Beatrix Ruf
#1. in the series Kunst and Kapital:
An OCA Event
At 18:00*
Wednesday, 31 January
@ Fritt Ord
Uranienborgveien 2
Oslo
*Drinks to follow the talk
Beatrix Ruf is the Director and Curator of the Kunsthalle Zürich, invited by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway into the International Visitor Programme. Ruf has curated numerous exhibitions and written essays nad published catalogues on Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic, Liam Gillick, Urs Fischer, Ugo Rodinone, Richard Prince, Elmgreen and Dragset, Rodney Graham, Isa Genzken, Carol Bove, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, Josh Smith, among many others.
In the upcoming talk scheduled for Wednesday, 31 January, Ruf approaches the topic of collection building and exhibition making referring to her extensive curatorial experience and her role as Curator of the prominent Ringier Collection and Associate Editor of the publishing house JRP/Ringer in Zurich.
OCA launches in 2007 a series of talks and discussions entitled Kunst and Kapital in an effort to examine the increasingly porous sectors of private and public. As the debate ensues within Norway as to the viability in supplementing public funding sources with contributions from the private sector in the area of culture, OCA recognizes that discussions around these issues are without precedent of example. How is it possible to proceed with an assumption as to behaviour of the private sector toward contemporary art without fully understanding the motives and psychologies of the private sector, especially in the unique field of contemporary culture? How do international initiatives in the field lend to understanding further the range of possible examples? The Office for Contemporary Art will launch a series of seminars and talks around these topics in an effort to demystify the contemporary art market while illuminating how the critical community is being steadily streamed into these new initiatives.