Talk in English

Brian Dillon, Autor, writer, critic, curator
Royal College of Art, London

Since at least the eighteenth century, the ruin has been a decayed but eloquent presence in art and aesthetics. Ruins remind us of the past but are really oriented towards the future; this talk will describe some of the ways contemporary art looks to the future through ruins.

Eva Schmidt, director Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Katya Gardea Browne, Clemens Botho Goldbach, artists of the exhibition
Julia Höner, Ludwig Seyfarth, curators

A discussion of the relationship between historic and modern-day ruins, based on Robert Smithson’s idea of Ruins in Reverse and his famous project, Hotel Palenque, located on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico.

Welcome
Monika Schnetkamp, Chairwoman Arthena Foundation 

Introduction
Dr. Barbara Könches, Kunststiftung NRW

About the exhibition
Julia Höner, Curator

Guided tour with the curator, followed by drinks

With extended opening hours and special programme

Dr. Peter Weiß (Münster), lecture

The focus is on the changing design principles at the end of the 1970s from the re-design of existing objects to the playful and kitschy designs of Memphis

Dr. Wolfgang Schepers (Düsseldorf), lecture
The lecture focuses on the different accents of design in both countries in the context of Postmodernism

Artist talk with Eva Berendes and Raymond Barion hosted by Julia Höner, curator

Welcome 
Monika Schnetkamp, Chairwoman Arthena Foundation

Introduction
Julia Höner, Curator of the exhibition

The exhibition Studio For Propositional Cinema - IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK: (October 29, 2016 to  January 8, 2017) opens at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf on the same evening at 7.30 pm.