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.
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.
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).
Katja Gentric analyzes Günther Uecker’s 1983 work Wounded Field, which was shown during the exhibition Art Contre/Against Apartheid.
In her research project, Katrin Nahidi analyzes one of the 14 works Uecker created for the ifa’s touring exhibition, which developed against the background of the 1992 radical right-wing riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, Implement (On Words).
In her research project, Cara Venzke examines the spatial disposition of Günther Uecker’s so-called “structure pictures.” The starting points of her analysis are the “encirclements” or “enclosures” found in the artist’s work.