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Creating the Stage for Your Work: Exploration of Alternative Art Exhibition Spaces

10 Week Class ONLINE | Available

Adult: Advanced
2025-01-17-2025-03-21
10:00 AM-12:30 PM on Fri
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$480.00 CAD

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Creating the Stage for Your Work: Exploration of Alternative Art Exhibition Spaces

10 Week Class ONLINE | Available

If you find yourself looking at your artwork and feel they should be exhibited, but don’t know “how to get there”, then this ONLINE course is for you. Iris’ approach for showcasing artworks is not about “finding a gallery” to represent you, but about exploring and scouting for opportunities and places that go beyond white gallery walls.

Guiding questions could be: What is your work made of and therefore what exhibition conditions do you think your artwork requires to be experienced by others? Who would you like your audience to be? How do you want your art to be perceived? What role does your life, your biography, play in this context of showing? Do you dream about in-situ installations or do you imagine your work best in the “White Cube”?

This course can also give participants an opportunity to delve deeper into their process and development of art making, exploring it in a safe, open online group environment.

Note: This course is for the artist with a developed body of work.

Base Tuition: $480

  • What You Will Learn:
    - To prepare and present your work online for the group, narrating/contextualizing your work within your life and the time you live in
    - To reflect on your artworks’ nature: Who is your audience? Is it participatory? Or experienced in a public or a private setting? Outside or inside? Immersive, or in a labeled, clear environment? Group setting or solo?
    - To brainstorm: out-of-the box, one-on-one and within the group about your and the other participant’s works
    - To learn strategy and tools to develop your own exhibition, including scouting for places and networking with peers

  • A computer, good internet connection and web-cam (if not part of your computer).

Häussler, Iris
Iris Häussler

Iris studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany and immigrated to Canada in 2001.Iris Häussler has explored many ways to offer art experiences at the fringe or outside the White Cube. She is interested in creating inclusive art environments open to everybody, rather than catering to the art market only. This has a long history: she created her very first site specific art-installation for a group exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1988, choosing the women’s toilets of all places. Since then, she has exhibited in basements, trailers, garages, coach houses, apartments, churches, chapels, stores, hotel-rooms, industrial buildings and historic houses as well as in international museums, galleries and Biennials.


Häussler’s work is found in international collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Städtische Sammlung im Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany. She also held a guest professorship at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich in 1999 and has given talks about her work in universities and art institutions in Canada, the USA, and Europe. Her work received awards and grants including the Karl-Hofer Prize (Berlin), the Kunstfonds Fellowship (Bonn), the Toronto Arts Council, the Chalmers Arts Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.