20.11.2023
Studio Visit with Günther Uecker
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 […]
Günther Uecker Institut
17.11.2023
Recap of the Düsseldorf Workshop
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 […]
Workshop · 10.11.2023 – 12.11.2023
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.’
20.09.2023
Volume 2 of the Notizen zu Uecker series to be published in October
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 […]
08.08.2023
News story on the GUI published in the TAZ
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 […]
21.06.2023
The mirror of the GUI – IUG
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 […]
17.05.2023
Condition for Experience, or: ars activa
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 […]
25.03.2023
Artistic Dialogues: Günther Uecker and Lothar Wolleh
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 […]
Research Fellowship · 2023
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.