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Michael Beutler, “Woven Walls,” 2008, paper, reed and wood construction, site-specific installation, courtesy the artist and Franco Soffiantino Artecontemporanea

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CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AT BARD PRESENTS PAIR OF NEW EXHIBITIONS,  1 CUT

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presents two new exhibitions, “Personal Protocols and Other Preferences: A Collective Exhibition with Work by Michael Beutler, Esra Ersen and Kirstine Roepstorff” will be on view in the CCS Bard Galleries and “I’ve Got Something in My Eye,” a new project by artist team Bik Van der Pol, in the Hessel Museum of Art. Both exhibitions are on view through September 7.

For “Personal Protocols and Other Preferences” three Berlin-based artists have worked on site-making art that engages intensively with situations marked by the reality of particular times and places.

Beutler has invented a system to produce 9-foot-tall walls made of colorful paper. The new walls radically alter the experience of the pristine white cube gallery space, in which Ersen, originally from Istanbul, is showing a documentary video with street children in her hometown and a film following the radical makeover of Helen, an elderly woman and longtime resident of Liverpool, a city that is undergoing major urban transformation. Roepstorff’s textilelike collages, some of which are made directly on the wall, can partly be viewed from a tower constructed by Beutler.

 “I’ve Got Something in My Eye” brings together more than 80 works by 40 artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, selections from the collection of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, works by Bik Van der Pol, and ephemera from the CCS Bard curatorial archive.

The circulation of knowledge and reuse of existing and left-over spaces, forms and situations are important strategic tools in Bik Van Der Pol’s work. Much of their work may also be described as context-sensitive and constructively critical: that is, they examine a particular context and question the functions of art, including those of art institutions.

For information, 845-758-7598 or www.bard.edu/ccs.