Lectures

T.J. Demos: Lecture

Lecture 06.05.13, 7 pm

T.J. Demos lectures on "The Politics and Aesthetics of Migration in Contemporary Art". The lecture takes places under the auspices of the "Der Öffentlichkeit" exhibition series.More

Chantal Mouffe: Critical Artistic Practices 

Lecture 07.03.13, 7 pm

Art occupies an increasingly central place in our societies but can it still play a critical role? Lecture by Chantal MouffeMore

Lecture by Nicolas Bourriaud

Lecture 21.03.13, 7 pm

In his lecture, Bourriaud elucidates on the complex relationships in Kendell Geers' oeuvre and places them in the context of the political situation in South Africa.More

Listening Session with Manfred Eicher

Music & Talk 09.01.13, 8 pm

The art of listening – an invitation to explore past, present and future music of ECM with the label’s founder as guide.More

Armoring of the View

Lecture 06.09.12, 7 pm

In her lecture, Maria Schindelegger looks at media images of violent conflicts from a historical and current affairs perspective.More

Lecture: "Rudolf Belling – Aesthetic and Ideological Struggles"

Lecture, Video 25.09.12

Lecture by Burcu Dogramaci and Gürsoy Dogtas on the artist Rudolf Belling, two works of whose are on view in the exhibition“Histories in Conflict”More

The Vilifying Exhibition "Degenerate Art" — Reception, Reconstruction, and Remembrance

Lecture 13.12.12, 7 pm

Lectures by Sabine Brantl and Mario-Andreas von LüttichauMore

Thomas Ruff – the scientific artist

Lecture, Video 26.04.12

Developed over a period of more than three decades, the diversity and complexity of Thomas Ruff's oeuvre make it unique in the history of art photography. His methodical approaches can be understood as visual research. In his lecture, the exhibition's curator Thomas Weski presents the background and criteria of this research, as well as the work development of the scientific artist Thomas Ruff.More

Jörg Heiser – What is "appropriate"?

Lecture, Video 28.02.12

What is the appropriate way – using artistic means – to remember the Holocaust and demonstrate sympathy for its victims? Or are the ideas of "appropriateness" and "demonstration" part of the problem?More

Lecture by Penelope Curtis

Video, Lecture 18.11.11

Lecture: Susanne Titz

Video, Lecture 17.01.12

Die Phänomenologie des Machens, ein Aufruf zur Emanzipation.More

The "Haus der Deutschen Kunst" as a Commercial Enterprise

Video, Lecture 20.10.11

The House of German Art [Haus der Deutschen Kunst] was the first architectural showpiece project of Nazi propaganda. The lecture (in German) focuses on the House of German Art's organizational form, its advertising strategies and economic circumstances. Introduction (in English) by Okwui Enwezor, director.More

Elsworth Kelly, Black & White, Vernissage

Video 06.10.11

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