Family/Beuys and Everyone

12/08, 7PM | Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

As the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Beuys nears its final days, we present an evening devoted to the question of Beuys and the universal—the “everyone” in Beuys’s famous and endlessly debated claim that “everyone is an artist.” The evening begins and ends with the world premiere of a new work, “Family,” for fixed media and speaker by University of Chicago composer/artist Andrew Stock, in between which will unfold a conversation between artist Theaster Gates, Dieter Roelstraete, and Mechtild Widrich, moderated by Gray Center Director Seth Brodsky. 

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The winners of the US preliminaries of the International German Olympics

Chelsey Gilbert (Monroe High School, WI) and Lauren Guo (Ralston Valley High School, CO) will travel to Hamburg in the summer of 2022 and represent the USA in the international finals! We would also like to thank all of the other participants that can be equally proud of their impressive achievement.

Relay Freedom

Relay Freedom is a collection of short video works by nine SAIC alumni, published weekly, who meditate on the topic of freedom. How do they relay freedom? Can freedom be communal? Must it be individual?

Andrea Wilmsen: B.ODE

Open until Dec. 17. Please reserve your time slot at info-chicago@goethe.de
The Berlin-based photographer challenges viewers with her images of absolutely intimate yet very public spaces in museums. For her current project she photographed the exhibition rooms of the Bode-Museum on the Museum Island in Berlin from constantly new perspectives, although her goal was not to reproduce art. On the contrary, as an experiment in exploring our basic perception of spaces, she focuses on the immediate surroundings of sculptures and paintings, whose edges sometimes extend into the images.