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. …

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

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.

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 …

Conceptual Paradise

Ausstellung

Cataloging Logistics. Migration, Digitisation, Forms of Life

The workshop »Cataloging Logistics 2« departs from the premise that logistics poses both a decisive terrain for contemporary transformations in social and everyday life and a critical theoretical lens for understanding the present. Beyond matters of timely concern, the workshop’s focus on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

TRANSFORM. Institution and critique

Under the title TRANSFORM, a transnational research project funded by the EU Culture 2000 priority will be launched this fall as a successor to re public art. Over the next three years, the project will explore aspects of the relationship between institution and critique. Coordinated by the …

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 …

Moirés

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

Open Codes?

Exhibition in Collaboration with the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

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 …

Radiofreak

We are a stream of signals: Images, sounds, impulses flow into us without end. At times they carry us, at times they overwhelm us. Yet within the noise, where is there space for our own resonance?

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EU-project in cooperation withVan Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NLEuropean Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Wien, AKumu Art Museum / Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, ESTLentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AMACBA, Barcelona, E