Elke Krasny is Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2006 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Bremen. In 2011 she was curator-in-residence at the Hongkong Community Museum Project, in 2012 she was artist-in-residence at the Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University Vancouver. In 2012 she was Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture [...]
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LE CORBUSIER REORIENTED JOURNEY 1911-2011 The basis of the exhibition are conversations with architects, artists, activists, researchers and intellectuals in Athens, Belgrade, Istanbul, Rome and Vienna. The cities’ distinct qualities, their architecture and their monuments, and the two terms of the Orient and the East triggered the dialogical exchanges. The Cultural Centre of BelgradePODROOMKnez Mihailova [...]

Vortrag von Elke KrasnyAula der AdbK NürnbergDienstag 16.04.2013 19:00 Das Städtische ist durch Transformationsprozesse bestimmt. Deren Notwendigkeiten und Intentionen, Maßstäblichkeiten und Geschwindigkeiten wiederum unterliegen lokalspezifischen Bedingungen, die von den jeweiligen politischen, ökonomischen, sozialen und ästhetischen Regimen geprägt sind. In diesem Vortrag verorte ich Urban Curating auf zwei verschiedenen Ebenen: auf der der eingreifenden Handlungsmöglichkeiten [...]

| Elke Krasny : Curating Architecture| 02/07/2013 – 13:00 – 14:00 John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and DesignUniversity of Toronto | 230 College Street | Room 103 | 1:00 PMToronto ON M5T 1R2 | CANADA Exhibitions of architecture are at once discursive and aesthetic operations. As an aesthetic format, exhibitions are temporary and short-term. As a discursive [...]

ARTEFACTFESTIVAL 201313-24 February 2013STUK KUNSTENCENTRUM LEUVEN www.artefact-festival.bewww.stuk.be In 1911 Le Corbusier made a reversed ‘Grand Tour’ to the Orient. Starting out in Berlin he travelled to Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Athens, Napels, Rome and back home to La Chaux-de Fonds. The English translation turned his Voyage d’Orient intoThe Journey to the East. In [...]

Doing Art in the Public Realm The shadows cast by the past are growing longer. The identifications with the present time are shattered by numerous fault lines. In the context of globalized artistic and cultural production, history becomes both, a circulating resource and a challenge to specifically address the local.




