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 …

Memory Culture – Memory Politics. The Campus, its military past in the 1930s / 1940s and adequate forms of memory against the background of populism from the right and neo-fascist tendencies

with Anne-Kristin Kruse (London School of Economics), Michaela Melián (Hamburg, HfBK), Christoph Schäfer (Hamburg), Nico Stockmann (Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin University), Nicole Stöcklmayr (Lüneburg, mecs Leuphana), Susanne Leeb and Ulf Wuggenig (Kunstraum of Leuphana) and the Arbeitskreis …

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 …

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 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 …

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. …

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.

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 …

Clara Mannott - I Will Take Care of You

When shedding skin a moment of memory loss arises. The body disintegrates intomultiples, it is becoming more than one. You and your former skin. Somethingseparated but still deeply connected. Time splits and from there on you encounterreality on separate paths. The ambiguous feeling of separation …

Ethnographic Museums and Memories. Two Screenings

Since Alain Resnais’ and Chris Markers film »Les Statues meurent aussi« from 1953 ethnographic museums have been the topic of filmic and artistic critique mostly due the doubtful origin of their collections as looted art under colonial times. As part of the seminar »Art and Ethnography. History of …

I want to be a dog in America

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.In the …

Lunatic Film Festival in Kunstraum

Benin Did Not Die She Sends Her Regards - David Odiase [+ discussion]‚Benin Did Not Die She Sends Her Regards‘ is a poetry film produced as a deeply personal and political response to colonial misrepresentation, cultural erasure, and the urgent need for restitution.Don’t Ask Me Anything - Aliyah …

Unlikely Coexistences. A Conversation with Ana Druwe

Ana Druwe is one of the members of Casa do Povo, São Paulo, a cultural center that revisits and reinvents the notions of culture, community and memory. Casa do Povo was founded in 1946 by Jewish immigrants as a living monument in memory of the Shoa. From the beginning, it was a space for gathering …

The Campus as a Work of Art

An artistic work in two parts with Christian Philipp Müller

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 …

The 5th Riwaq Biennale in Palestine

Tirdad Zolghadr will be presenting the 5th Riwaq Biennale (RB5) in Palestine, focusing on the distinctive features of it with regards to display, representation and institutional agenda. As a curatorial endeavor, the RB5 polemically sides with the notion of embodiment and enactment as opposed to …

Poem reading by Leila Mousavi and Q&A with artists

What is weaving? We often think of it as making objects — as a technique to produce commercial goods, like the clothes we all wear. Yet, in many cultures, weaving is not only a way to produce external objects, but also a deeply internal process, connected to spiritual practices. The cultural codes …

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 …

Natalia Vasco - Somatic Workshop

This workshop offers a sensory and physical exploration of absence, allowing participants to experience emotions and memories through the body rather than through rationalization. Through guided meditation, movement repetition, and automatic writing, we create a space to perceive how absence …

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 …

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

+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 …

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

The Grandparents' Archives

Project with Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Moirés

International group exhibition in the context of the project transformArtists: Andreas Fogarasi, Katya Sander, Urtica, art and media research group

String Theory String Practice ㅤ

What is weaving? We often think of it as making objects — as a technique to produce commercial goods, like the clothes we all wear. Yet, in many cultures, weaving is not only a way to produce external objects, but also a deeply internal process, connected to spiritual practices. This exhibition invites you to explore weaving as a way of thinking — and to engage with the threads stitching different contexts, fields and worldviews together.

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.