Student Research Trip

During the first year of study, CCS Bard students and faculty travel to an international art event or artistic center and meet with a variety of curators, artists, and other cultural producers. Students have previously visited documenta XIV in Athens and Kassel (2017); Lima (2016); the Venice Biennial, Ljubljana, and Zagreb (2015); Amsterdam, Eindhoven, and Brussels (2014); documenta XIII in Kassel (2012); Mexico City (2012); the Taipei and Gwangju biennials (2010); the Istanbul Biennial (2009); the São Paulo Biennial (2008); and Berlin (2007).

The research expedition is made possible with support from Lori and Alexandre Chemla. Local class trips are also taken on occasion during the school year, as a group, by both first and second year students. Class trips are often taken to New York City, but other local destinations are also possible.

CCS Class of 2018 doing a studio visit with artist Simon Fujiwara.

Anselm Franke, curator and head of visual arts and film at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, Germany, gives students from the CCS Class of 2019 a tour of the exhibition Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930.

Students from the CCS Class of 2018 get a tour of Neue Galerie in Kassel, Germany, by documenta 14 curator, Hendrik Folkerts.

Curator Arnisa Zeqo talks about the artwork of Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh to the CCS Class of 2018 at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in Athens, Greece.

CCS Class of 2017 at Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social in Lima, Peru with curators Jorge Villacorta and Miguel A. Lopez.

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