Jan Verwoert: Why are conceptual artists painting again?

What is the future of medium-specific practices after Conceptualism? What is the future of Conceptual Art after the 1990s? How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models could we use to open up the potentials at the heart of these developments in art after Conceptualism?

Below you find the video recording of a lecture by Berlin-based art critic Jan Verwoert at unitednationsplaza in Berlin on October3, 2008.

Jan Verwoert is an art critic based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine and also writes regularly about contemporary art for such art magazines as Afterall, Metropolis M. Teaches at the MA Fine Arts department at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam.