Saturday 9 June, 2012 - 6pm

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Images of artists’ studios, such as the paint-encrusted chaos of Francis Bacon’s rooms, have become the stuff of popular imagination. But as contemporary art has radically changed since the 1960s, is the traditional idea of the studio in part obsolete? Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Curator of the 12th Istanbul Biennial and 9th Shanghai Biennial, looks at the studio as a window to the artist, the latest debates on “post-studio practice” and the evolution of the studio from a site for physical production to a space with potential for multiple forms of creation and participation.

This event launches the latest anthology in the Documents of Contemporary Art series: The Studio, edited by Jens Hoffmann (Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press). More.

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