Organized in connection with the exhibition Lutz Bacher: Burning the Days, this event brings together leading art historians and curators to reflect on specific aspects of the artist’s oeuvre and its reception. Audiences will be invited to engage with Bacher’s work archivally, consider her negotiation of American popular culture and artistic traditions, and notice linkages and fault lines that emerge when Bacher’s work is brought together within the context of an exhibition.

The format of the event takes its cue from The Betty Center. This archive and artwork (designated by Bacher as such in 2010) both recorded her reflections and acted as a generative space for the development of works during the artist’s lifetime. The 284 binders contain handwritten notes, correspondence, reference materials, and working documents of works and exhibitions made between 1975 and 2019. Revised with new reflections layered onto earlier works, this porous and evolving response to understanding her own work informs the associative structure of the event.

Organized in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas.

Included in the museum entry. Free for artists, students and museum members.

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Program

13:00	Welcome by Solveig Øvstebø, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Astrup Fearnley Museet
13:15	Presentation by Kate Nesin, Curator-art-Large, Art Institute of Chicago on The Betty Center and engaging with Bacher’s work archivally
14:00	Break
14:10	Discussion between Solveig Øvstebø and Dirk Snauwaert, Director, WIELS on Lutz Bacher: Burning the Days
14:40	Introduction by Simon Baier, Associate Professor, University of Oslo
14:50	Presentation by Alex Kitnick, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Bard College

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