(English) Vivien Trommer

(English) Conversation | End of year 2016

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WE THE PEOPLE, 2011. Copper. 223 x 155 x 107 cm. KADIST collection. Photo: Helena Schlichting
Charlotte Posenenske. Vierkantrohre Serie DW, 1967 – 2007. 4 elements out of card board. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of The Estate of Charlotte Posenenske and Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Photo: Helena Schlichting
House of Commons, 03.12.2016–29.01.2017, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main. Photo: Helena Schlichting
House of Commons, 03.12.2016–29.01.2017, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main Photo: Natalia Rolon

(English)

“House of Commons” is a constantly changing exhibition that recently opened at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The show arose as a response to the political events of recent months in Europe and the United States. In this conversation piece, Vivien Trommer (co-curator and Kadist Curatorial Fellow) and Viktoria Draganova extend the topics addressed in the show to a more general discussion on where art and politics meet, whether it is possible to reinvent the audience, and what are the demands on art institutions today. Certainly, all big questions at the end of a turbulent year.

Vivien Trommer (*1986 in Berlin) is Kadist Curatorial Fellow 2016. In collaboration with Portikus, the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, supports an alumnus from Curatorial Studies, a master’s program at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule and the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, which is run and founded by Dr. Stefanie Heraeus, to engage in profound research and exhibition making. After having received her MFA in 2012, Vivien curated various exhibitions, worked as curatorial assistant at Kunsthalle Wien and, in 2015, as curator at MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York.

Viktoria Draganova (*1980 in Sofia) is director of Swimming Pool, Sofia.