Christopher Weickenmeier

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21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.014
Fon +49.4131.677-1224, christopher.weickenmeier@leuphana.de

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Texte zur Kunst #134: Sculpture
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Editor) , Mirjam Thomann (Editor) , Christian Liclair (Editor) , 2024 , 264 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  2. Klosterruinenzines
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Editor) , Maxi Wallenhorst (Editor) , Anna M. Szaflarski (Author) , Simone Fattal (Illustrator) , Josè Montealegre (Illustrator) , Yoshie Sugito (Illustrator) , Bassem Saad (Author) , 2022 , 76 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. BEWEGTE KUNST. Christopher Weickenmeier über David Medalla im Bonner Kunstverein
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Author) , 26.01.2022 , in: Texte zur Kunst

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Sunny Side Down
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Author) , David Reiber Otálora (Author) , 01.01.2021 , p. 30-34 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions in collection of commentaries › Research

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Activities

Courses

L'institution c'est moi – Andrea Fraser and Institutional Critique in Contemporary Art
Christopher Weickenmeier
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Few artists have been as consistently associated with “institutional critique” as the contemporary artist Andrea Fraser. Across her writing, performances, videos, and—more recently—sculptural works, Fraser has examined the social, affective, economic, and institutional structures that organize the art field. Drawing on extensive research, social theory—particularly the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu—and psychoanalysis (both through her experience as a patient and as an active member of the Group Relations community), she has developed a rigorous, embodied, and site-specific method of feminist critique. Adapted from one of her essays (“L’1%, c’est moi”), the title of this seminar points to the affective and psychosocial dimensions of the artist’s relationship to the institution. The institution is not a discrete external “other,” but something continually reproduced and embodied by those who identify with it. This seminar proposes a close reading—not of a single text, but of an artist’s oeuvre. We will study Fraser’s essays alongside key texts in institutional theory, view and discuss her performances, and travel to Berlin to meet and speak with some of her long-time collaborators and interlocutors. The aim is to shift the focus away from the relationship between “the artist” and “the institution” toward a scene of 1990s style institutional critique, in which Fraser figures as a central protagonist.
Next appointment:
Thursday, 2026-05-14 at 10:15
Room: C 5.019 Seminarraum