The Hall Fellowship allows The Aldrich to cast a wider, more
international net, and bring new artists and ideas to the Museum.
Curators living outside the U.S. are invited to submit proposals for
exhibitions. These submissions are evaluated by distinguished members
of the art community. Jurors for this year’s Fellowship included Kasper
Koenig, director, Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Susanne Ghez, director, The
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; and Harry Philbrick,
director of The Aldrich. They selected Mr. Trummer from a pool of
applicants that included curators from China, South Korea, Britain,
Sweden, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Slovak Republic,
Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Iran.

The jurors were impressed by Trummer’s ambitious, well-conceived
proposal to create an exhibition involving sound, voice, and
language—all areas of abiding and increasing interest amongst artists
and curators—as well as his experience as a curator and extensive
résumé as a writer. Trummer’s exhibition will consider the human voice
in avant-garde art for the past forty years. Voice and Void attempts
to illustrate how presence of voice has the ability to fill space; and
the marked absence of voice represents a void. Nothingness is
inaudible, as emptiness and vacuum are invisible, yet both are present
in space.

To be eligible for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, an applicant must be
an art professional with a focus on contemporary art, and a citizen of
and resident of a country other than the United States of America. The
applicant must be proficient in English, have prior experience as a
curator or co-curator of at least three professional exhibitions of
contemporary art, and be able to travel to the United States.

The Museum is grateful to Andy and Christine Hall for their generous support of this project.

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