8. 4. 2025 from 7.30 pm
UMPRUM, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1, 2nd floor, lecture room 215
The director of the Architecturemuseum Technical University Munich, Prof. Dr. Andres Lepik, will speak at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He has prepared a lecture on Curating Architecture Exhibitions as a Critical Practice for students and the general public.
Architecture exhibitions present a special challenge for the curatorial process: real buildings can only be visualized through media as drawings, photographs, videos or models. But the architecture exhibition in a gallery or museum space can become a critical manifestation about architectural ideas. In the lecture, professor Andres Lepik from Technical University Munich will talk about his personal experience as a Curator of architecture exhibitions, working in three institutions: Neue Nationalgalerie, (Berlin) Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Architecture Museum in Munich.
Andres Lepik holds a graduate degree in Art History and a PhD, with a thesis on “Architectural Models in the Renaissance”. In 1994 he began working as a Curator at Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin) and between 2007 and 2011 was curator at the Architecture and Design Department at MoMA (New York), presenting the exhibition “Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement” (2010). 2011 he was Loeb-Fellow at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard University and in 2012 he became Professor for Architecture History and Curatorial Practice at Technische Universität Munich (TUM). In parallel, he is the Director of the Architecture Museum of TUM, where he curated the exhibitions “AFRITECTURE. Building Social Change” (2013-2014), “Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture and Cities” (2022) and recently “Visual Investigations. Between Advocacy, Journalism and Law” (2024).