Abstract

In addition to the development of the archive and the recording of its diverse holdings, curating thematic museum presentations of selected documents is a central activity of the Skulptur Projekte Archives. The talk reflects upon the exhibition Work as Site: On the Emergence of Communicative Spaces (2018/2019) and the removal of Bruce Nauman's Square Depression in November 2020, taking into consideration the gaps in the archival record and the potentials of collecting.

Bio

From 2017 to 2020, Julius Lehmann  was a Research Trainee in the project The Skulptur Projekte Archives in Münster: A Research Institution for Scholarship and the Public. He studied Art History and History in Jena (B.A.) and Amsterdam, as well as Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University of Berlin (M.A.). His work for the Skulptur Projekte Archives has included the processing of the archives as well as contributing to the catalogue Public Matters: Debates and Documents from the Skulptur Projekte Archives (Walther König 2019). With Marianne Wagner, he developed the archival presentation Work as Site: On the Emergence of Communicative Spaces at the LWL-Museum of Art and Culture, Münster (2018/2019).