Please feel warmly invited to the second iteration of Flock, which is co-organized by the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft. The appointed director of the Kunsthalle Zürich Fanny Hauser talks about her curatorial practice, which takes place in collaborative, self-organized initiatives, but also in institutional and museum contexts. 
 

Fanny Hauser (b. 1988 in Vienna, AT) is a curator. Together with her colleagues, she is one of the co-initiators of Kevin Space in Vienna, an exhibition space where she has realized over fifty exhibitions and programs with international artists since 2016. Alongside this, she was part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens and also co-curated When the Sick Rule the World with Viktor Neumann in Rapperswil. She most recently worked as the deputy director of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, where she curated a comprehensive retrospective by Katalin Ladik. In January 2025, Hauser will become the new director of the Kunsthalle Zürich.

As part of a new cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, artists, thinkers, and curators are invited to present their work at both institutions over two days. At Kunstverein the invitees introduce into their work in the form of a reading, a screening, a performance, a jam session, or similar, and a following conversation. The next day, academy students have the opportunity to exchange about their work with the guests in studio visits at the academy. The Flock format is centered around forms of collaboration and artistic self-organization. The first series, featuring Leonie Nagel, Fanny Hauser, and Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, focuses on different possible collaboration partners.