{"id":717,"date":"2004-03-01T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T21:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/?p=717"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:38:50","slug":"hoppla-wir-sind-olympia-kuenstlerische-strategie-in-kuratorischer-praxis-oder-warum-wir-keine-ausstellungsbegriffe-haben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/hoppla-wir-sind-olympia-kuenstlerische-strategie-in-kuratorischer-praxis-oder-warum-wir-keine-ausstellungsbegriffe-haben\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops! We are Olympia? Artistic Strategy in Curatorial Practice or Why We Have No Exhibition Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in: Kunstreport 03\/04, Deutscher K\u00fcnstlerbund, Berlin 2004<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the self-image and role model before curators were still in the midst of negotiation. The &#8220;profession&#8221; was still young, training programs were rare, and discourse on the subject was lively. One discussion was the extent to which artistic and curatorial work were or were not different. In the early 2000s, I was considered one of the first &#8220;artist curators,&#8221; which from today&#8217;s perspective was nonsense. Anyway, I was asked to write this text and made a statement that I still find interesting today. I drew on Edouard Manet to show how he gave painting an emancipatory self-confidence &#8211; a self-confidence that, in my view, was still lacking in curatorship and the medium of exhibition at the time.     <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I have yet to find this old text again&#8230;.<br \/>\nAn English version is unexisting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texts","entry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.3","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}