Projects

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.’

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.

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.

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).

Katja Gentric: Günther Uecker: Perspective “South”

Katja Gentric analyzes Günther Uecker’s 1983 work Wounded Field, which was shown during the exhibition Art Contre/Against Apartheid.

Katrin Nahidi: Man’s Inhumanity: Günther Uecker’s Conceptual History Paintings

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).