The fifteenth meeting of The Most Beautiful Kunsthalle in the World takes the shape of a workshop dedicated to what is likely the most complex and controversial problem of the exhibiting practices of contemporary art, and will analyze the history, role, and physiognomy of the curator.

For this, the Antonio Ratti Foundation invited nine of the most prestigious researchers, thinkers, and curators to discuss specific aspects of the question in cause: the historicity of the figure of the curator, the origin and transformations of her/his role and function during the second half of the Twentieth century.

The format of the exhibition—or rather exhibitions, as we need to think in plural to cross the whole range, from the monographic to the thematic show, to the diverse manifestations of the international large exhibitions—follows the plurality of the institutions and the role of the curator within them, from the museum—where the problems of the permanent collection cross those of the exhibition practices—to the contemporary art centres, art galleries and the periodical manifestations that emerge from the shadow of the Venice Biennale.

10:00
Introduction: Marco De Michelis/Filipa Ramos
Keynote Speaker: Maria Lind

11:00–13:00
The canon
Teresa Gleadowe
Bruce Altshuler
Christian Rattemeyer

14:30–16:30
The exhibition
Jens Hoffmann
Celine Condorelli
Raimundas Malašauskas

17:00–18:30
The institutions
Chus Martínez
Dirk Snauwaert

Top image: from the meeting By the lakeside

November 29 2011
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19 – Como