Exhibition research focuses on the history of the realization and presentation of works of art.
There is an investigation of the context motivation and manner in which these works arise as
well as who participated in their creation and above all in their public display. In these
object studies with regard to the visual arts consideration is given to the respective
presentational contexts in their particular spatial temporal and conceptional frameworks
included as well are aspects of materiality and functionality in both an ideal and a practical
sense. In art around 1990 an entire series of work forms indicates the existence of a broad
spectrum of strategic shifts into other professional roles that are taken up on a fictional
level by artists who engage in activity profiles derived from science the economy marketing
the service sector or culture and education. Reflections concerning the meaning of authorship
alter the concept of the artist role-changes into other professional fields are undertaken.
This is accompanied by a fictionalization of the artistic work. Emerging into view was an
artistic procedure in which the compositional characteristics of the particular work served to
define the specific sphere of activity within social structures and thereby to delineate the
context site and circle of addressees for the presentation of the respective work. In 1993 in
the exhibition integral(e) Kunstprojekte it was possible to summarize various artistic
positions which on the basis of their approach were realized in an ephemeral manner at
different institutional sites in the urban space of Berlin. In a research seminar at the
Institute for Art History at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg a team of
students reconstructed the artistic works that were realized in Berlin in 1993 thereby making
it possible to present the documentary conclusions in a publication.
