Inaugural Lecture by Adjunct Professor Daniel Birnbaum at MPP
Inaugural Lecture by Adjunct Professor Daniel Birnbaum at MPP
“When Philosophy meets Museum - on Jean François Lyotard´s curating enterprise ‘Les Immatériaux’ at Centre Pompidou”
Daniel Birnbaum explores how the father of postmodern philosophy Jean-Francois Lyotard opted to “do philosophy” by curating a legendary art show at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1985: “Les immateriaux”. The curating of this show is an ideal type-case for analyzing how art and philosophy interact in the organizing of a high-impact exhibition-enterprise, which is remembered and interpreted long after the show has taken place. Understanding the work of curating therefore gives fresh insights into aesthetic entrepreneurship and leadership. With a long experience as philosopher and art critic, manager of art Institutions and art schools in addition to being himself an internationally highly visible curator, Daniel Birnbaum will introduce the curatorial as a new field for management and organizational research.
This inaugural lecture manifests the launch of the CBS Art Initiative, which will strengthen the links between CBS and the national and international art scene and stimulate CBS’ research and education in “the age of aesthetic innovation”.
PROGRAMME
| 10:00-10:15 | Welcome by Head of Department Lotte Jensen and Co-Director of Entrepreneurship Platform Daniel Hjorth |
| 10.15-11.00 | Inaugural lecture by Daniel Birnbaum |
| 11.00-11.15 | Notes on CBS’ Art Initiative by Pierre Guillet de Monthoux |
| 11.15 | Reception |
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After doctoral studies in Sweden, Germany, and the United States, Daniel Birnbaum received his PhD for a work on Husserl in 1998. Between 2001-2010, Birnbaum was the rector of the Städel fine arts academy in Frankfurt a.M., Germany, where he also co-founded an institute for art criticism. Since 2010 he is the Director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has written on major artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe and, most recently, on Hilma af Klint and Marcel Duchamp. He currently publishes art criticism in Artforum and Freeze as well as academic texts on e.g. Novalis, Husserl, Heidegger, Frege, Wittgenstein and Derrida. He has been on the board of the Turner prize and the Manifesta. Birnbaum has curated art shows in Yokohama, Moscow, Paris and London, and was main curator of the Venice Biennale in 2009. Birnbaum is on the scientific council of the CBS Art Initiative. An earlier lecture as a guest to MPP can be watched here.