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

#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#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.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#34: We pay artists.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#119: Be a space of production.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#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.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#34: We pay artists.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#119: Be a space of production.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#124: Do less, do it better.|

31.08.2018 00:00

"Starting today, I proclaim that every exhibition we mount is permanent."

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