Join German curator and writer Axel Wieder, Director of Bergen Kunsthall, and previously Director of Index in Stockholm (2014–8) and Head of Program at Arnolfini Centre of Contemporary Arts in Bristol (2012–4). He will discuss past projects, the city as field of resonance, and exhibitions as activities.
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From 2007 to 2010, Axel Wieder was Artistic Director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, and, in 2010, a visiting curator at Ludlow 38, Goethe-Institut, New York. He studied art history and cultural theory at the University of Cologne and at Humboldt University, Berlin, specialising in conceptual art, the history of exhibitions, and modern architecture. In 1999, with Jesko Fezer and Katja Reichard, he founded Pro Qm, a bookstore and a venue for experimental events in art and urbanism in Berlin. He’s held lecturing posts at various universities and art academies, including the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
