“Exhibitions that are mounted in Berlin always face enormous problems of transportation: not only must works of art be flown into the city, also critics and visitors from West Germany experience difficulty in reaching Berlin. The ‘Fernseh-Galerie’, serving as a fictitious exhibition space, will bring together information and opinions from various places concerning a particular artistic theme … The art objects will not be presented in the static, isolated context in which art is customarily obliged to manifest itself … While the process of realization was still underway, critics introduced the projects to the public.”

“The exhibition does not prresent final projects, but processes of making art … during which the wishes of consumer of art come into play in a sort of feedback operation.”

From the original draft of Gerry Schum’s plan for the Fernseh Galerie, c. 1968, reprinted in Dorine Mignot, “Gerry Schum – a pioneer”, Gerry Schum, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1979. p. 67.

Posted: March 25, 2009