Saïd Business School, in collaboration with the Oxford Character Project, is delighted to welcome Ian Kiaer, Associate Professor of Fine Art and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Rusklin School of Art, to deliver a session on Wednesday 16 May.
About the talk
Using examples from his recent exhibition in the Musee D’art Moderne in Paris, Ian thinks through how we might come to a painting, image, object or model with little information or prior knowledge.
In particular, how we might understand questions of reading and experience when confronting an artwork.

About the event
Registration will open at 12pm with lunch served from 12 to 12.15pm.

About the speaker
Ian Kiaer makes fragile installations involving groupings of architectural models, untouched or slightly modified found objects, and two-dimensional work to create fragmented narratives. These works are prompted by the ideas of utopian thinkers, architects, and artists from various periods of history whose common concern has been their resistance and critique of dominant ideologies – while providing possible alternatives for thought. Kiaer’s installations often operate as projects or proposals and continue to employ the fragment as a means of questioning notions of totality and permanence.

Ian has exhibited internationally since 2000, with solo exhibitions at institutions including Tate Britain, London; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin; Kunstverein München, Munich; and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. He has also exhibited at the Venice Biennale (50th), Istanbul Biennale (10th), Berlin Biennale (4th), Lyon Bienniale (10th) and Manifesta 3.