Open Curating Studio: Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse

Documentation of Open Curating Studio: Gasthaus zum Baeren / Museum Baerengasse. January 2014–March 2015 with events, discussions, screenings, performances, talks, meetings. When I was asked to deliver a concept for Museum Baerengasse / Gasthaus zum Baeren, I saw the opportunity to work in a very experimental way with students of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating in conjunction with the webjournal www.on-curating.org. As we later found out, we also maneuvered ourselves into a trap in the sense that the university did not see any means of funding this undertaking, and on the other hand we were practically banned from all other funding bodies precisely because we are a part of the university, a dilemma that stayed with us. For extremely experimental endeavors of the kind we developed into, there simply are no funding bodies…