Scientist and artist Daniel Wolter, recipient of our 2024 research grant, is currently examining various groups of images from the photographic holdings of the Archive of the GDR Opposition, housed at our cooperation partner this year, the Robert Havemann Society (RHG) in Berlin.
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 […]
During the research year 2024, the GUI | IUG will collaborate with the Robert Havemann Society in Berlin. Under the name Institute for Environment and Design (IUG), we conduct in-depth […]
We would like to thank Günther Uecker, Jacob Uecker, and Christine Uecker for a great year of research in 2023; all of our cooperation partners, especially the ZERO foundation and […]
At the GUI’s inaugural Table Talk, Lydia Askani gave us some insight into her artistic research project “Circle and Surface: Lunar Relics Scrutiny” in the form of a lecture performance. […]
The artistic research project deals with the appropriation of artifacts and forgeries of cultural property. She draws attention to their instrumentalization within geopolitical power struggles and, in this context, critically and humorously questions the role of institutions and museums in relation to the attribution of meaning to objects and their historical contextualization.
As part of our November 2023 workshop “The State of Experience, or: ars activa,” we visited Günther Uecker at his studio in Düsseldorf. After two intensive days of presentations and […]
Under the title “The State of Experience, or: ars activa,” the GUI, in cooperation with the ZERO foundation, hosted a workshop in Düsseldorf. In the historic rooms of the ZERO […]
The workshop “Condition for Experience” will address some of today’s most pressing questions concerning the discourse on artistic action. Presentations and discussions will include approaches from art-historical discourses and political theory from the 1960s, informed by contemporary debates on (artistic) production, the field of action, the ability to experience work and subject, as well as the concepts of ‘acting’, ‘action,’ and ‘performativity.’