Symposium "Teaching Art, Learning Art - Transfer of Knowledge in Artist Training"
From November 25-26, 2010, a symposium in honour of Prof. Dr. Robert Picht (†2008) takes place at Academie Schloss Solitude in the context of the program "art, science & business".
The founding of art academies was closely bound up with the political centralization of art commissions in Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether at the courts in London, Paris or Stuttgart - even if at the last only later than others, with the founding of the Hohe Carlsschule at Schloss Solitude in 1770. At the academies, artist professors, commissioned by the state, ensured the transmission of a normative understanding of art and embodied an established art tradition in their works. With the eruption of the European avant-gardes, which already rejected the norms of thiscodified doctrine of art in the first half of the nineteenth century, artists broke with the academies and their so-called "academicism", which had proven physically and intellectually too narrow for the avantgarde's conception of art. In the twentieth century, schools - such as the Bauhaus in Weimar or Vkhutemas in Moscow - were founded to extend the offerings of traditional art academies, to establish new traditions, and to practice new forms of the transfer of knowledge.
As heirs of the classical academic system and the reformist teachings of the avant-garde, art schools today find themselves in a permanent dilemma: they fluctuate between maintaining and continuing an existing tradition and the desire to break with this tradition. For art students, the contradiction manifests itself in the conflict between the urge to invent art anew every day and the need to adapt to the rules of an institution. This antagonism is the focus of the symposium that Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Allianz Kulturstiftung will hold on November 25/26, 2010. It deals with the question whether art can be taught and how students at an art school can learn to invent themselves as artists.
As founder member and chairman of the Advisory Board, Robert Picht (†2008) was significantly involved in the organisation of Allianz Kulturstiftung and contributed to a clear European profile.
Speakers:
- Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
- Prof. Chaya Czernowin, Harvard University, Cambridge
- Corinne Diserens, curator, Paris/Berlin
- Iris Dressler/Hans D. Christ, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
- Dr. Fabrizio Gallanti, Abitare, Milan
- Maxi Obexer, Berlin University of the Arts
- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London
- Petra von Olschowski, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
- Prof. Dr. Vladimir Spicanovic, OCAD University, Toronto
- The Old Boys' Club, Stuttgart
- Prof. Annett Zinsmeister, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Project duration: November 25/26, 2010
Project venue: Akademie Schloss Solitude
Project partner: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
