Curatorial
Research using artistic and curatorial means in the SKD collections recognises the existing and relates these findings to questions of the present and visions of the future. A transgenerational process. In this process of opening up to new forms of knowledge, a collaborative exchange is important in order to visualise the epistemic diversity of the object and the knowledge about it. One knowledge position does not replace the other. On the contrary, this collaborative method works across collections with archival materials and holdings. In the form of a dialogue process, curatorial work develops models for the transdisciplinary linking of different perspectives, cultural positionings, temporal contexts and geographies as a multi-perspective history of knowledge. In this way, the curatorial work makes a significant contribution to sensitising themes such as transculturality, diaspora, polyphony and justice as knowledge processes. The exhibition space is not the end product of the research, but the experimental arrangement itself. This makes research transparent in its complexity as a public process. This approach is developed across the collections through fellowships for artists and curators, international collaborations and experimental exhibition formats with the collections, also involving citizen science. New models of exhibiting as hybrids between collecting, researching and presenting are emerging, particularly in the strategic collaboration between research and the Archive of the Avant-Garde (AdA) - Egidio Marzona. Research using artistic means is as old as the Dresden Kunstkammer. It was founded around 1560 in the spirit of interweaving science, artistic virtuosity and technology and was one of the first art chambers in Europe to be open to the public. The curatorial work follows on from this.
Current exhibitions
Erick Beltrán, „22 Züge durch ein Archiv der Archive: Athen muß immer wieder aus Alexandria gerettet werden,“ 2024
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Archive
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