Graduierten-Konferenz des Studiengangs “Kritik Der Gegenwart”extd.

〚21. May 2025, 10 am - 6 pm〛

After four and a half years of the MA Kulturwissenschaften: Kritik der Gegenwart – Künste, Theorie, Geschichte (Critical Studies), alumni are organizing a one day symposium during which theses that have resulted from the program are presented. One major strength of the study program is the exchange …

Postsecular Reckonings: Spirituality and Religion in Contemporary Art History and Cultural Studies

〚14-15 May 2025〛

This international workshop is dedicated to religious reverberations in artistic and cultural practices, especially throughout the Americas, exploring the spiritual residues of our disciplines and methodologies. The workshop opens with the scenic ritual “MOMENTO MOCHE” by Emilio Urbay and Sonja …

Momento Moche by Chicha Express | Sonja Ortiz and Emilio Urbay

〚14 May 2025, 5 pm〛

The musical performance brings the ancient Peruvian Moche culture to life through psychedelic sounds and scenes. An immersive ritual that awakens all senses.

Ashkan Shabani - Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience

〚16. April 2025 - 6 pm〛

“Queer, Life, Freedom” is an immersive exhibition that explores the journey of exile, identity, and resilience through photography, text, installation, and performance art. Divided into three distinct spaces—Iran, Turkey, and Germany—the exhibition invites visitors to experience the …

Reading Club II: “Photographic Evangels” by Susan Sontag

〚09.05.2025, 14 Uhr〛

Kuntsraum invites to a collective reading session of the chapter “Photographic Evangels”, by Susan Sontag, from the book On Photography. Side by side with Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Franklin, Susan Sontag joins a core of thinkers that reflect on the uses of photography. …

Reading Club I: “Territory and Borders, Racial Capitalism and Sovereignty in Crisis” by Gargi Bhattacharyya

〚6. May. 2025, 6 pm〛

“Racial capitalism describes a set of techniques and a formation, and in both registers the disciplining and ordering of bodies through gender and sexuality and  dis/ability and age flow through what is happening.” (Bhattacharyyam, p.10, 2018) How do borders shape our perception of the world? What …

Refugee Law Clinic (RLC): A student Initiative at Leuphana University invites Magnus Hirschfeld Centrum (MHC)

〚6. May 2025, 11 am - 1 pm〛

The Refugee Law Clinic (RLC) Lüneburg is a student initiative at Leuphana University. Since 2021, they provide legal advice on asylum and residence law. In the first part of this talk, the RLC presents their work and initiative, and introduces some asylum law topics and its implications for …

Mosaique and Checkpoint Queer - Community Talk. Between Networks of Legal Protection, Care and the Rise of Communities for Refugees in Lüneburg

〚30. April 2025, 4 pm - 5:30 pm〛

This community talk invites Mosaique, a consum-free space and cultural center, and Checkpoint queer, a queer health center, to talk about their community based work in the city of Lüneburg. Two organizations with different expertises and approaches are brought together to delve into the rise of …

Storytelling Workshop. Crafting Narratives Across Mediums

〚24. April 2025, 2 pm〛

This in-depth workshop offers a comprehensive exploration of storytelling as a creative practice, designed for individuals working across photography, video, writing, and mobile media. It is intended for anyone interested in developing their narrative skills, regardless of their chosen medium or …

Lena Knappert - Crossing narratives. Working through borders: Refugee employment from intersectional and contextual perspectives

〚22. April 2025, 14 Uhr - 15:30 Uhr〛

This “Crossing Narratives” dialogue in the frame of the “Queer, Life, Freedom” exhibition invites Dr. Lena Knappert to hold a conversation touching upon topics like refugeehood at the intersection of gender, class, and queerness, the influence of context and other actors in host societies, and …

Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience

〚16.04.2025 to 10.05.2025〛

“Queer, Life, Freedom” is a deeply personal and politically charged exploration of identity, exile, and survival. Inspired by the artist’s own experiences, the exhibition is divided into three spaces—representing Iran, Turkey, and Germany—each reflecting a different phase of the journey …

Sasha Levkovich - Just Call Mep2p

〚Jan 30, 2025, 7 pm〛

Interpretation as an art form opens a possibility of critical interaction with such notions as novelty, individualism and the patriarchal myth of the “genius”. It acknowledges the reading in the writing and vice versa. But It goes further than the typical Roland Barthes’ Reader-Author relationship. …

What do we talk about when we talk about… with Charlotte Wiedemann

〚January 28, 2025, 7:30pm〛

Charlotte Wiedemann (Journalist, Author/LIAS Public Fellow)

Sapphic Reading Clubp2p

〚Jan 27, 2025, 6 pm〛

The ArchipelagoLab is a student-run space that is open to students and doctoral candidates for a wide range of participation. It provides the infrastructure for the planning and implementation of events and formats of all kinds and aims to be a safe space for this. The Lab is a hub in a network …

Clara Mannott - I will take care of youp2p

〚Jan 27, 2025, 5 pm〛

When shedding skin a moment of memory loss arises. The body disintegrates into multiples, it is becoming more than one. You and your former skin. Something separated but still deeply connected. Time splits and from there on you encounter reality on separate paths. The ambiguous feeling of …

Ruxin Liu - Whose Emotion Is This?p2p

〚Jan 22, 2025, 1 pm〛

Our daily lives involve navigating the spectrum between tension and ease in interpersonal relationships. Our interactions with others shape the landscape of our social connections. We develop different relationships with anger and shame due to our diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Under what …

ana zeno de courcy - If Our Bodies Could Rustp2p

〚Jan 21, 2025, 6 pm〛

If the body could rust, how would it decay? Through the strain of resilience or the quiet erosion of touch? In this work, the body is both structure and surface, enduring weight and releasing it. Balanced on a metal grid perched atop ice packs, the performer’s movements carry the duality of …

Sapphic Entanglementsp2p

〚Jan 21 - Feb 04, 2025〛

Queer studies scholar Kadji Amin calls for “fuck[ing] with the universalizing presumptions of the taxonomical method from within by generating idiosyncratic interpretations and translations that explode the epistemological and ontological foundations of taxonomy itself.” (Amin 2023) Sapphic …

Non-human ravep2p

〚Dec 19, 2024, 9 pm〛

“Non-human rave” draws out the sonic and musical potential of human and non-human improvisation. Using a musical instrument designed to read electrical impulses, Daria Melnikova connects the electrodes to fruits, vegetables and mushrooms. As the objects change, the style of the music …

Laura Lambert: Contesting and Decentring Border Externalization - Perspectives from West Africap2p

〚Dec 11, 2024, 6pm〛

Europe’s borders are increasingly located in Africa. Migrants are forcibly stopped there or deported back there. Development funds or humanitarian aid promise them a better future in Africa. These promises often fail. This so-called externalization policy has become a central component of of …

Dis/b/orderlyp2p

〚Dec 3 - Dec 15, 2024〛

The construction of a Fortress Europe as a “European gated community” (Pichl 2024) is no longer just the goal of a pan-European New Right and self-appointed, neo-national socialist border guards, but has also found its way into European governments through the agendas of supposedly …

What do we talk about when we talk about… with Dani Gal

〚December 4, 2024, 4pm〛

Dani Gal (Filmmaker and Artist, Berlin)

What do we talk about when we talk about…Nakba and International Law…with Nahed Samour

〚November 14, 2024, 4 pm〛

International law is becoming increasingly important for categorising the violence in Palestine and Israel. In particular, the proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) deal with issues such as genocide, war crimes or the illegality of the occupation as well as the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.

The Professor´s Body. On Academic Affect and Habitus

〚Oct 23 to Nov 27, 2024〛

As bell hooks famously observed in her 1993 essay “Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process”, the professor’s body is marked by both “repression and denial”. Caught up in the long-exhausted Cartesian split between body and mind, teaching in higher education appears to be a predominantly …

Carolina Mendonça & Lara Ferrari - Zones of Resplendence

〚June 19, 2024, 6 pm〛

Zones of Resplendence explores forms of manifestation for a potential feminized army. Carolina Mendonça and Lara Ferrari investigate whether you can fight a war with vulnerability, expanding the perspective on violence. By using the body in different ways, they prepare themselves for a possible confrontation.

Mavi Veloso – (her) Delights

〚June 12, 2024, 6pm〛

Drawing inspiration from Claudia Wonder and her Jardim das Delicias, the performance (her) Delights presents a series of dreams, sexual anxieties, voice & body experimentation, a constellation of technologies and (trans)witchcrafts. Challenging the binaries male and female, the body becomes...

Colors of Palestinep2p

〚June 6, 2024〛

In the frame of p2p, a group of Palestinian, Jewish and German students invites you to the Palestinian cultural event Colors of Palestine. They write: “Learn about the richness of Palestinian heritage by sampling traditional cuisine, participating in interactive workshops such as Dabkeh …

Tanja Šljivar & Zuzana Žabková – Tomorrow, we talk, with and by Young-Actress-in-the-Actor-Category2 and Young-Vampire-Branko-Black-Rose

〚June 5, 2024, 6pm〛

About consent we wait for, that we crave, and which gives us temporary safeness. Consent that none of us is sure, we ever gave or asked for. Consent to cancellation. Consent which we will not talk about again tomorrow.

What do we talk about when we talk about … IHRA und Jerusalem Declaration

〚June 5, 2024, 3pm〛

Peter Ullrich, Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin (German)

INSIDE WOUNDS

〚May 30 to June 19, 2024〛

Beyond a moralizing logic of pain as punishment, what are the critical merits of wounds?

What do we talk about when we talk about … Never Again

〚May 22, 2024, 4 pm〛

Omer Bartov, Holocaust Scholar and Professor for European History and German Studies, Brown University (English; Omer Bartov will join us via Zoom)

Harkeerat Mangat – Good Neighbours

〚Apr 24, 2024, 6pm〛

For his guest lecture, Harkeerat Mangat will string together two strands in his recent research: performance in Indian classical music and techniques for ethnographic filmmaking. Over a span of three years, Mangat worked together with residents of a park square in Düsseldorf, Germany to create a …

Bitsy Knox – W’etter,

〚Apr 10, 2024〛

In her inaugural performance as guest lecturer this May at Kunstraum, Bitsy Knox will enter into a correspondence with the rain. As Knox´s prerecorded voice mixes with the amplified sound of rainwater being pumped into the Kunstraum, a subjectivity emerges that is indivisible from the ontogenesis …

Park McArthur – Twice

〚Oct 25, 2023 to Feb 11, 2024〛

Artist Park McArthur joins the M.A. Cultures of Critique at the Leuphana University Lüneburg for the 2023/24 winter term to conceptualize an exhibition for the Kunstraum. McArthur’s engagement with the Kunstraum begins with a listening session on October 25 and concludes with a public symposium and exhibition in January 2024. Under the influence of disabled artists’ ongoing experiments in description, McArthur’s exhibitionary desires are guided by and bound to the materiality of disability access (Geelia Ronkina).

Tejal Shah - Between the Waves

〚Nov 13, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024〛

The five-channel video installation Between the Waves, 2012, is a "circular fable, a new cosmology bearing a strong commentary on the Anthropocene", as the artist Tejal Shah puts it. Shahs works are informed by a non-binary Buddhist philosophy and practice, queer-feminism and eco-poetics.

DEADTIME (“Maggie’s Solo”) with Cally Spooner and Will Holder

〚May 31 to June 28, 2023〛

“The exhibition at Kunstraum Leuphana University Lüneburg opens on May 30, 6pm and closes on June 28, 6pm. “Maggie’s Solo” is a 44'16" audio recording of Maggie Segale dancing in “early 2020”. The piece by Cally Spooner was also filmed, but the film will not be shown. I met Cally in 2014 which we both forgot...”

weight, véhicules and telepathy, how “la facultad” feels at a distance

〚Apr 27, 2023〛

with Catalina Insignares, Henrike Kohpeiß, Myriam Lefkowitz

Dedicated to exiled people and those who assist them, la facultad is a site where our dormant sensory faculties are exercised, so that we can hear, study and amplify them in collaborative situations. For the public talk on April 27, Lefkowitz and Insignares depart from written reflections on la facultad (and its different iterations since 2017), drawing out some of the ideas in dialogue with the philosopher Henrike Kohpeiß. The talk approaches an ongoing project at a distance.

Assistances (Working Title)

〚April 14 & 15, 2023〛

A two-day workshop with Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Jason Hirata, Will Holder, Annick Kleizen, Cally Spooner, Eric Golo Stone, Mathilde Supe, Terre Thaemlitz, Marina Vishmidt

The assistant who doesn’t identify with their work is often a bringer of horrible mood, which is not to be underestimated. In fact, it can serve us as a methodology...

Unterwerfungen

〚Dec 8, 2022 to Jan 28, 2023〛

Kunstraum of the Leuphana University Lüneburg is delighted to announce the opening of Philipp Gufler´s solo exhibition "Unterwerfungen". Bringing together old and new works and structured by Gufler’s ongoing collaboration with the self-organized Forum Queeres Archiv München, "Unterwerfungen" tracks the various ways in which Gufler stages archival material, resisting the heteronormative capture of a resistant past.

On the Trail of Exploitation

〚Jan 16 to Feb 13, 2022〛

The 2010 exhibition "Principio Potosí" archive, curated by Alice Creischer, Max Jorge Hinderer and Andreas Siekmann, is on display at the Kunstraum of Leuphana University. Besides the 36 booklets that can be worked with in the exhibition, students of Leuphana University have responded to selected booklets of the archive with their own images, texts, interviews, and films.

The Dividual

〚Jul 5 to Jul 16, 2021〛

The exhibition „The Dividual“, curated by Joshua Simon at the Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg, explores an emergent subjectivity, divided from itself, and always-already part of something. With texts and works by Jacob Lawrence, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, Drexciya, Roee Rosen, Octavia Butler, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Sergei Eisenstein, Sylvère Lotringer, Ruth Patir, Andrei Platonov, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Georges Bataille, Emanuel Almborg, Shana Lutker, and Platon Kerzhenetsev.

Tribunalism

〚Oct 7 to Nov 21, 2021〛

The eponymous exhibition combines filmed art works, tribunal documentaries, and artistic works that address and critique the institution of the tribunal – as well as a spatial intervention designed by Mirjam Thomann – created for this exhibition, and framing it in an installation-like language as a site of negotiation.

Creating Effects. On the Ideology and Efficiency and Its Institutions

〚November 10th to 11th, 2006〛

Following the main line of the project transform, which investigates new forms of institutional critique between 2005 and 2008, the conference “Creating Effects” will research the ideology and effectivity of creativity and its institutions in postfordist capitalism. When creativity, virtuosity and …