CLAIRE FONTAINE is a Palermo-based collective, founded in 2004 in Paris. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today.
Jour Fixe is a student-run lecture series and initiative from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
*The lecture will be held in English.
Studio visits, May 13. 2021 – schedule to be announced, sign up under
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Upcoming Events
PATRICIA L. BOYD - Dienstag, 18.05.2021, 20:00 Uhr
Patricia L. Boyd (b. 1980 in London), whose practice encompasses sculpture, photography, writing, and video, develops her artworks through inquiries into the infrastructures and dynamics of their production and presentation.
BONNIE CAMPLIN - Mittwoch, 02.06.2021, 20:00 Uhr
In her work, Bonnie Camplin explores how we relate to and perceive our material, human, and non-human entities. In recent years, a mysterious, fantastical, and concurrently formulaic visual cosmos has emerged. This meta-work reflects the interpenetration of constructed realities that are expressed through experimental semiotic and syntactical systems. The artist references excerpts from theory, research, texts of different knowledge systems as well as her very experience, although for viewers these references often remain fragmentary and cryptic. Bonnie Camplin’s work also reflects the process of making art itself. Art is a potential strategy for accessing certain knowledge.