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 …

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.

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

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 …

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.

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.

Sapphic Reading Club

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 …

In Between Subjects – Amelia Jones

This presentation gives an overview of Jones’s book In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Subjects, with attention to deeper motivations behind its development, and tracks her thinking about the intersection of “queer” and “performance” or “performativity” since the book was published. …

Tejal Shah - Between the Waves

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.

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

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 …

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. …

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

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 …

Sunil Gupta - A Practice

The Kunstraum Leuphana University Lüneburg is delighted to host a presentation of the photographer, activist, and curator Sunil Gupta on the evolution of his interests in the representation of politics to a formally discrete politics of representation. Having moved from Delhi to Montreal as a …

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 …

Artist talk

After a joint tour of Sergei Tcherepnin’s exhibition »Body Bound Notations«, during which he will »actualize« several of his sound sculptures, Fiona McGovern and Axel Wieder will talk with him about the underlying musical and theoretical concepts, as well as the potentials and problems involved in …

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

“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 …

ReproReality HackLab 005 – 006, FertilityCave 1.0.7

»ReproReality HackLabs« are a series of gatherings of likeminded and associated as well as individuals to discuss ideas and develop tools around Reproductive Technologies. They aim to extract these Technologies from their biopolitical determination. »ReproReality HackLabs« are hosted by a lifeline …

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 …

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 …

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

Exhibition Opening Unterwerfungen

In the lecture performance entitled “Well, a fresh breeze with words and gestures”, the artist, performer, and musician Susanne Sachsse confronts asynchronicity, subtraction, gaps, and unlearning, posing the question: Who or what is this talking, when the talk is about me?Susanne …

Research Avatara Species Transformellae and the WordWideWitch. Constructed bodies harvesting psycho-realist knowledge

Transformellae and WordWideWitch are just two of the multiple, fictional identities and hysterical-subversive drag characters of the artist Johannes Paul Raether. They are drawn from Raether’s cyclical performance system Systema identitekturae, in which he has been gathering embodiments as well as …

Franzis Kabisch - DEKLINATIONEN (CAN I INHERIT MY DEAD PARENTS’ DEBTS?)

DEKLINATIONEN (CAN I INHERIT MY DEAD PARENTS’ DEBTS?)2016, 28 min

Guy Hocquenghem’s – Homosexual Desire

The dazzling first work of philosopher and LGBTI activist Guy Hocquenghem is a pivotal and initial work of queer theory. Based on Freud’s discovery of polymorphous desire, Hocquenghem outlines a materialist, psychoanalytically informed theory of desire, with which he sets out to critique the …

Leda Bourgogne - The Professor's Body

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 …

Mavi Veloso – (her) Delights

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...

Olympia Bukkakis – The Work of Drag

On December 20, the Kunstraum and the Center for Critical Studies are pleased to host a workshop, guided by drag artist and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis. The workshop will attend to the work that goes into drag and the material conditions of a performative practice that purposely blurs the site …

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 …

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 …

Terra Critica – Why critique?

Birgit Mara Kaiser is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University. Her research spans literatures in English, French and German from the 19th to 21st century, with particular focus on poetic knowledge production; the relation of literature, …

Without you I wouldn't, with you all I would

Has a stone ever brought you comfort? Have you ever found solace in watching the waves of the sea? Did the image of drifting clouds ever mean to make you feel the same way?In a two-day zine workshop we will explore solace as a more-than-human concept and as an essential step towards resilience and …

Zavier Nunn - Trans Liminalities: Histories From Weimar and Nazi Germany

Focusing on trans women’s subjectivities, this talk explores the micro and macro registers of how everyday trans life was experienced, policed, and cut short across the Weimar and Nazi regimes, sometimes in surprising – but always uneven – ways.

The Professor´s Body. On Academic Affect and Habitus

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 …

The Professor's Body. On Academic Affect and Habitus

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 …