Christian Rattemeyer: Curating Diagnostic Exhibitions
Thursday 05 April, 2012
6pm, $0
The Cooper Union
7 East 7 Street, The Great Hall
In 1969, two exhibitions opened within a week that shared not only crucial thematic characteristics and almost the entire list of artists but also were reviewed together, and even referenced each other in their respective catalogues. Today, one of the shows, Haradl Szeemann’s When Attitudes Become Form is hailed as the iconic exhibition of that moment whereas the other, Wim Beeren’s Op Losse Schroeven, is forgotten. Using their example, Rattemeyer speculates what might become of curatorial intention when seen in the harsh light of history, and what this could mean for the current troubles with diagnostic exhibitions more generally.
About Christian Rattemeyer
Christian Rattemeyer is the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At MoMA, Rattemeyer curated the exhibitions Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection (2009) and Projects 95: Runa Islam (2011), among others; his exhibition Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan will open at MoMA in July 2012. From 2003 to 2007 Rattemeyer was the curator at Artists Space in New York. His most recent book is Exhibiting the New Art. Op Losse Schroeven and When Attitudes Become Form 1969 (London: Afterall Publishers 2010).
About Christian Rattemeyer
Christian Rattemeyer is the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At MoMA, Rattemeyer curated the exhibitions Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection (2009) and Projects 95: Runa Islam (2011), among others; his exhibition Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan will open at MoMA in July 2012. From 2003 to 2007 Rattemeyer was the curator at Artists Space in New York. His most recent book is Exhibiting the New Art. Op Losse Schroeven and When Attitudes Become Form 1969 (London: Afterall Publishers 2010).