University of Heidelberg

Panel discussion: "Contemporary art in Asia and Europe"

Jul 16, 2010

Research project D13 "Multi-Centred Modernisms", coordinated by Cluster Professor Monica Juneja, organised a public panel discussion on global entanglements in the arts at the German-American Institute ("DAI") on Monday.

Under the title "Institutions, Markets, Publics - contemporary art practice in Asia and Europe", renowned experts discussed the characteristics, challenges and changes in the production, marketing, collection and presentation of art, as practiced at numerous sites in Asia and Europe. The focus was on the ways in which the agency of global players such as artists, curators, and collectors of art can feed into new research approaches in Art History as well as in Visual and Media Anthropology.

Among the panelists were the Indian curator and writer Ranjit Hoskote, the former Ambassador of Switzerland to China and collector of contemporary Chinese art, Uli Sigg, the course director of Christie’s Education Programme for Chinese Arts in London, Nixi Cura, and the director of the Heidelberger Kunstverein, Johan Holten. The panel was moderated by Monica Juneja, Professor of Global Art History at the Cluster of Excellence.

The panel discussion concluded the academic lecture series "Multi-Centred Modernisms - Reconfiguring Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries", which was held at the Karl Jaspers Centre in the summer term 2010. Monica Juneja has co-organized this series-cum-seminar with Christiane Brosius (Cluster Professor for Visual and Media Anthropology), Melanie Trede (Deputy Speaker of Research Area B and Professor for East Asian Art History), and Franziska Koch (Assistant, Global Art History).

Further Links:

Press Release (German)
Calendar Entry
Lecture Series
Project D13 Website

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