Within the program of session 6 of the RAW Académie CURA, RAW Material Company invites you to the public lecture with Samuel Leuenberger: "Claiming Public Space" on Friday March 29th, 2019 at 6:00.

Looking at SALTS and Parcours side-by-side, we will examine the challenges of developing site-specific and site-responsive artworks, installations and performances. I propose to use the concept of the ‘comfort zone’ to approach the reclamation of public space through artistic interventions. The comfort zone prefigures a supportive base for artists to explore and activate a given site, through which new perspectives and orientations may emerge and to finally exit that very comfort zone again.

About Samuel Leuenberger

Samuel Leuenberger (b. 1974, Basel, Switzerland) is an independent curator based in Basel and Berlin. Leuenberger has over 20 years of experience in the visual arts bridging commercial and curatorial sectors. He is the founder and director of SALTS, a non-profit exhibition space in Birsfelden, Switzerland, which aims to promote interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue with emerging artists.