The Kunstraum of Lüneburg University is an institution for contemporary art working across different faculties of Lüneburg University. Since its renaming in 2007 the complete name is Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg.
History
In 1993 the Kunstraum has been founded by an interdisciplinary group of researchers, which is up to today in charge for the academic and artistic projects. Members of this group are:
Mathematician Diethelm Stoller (retired since 2005)
Sociologist Ulf Wuggenig (currently the acting director of Kunstraum)
The official opening in 1994 coincided with the project Services, which has been organized in collaboration with the art historian Helmut Draxler, at this time director of Kunstverein Munich, and the artist Andrea Fraser.[1] The program of the subsequent years has been influenced and inspired by writings of Pierre Bourdieu, Nelson Goodman, Thomas S. Kuhn, and, amongst others, Howard S. Becker and included collaborations with artists and theoreticians associated with Institutional Critique.
Exhibitions
1994: Services, with Andrea Fraser and Helmut Draxler
1994: The Open Public Library in Hamburg, with Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann
1995: The Grandparents' Archives, with Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist
1996: Import/Export Funk Office − Digital Transformation, with Renée Green
1996: Public / Private, with Thomas Locher and Peter Zimmermann
2005: Economies of Misery. Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria, with Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli
2006: Making Worlds <reformpause>, with Marion von Osten
2007: "The Division of the World"- Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference, with Dierk Schmidt
2008: Moirés, with Astrid Wege
2010: Conceptual Paradise − the studio of interest, with Stefan Römer
2011: Demanding Supplies − Nachfragende Angebote, with Julia Moritz
2013: Front, Field, Line, Plane, with Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber)
2014: Art and its Frames – Continuity and Change, Symposium with Beatrice von Bismarck, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Helmut Draxler, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Hannes Loichinger, Sven Lütticken, John Miller, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, André Rottmann, Stefan Römer, Simon Sheikh, and Ulf Wuggenig
Literature
Bismarck, Beatrice von; Stoller, Diethelm; Wuggenig, Ulf (1996). Games, fights, collaborations : das Spiel von Grenze und Überschreitung : Kunst und Cultural Studies in den 90er Jahren (in German). Ostfildern: Cantz. ISBN3-89322-847-0. OCLC36409506.
Müller, Christian Philipp; Bismarck, Beatrice von; Universität Lüneburg (2001). Branding the campus : art, architecture, design, politics of identity. [Düsseldorf]: Richter. ISBN3-933807-42-5. OCLC48446907.
Raunig, Gerald; Ray, Gene; Wuggenig, Ulf (2011). Critique of creativity : precarity, subjectivity and resistance in the 'Creative industries'. London: MayFlyBooks. ISBN978-1-906948-13-9. OCLC753268428.
