The seminar focuses on Michel Auder’s work, with the artist presenting a range of his films, photographs and exhibition projects. Auder will discuss in detail his working methodology and its changes during his 40 years of art practice.

Michel Auder is a French artist working mainly with film and photography since the 1960s. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Influenced by the French New Wave and experimental cinema, he turned in late 1960s to the first commercial video camera, the Sony Portapak, using it to turn glamorous and less than glamorous moments of the contemporary New York art scene around Andy Warhol into a visual diary. His earliest works are travel logs and endearing portraits of his wife Viva and friends, including Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie Sprinkle, Eric Bogosian, Louis Waldon and Larry Rivers, among others. His work has been shown at the Renaissance Society, Chicago in 2002, Yvon Lambert, Paris in 2006, Cubitt Gallery, London and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2009. The exhibition ‘Portrait of Michel Auder’ is currently on display at Culturgest in Lisbon.
The seminar is organized in collaboration with Culturgest – Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon.