Beatrice Moumdjian - <p>2016-<br /> Curriculum Vogues</p>

Work in collaboration with Lars Preisser. Part of our long term research CVs Projects about the conditions of the artist's working world.

Lars writes:
'Curriculum Vogues transforms advertising for cars, jewellery, expensive fashions, taken from old issues of Paris Vogue scanned and archived by Beatrice Schuett Moumdjian, into ads for desirable institutions, awards and scholarships from the art world. The longing or seductive gaze of models is now directed towards completely different 'brands'. Close-ups of exclusive jewellery and other luxury items are linked with elitist and exclusive institutions and brands of the art world. We have for instance the Goethe Institute, the Turner Prize, or the Documenta, many prestigious scholarships, a spot at the renowned Rijksacademie that only twenty of thousands of applicants receive, education at the Städelschule or the Central St. Martins College, galleries, professorships and residencies. These are the objects desired by artists. Because only the artists who can exhibit some of such successes on their CV will be able to earn their livelihood with their work.'

Well-known or long forgotten luxury articles in combination with terms taken from the world of the powerful art institutions add up to word salad - or visual poetry.

Features programming work by Stefan Schramm evident in the graph that shows connections of hundreds of artists, and Lars Preisser's visualization of a spatial installation.

Notes
2020 Sample series printed in Issue No 09/2020 of the gazette 'Gemeindeblick' of the municipality Thallwitz. For Kunstprojekt Thallwitz 2020. Fine Arts Institute Leipzig (FAIL). Thallwitz/Leipzig, DE
2020 This webpage was part of an online-exhibition curated by Julia Kiehlmann with the following artists: Josephine Brinkmann, Nina Buttendorf, Konrad Hanke, Anne Hofmann, Tobi Keck, Julia Kiehlmann, Philine Kuhn, Julia Kunde, Anne Moder, Lars Preisser, Luise Ritter, David Schröder, Stefanie Schroeder, Beatrice Schuett Moumdjian.