LAST CHANCE TO SEE.
KUNSTVEREINE.
A TRIP TO THE DINOSAURS
OF THE ART WORLD

Events accompanying the collaborative project
between the Kunstvereine Düsseldorf-Cologne-Bonn

Friday, 25 June 2010
Exhibition opening in Bonn, Cologne, and Düsseldorf.
Joint opening party from 10 pm in the Theatersaal of the Kölnischer Kunstverein

Subject and Society
Talk with the artist MELANIE GILLIGAN
Sunday, 27 June, noon
At the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Theatersaal

Polly Staple, director of the Chisenhale Gallery, London, will discuss the background to the new film »Popular Unrest« with MELANIE GILLIGAN and ask her about her working methods and the overall collaboration with the twelve main actors. The discussion will also focus on MELANIE GILLIGAN's ideas on the relationship between the individual and society and the economisation of social relationships, as well as television as a source of her inspiration.

Altruism as a working principle for independent art institutions in the Czech Republic
Tour of the exhibition and talk with Stephan Strsembski and Noemi Smolik
Wednesday, 30 June, 7 pm
At the Bonner Kunstverein

Stephan Strsembski, curator of the exhibition, and Noemi Smolik, art critic and expert on the Czech art scene, will guide us through the exhibition ALTRUISMUS | ALTRUISM and discuss the situation for independent art institutions in the Czech Republic, the history of their origins/how they came about/into being as well as their working methods by comparison with Kunstvereine in German speaking countries.

Different countries, different institutions
Talk with Henriette Bretton-Meyer
Thursday, 1 July,  7 pm
At the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Kunstvereine only exist in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. What do comparable institutions look like in the rest of Europe? And what are the salient characteristics of a Kunstverein for somebody who only knows this model from a distance?
Henriette Bretton-Meyer, director of the Overgaden in Copenhagen, will discuss this topic together with Vanessa Joan Müller, director of the Kunstverein Düsseldorf.

Kunstverein: today, tomorrow, yesterday
Talk with Wulf Herzogenrath and Florian Waldvogel
Wednesday, 7 July, 7 pm
At the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Prof. Wulf Herzogenrath, director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, and Florian Waldvogel, director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, will discuss an number of topics: the current perspectives for the Kunstverein as an institution, productive crises of the past, and models for the future.

Corporate citizenship as a way out of the crisis
Talk with Loring Sittler, Generali Deutschland Zukunftsfonds
Wednesday, 25 August, 7 pm
At the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Theatersaal

The Generali Deutschland Zukunftsfonds is dedicated to sponsoring corporate citizenship and concentrates upon the commitment on the part of older people in view of demographic change. Loring Sittler's talk will focus upon the extent to which this orientation can provide an answer to the current transformation of obligations in the fields of politics, the economy, and civil society, as well as presenting the » Engagementatlas 09«.