Artistic Research
"Our time will not belong to the vibrationists or the serialists, but to those who strive for the impossible in the realm of the possible. The artist is not a well-behaved researcher, he is a wicked researcher, he is unmistakable." When Heimrad Prem proposes this sentence as an introduction to the catalogue of his first solo exhibition in the early 1960s, he has clear ideas about what his paintings should look like. Even clearer, however, are his ideas of what they should not look like, and he is not alone in this.
"Artistic Research" is considered a term coined by university reformers in the late 1990s to describe Artistic Research as distinct from scientific research. Since then, debates about "art in context" and artistic practice have raged between "anarchy and research" (Peter Weibel), i.e. all those questions that have always preoccupied artists: Who are we, where do we come from, where are we going?
The professor responsible for this course is Prof. Axel Heil.
Notice: The language of instruction at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe is German. Therefore, the study programmes and courses offered during the semester are presented and conducted in German. Please use an online translation tool if necessary.