Prem Krishnamurthy, Endless Exhibition, or, K.’s Last Lecture

#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#34: We pay artists.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#26: More artists, less borders.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#36: We support production separately.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#34: We pay artists.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#26: More artists, less borders.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#36: We support production separately.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|

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Prem Krishnamurthy, Endless Exhibition, or, K.’s Last Lecture