Archive:
Opening doors: Archive Visits
10 June - 9 July in parallel with the exhibition Seven WorksWhat happens when the institution’s keys are handed over? Which objects can be accessed and which should remain restricted to technical areas? How can university and city become more connected? Who belongs to the university? If we regard …
Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann: Potosí Principle Archive
With texts by Sonia Abián, Edgar Arandia, Elvira Espejo Ayca, John Barker, Christian v. Borries, Matthijs de Bruijne, George Caffentzis, Roberto Choque Canqui, Cultural Worker Coalition against the Humboldtforum, Anthony Davies, Chto Delat, Ines Doujak, Silvia Federici, Leon Ferrari, Maria Galindo, …
The Grandparents' Archives
Project with Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ashkan Shabani - Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience
This immersive exhibition 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 emotional and physical realities of displacement and survival.
Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience
“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 …
Interarchive
A project with Hans Peter Feldmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist
On the Trail of Exploitation
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.
Backstage I
Exhibition in three parts and three phases»Ozarichi, März 1944« in UC, Hall 25 »Megalothymia« in UC, building 10, ground floor Christian Boltanski, »Die Archive der Großeltern« in UC, building 7, basementOpening of »Backstage I« on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7pm in lecture hall 5 with contributions …
To care for people before us
The practice seminar "To care for people before us" with visual artist Philipp Gufler takes as its starting point his many years of practice and artistic research with queer and self-organized archives and examines the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of (hetereo)normative and hegemonic historiography through intergenerational archival work.
Maberu & The Sound Republik Band - Heating the space
What happens when the institution’s keys are handed over? Which objects can be accessed and which should remain restricted to technical areas? How can university and city become more connected? Who belongs to the university? If we regard the campus as an extended institution that connects the …
Economies of Misery
An exhibition of photographs by Pierre BourdieuIn cooperation with Camera Austria Graz (Christine Frisinghelli), University of Geneva, Département de Sociologie (Franz Schultheis) and Fondation Pierre Bourdieu, Geneva https://camera-austria.at
Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino - Seven Works
Kunstraum of the Leuphana University Lüneburg is pleased to announce Seven Works, a solo exhibition by Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino curated by Ana Druwe in collaboration with Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society. The exhibition brings a set of works by Celestino in dialogue with the specific context of Kunstraum Leuphana Lüneburg. It highlights the interplay between the institution's archive, the university campus, and its historical connection with Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, exploring potential porosity between the university and the city.
A Trans Hirschfeld Renaissance w/ Leah Tigers, Dean Erdmann, Maxi Wallenhorst and Raimund Wolfert
The conversation between historian and essayist Leah Tigers, artist Dean Erdmann, and historian Raimund Wolfert, moderated by author Maxi Wallenhorst and curator Christopher Weickenmeier, engages the recent proliferation of historical, literary, and artistic practices concerning the Institute for …
irational. Anarchaeology and Futurology of an Artserver
In 2010 art-server irational.org made an archived copy of itself, presenting a disk artefact with 18 years of historical data for archaeological translation. Before being disposed of, or interred for collection, any archaeological dig of this disk makes the owners of its data vulnerable and …
Demanding Supplies – Nachfragende Angebote I
with nOffice (Markus Miessen, Ralf Pflugfelder, Magnus Nilsson), Berlin/London
Demanding Supplies – Nachfragende Angebote II
Dealing with – Some books, visuals, and works related to American Fine Arts, Co.Art Club 2000, Patterson Beckwith, J. St. Bernard, John Dogg, Jackie McAllister, James Meyer at Halle fuer Kunst, Lueneburg, and Stephan Dillemuth, Loretta Fahrenholz, Karl Holmqvist, Phillip Zach at Kunstraum of …
Front, Field, Line, Plane
The idea and images of protest have moved to the foreground recently both in the work of artists and in the global media. On the one hand, artists are documenting the wave of protests that have built up since the memorable moment of Seattle in 1999 up to the ascendance of the Occupy movement; and …
Backstage II
Exhibition in three parts and three phases»Ozarichi, März 1944« in campus hall 25 »Megalothymia« in campus building 10, ground floor Christian Boltanski, »Die Archive der Großeltern« in campus building 7, basementOpening of »Backstage II« on Wednesday, April 26, at 6:15pm with short presentations …
Reading Club II: “Photographic Evangels” by Susan Sontag
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. …
Sifu Niklas Schmidt - Taijiquan: Slowing down the Campus
10 June - 9 July in parallel with the exhibition Seven WorksWhat happens when the institution’s keys are handed over? Which objects can be accessed and which should remain restricted to technical areas? How can university and city become more connected? Who belongs to the university? If we regard …
Ana Druwe - Expanded Ground
If we regard the campus as an extended institution that connects the Kunstraum to the city of Lüneburg, some of the questions posed by the exhibition Seven Works by Wisrah C. V da R. Celestino become an invitation to test different practices that reflect how the university institutes gathering gestures. Inspired by a seminar on institutional practices, the Kunstraum is open to activities that coexist, interfere, respond, or renegotiate Celestino’s scores.
The Dividual
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.
Backstage III
Exhibition in three parts and phases»Ozarichi, März 1944« in campus hall 25 »Megalothymia« in campus building 10, ground floor Christian Boltanski, »Die Archive der Großeltern« in campus building 7, basementOpening of »Backstage III« on Wednesday, June 14, at 6:30pm with short presentations and a …
Unterwerfungen
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.
AREN’T YOU AFRAID TO SWING ON RUSSIAN SWINGS?
A film about the unlearning of the socialist way of living by meeting new capitalist constraints. Using video footage of her grandfather‘s home- and travel video archive from the 1990s, Ida Kammerloch explores her family memories after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development
The symposium “Art, ecology and sustainable development” deals with ecologically oriented art/architecture and investigates the relevance of the current discourses on “sustainable development”, which also accompany the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, for art and the art field.The …
Visit of survivors of the extermination camps in Ozarichi 1944
On August 11, 2017, the Kunstraum was the site of a visit to Leuphana University by a group of six women from Ozarichi in Belarus - Lidija Dormasch, Maria Nowik, Maria Schetschko, Maria Lapowa, Valentina Odnokrylowa and Valentina Schislo. This meeting at the University was initiated by the Working …
Maximiliane Baumgartner - WIE DU MIR, SO TEIL ICH DIR (TIT FOR TAT)
This presentation and performance lecture will be in German
Re/production: Motherhood and Artistic Practice
Screening and Book Launch
Reflections and Oppositional Art. Responsibility, Aesthetics… Humor (Because Without Humor The Work Would Be Dead)
Sands Murray-Wassink’s paintings and especially his performances deal with identity politics and the performance of the explicit body. In doing so they follow a tradition of Performance Art that aimed to blur the borders between life and art that became prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. …
Hartmut Bitomsky. Reichsautobahn / Das Kino und der Wind und die Photographie
Hartmut Bitomsky, »Reichsautobahn«, Germany 1985, 92 min.»Das Kino und der Wind und die Photographie«, Germany 1991, 56 min.
Souvenirs and Trophies
The American artist Mark Dion has been working for more than 10 years on the cultural representation of nature and is internationally regarded as one of the most important representatives of context art. This year, for the first time, a large, retrospective traveling exhibition will be dedicated to …
Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes
Stih & Schnock are Berlin based artists, who explore how memory functions in the social sphere and how it is reflected symbolically in culture and urban space. There is to be found an ongoing interest in collections and museums, which they conceive as places of collective cultural memory. …
Conceptual Paradise
Ausstellung
Planetary Consciousness
International group exhibition in the context of the project translateArtists: Christine Meisner, Mathias Poledna, Lisl Ponger, José Alejandro Restrepo
republicart
re public art was a transnational research project exploring and developing progressive practices of public art.In cooperation with eipcp Vienna, Galerija Skuc Ljubljana, Goldsmiths College University of London, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Riga
Workshop: Organization as a Medium of Contemporary Art
In artistic and activist practices since the 1990s, we can grasp a search for alternative modes of organizing within and against corporate capitalism. In turn, the challenges of organizing beyond spontaneist networks began to be thought and worked through more systematically in the wake of the …
Beyond Jefferson's Futures. Developing ideas for the foyer of Leuphana University’s Library Foyer
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past”. – Really?This quote by Thomas Jefferson is written in the foyer of the library of Leuphana University. It is part of an artwork by Christian Philipp Müller, “Branding the Campus” (1996-98), for which the University …