This symposium on the work of Lucian Freud (2019) is part of an ongoing research partnership between the Department of the History of Art and Architecture in Trinity College Dublin and IMMA, in connection with the five-year project IMMA Collection: Freud Project 2016-2021.

Track 5: Keynote Presentation by Jutta Koether - ‘In the Studio: Looking for Lucian Freud.’ Chaired Annie Fletcher,Director, IMMA.

About Speaker
Jutta Koether is a German artist who incorporates music, writing, and performance into her abstract paintings. According to the New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, Koether's work treats painting as multipurpose. Since 1985, Koether has also worked as a reviewer and editor for many magazines and journals such as Spex, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, and Artscribe. Koether has taught at many institutions, including Columbia University, the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, Yale University, and Bard College. Currently, she is a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.

Further Information 
This day-long symposium on the work of Lucian Freud is part of an ongoing research partnership between the Department of the History of Art and Architecture in Trinity College Dublin and IMMA, in connection with the five-year project IMMA Collection: Freud Project 2016-2021.

The aim of the symposium is to explore and test out new ways to consider and critique Freud’s work, examining it in terms of adjacent cultural categories, conceived within a number of frameworks – period, subject, approach or medium. This symposium showcases a range of new theoretical and historical approaches to Freud’s practice, with an intense focus on the body, its durational quality and its curious, usually implicit, relationship to certain strands of continental philosophy, particularly existentialism and phenomenology.

Others taking part include Giovanni Aloi (School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Sotheby’s Institute of Art); Margarita Cappock (Dublin City Council Arts Office); Derrick R. Cartwright (University of San Diego); Barbara Dawson (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane); Conor Linnie (Trinity College Dublin); Christina Mullan (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology-LSAD); Nathan O’Donnell (IMMA / Trinity College Dublin); and Ines Rüttinger (Curator at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany.

This symposium took place on 7 September 2019 at Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. 

Return to the dedicated playlist SYMPOSIUM 2019:  LUCIAN FREUD NETWORKS, CONTEXTS, RESPONSES, to listen back to other speaker’s responses and presentations.

Image Credit: Girl with Roses, 1947-48 (oil on canvas), Freud, Lucian (1922-2011) / British Council, London, UK / © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images.

SYMPOSIUM 2019: LUCIAN FREUD NETWORKS, CONTEXTS, RESPONSES (5) / Jutta Koether,  Annie Fletcher

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