Fabian Schöneich talks at the Michel Majerus Symposium at Mudam

what looks good today may not look good tomorrow: The Legacy of Michel Majerus
Symposium
09 Nov 2022
@ Mudam Luxembourg
Fabian Schöneich, talk + Q&A
Through a series of talks and lecture-performances followed by a panel discussion, the symposium investigates the influence of Michel Majerus’s (b. 1967, Esch-sur-Alzette - d. 2002, Niederanven) work on the practice of the ‘digital-native’ generation of artists, curators and researchers.
International speakers working in and researching the field of visual arts will address the relevance of Majerus’s reflections today, while discussing different aspects of his legacy.
In the span of a short yet exceptionally prolific career, Majerus has captured his time, decades marked by the expansion of globalised consumer culture and digital technology. His large-scale paintings and installations, characterised by the ‘sampling’ and collaging of an eclectic repertoire of imagery and text borrowed from art history, video games, commercials or electronic music resonate with the image and information frenzy of the Internet 2.0 pervading contemporary society. In his work, Majerus transgressed the well-worn rules of painting and created unmistakable interpretations of the pop culture of the 1990s and early 2000s that remain of unfailing relevance today.
The symposium what looks good today may not look good tomorrow: The Legacy of Michel Majerus is the first chapter of a programme dedicated to the work of Michel Majerus and will be followed in Spring 2023 by an exhibition at Mudam and a publication gathering the contributions to the symposium.
Fabian Schöneich (b. 1985, Gera) is the founder and director of CCA Berlin - Center for Contemporary Arts. He was curator of Portikus in Frankfurt (2014-18) where he realized numerous solo and group exhibitions, among others with Minouk Lim, Otobong Nkanga, Ade Darmawan, Jana Euler, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Amy Sillman. He worked as an assistant curator at Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) in Rotterdam. He curated the 2013 and 2014 editions of the Liste Art Fair Basel performance project, featuring Adam Linder, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Michael Dean, Anne Imhof, Ligia Lewis, among others. From 2015 to 2017 he worked as a consultant for the Focus, Frame and Live sections of the art fair Frieze in London and New York. Schöneich is the editor of numerous publications and monographs. He studied art history at the University of Zurich.