Student Curated Exhibitions: Series 3

Sun. May. 11, 2008 – Sun. May. 25, 2008
Three exhibitions curated by CCS Bard graduate students: Modernism: On and Off the Grid, including work by Martin Beck, VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Dorit Margreiter, and Superstudio, curated by Niko Vicario; Act Out, including work by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Sturtevant, and Hannah Wilke, curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch; Degrees North: Six Artists and the Icelandic Landscape including work by Birgir Andrésson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, and Magnús Pálsson, curated by Nicole Pollentier; Opening reception: Sunday, May 11, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Galleries
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SECOND THOUGHTS

Sun. Mar. 16, 2008 – Sun. May. 25, 2008
Second Thoughts presents exhibition as revision. Curated by first year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Second Thoughts is a direct response to Matthew Higgs’ Exhibitionism (October 20, 2007 – February 3, 2008), a series of autonomous and highly idiosyncratic exhibitions curated for each of the 16 galleries in the Hessel Museum of Art. By engaging amplification, erasure, extension, and redress, Second Thoughts seeks to alter the strategies utilized by Higgs in Exhibitionism to progressively revise the entire exhibition. An intervention by French artist Marcelline Delbecq, consisting of a newly commissioned work responding to the Hessel Collection, will be introduced on April 13th. Opening receptions Sunday, March 16, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Sunday, April 13, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Sunday, May 11, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
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Lisi Raskin: Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station

Tue. Apr. 15, 2008 – Sun. Sep. 7, 2008
Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station is a new project by Lisi Raskin commissioned by the Center for Curatorial Studies as part of it's first artist-in-residence program. On April 14, 2008, Raskin departed CCS Bard in a converted cargo van for a month-long journey across the American west to visit sites of nuclear testing and development. From this mobile observation station, art works and ephemera will be mailed back to headquarters at the Center for Curatorial Studies, where they will be processed and displayed by CCS Bard graduate students in a post office/receiving station constructed specifically for the project. Installation on view daily April 15 - September 7, 2008. [ more... ]
Location: CCS Bard Audrey and Sydney Irmas Atrium
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PERSONAL PROTOCOLS AND OTHER PREFERENCES: AN EXHIBITION WITH WORKS BY MICHAEL BEUTLER, ESRA ERSEN AND KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF

Sat. Jun. 14, 2008 – Sun. Sep. 7, 2008
This exhibition brings together work by three artists, Michael Beutler, Esra Ersen, and Kirstine Roepstorff, who engage intensively with situations marked by the reality of a particular time and place, filtering them through distinct choices of methods and materials. There is a crafty aspect to the work which takes do-it-yourself techniques seriously as a way of questioning standard, whether it is man-made machines, videos filmed with a hand-held camera or textile-like collages. Although the physical outcomes are radically different they all strictly follow their own personal protocols of production.
Location: CCS Galleries
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Bik Van der Pol curates the Hessel Collection

Sat. Jun. 14, 2008 – Sun. Sep. 7, 2008
Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have worked collectively since 1995 as Bik Van der Pol. Their work engages with revitalization of memory in the present and with questions of knowledge and history, thus creating the necessary potential for a dialogue and an ever reforming discourse through which they develop an understanding of situations that surround us. The circulation of knowledge and re-use of existing and left-over spaces, forms and situations are important strategic tools in their work. Much of their work may also be described as context-sensitive and constructively critical: that is, they examine a particular context and question the functions of art, including those of art institutions. For this project, Bik Van der Pol will explore the Hessel Collection in depth, ultimately selecting works for an exhibition they will curate in the Hessel Museum. The goal is to both critically explore the boundaries and possibilities of the Collection as a whole, but also to use the exhibition-making process as an opportunity for people to meet and exchange thoughts and ideas.
Location: CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
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