Research Department. Meeting Room.

Exhibition: Akademie. Kunst lehren und lernen

Location: Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Year: 2005

Curator: Angelika Nollert, Yilmaz Dziewior

Courtesy: The artist

Photo: Apolonija Šušteršič

Technical Data: Interior for Research Department. Meeting Room: “grass” carpet, foldable chairs, round platforms / tables, bookshelf, serving trolley, fresh coffee and tea, jugs of fresh water and milk, sugar and cookies, hangers, blackboard surfaces, collection of books, magazines and other printed matters related to the topic in discussion, “Meeting in progress” sign, advertisement in the media for the availability of Research Department. Meeting Room for all universities in the city (including free- anti and alternative universities all around Europe), booking schedule.

Participants of premier discussion Utopistic models of (art) education: Jenny Berntsson, Yilmaz Dziewior, Måns Holst Ekström, Peter Hoppe, Robert Karlssen, Maria Lind, Katryn Mayer, Regina Möller, Maria Pijuan, Peter Steckroth, Jan Verwoert, Gitte Villesen, Carola Wagenplast

Concept: Research Department. Meeting Room is a project related to the idea of artistic research. Research Department. Meeting Room is a structural element of an institution or organization where the production gets tested, analyzed, questioned, or developed into a new direction. It provides knowledge, and possibilities for experimentation.

A Research Department. Meeting Room was created within Kunstverein in Hamburg. It was a space for debate on the subject suggested by the exhibition (Akademie. Kunst lehren und lernen) and a meeting point for people who were interested in discussing ideas around education and knowledge production. The idea was to accommodate and facilitate groups coming from various directions, professionally and geographically to exchange their ideas and views. Part of the project was also the premier discussion Utopistic models of (art) education, a whole day brainstorming session with the aim to get a creative and constructive result at the end of the day.