Projects

Åsa Sonjasdotter: Opening historical time

Creating possible paths for sensory and social relations of breeding and cultivation in landscapes marked by uniform life.

Training Creative Acts and Action

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, [...]

Nina Nielebock: Gold Bridge

As part of our international and interdisciplinary workshop "Training Creative Acts and Action" in September 2025, artist Nina Nielebock gilded the handrail of a pedestrian and car bridge on Wittenburger Straße in the center of Schwerin with gold leaf.

Daniel Wolter: The Environmental Movement of the GDR: A Media-Ecological Perspective

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 Condition for Experience, or: ars activa

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.’

Lydia Askani: Circle and Surface—Lunar Relics Scrutiny

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.