Gasthof 2022
Art students from nearly fifty nations meet from July 4–11, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main for Gasthof at Städelschule. A total of more than three hundred art students will gather for an immersive, seven-day program of spontaneous daily activities, lectures, workshops, cooking, and exchange. Throughout this weeklong summit, participants will consider and think what it means for artists to practice hospitality towards those who are foreign to them, how can art be a “shelter” for reciprocity and friendship and a conduit for addressing social and political urgencies.
“Twenty years ago, the rector Daniel Birnbaum, together with the student Dirk Fleischmann and the Portikus curator Jochen Volz, initiated the Gasthof at the Städelschule. This event offered a platform for ritualizing generosity and reciprocity in search for new definitions of hospitality and conviviality,” said Yasmil Raymond, Rector of Städelschule and Director of Portikus. “The impetus for reviving this program together was literally prompted by the questions triggered by the pandemic. After the series of lockdowns and the increased virtual interactions, we saw the need for new ways to reconnect, meet, discuss, and engage.”
With daily lectures and workshops led by artists, chefs, poets, philosophers and curators, the focus of Gasthof participants develop a sense of belonging and caring that contributes to deep discussions and the promotion of diverse opinions. In the process of coming together and gathering students will build move ideas and actions toward collective control over shared resources. "We all knew that Gasthof is such a daring and demanding project, yet so worth to try and dive into as well. This gathering is supposed to be a self-expression of the current generation for their necessity to build their own platform in the year of 2022," Prof. Haegue Yang, Vice-Rector of Städelschule and co-chair of Gasthof says.
Participating Art Schools
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Austria; Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Beaux-Arts Paris, France; Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan, CCAA in Exile; Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Denmark; Eina Idea / EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art, Barcelona, Spain; Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Sweden; ENSAPC CY Cergy Paris Université, France; Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Switzerland; Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany; IUAV–Università luav di Venezia, Italia; Konsthögskolan i Malmö, Sweden, Sweden; Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Norway; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Nordland kunst- og filmhøgskole Lofoten, Norway; Propaganda, Tblisi, Georgia
Gasthof Symposium
Daily Lectures
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
11:00 am
Jalal Toufic: Creating Universes and/or Worlds That Don’t Fall Apart ‘Two Days’ Later
(Daimlerstraße 32)
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
11:00 am
Ana Teixeira Pinto: On Love
(Daimlerstraße 32)
Thursday, July 7, 2022
11:00 am
Nikita Dhawan: Aesthetic Enlightenment and the Art of Decolonization
(Daimlerstraße 32)
Friday, July 8, 2022
11:00 am
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Molly Nesbit, Daniel Birnbaum: Utopia Station
(Daimlerstraße 32)
06:00 pm
Molly Nesbit: Marcel Duchamp, Underground
(MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Auditorium)
Sunday, July 10, 2022
11:00 am
Emanuele Coccia: Losing Control
(Lichthalle, Dürerstraße 10)
Keynote Speakers
Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor at EHESS in Paris and currently Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He was formerly assistant professor of history of philosophy in Freiburg, Germany. Passionate about art and botany, he is the author of Sensible Life: A Micro-Ontology of the Image (2016), The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2018), as well as Metamorphoses (2021), which has been translated into several languages. His latest book, Philosophy at Home, will be published by Penguin next year. In collaboration with Giorgio Agamben, he published an anthology on angels in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts, Angeli: Ebraismo Cristianesimo Islam (2009). In 2019, he was a scientific advisor on the exhibition Trees at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
Nikita Dhawan holds the Chair in Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Technical University Dresden. Her research and teaching focuses on global justice, human rights, democracy and decolonization. She received the Käthe Leichter Award in 2017 for outstanding achievements in the pursuit of women’s and gender studies. Selected publications include Impossible Speech: On the Politics of Silence and Violence (2007); Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World (ed., 2014); Reimagining the State: Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities (ed., 2019); Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization (forthcoming). She has been awarded the Gerda-Henkel-Visiting Professorship at Stanford University for the Winter academic quarter 2023.
Molly Nesbit teaches and writes on modern and contemporary art, film and photography. She graduated from Vassar College, received her PhD from Yale University, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Barnard College, Columbia University before returning to Vassar in 1993. She has received many awards, notably from the Guggenheim Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. In 2008 she gave the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Memorial lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In 2019 she received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art. Since 2002, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, she has curated Utopia Station, an ongoing and international book, exhibition, seminar, website and street project.
Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin. She is a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (AdBK) and a theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute. Her writings have appeared in publications such as Third Text, Afterall, e-flux journal, Manifesta Journal, and Texte zur Kunst. She is the editor of a forthcoming book series on the antipolitical turn to be published by Sternberg Press. Together with Kader Attia and Anselm Franke, she is organizing the conference and podcast series The White West: Whose Universal, taking place at HKW Berlin, and she is a member of the 2022 Berlin Biennial artistic team.
Rirkrit Tiravanija is a Thai contemporary artist residing in New York City, Berlin, and Chiangmai, Thailand. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work.
Jalal Toufic is a professor of Film Studies at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He is the author of, among other books, What Was I Thinking?, e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017; The Dancer's Two Bodies, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015; Forthcoming, 2nd ed., e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2014, and What Were You Thinking?, Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011. He has made over ten films and videos, which include essay films and conceptual films; short films (seven and eight minutes), feature-length films (110 minutes, 138 minutes), and inhumanely long films (72 hours, 50 hours); videos that are standalone works as well as ones that are part of mixed media works; films that he shot and films in which all the images are from films by other directors (Hitchcock, Sokurov, Bergman). He, along with artists and pretend artists, was a participant in the Sharjah Biennials 6, 10, and 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), A History: Art, Architecture, and Design, from the 1980s Until Today (Centre Pompidou), Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 (MoMA PS1), Home Beirut, Sounding the Neighbors (MAXXI). He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD in 2011, and director of the School of Visual Arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba) from September 2015 to August 2018.
Sponsors
Gasthof is made possible by generous support from Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, and Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne. Additional support is provided by Förderprogramm QuiS21 and Kunstsammler e. V., Stiftung o.T., the Goethe-Institut Lebanon, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC, Culture Resource (Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy), Städelschule Portikus e.V., and ERASMUS+, co-funded by the European Union.
