Please join us at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building this Thursday, April 25, at 7pm for a public conversation between artist Thomas Bayrle and MIT Media Lab professor Kevin Slavin, presented in collaboration with The Artist’s Institute. 

The Artist's Institute is a project of Hunter College located at 163 Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side. It divides the year in two seasons and dedicates each one to a single artist. This year, between February 10 and July 14, Thomas Bayrle shows an accumulating series of his works and contributions by other artists. His season began with a lecture on the artist by Chus Martínez; then Jordan Wolfson installed sculptures and shared his thoughts on the painter Michel Majerus; an evening with films by Daniel Kohl and a discussion between him and Bayrle followed; most recently, Erik Thys presented dozens of car drawings and a performative lecture on car design with his brother Harald Thys.

Read more about Bayrle's work here. 

Parallel to the this program, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 presents Portikus Under Construction, Helke Bayrle's first exhibition in the United States, which documents the installation of 137 exhibitions at the renowned gallery in Frankfurt am Main, including one with husband Thomas in 1995. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, April 24, at 6pm, and will be on view through May 19. MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 is located on the Lower East Side at 38 Ludlow Street (between Hester and Grand).

Thomas Bayrle (*1937 in Berlin) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main where he taught at the Städelschule from 1975 to 2005. His solo exhibitions include MACBA, Barcelona (2009); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2008/2009); MMK, Frankfurt am Main (2006); and Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (2002). Bayrle participated in the 2003 and 2009 Venice Biennales and contributed to documenta 3 (1964), 6 (1977), and 13 (2012) in Kassel. 

Kevin Slavin is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab. He has taught at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Cooper Union, and Fabrica, and has worked as a creative director and strategic planner in advertising agencies. He is currently preparing the production of a TV show for network broadcast. As an artist, his public, city-scale work has been exhibited at MMK Frankfurt am Main and the Design Museum of London. His TED talk “How Algorithms Shape Our World” was viewed over two million times. Slavin received his BFA from the Cooper Union.

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