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BEAT HÄCHLER | CH THE MAKING OF SPACE – caught in translation | Video
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BEAT HÄCHLER | CH
Beat Hächler (born 1962) is exhibition organiser and long-standing co-manager of the “Stapferhaus Lenzburg”. He studied history, media studies and German history of literature in Bern and Madrid. From 1992 until 2010, he assumed different roles for the “Stapferhaus Lenzburg”, the most recent being co-manager starting 2002. On October 1, 2011, Hächler will take over the direction of the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern.
In the past few years, the “Stapferhaus Lenzburg” established a reputation as a unique “house of the present”. Without a collection and predetermined exhibition spaces, the Stapferhaus stages every-day-topics in the form of exhibitions and comes across to a wide audience. Beat Hächler decisively influenced this development as author and co-author of exhibitions like “A walk on the wild side”, “Last minute”, “Autolust” (car lust), “Glaubenssache” (matter of faith) or currently “HOME. Willkommen im digitalen Leben” (welcome to digital life). His exhibitions always focus on the visitors as experts of the present and involve them actively as social protagonists. The focus is not so much on design in the classical sense, but rather on the creation of “Gegenwartsräume” / present spaces and their potential to render the contemporary cultural practises visible and negotiable; performance, participation and interaction are the core elements of this ”social scenography”.
Parallel to his work, Beat Hächler completed the practically-oriented doctorate programme scenography of the “Zürcher Hochschule der Künste” (Zurich University of the Arts) and the University of Vienna. In his PhD project, he investigates methodical questions of exhibiting the present and resumes this approach under the new central concept of a ”social scenography”.
http://www.stapferhaus.ch
Photo: Anita Affentranger
BEAT HÄCHLER | CH
Beat Hächler (born 1962) is exhibition organiser and long-standing co-manager of the “Stapferhaus Lenzburg”. He studied history, media studies and German history of literature in Bern and Madrid. From 1992 until 2010, he assumed different roles for the “Stapferhaus Lenzburg”, the most recent being co-manager starting 2002. On October 1, 2011, Hächler will take over the direction of the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern.
In the past few years, the “Stapferhaus Lenzburg” established a reputation as a unique “house of the present”. Without a collection and predetermined exhibition spaces, the Stapferhaus stages every-day-topics in the form of exhibitions and comes across to a wide audience. Beat Hächler decisively influenced this development as author and co-author of exhibitions like “A walk on the wild side”, “Last minute”, “Autolust” (car lust), “Glaubenssache” (matter of faith) or currently “HOME. Willkommen im digitalen Leben” (welcome to digital life). His exhibitions always focus on the visitors as experts of the present and involve them actively as social protagonists. The focus is not so much on design in the classical sense, but rather on the creation of “Gegenwartsräume” / present spaces and their potential to render the contemporary cultural practises visible and negotiable; performance, participation and interaction are the core elements of this ”social scenography”.
Parallel to his work, Beat Hächler completed the practically-oriented doctorate programme scenography of the “Zürcher Hochschule der Künste” (Zurich University of the Arts) and the University of Vienna. In his PhD project, he investigates methodical questions of exhibiting the present and resumes this approach under the new central concept of a ”social scenography”.
http://www.stapferhaus.ch
Photo: Anita Affentranger
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