Ari Benjamin Meyers and Eva Birkenstock at Summer School as School 2019
15 August, 2019, 18:00
Venue: Boxing Club

Summer School as School
5 - 21 August, 2019

Stacion - Center Contemporary Art Prishtina has the pleasure to announce "Kunsthalle For Music" & "Within and outside the exhibition space" by Ari Benjamin Meyers and Eva Birkenstock, part of the Public Program of Summer School as School 2019.

Ari Benjamin Meyers: Kunsthalle For Music

Ari Benjamin Meyers will introduce his „Kunsthalle For Music“, an ongoing institutional project that explores, transgresses and shifts the boundaries between the disciplines of contemporary music and art and their reception. Even though from different positions in the field of contemporary art, both share an interest in challenging the limitations of art institutions with a particular focus on performative practices

Ari Benjamin Meyers (b. 1972, USA) lives and works in Berlin. Meyers received his training as a pianist, composer and conductor at The Juilliard School, Yale University and Peabody Institute. Trading the concert format for that of the exhibition, his works as an artist – such as Kunsthalle for Music (2018), Symphony 80 (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) and Solo for Ayumi (both 2017) – explore structures and processes that redefine the performative, social and ephemeral nature of music as well as the relationship between performer and audience. His diverse practice features musical performances for the stage and exhibition spaces as well as three operas including a commission for the Semperoper Dresden and a ballet for the Paris Opera. He has collaborated with artists including Tino Sehgal, Anri Sala and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and bands such as The Residents, Einstürzende Neubauten and Chicks on Speed. Recent solo shows include Tacet at Kunstverein Kassel (2019) and In Concert at OGR Turin (2019). His works have been shown at Frac Franche-Comté (2019); Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana (2019); Liverpool Biennial (2018); Nowy Teatr, Warsaw (2018); Public Art Munich (2018); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2018); Biennale de Lyon (2017); Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2017); Esther Schipper, Berlin (2017); Lenbachhaus, Munich (2017) and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2016).

Eva Birkenstock: Within and outside the exhibition space

Eva Birkenstock has been producing exhibition, performance and publication projects since 2007. Her work is characterized by its collaborative nature and its focus on the interrelations of diverse discourses and modes of working within the cultural field. On the occasion of the workshop she will present past projects with a particular focus on time-based formats within and outside the exhibition space.

Eva Birkenstock is the director of Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf. After studying Art History and Cultural Anthropology in Cologne, Berlin and Havana, she worked in various positions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. In 2014 she was the curator in residence of Ludlow38 in New York, from 2015 to 2018 of the LISTE Performance Project in Basel. Her curatorial practice is characterized by its collaborative nature and its focus on the interrelations of diverse discourses and modes of working within the cultural field. Within performance projects she recently collaborated with artists such as Melanie Bonajo, Keren Cytter, Vaginal Davis, keyon gaskin, NIC Kay and Ian White, and presented solo debuts by Ei Arakawa, Ulrike Müller and Johannes Paul Raether amongst others. She is editor of On Performance (with Joerg Franzbecker), Art and Ideology After 1989 (with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz/Jens Kastner/Ruth Sonderegger), KAYA and initiator of the magazine-project Klassensprachen (with Manuela Ammer/Kerstin Stakemeier/ Jenny Nachtigall/Stephanie Weber). Currently she is preparing a solo exhibition of Eileen Quinlan in Düsseldorf as well as monograph publications of Ei Arakawa and Alicia Frankovich (to be released in summer 2019).