
“The Most Dangerous Game”
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
September 27–December 10
Curated by Wolfgang Scheppe with Roberto Ohrt and Eleonora Sovrani
LIBRARIES ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES. An early sign of their looming obsolescence was their museumification during the 1960s in the assorted reading rooms of Conceptual art. Since then, the library has become an art medium in its own right, from Andrea Fraser’s insubordinate Information Room, 1998—for which the books of the Kunsthalle Bern were reshelved with their spines to the wall—to Clegg & Guttman’s reclamation of the literary public sphere in Open Public Library,