OnCurating Issue 20: Total Abstraction

This issue of OnCurating "Total Abstraction" began in 2011 as one of the manifestations of the Zurich episode of the exhibition project Abstract Possible. The Zurich Test, curated by Maria Lind mediated and produced by students of the ZHdK Postgraduate Programme in Curating, which was held at White Space in Zurich between May and June 2011. The exhibition project Abstract Possible intended to explore different key characteristics of abstraction – intended as formal, economic and as “withdrawal”. This issue began as a close cooperation of the students Lindsey V. Sharman (now art curator for the University of Calgary in the Founders’ Gallery at The Military Museum, Calgary) and Amber Hickey, (now PhD researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz). The material was then reviewed and discussed by Dorothee Richter and Silvia Simoncelli, both lecturers at the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zurich, alongside a workshop on “Curating and Art Market(s)” in September 2013.