TOOLBOX Cycle
PROTEST/ARCHITECTURE | Master Class
Oliver Elser
(DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum)
20th March 2025 | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM | ESAP Auditorium
Taking the exhibition PROTEST/ARCHITECTURE: Barricades, Camps, Superglue as a starting point, Oliver Elser will reflect on the curatorial field as an act of research, experimentation and critical reflection. The exhibition which was inaugurated in 2023 at the DAM – Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (Austria), explored the spatial aspects of protest cultures. The focus is on political movements that manifested themselves in public space and produced specific architectural and design objects.
For more information:
https://dam-online.de/en/veranstaltung/protest-architecture/
and
https://www.mak.at/en/press/presse_detail?presse_id=1696416521081#tab-link-1506563061317
OLIVER ELSER works as curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt/Main. Interim professor for Architecture Theory in 2021 at the Faculty of Architecture, KIT, Karlsruhe. In 2016 he was the curator of “Making Heimat”, the German Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale Venice. In his role at the DAM he has curated exhibits on the topics of Brutalism, Postmodernism, 20th Century Architecture Models, and about Simon Ungers (among others). 2012-2013 he was interim professor for Scenography at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. As free-lance curator, in team with Michael Rieper, he curated “Housing Models: Experimentation and Everyday Life” (Wien, Sofia and Belgrad). Since 1999, together with the artist/gallerist Oliver Croy, he has been working on the project “Sondermodelle” (“special models”), which was most recently presented at the “Palazzo Enciclopedico” within the Art Biennale Venice 2013.
This event is supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Project UIDB/04041/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04041/2020) — Arnaldo Araújo Research Center