Briefing Room

Seminar series by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, third and final session: On Autonomy, Use Value and the Future Past of Briefing Room.
On Saturday, 30 November 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (in English language)

Seminar by Michael Hirsch on refusal, autonomy, and the longing for radicalism under the title "Service Art and Radical Chic – New Theses on Art and Politics"
On Sunday, 15 September 2024, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (in English language)

Übungen zur Moderne – Internal training by Steffen Zillig on the ambivalent (non-)relationship between contemporary art and underclass, i.e. between artistic autonomy and materialistic reality and the creeping displacement of both.
On Wednesday, 24 April 2024, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. (in German language)

Seminar by Hans-Christian Dany and Valérie Knoll about the dandy, who doesn’t ask how he wants to live; he lives, albeit with a sad countenance. The dandy proposes no solutions, and denounces nothing as false – since he makes no declarations of any kind. He simply plays a different game.
On Saturday, 10 February 2024, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. (in English language)

Seminar by Iris Dankemeyer under the title "The Invisible Eros. On the Disappearance of Desire from Art".
On 13 October 2023, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (in English language)

Seminar by Helmut Draxler under the title "The Transformation of the Same. How to think the Historicity of Contemporary Art".
18.02.2023, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (in English language)
You are also welcome to join us at 11:30 a.m. for a short visit to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (desk@briefingroom.eu).

Seminar by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, second session: "Repetition/Innovation. On the Issue of Modernity."
17.02.2023, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (in English language)
It is not necessary to read anything beforehand, but for those who are interested there are some related texts on request (desk@briefingroom.eu).

Seminar by Koen Brams on Galerie MTL and Le Bailli under the title "MTL or DTH? Fernand Spillemaeckers and …-art"
From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (in English language).

Übungen zur Moderne – Internal schooling with Steffen Zillig; second exercise: Class, Statusangst and cultural capital.
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (internal, in German language).

The Shape of Art to Come – Seminar series by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, first session: On the issue of form in modern and recent art.
From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Depending on the participants the seminar will be held in English or German.
Selected texts on request. (desk@briefingroom.eu)