On Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:45 (Lecture Hall F2, Domplatz 20-22), as part of the lecture series “Making of: Rethinking Places of History”, Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher (Münster) will speak on “Fülle und Leere. Kuratieren als Ermöglichen” (in German):

In recent years, curating has become a kind of buzzword for cultural action – from playlists to event programmes – and has lost some of its magic in the public eye in the process. 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. Whereas historically the aim was to sort the abundance of artefacts and present them in some order, today it is often the empty spaces that need to be included in the gestures of interpretation and presentation. The lecture will use historical and current examples to examine the changing tasks and practices of curating.

Lioba Keller-Drescher is Professor of European Ethnology at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Münster. Her research and teaching focus on museums, collections and material culture, in particular textiles and fashion. She organises an annual summer school on museology and is an in-house fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to cultural goods in digital change.”