On Monday, 27 January 2025, 7:30–9:00 pm (Lecture Hall 102, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23) Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave (Jena) will give his Fellow Lecture on the topic of “Access Dynamics of Romantic Art: Two Spotlights on French Painting” (in German). Based on the realisation that access to cultural goods has a considerable influence on their production and reception, especially in the visual arts, the lecture will examine the concrete dynamics of access using two examples from French Romantic painting.  

On Monday, 20 January 2025, 4:15–6:30 pm (Room 201, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23), Dr. Regine Ehleiter (Berlin) will give her Fellow Lecture on the topic “’Page Not Found‘: On the (in)accessibility of artistic publication and exhibition projects in the digital age – a stocktaking”. In her lecture, she will reconstruct striking examples of digital artistic publishing from the 2000s and raise the question of the extent to which the ideal of a ‘dematerialisation’ of art that emerged in conceptualism has been realised in the digital age, to the point of making it untraceable. The lecture suggests breaking new ground in the documentation and preservation of digital practices of making art public by drawing on findings from neighbouring disciplines. The lecture will be held in German.

On Monday, 9 December 2024, Prof. Dr. Sophia Prinz (Zurich) held a lecture on the topic “Die Ausstellung als Interface. Analoge und digitale Displays” (“The exhibition as an interface. Analogue and digital displays”) (in German). Using the example of the exhibition ‘Mobile Worlds’, the lecture showed the extent to which digital forms of exhibition offer opportunities that go far beyond the usual, one-sided digitisation of the analogue and thus also offer the possibility of questioning the museological order of knowledge and practice together with its immanent power relations. At the centre of the considerations is the display, which should be conceived not as analogue, but as digital and therefore interactive. Succeeding, this could be understood as a central step towards a post-digital ‘pluriversal museum’.

On Tuesday, 26 November 2024, as part of the lecture series “Making of: Rethinking Places of History” of the Villa ten Hompel, Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher (Münster) spoke on “Fülle und Leere. Kuratieren als Ermöglichen” (in German). The lecture used historical and current examples to examine the changing tasks and practices of curating. In recent years, curating has become a kind of buzzword for cultural action. On the other hand, curating has become a sophisticated programme term for extended exhibition practice in cultural institutions. If we translate ‘curating’ as ‘enabling access’ to cultural heritage, the culture of remembrance and cultural artefacts, then a broad field of possibilities and demands on the activity of curating and on the people and institutions working in this field becomes apparent.