Countless almost perfect forgeries are currently a threat to the art market. Auction houses, exhibitors, galleries and appraisers are coming under scrutiny. Viewers and collectors are becoming unsettled.
How do you track down forgeries? Where does suspicion begin and evidence end? How do viewers or even collectors of works experience it when they are exposed as forgeries? Do perhaps even the buyers have a share in the fact that forgeries can enter the market?
The spectrum of questions ranges from production to the profile of a perpetrator, from art-scientific research to AI-supported appraisal, and is supplemented, among other things, with examples from the evidence rooms of the police in Munich and Berlin.
Art Studies Program Project Seminar: Forgeries in Painting, Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt.
Students: Frank Bethge, Christina Bickel, Luca Hilke, Alexandra Keller, Frederike Kost, Isabell Krüger, Jascha Mertins, Benjamin Ocic, Lukas Prölß, Marc Reichhardt, Lisa Schäfer, Pauline Schüller, Sabine Sonntag, Jana Ufer, Annemarie Ullmann
With the collaboration of Leonie Kortmann
"Wa(h)re Fälungen" - Ein ErfahrungsLAB
Duration: June 28 - July 8, 2023
Opening hours: daily 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Opening:
Tue, 27.06.23, 6 to 9 p.m.
Exhibition discussion with students:
Tue, 04.07.23, 4 pm
Further discussions can be arranged separately(sitt[at]uni-kassel.de).
Ausstellungshalle, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Menzelstraße 13, 34121 Kassel