Extra Academy is a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Sint Lucas Antwerp and Royal conservatory of Antwerp. They organize an open program of lectures, performances, workshops and screenings around artistic practices, reflection and research. Since September 2024 they hold there monthly meetings at Stadsform. The program is in English and open for non students also, no need to register!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the scheduled lecture by Hussein Shikha will be postponed. We are glad and thankful that Nikolaus Hirsch will be able to join us instead.
Nikolaus Hirsch is an architect, curator, editor, and educator, merging different formats and categories into a unique transdisciplinary spatial practice. Currently he is the artistic director of the architecture museum CIVA in Brussels where he co-curated exhibitions such as “Marcel Broodthaers – The Architect is Absent”, “Pre-Architectures”, “Style Congo” (with Sammy Baloji). Previously he was the Dean of Städelschule art academy and Director of the Portikus Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University, at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Columbia University in New York.
His work includes the Hinzert Document Center, Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), unitednationsplaza (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, Cybermohalla Hub (New-Delhi, with Raqs Media Collective), “Becoming Monument” in the contamined zone of Fukushima, and together with artist Rirkrit Tiravanija the pavilion “Do We Dream Under The Same Sky“ (Art Basel / LUMA Arles).
Hirsch has curated „ErsatzStadt“ at Volksbühne Berlin (2005), “Cultural Agencies” (Istanbul, 2009/10), numerous exhibitions at the Portikus, the Folly project for the Gwangju Biennale (2013), “Housing Question” at the HKW in Berlin (2015) and the German Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale 2021 in Venice.
He is the author of the books “On Boundaries” (2007), "Institution Building" (2009), “Cybermohalla Hub” (2012), and editor of the Critical Spatial Practice series at Sternberg Press and founder of e-flux architecture (https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/).