In association with NOH Suntag’s exhibition The 4th Wall: The State of Emergency II, the curator talk by Hans D. Christ, co-curator of the exhibition, will take place in a form of tour in the exhibition space on 1 June, Thursday, 4pm and 3 June, Saturday, 3pm. This event introduces The 4th Wall: The State of Emergency II from a perspective of curator along the question “What is a nation?” and “What means a ‘democracy in-come’?” It will connect the work of NOH Suntag with theories about the force of law and the construction of the national state by the authors such as Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Eric J. Hobsbawm, Achille Mbembe, Georg Simmel and others.

About Hans D. Christ
Hans D. Christ studied art and literature in Dortmund. In 1996, he founded with Iris Dressler the Hartware MedienKunstverein in Dortmund, which he directed until 2004. From 2002 to 2004, he also worked as curator at the Museum am Ostwall Dortmund. In 2004 he was co-curator of the SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul. Since 2005, he is co-director of the Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV) Stuttgart with Iris Dressler, and teaches regularly as an associate lecturer at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. Christ is also a critic, who writes largely on contemporary art and its political and theoretical contexts.