21.06.2023
The mirror of the GUI – IUG
We are pleased to announce our new project series: beginning in 2024, we will pursue in-depth art projects in public, open-access, and interdisciplinary formats under the name IUG, the Institute […]
Günther Uecker Institut
17.05.2023
Condition for Experience, or: ars activa
In the workshop “Condition for Experience,” conceived with the ZERO foundation in mind and taking place November 10–12, 2023, we will address some of today’s most pressing questions concerning the […]
25.03.2023
Artistic Dialogues: Günther Uecker and Lothar Wolleh
We are very excited to announce a special collaboration in the context of our 2023 research year. In Volume 2 of the Notizen zu Uecker series, entitled “Günther Uecker’s ‘Artistic […]
Research Fellowship · 2023
Raha Golestani and Konstantin Schönfelder: In the Space of Signs: The Semionaut Günther Uecker
In their interdisciplinary research project, Raha Golestani and Konstantin Schönfelder deal with Uecker’s cycle of works Homage to Hafez (2015) and the process of “performative translation” manifested in it.
21.02.2023
6th Günther Uecker Research Fellowship awarded
The 6th Günther Uecker Research Fellowship was awarded by an independent jury of experts to Raha Golestani (Ph.D. candidate in Aesthetic Theory at the Goethe University Frankfurt) and Konstantin Schönfelder […]
06.02.2023
Research Year 2023: Guests at the ZERO foundation Düsseldorf
In the research year 2023, the GUI will be a guest at the ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf. We look forward to researching together on this year’s theme, “The State of […]
22.11.2022
Apply before February 15th, 2023
The 6th Günther Uecker Research Fellowship has been announced. Our institute will devote itself in particular during the funding year 2023 to aspects of the performative that are immanent to […]
21.11.2022
Volume 1 of the Notizen zu Uecker series has been published
On November 21st, 2022, the first volume of the GUI’s series of scholarly texts was published by Deutscher Kunstverlag. Under the title “Man’s Inhumanity: Günther Uecker’s Conceptual History Paintings,” art […]
Research Fellowship · 2022
Nick Böhnke: Penetrations of Space
In his research project Penetrations of Space, Nick Böhnke deals with the works of Günther Uecker that are among his earliest pictorial inventions, the Finger Paintings (1956), in the wake of which his “painterly reliefs” were created (1958).