18 – 19 November: Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
24 – 26 November: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Everyone is a critic today. But where is critique? We are all experts evaluating each other. But what do we base our criteria on? Today, every theatre, every museum, every scientific institute is expected to mediate and promote its work– while independent mediation, contextualization, and evaluation are disappearing with the general media. But without criticism, there is no public. Without the public, no arts. Without the arts, no democracy.
Just when the monopolies of criticism have been broken and individual perspectives are finally being given broader scope, criticism is experiencing its greatest crisis. This crisis serves as a lens for the congress ‘The Future of Critique’ to focus on fundamental changes in the public sphere, institutions, and society. 90 international guests from the fields of theatre, music, literature, film, architecture, visual arts, and the media will discuss the future of the public sphere at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.
Admission free, with registration
for Bonn: buchung@bundeskunsthalle.de
for Berlin: kongress@adk.de
The Future of Criticism is a cooperation between Akademie der Künste, Berlin and the Art and Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, in cooperation with the German section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA, the DFG graduate college "Cultures of Criticism" at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and the Institute for Art and Visual Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin
Funded by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung