exhibition

28/08/2019

Kaestner Gesellschaft

Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts

Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts focuses on the first ten years of the art school and for the first time brings together the school’s teaching concepts and the artistic practices that developed out of them in a group exhibition. The exhibition features some 100 works by around forty artists, including works that will be presented to the public for the first time. This historically conceived exhibition traces various situations in which art can take shape. This is very much in the spirit of John Baldessari, who, as one of the school’s formative instructors, believed that art was not teachable, but that it was about creating situations “where art might happen,” as he stated in an interview in 1992. Key figures such as Allan Kaprow, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, and Miriam Schapiro and their fundamental ideas of Fluxus, Conceptual Art, and feminist art will be illuminated.