TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022, 4:30 PM – 6 PM in room KAW, Art Initiative, Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65.

Please join us for the launch of Daniel Birnbaum’s new book ‘Notes on the frames of art. Exhibition, Academy, Museum’ (Verlag der Buchandlung Franz und Walther König 2022) and a conversation with Moderna museet curator Jo Widoff.

In these essays and conversations, Daniel Birnbaum explores what conceptual artist Daniel Buren referred to as the "frames of art". As a director of institutions, he has organized events inside and outside some of the most significant art institutions in Europe, including the Venice Biennale, the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Moderna museet and the Centre Pompidou.

This book is a hybrid object that triggers AR artworks of the kind Daniel curates with Acute Art London. It ends with notes about new visual technologies and virtual space.

Says Hans Ulrich Obrist in the introduction to the book:

“Daniel Birnbaum’s ever expanding inter-disciplinary interests, and the strong relationships he has developed over the years with artists as well as so many others working within and outside the field, make his insight into the ‘frames’ of varying institutions, the gallery, and the artist’s studio both valid and engaging. After serving as the director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm for many years, Birnbaum turned to an entirely new form of framing art—one that is not necessarily physically manifested in any given place but instead is available online for everyone, everywhere. It is therefore all the more interesting to have here before you a physical object that presents Birnbaum’s reflections and conversations about his experiences with experimental institutional approaches to art schools, museums, and his own curatorial projects.”

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