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Established | 2007 |
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Founder | Sandino Scheidegger Luca Müller |
Focus | New Exhibition Formats |
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Website | randominstitute |
Random Institute is a non-profit art institution based in Zürich, Switzerland, that is devoted to researching new exhibition formats. Since 2007 they have produced over 70 exhibitions, events, publications and field research in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. New exhibition formats included works by established artists such as Richard Long, James Lee Byars, Cory Arcangel, Zilvinas Kempinas, Guido van der Werve, Bethan Huws, Eva and Franco Mattes, Carey Young, Julian Charrière, Federico Herrero, as well as many emerging artists.
For the art center Despacio (San José, Costa Rica) Random Institute has since 2015 directed various exhibitions, including with works by artists such as Allora & Calzadilla, Luis Camnitzer, Alfredo Jaar, Regina José Galindo, Teresa Margolles, Rivane Neuenschwander and Liliana Porter. Solo exhibitions were organized for artists such as Aníbal López, Julian Charrière, Florence Jung and many more.
Random Institute founded 2019 the non-profit organisation Social Income.
Random Institute was founded in January 2007 by Sandino Scheidegger and Luca Müller.[1][2][3] The organization's goal is to research new exhibition formats and support artistic initiatives that explores notions of exhibition-making as a form of artistic practice.
For the same reason, the organization co-founded 2013 the contemporary art center Réunion in Zürich and Kunsthalle Tropical in Iceland, which has been the site of numerous expositions initiated by Random Institute. From 2016 until 2019 Random Institute has been collaborating and programming the non-profit arts center Despacio in San José, Costa Rica. [4][5]
Random Institute has given various lectures and talks at institutions, amongst others, at the Zurich University of the Arts, School of Visual Arts NYC, F+F School for Art and Media Design Zurich or Universidad San Francisco de Quito; and presented uncommon exhibition models at art fairs such as ARCO (Lisbon) or during the Art Basel Talks at ArteBA (Buenos Aires).
Furthermore, Random Institute is committed to promoting better financial transparency of not-for-profit arts organization; and for this reason, it published all its financial transactions online in the years 2014–2017 to set a good example.
A non-exhaustive list of curatorial initiatives by Random Institute:
A non-exhaustive list of different publications by Random Institute: