Planetary Consciousness

International group exhibition in the context of the project translateArtists: Christine Meisner, Mathias Poledna, Lisl Ponger, José Alejandro Restrepo

ana zeno de courcy - If Our Bodies Could Rust

If the body could rust, how would it decay?Through the strain of resilience or the quiet erosion of touch?In this work, the body is both structure and surface, enduring weight and releasing it. Balanced on a metal grid perched atop ice packs, the performer’s movements carry the duality of strength …

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 …

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 …

Harkeerat Mangat – Good Neighbours

For his guest lecture, Harkeerat Mangat will string together two strands in his recent research: performance in Indian classical music and techniques for ethnographic filmmaking. Over a span of three years, Mangat worked together with residents of a park square in Düsseldorf, Germany to create a …

(Colonial)Archaeology and Contemporary Art

The artists’ colloquium emerges from the »(Colonial) Archaeology and Contemporary Art« seminar within the »Practice Field Art« program. The seminar focuses on the colonial histories of archaeology in the Middle East and Egypt, and on the relationship between imperialism, capitalism and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Open Codes?

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

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 …