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.
As part of our November 2023 workshop “The State of Experience, or: ars activa,” we visited Günther Uecker at his studio in Düsseldorf. After two intensive days of presentations and […]
Under the title “The State of Experience, or: ars activa,” the GUI, in cooperation with the ZERO foundation, hosted a workshop in Düsseldorf. In the historic rooms of the ZERO […]
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.’
Under the title “Günther Uecker’s Artistic Actions: An Intercultural Analysis,” Volume 2 of the Notizen zu Uecker series is dedicated to art scholar Xiao Xiao’s text concerning spiritual terms from East […]
In the July 24, 2023 issue, a portrait of the GUI was published in TAZ Nord in its “Places of Knowledge” section. Our scholarly director Dr. Katharina Neuburger talked about […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]