El Hadji Sy was born 1954 in Dakar and studied Fine Art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar. As a painter, curator, and cultural activist, El Hadji Sy’s interdisciplinary practice represents a pioneering model within the context of post-Independence Africa. Exhibited internationally as a painter since the late-1970s and hailed by the late Senegalese poet and President, Léopold Sédar Senghor, he is equally known for his rebellious attitude towards state cultural policy. In his capacity as artist and activist, El Hadji Sy co-founded the avant-garde performance group Laboratoire AGIT’art, was the lead instigator of the international artist-led Tenq workshops and Villages des Arts in Dakar, and a key collaborator of the interventionist group Huit Facettes. Between 1985-89, he was commissioned by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt to develop a new collection of Senegalese art and to co-edit a critical anthology on visual practice in Senegal. In the mid-1990s, his work as artist-curator was presented at the Whitechapel Gallery London and Konsthalle Malmö in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, and he took part in several international exhibitions. Most recently, for the 31st Bienal of São Paulo, Sy developed a 16-metre-long painting-installation to be activated by dancers on the theme of marine archaeology.
Philippe Pirotte *1972, is a Belgian art historian, critic, curator of numerous international exhibitions and since 2014 Rector of Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. He studied Art History at Ghent University. In 1999 he co-founded the art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, from 2005 to 2011, he was Director of Kunsthalle Bern and since 2012 he is Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. As a writer, Pirotte contributed a.o. to Nka – Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Afterall magazine.
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Lecture, 29 October 2024, 19:00
Ghislaine Leung: Questions
Talk, 22 October 2024, 19:00
From Portikus to Prototype: How to Display Art in the City
Talk, 20 October 2024, 16:00
Nathalie Du Pasquier & Luca Lo Pinto: ON THE SHELF
Talk, 19 October 2024, 18:00
Biomorphic Window 01: Pharmakon / Kollaps / Lana del Rabies
Concert, 2 October 2024, 19:00–23:00
„The Frankfurt Prototype“
Opening, 1 October 2024, 18:00
Kasper König (1943–2024)
Obituary, 9 August 2024
Vera Palme: The And
Lecture, 9 July 2024, 19:00
Zasha Colah
Lecture, 2 July 2024, 19:00
The Call
Exhibition, 28 June – 21 July 2024
Dylan Solomon KRAUS: The Seventh Point on the Six Sided Die
Lecture, 11 June 2024, 19:00
Listening Session
Event, 3 June 2024, 17:00–20:00
Tarik Kiswanson
Lecture, 28 May 2024, 19:00
Guerilla Architects: WE ARE SORRY!
Lecture, 21 May 2024, 19:00
Pio Abad: To Those Sitting in Darkness
Lecture, 14 May 2024, 19:00
Sir Peter Cook: CONSIDERING THE PICTURESQUE
Lecture, 13 May 2024, 19:00
Débora Delmar: Property
Lecture, 7 May 2024, 19:00
JUNGE KUNST MIT ZUKUNFT
Event, 4 May 2024, 18:00
Elisa R. Linn: The Berlin Wall as a Condom
Lecture, 2 May 2024, 19:00
R.H. Quaytman: Book
Lecture, 30 April 2024, 19:00
Camille Norment: Cultural Psychoacoustics
Lecture, 23 April 2024, 19:00
Phillip Zaiser (1969–2024)
Obituary, 6 April 2024
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Information, 25 March – 31 May 2024
Water Cooler Talks 2024
Event, 10 February 2024, 10:00–18:00
Rundgang 2024
Exhibition, 9 – 11 February 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nora Turato: Lecture
Lecture, 6 February 2024, 19:00
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Unmasking Series–Towards Public Co-creation
Lecture, 30 January 2024, 19:00
Unextractable? Sammy Baloji and Bénédicte Savoy in Conversation
Lecture, 25 January 2024, 19:00
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Lecture & Screening, 22 – 23 January 2024, 19:00
Ann Demeester: The Museum as Transhistorical ‘Garden of Consciousness’?
Lecture, 16 January 2024, 19:00
Moritz Fehr: Evocation, Installation, Simulation
Lecture, 9 January 2024, 19:00
El Hadji Sy & Philippe Pirotte
Lecture 4 November 2014, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main