Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft

Flock
Leonie Nagel, Wisrah C.V. da R. Celestino, Fanny Hauser

As part of a new cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, artists, thinkers, and curators are invited to present their work at both institutions over two days. At Kunstverein the invitees introduce into their work in the form of a reading, a screening, a performance, a jam session, or similar, and a following conversation. The next day, academy students have the opportunity to exchange about their work with the guests in studio visits at the academy. The “Flock” format is centered around forms of collaboration and artistic self-organization. The first series, featuring Leonie Nagel, Fanny Hauser, and Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, focuses on different possible collaboration partners. 

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Flock I: Leonie Nagel
18/11/2024, 7 pm, Foyer Kunstverein Nürnberg
19/11/2024, Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg

Leonie Nagel (b. 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau, DE) is an artist and also teaches regularly at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the Kunsthochschule Kassel, and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In her spatial works and narratives, she explores organizational systems and their conventions, work, play, and language. She is part of various self-organized networks and also co-founded the project space Cittipunkt e.V. in 2022, where she organizes exhibitions and a film club for teenagers, among other activities. She recently made the film “Echte Sonnen” (Real Suns) as part of KERFE together with Micha bonk4∞ and children from the Forcki adventure playground.

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Flock II: Fanny Hauser
09/12/2024, Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg
09/12/2024, Foyer Kunstverein Nürnberg 

Fanny Hauser (b. 1988 in Vienna, AT) is a curator. Together with her colleagues, she is one of the co-initiators of Kevin Space in Vienna, an exhibition space where she has realized over fifty exhibitions and programs with international artists since 2016. Alongside this, she was part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens and also co-curated “When the Sick Rule the World” with Viktor Neumann in Rapperswil. She most recently worked as the deputy director of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, where she curated a comprehensive retrospective by Katalin Ladik. In January 2025, Hauser will become the new director of the Kunsthalle Zürich.

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Flock III: Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino
20/01/2025, 7 pm, Foyer Kunstverein Nürnberg
21/01/2025, Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (b. 1989 in Buritizeiro, BR) is an artist and law graduate. Their works are often defined by the immediate social, legal, and personal conditions of exhibition production. This involves delegating artistic decisions to family members or temporarily introducing personal objects into artistic contexts. Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino is one of this year’s winners of the ars viva prize and will show their work at Haus der Kunst, Munich in 2025 after an exhibition at Kunsthalle Bremen.