jeanne van Hee ..."
Open Curating Studio Gasthaus zum Baeren / Museum Baerengasse: January 2014–March 2015 by Dr. DorotheeRichter Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5173-1103-2, ISBN: 1-5173-1103-9
"Documentation of Open Curating Studio: Gasthaus zum Baeren / Museum Baerengasse. January 2014–March 2015 by Dorothee Richter and the Postgraduate Programme in Curating (www.curating.org) and the Webjournal www.on-curating.org with events, Discussions, Screenings, Performances, Talks, Meetings assistant curator: Mirjam Bayerdörfer"
"The present issue of OnCurating centers on New Institutionalism as a self-reflexive artistic-curatorial practice in institutions, whose conditions, structures and implications resonate in the contemporary organization of art. Discussions surrounding the function of art institutions have not lost their topicality, as the recent motion for the closure of Kunsthalle Bern by the local young liberal party demonstrates. Through the contributi ..."
"This issue of OnCurating "Total Abstraction" began in 2011 as one of the manifestations of the Zurich episode of the exhibition project Abstract Possible. The Zurich Test, curated by Maria Lind mediated and produced by students of the ZHdK Postgraduate Programme in Curating, which was held at White Space in Zurich between May and June 2011. The exhibition project Abstract Possible intended to explore different key characteristics of abs ..."