Media:
Afro-Latin Aesthetics and Mass Media
The public lecture takes place as part of the seminar „Black Aesthetics in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Art, Music, Film“ (Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb)
Ecologies of Existence. Art and Media beyond the Anthropocene
with contributions by Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London), Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths, University of London), Baruch Gottlieb (Telekommunisten, Berlin), Erich Hörl (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Knowbotiq (ZHdK, Zürich), Elke Marhöfer und Mikhali Lylov (Berlin)Stamatia Portanova …
The Social Use of Art and the Charm of Digital Media
Jochen Koubek (University of Bayreuth): Warum das Verbotene so anzieht. Eine medienwissenschaftliche Betrachtung
DGAE PLATFORM #2 - Transcultural Media Asthetics
Knowbotiq - Yvonne Wilhelm & Christian Huebler (ZHdK) - UNTOOLING.io
Ẹ̀dùmarè, When Am I?
This interactive media performance examines Blackness as temporality—not simply as a question of identity, but as an unfolding, non-linear existence. Drawing inspiration from Michelle M. Wright’s Physics of Blackness, which reframes Blackness as a “when” rather than a “what,” and invoking Ẹ̀dùmarè, the Yoruba omnipresent deity of creation, the work explores how Black being is lived, perceived, and embodied across alternate realities.
Post-X Politics
This workshop is a follow-up event to a workshop on Media Ecologies which took place in November 2016 at Concordia University, organized by the Global Emergent Media Lab and a reading group on Readings Around Media in Japan. In bringing this unique style of a reading group seminar to Lueneburg we …
FAKTURA
An exhibition organized by Leuphana Arts Program (LAP), hosted by Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburgwith Martin John Callanan (UK), Driessens & Verstappen (NL), Sabrina Raaf (US), Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE), and Herwig Turk (AT/PT)
The Soviet Union as Conceptual Paradise. Moscow ‘Existential’ Conceptualism and Other Oddities
from the series of lectures “Conceptual Paradise. Artistic Practice in the Age of the Social Web”
Moirés
International group exhibition in the context of the project transformArtists: Andreas Fogarasi, Katya Sander, Urtica, art and media research group
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 …
Open Codes?
Exhibition in Collaboration with the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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 …
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.
Die Conceptual Art und ihr Medienbegriff
In his second lecture of a multi-part series at Leuphana University, Stefan Römer examines the relationship of Conceptual Art to the traditional concept of media in art. What role did the division that gallery owner Seth Siegelaub made between primary and secondary information play? Was the concept …
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 …
Processing Worlds, Processing Back Words. Thinking Through the Act of Curating
In her presentation, Miya Yoshida will discuss the potentials, limitations and possibilities of artistic research by introducing her PhD project at Malmö Art Academy / Lund University she realized in 2006, simultaneously an exhibition that she engaged as a research. Based on this project, she will …
Assistances (Working Title) w/ Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Jason Hirata, Will Holder, Annick Kleizen, Cally Spooner, Eric Golo Stone, Mathilde Supe, Terre Thaemlitz, Marina Vishmidt
The event can also be attended online via Zoom (Password: assistant).Day 1: https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/94170832858?pwd=K0lzUjJjNXA1eGVBSW5VWTJGbWI5Zz09
Practice in Art Criticism
Art criticism today can’t exclusively be concerned with the description and classification of works of art any more. Rather art criticism has to reflect on the terms and conditions of the artistic field, that have dramatically changed since the 1980s and which at least co-determine what and …
Rahel Spöhrer - Haptic Academia
Universities are known as environments hostile to the body and affect with a primary focus on cognitive, rational, and critical thought. They are also sites of disciplinary power, inequalities, discrimination, and abuse. At the same time, the bodies that move through these institutions experience …
Storytelling Workshop. Crafting Narratives Across Mediums
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 …
all our tomorrows
International group exhibition in the frame of the project translateArtists: Donald Rodney, Shilpa Gupta, Hetain Patel, Owusu-Ankomah, Elmgreen and Dragset, Song Dong, Zhang Dali, Yukiko Terada, Hew Locke, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Sabine Fassl, Johannes Wohnseifer and Lisl Ponger
Conceptual Paradise
Ausstellung
Sapphic Entanglements
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 …
Aesthetics of Measurement
The research project »Towards (Im)measurability of Art and Life« by Miya Yoshida (Art & Civic Media, Innovation Incubator, Lüneburg) addresses the ambivalence of measurement and measurability in contemporary realities and questions the apparent tendency to increasingly classify more and more …
Assistances (Working Title) w/ Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Jason Hirata, Will Holder, Annick Kleizen, Cally Spooner, Eric Golo Stone, Mathilde Supe, Terre Thaemlitz, Marina Vishmidt
The event can also be attended online via Zoom (Password: assistant).Day 2: https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/95681732502?pwd=cWlwWko1ekxlMnp0VHZVVzNGVCt3QT09
Conceptual Paradise
In a three-year cinematic research, the artist and author Stefan Römer and his film team interviewed numerous outstanding, international artists. In the intellectual debate in front of the camera, Stefan Römer developed a special cinematic way of reflecting on the state of international …
Epistemology of Measurement
The research project »Towards (Im)measurability of Art and Life« by Miya Yoshida (Art & Civic Media, Innovation Incubator, Lüneburg) addresses the ambivalence of measurement and measurability in contemporary realities and questions the apparent tendency to increasingly classify more and more …
Florian Dombois & Christoph Oeschger: Films of the Wind
Where’s the wind when it’s not blowing? Can it be contained in a film?Most wind tunnels are there for testing. Almost everything is tested in them: Cars, air-planes, rockets, but also flies, people, or baseballs. After the testing comes optimization. The technologies of mobility devised …
focus on art/research projects
Ute Klissenbauer und Dierk Schmidt diskutieren mit Ulrich Lölke spezifische Herausforderungen für ihre Projekte UFO UNO und “Die Teilung der Erde” an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft, Kunst und Politik.
In the Place of the Public Sphere / Publicum. Theorien der Öffentlichkeit
On the occasion of the appearance of two new publications on theories of the public sphere, the editors present these volumes for discussion:Simon Sheik (ed.), In the Place of the Public Sphere. Berlin 2005 (B-Books);Gerald Raunig and Ulf Wuggenig (eds.), Publicum. Theories of the Public Sphere. …
Memory Loops
Memorials are mostly commissioned works of art that are bound to a pre-definded space and function as symbolic gestures. The task to memorize or to come to terms with the past is delegated to the artist. Thus, an artistic engagement with memorials has to take into account questions of …
pausenkino
Film screenings within the framework of <reformpause> at various public locations (lecture halls, art room, seminar rooms).A <reformpause> cinema will be programmed at various public venues (lecture halls, art room, seminar rooms), in which the examination and critique of educational …
Politics of Measurement
The research project »Towards (Im)measurability of Art and Life« by Miya Yoshida (Art & Civic Media, Innovation Incubator, Lüneburg) addresses the ambivalence of measurement and measurability in contemporary realities and questions the apparent tendency to increasingly classify more and more …
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.
Towards a Techno-Ecology of Participation
This conference is a cooperation of Leuphana’s Chair of Media Culture, the Research Project »Technoecologies of Participation« within the frame of DFG Research Group »Media and Participation« and University of Bremen’s NatureCultures Lab.with: Nurit Bird-David (Haifa), Christoph Brunner (Lüneburg), …
Trockel | Rorschach: Experiments in the Interpretation of Form
Vortrag am 21. Novmber 2019
+852 - Two Years in Hong Kong: a Retrospective
+852 is the telephone country code of Hong Kong - a place where we have spent two of the most significant years of our lives, participating in the double degree program of Digital Media at Leuphana and Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.This exhibition is not just an amalgamation of …
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 …
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 …
Public / Private
Poject with Thomas Locher and Peter Zimmermann
Park McArthur – Twice
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).
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 …
Against Masculine Domination. Building the Body
Female bodybuilding has been discussed as a queer practice of transgressing stereotypes of sex, gender and essentialist forms of identity, as well as a field in which, in a paradoxical way, open and veiled practices of reproduction of such stereotypes and the common-sense gender binary (especially …
Acousmatics as a Laboratory
Acousmatics is a way of staging the voice in which the carrier of the voice is deliberately kept invisible. The Larousse Dictionary defines acousmatics as a sound that we hear without being able to see its origin. With the invention of radiophony and telephony, acousmatics – voices without a body – …
Alienating Presents. Recovering Futures
Talking about the future is not so easy today. It risks depoliticisation from two opposing sides. Our political imagination oscillates between feelings of hopelessness and fatalism on the one hand, and hollow stories of cruel optimism on the other.Both doom via irreversible climate catastrophe or …
Art and its Frames. Continuity and Change
with Beatrice von Bismarck (Leipzig/Berlin), Julia Bryan-Wilson (Berkeley), Helmut Draxler (Berlin/Nürnberg), Andrea Fraser (Los Angeles), Renée Green (Cambridge, Mass.), Hannes Loichinger (Lüneburg), Sven Lütticken (Amsterdam), John Miller (New York), Marion von Osten (Berlin), Gerald Raunig …
Autogestion. Self-Organization and Social Transformation
From the Right to the City movement to the Transition Towns network, the role of self-organization has come back to the front stage of social, political and environmental practices involving activists as well as artists. How do self-organized communities search for »paths through utopia«? What is …
Bachelor Presentation Art Education Program 2025
The BA SHOW is an exhibition organized by the IKMV, the Institute of Fine Arts Art, Music, and Education. It represents a fundamental teaching approach aimed at introducing students to exhibition practice and art mediation, thereby creating links between theory and practice.The artistic works were …
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 …
Der Bäcker gibt mir das Brot auch so
Introduction: Ulf Wuggenig, Leuphana
Conceptual art in relation to the notion of the picture in art
In the first of his three lectures at Leuphana University Lueneburg in summer semester 2008, Stefan Roemer explores the critique of the traditional notion of the picture in art as developed by conceptual art. In the frame of the project “CONCEPTUAL PARADISE - a film database on conceptual …
The city is our factory
Christoph Schäfer will present his artistic-activist approach at the Kunstraum on the basis of his widely received visual essay ‘The City is our Factory,’ which was published in 2010 by Spector Books. Using a water color pen, Christoph Schäfer traced in this essay the conceptual landscapes and …
Female Identities in the Post-Utopian. Perspectives on Post-Socialism from Art and Theory
with Anabela Angelovska, Anna Bitkina, Ana Bogdanović, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Suza Husse, Katja Kobolt, Elena Korowin, Petra Lange-Berndt, Monika Rüthers, Jana Seehusen, Bettina Steinbrügge
Making Worlds
Open workshop of the <reformpause> project group led by Marion von Osten (artist, Berlin/Zurich) with the Kunstraum of the University of Lueneburg and members of the Institute for Cultural Theory, as well as guests: Madeleine Bernstorff, Julia Franz, MeineAkademie Berlin, Preclab Research …
Susanne Leeb & Sven Beckstette
Susanne Leeb (University of Basel): »Cycles of Painting and Entangled Histories: Luc Tuymans and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu«Globalization not only entails an increased engagement with arts worldwide, but also with earlier transnational entanglements. Entanglements that, characterized by colonialism, …
Melanie Gilligan, Cooper Francis
Rather than accepting a 2001 »cybernetic hypothesis« that postulated historical stasis grounded in transparent information flows and techniques of population management, this workshop will examine on-going efforts to engineer the technical infrastructure of a global market that still characterizes …
Mike Kelley. The Architecture of Memory
American artist Mike Kelley (1954, Wayne, MI – 2012, South Pasadena, CA) started to gain visibility in the 1980s with his stuffed animal works, his iconic design for the cover of Sonic Youth’s album »Dirty« (1992), and for his »Arena« series (1990). However, it was from 1995 onwards that he …
Mohammad Shawky Hassan – „Bashtaalak sa’at“ (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)
Filmscreening “Bashtaalak sa’at” (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?) by Mohammad Shawky Hassan (66 min, AR & E with English ST, EG, LB, D 2022).A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in …
More Details from an Imaginary Universe
Title of Matt Mullican’s solo exhibition in Porto, Oxford, Barcelona, St. Gallen, Krefeld and Bolzano 2000-2001.
New Patrons in Hamburg
The project of the “New Patrons” in Hamburg is a film by Harun Farocki on the work of the Quickborner Team (QT). The consulting firm specialised in designing office spaces is currently developing a new “consulting product”. During the past years, QT always called for …
Olympia Bukkakis with Dagat Mera – Material Performance
Drag queen and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis will present a version of “Material Performance”. In this piece Olympia works with, against, for, and under 10 meters of red fabric. This time she is joined by artist and janitor Dagat Mera in a performative exploration of labour conditions, …
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. …
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.
SIEV-X. On a case of intensified refugee politics
on the occasion of the publication Dierk Schmidt: SIEV-X. On a case of aggravated refugee policy. A picture cycle in three parts, talks and texts. Series polypen at b_books, Berlin 2005.
Tanja Šljivar & Zuzana Žabková – Tomorrow, we talk, with and by Young-Actress-in-the-Actor-Category2 and Young-Vampire-Branko-Black-Rose
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.
The Sensorial + the Conceptual Mix
from the series of lectures “Conceptual Paradise. Artistic Practice in the Age of the Social Web”
Coletivo Penitente - There is something about yellow flowers
There is something about yellow flowers that I simply love. They hold memories like quiet witnesses of time—moments, smiles, greetings, goodbyes, tears, and melancholy. Sometimes, I like to imagine I am one of them.And then, there is the bird. It lingers in the periphery of my sight, weightless yet …
What do we talk about when we talk about…. With Heidi Grunebaum
Film Screening and discussion of „The Village Under the Forest“ (2013) by Mark J Kaplan & Heidi Grunebaum
Second Congress of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
Approximating Migrant and Filmic Practices Using the Example of HarragaLecture by Brigitta Kuster with subsequent discussion Friday, October 7, 2016, 2:00–3:45 p.m.Session of the section »Kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik« (Cultural-Analysis Aesthetics)Discussion of Susanne Leeb’s and Ruth …
1 - 1 = 2 Hybert-Marché
With Fabrice Hybert and Hans Ulrich Obristin cooperation with the ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
DEADTIME (“Maggie’s Solo”) with Cally Spooner and Will Holder
“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...”
Field research: art world Zurich
Project with Christian Tarnai (Munich)
Interarchive
A project with Hans Peter Feldmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Testoo®
Exhibition with Fabrice Hybert and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Touring Club
Project with Christian Philipp MüllerIn cooperation with Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg (Switzerland)
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.
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.
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 …
Twice
This practice seminar provides an occasion to consider American artist Park McArthur’s practice and presence among a recent generation of artists whose conceptualist and institutionally-responsive strategies both critique and re-imagine life’s material conditions in the 21st century. Introduced to a wider public with her solo exhibition Ramps, 2014, McArthur’s concern for the aesthetic possibilities and formal invention of debility, disability, and dependency have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions. Furthermore, how audiences access and experience artworks is a central concern of this course and of McArthur’s work more generally.
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.
Between Intervention and Performance. The revolutionary theater practice of Asja Lācis in the context of the Soviet avant-garde
With this seminar, the scholar Mimmi Woisnitza (theatre and cultural studies) and the artist and director Konstanze Schmitt continue their artistic-scientific collaboration on the avant-garde theater maker Asja Lācis.The aim of their research project “Open Relations” is to make Lācis …