Stefan Heidenreich

Limassol, Cyprus, 04.11. at NeMe . Initially, every new technology is used to support old content. This also counts for NFTs. Their main task was to emulate the cult of the exclusivity that currently dominates the art world. A »non fungible token« is a declaration of exclusivity. Crypto technologies could offer much more productive applications […]

“What the Art World Can Do to Make Art Accessible to More People” is the title under which artsy published a translation of an extended version of our Zeit article.

an extended translation of my article in “Die Zeit”, first published at tripleampersand.org/against-curating/ Curating is undemocratic, authoritarian, opaque and corruptible. Without giving reasons, without discussion, curators choose their artists and decide where and how to show which kind of work. How is it that in the world of art where so much emphasis is placed […]

Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Reciprocal Encounters. The Enactment of Collecting and its Modes of Representation Slides of my Lecture

Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part II To make the transmission from financial markets to artistic practices complete, an ideological framework was needed that supported the turn from discursive to material practices, from rituals of communication to objects and commodities, and from web-oriented and process-based artworks to shiny items provided in […]

Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I The Geneva Freeport can hold up to one million artworks. Recently its facilities had to be expanded due to increasing demand. The artworks end up in wooden transport boxes, stacked in rows on shelves in huge halls, where they sit and wait for their price to rise or fall, […]

For this show, knowing too much before seeing may not be helpful, and may even spoil your viewing experience. Bojan Šarcevic is an artist who doesn’t like to wrap his art in too much information. Objects and works are supposed to stand for themselves. more on www.art-agenda.com

a review published on Art-Agenda

Panel discussion at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, 17:30 – with Bjørn Melhus, Hedwig Fijen, Pascal Gielen und Joost de Bloois, and Liesbeth Levy

in Texte zur Kunst zusammen mit Yuk Hui und Vera Tollmann . Im Vorfeld von Ai Weiweis kürzlich im Berliner Martin Gropius Bau zu sehenden Ausstellung „Evidence“ reiste der Anwalt und Sammler Peter Raue nach Beijing, um sich über das dort gegen den Künstler anhängige Gerichtsverfahren genauer zu informieren. Die Reise unternahm Raue im Auftrag […]

Vortrag bei Intermedia, Uni Köln Kunst nach dem Netz Der Status von Objekten, die Rolle der Theorie, der Zugang zum Markt, die Praxis des Künstlers, die Ordnung der Zeit und die Orte der Aufmerksamkeit werden von Netzwerken verschoben. Die Veränderung folgt in der Regel zwei Phasen. Anfangs werden alte Verfahren übersetzt imitiert, dann erst entstehen […]

Frieze.de #14 / 2014 deutsch und english