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Lecture - Henry Moore Institute Annual Guest Lecture
Each year the Henry Moore Institute launches the new academic year with a day of tours and talks about our programmes and collections culminating with our Annual Guest Lecture, which is open to all. The 2012 Keynote Lecture is with Kasper Koenig.
Kasper Koenig, ‘Skulptur Projekte Münster 1977-2007'
Friday 19 October, 6pm
Leeds Art Gallery lecture theatre
From the age of 23, when he was invited to organise a show of work by Claes Oldenburg at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Kasper Koenig has been curating groundbreaking contemporary exhibitions. He co-founded Skulptur Projekte Münster in 1977, realising proposals by Richard Serra, Joseph Beuys, Ulrich Rukriem, Claes Oldenburg, Carl Andre, Richard Long, and Donald Judd, and returned to curate the once-a-decade exhibition in 1987, 1997, 2007 and 2017. Skulptur Projekte Münster is the most important large-scale periodic study of sculpture.
In the 1970s, Koenig was editor of Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. After returning to Germany to teach at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Duesseldorf, he served as professor and later president of the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, where he became the founding director of the exhibition space Portikus. He has served as director at Museum Ludwig in Cologne between 2000 and 2012, developing numerous exhibitions including, most recently Before the Law: Post-War Sculpture and Spaces of Contemporary Art.
In this lecture Koenig talks about the four Skulptur Projekte Münster that have taken place over the last forty-five years, discussing their achievements and challenges, and looking ahead to 2017.
The event is free. Booking essential. Contact Kirstie Gregory, kirstie@henry-moore.org
Kirstie Gregory
Research Programme Assistant
Henry Moore Institute
The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AH
UK
telephone: +44 (0) 113 246 7467
fax: + 44 (0) 113 246 1481
kirstie@henry-moore.org
www.henry-moore.org
Event details
- Henry Moore Institute Annual Guest Lecture
- Location: Leeds Art Gallery lecture theatre
- Date: Friday, 19th October 2012
Each year the Henry Moore Institute launches the new academic year with a day of tours and talks about our programmes and collections culminating with our Annual Guest Lecture, which is open to all. The 2012 Keynote Lecture is with Kasper Koenig.