Training Creative Acts and Action is an international, interdisciplinary project that is both an investigation of and powered by artistic research. Integrating innovative approaches from the fields of art historical and media theory, [...]
It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Günther Uecker—one of the defining artists of our time, a humanist thinker, engaged mentor, and namesake of our institute. Günther Uecker […]
In the bilingual series Notes on Uecker, published by the Deutscher Kunstverlag, we present manuscripts by authors engaging with hitherto under-explored areas within Günther Uecker’s oeuvre. The GUI invites submissions […]
Under the title “The State of Experience,” the lecture manuscripts from the workshop of the same name will be published as a special volume in our Notes on Uecker series […]
“Training Creative Acts and Action” (September 18-September 21, 2025) is an internationally-oriented, interdisciplinary project that presents—in the form of both content and methodology—innovative approaches to artistic research and media theory. […]
At the workshop discussion for the IUG Fellowship 2024, Daniel Wolter presented his project entitled “Of Stink Bugs and Bark Beetles: The Environmental Movement in the GDR” in Berlin and […]
Nick Böhnke’s investigation, entitled “The Withdrawn Touch: Structure, Temporality, and Haptics of Painterly Action in Günther Uecker’s Early Structural Reliefs”, expands the concept of ‘action’ to include painterly approaches by […]
This research project combines media studies and artistic approaches to examine various image groups from the archive of the Robert Havemann Society, all of which are relevant to the environ-mental movement in the GDR.
The GUI | IUG is inviting applications for a 2024 research grant under the title “On Waldsterben: Land Art in the GDR.” The project aims to reexamine photographic documentation of […]