Audit

audit appropriates the notion of an internal audit that checks an institution at a given time, both its dealings in the recent past and its future options. The institution in this context is the community of actors in the art scene who are equated with the employees of a globally operating company. Considering the complexity of the different relationships within this institution, the audit will address aspects such as the visible and invisible structural constituents of the exhibition space; the notion of exhibiting; the respective roles of artists, curators, art dealers and the public; the theoretical discourse and the practical implementation of the production and distribution of art.

Moreover, the audit intends to foreground the problems inherent in what is commonly known as institutional critique. The works presented here, most of which have been specifically realised for the project, give an account of the methodological double-bind of internal audits by continually questioning themselves. In doing so, they relativise their impact and expose their systemic boundaries. They underline the reciprocal relationship of the scrutinising gaze and the object under scrutiny, and ask the question as to which options institutional critique is left with today.