{"id":10052,"date":"2014-08-18T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magasin3.com\/?post_type=m3_event&#038;p=10052"},"modified":"2014-09-01T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T14:13:36","slug":"ai-weiweis-artistry","status":"publish","type":"m3_event","link":"https:\/\/magasin3.com\/en\/event\/ai-weiweis-artistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei\u2019s Artistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation between <em>Ulrich Wilmes<\/em>, chief curator at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and <em>Tessa Praun<\/em>, curator at Magasin 3 for the Ai Weiwei exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Ai Weiwei\u2019s art is almost always based in cultural references, and he intentionally selects iconic objects with great cultural and symbolic value for the Chinese. In his work he combines the roles of artist, blogger and political acitvist.<\/p>\n<p>As an introduction to Ai Weiwei\u2019s artistry, Tessa Praun and Ulrich Wilmes will discuss works presented in the exhibition<em> So Sorry<\/em> at Haus der Kunst in 2009 and examine his visual expression, methodology and motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Praun, born in Stockholm 1977, is curator at Magasin 3 and for the exhibition with Ai Weiwei. Tessa has worked at Magasin 3 since 2004 and has done shows with, among others, Christian Boltanski, Annika von Hausswolff, Kimsooja, Miroslav Tichy &amp; Julia Margaret Cameron, Marijke van Warmerdam and a number of exhibitions of works from the Magasin 3 collection, such as Thrice upon a time and Investigations of a Dog. She previously worked at Kunstverein Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ulrich Wilmes, was born 1953 in Essen, Germany. Studied Art History and German Language and literature studies at the Ruhr-University in Bochum. He earned a PhD with a dissertation on <em>Rosso Fiorentino und der Manierismus<\/em>. 1985-87 he was intern at the Westf\u00e4lisches Landesmuseum f\u00fcr Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in M\u00fcnster, collaborating on the exhibition <em>Skulptur Projekte in M\u00fcnster<\/em> 1987. 1988-91 curator at the Portikus Frankfurt am Main. 1991-2000 curator for contemporary art at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, since 1995 deputy director. 2000-08 deputy director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Since 2008 he his chief curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich. Ulrich Wilmes has worked with numerous exhibitions and publications on international contemporary art, e.g. Dan Graham, J\u00f6rg Immendorff, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Per Kirkeby, Matt Mullican, Gerhard Richter, Ulrich R\u00fcckriem, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10053,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10052","m3_event","type-m3_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ai Weiwei\u2019s Artistry - Magasin III<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magasin3.com\/en\/event\/ai-weiweis-artistry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ai Weiwei\u2019s Artistry - Magasin III\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A conversation between Ulrich Wilmes, chief curator at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Tessa Praun, curator at Magasin 3 for the Ai Weiwei exhibition. 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