Beijing Inside – Out Art Museum, China

(English, Chinese translated by Shen Boliang)

Time: March 24, 2017, 2pm – 4pm CST

Venue: Conference Room, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum

In his talk exhibition maker and writer Jens Hoffmann will address the question of whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practices. The talk considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age. Drawing from his formation in theater and his own curatorial work, Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art—the gallery, the institution, the art school, the biennial—and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking. Hoffmann’s work posits the exhibition as an anthropological endeavor, and the curator as its agent.

Jens Hoffmann is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Jewish Museum, New York; Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Co-Artistic Director of Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (opening in 2018). Previously Hoffmann was Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco and Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London. Hoffmann curated and co-curated a number of large scale international Biennials and Triennials such as the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), the 2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico (2009) among others. In 2015 he received the Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Association of American Museum Curators.

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Museum Opening Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m., Closed On Mondays Tuesday
Admission: Free

Directions: By bus: take 498, 505, 992, 347, Yuntong101 to Xipingzhuang Stop. By car: from Sijiqing Bridge of West 4th Ring Rd enter Xingshikou Rd for 4km. From Xingshikou Bridge of West 5th Ring Rd enter Xingshikou Rd for 1km.

Contact
Phone : 86 10 6267 3186
Weibo: weibo.com/insideoutart
Email: info@ioam.org.cn