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Exhibitions

ADAS – Autopsie Der Autogerechten Stadt [Autopsy of the Car-friendly City] 

In many large German cities, as part of the rebuilding efforts after the Second World War, large inner-city traffic areas were newly installed. From today’s vantage point is it difficult to imagine how these infrastructures and the associated destruction of growing urban spaces were taken to be sensible interventions at the time—and how they were accepted by the society then. 

The exhibition shows nine familiar examples, such as the Nord-Süd-Fahrt in Cologne, the Ost-West-Straße in Hamburg, the City-Ring in Hannover, or the overpasses in the centers of Ludwigshafen and Bremen, whose historical genesis in part reaches back to the 1910s. It becomes clear that these are representational spaces of post-war society, with significant cultural structures and new functions for the then emerging service society. A video installation provides insights into the situation today. 

A third part is dedicated to Holländischer Platz in Kassel, whose car-friendly reconstruction cut off the university campus and the neighboring street spaces from the inner city. Concrete projects show examples of how to deal with the legacy of the car-friendly city—and how to initiate a comprehensive improvement of the situation. 

Exhibition at Neubau ASL, University of Kassel, Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, May 4-25, 2022. Curated by Stefan Rettich 

Flyer of the exhibition ADAS - Autopsie der autogerechten Stadt

From December 1-19, 2021, the dis_continuities research group, under the direction of Nanne Buurman and Alexis Joachimides, along with students from then Kunsthochschule Kassel, moved into the spaces of the Kassel Kunstverein in order to experiment with forms of addressing and mediating the legacies of the National Social period during this haunting of the Museum Friedericianum. How much did populist-nationalist narratives, networks, and structures from the periods before 1945 or before 1933 influence the documenta and the post-war art business in Germany? How much do the corresponding epistemologies and economies also still haunt cultural and social infrastructures today? 

The curatorial experiment was less about presenting research results, facts, or individual artistic works, but about making exhibiting productive as a method for generating knowledge and experiences. Instead of writing off the past, which would allow us to get out of the affair with historical distance, forms were tested out for dealing with the presence of history beyond repression, defensiveness, and self-purifying efforts. We did not siply want to exhibit the undead of anti-Semitism, racism, nationalism, and colonialism, which still make mischief behind the white walls of exhibition institutions and between the lines of art historical narratives. We wanted to face them, for the project of “coming to terms with the present” (Max Czollek) requires us to reflect on our complicity with the ghosts of the past, which continue to live in the social conditions of today. 

Exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein, December 1-19, 2021

Installation view, Kasseler Kunstverein / Museum Fridericianum. Photo: Nanne Buurman

On the occasion of the centenary of the so-called ‘Day of German Art,’ with which the Nazis in Munich opened the “Great German Art Exhibition” and “Degenerate Art Exhibition” on Monday, July 19, 1937, there was a processual exhibition on Monday, July 19, 2021 in the form of a city tour in Kassel. In order to thematize the relationship between the art city of Munich and the documentary city of Kassel, where the documenta was seen as the agent for rehabilitating the modernity alienated as “deviant,” students from the seminar d is for discontinuity: Artistic, Scholarly, and Curatorial Research on National Socialist Continuities at the documenta, under the direction of Nanne Buurman took up the format of the pageant staged by the Nazis. This act of critical appropriation reflects examinations of the appropriation and political resignification of aesthetic, epistemological, architectural infrastructures, which also links this “dmonstration” with the “discussions” and “displays” in our temporary work and exhibition spaces. 

Kassel, July 19, 2021.

“d-cap” and city map for the erinnern ist ein verb “d_monstration.” Photo: Nanne Buurman

NACH DER KERNKRAFT [after nuclear power]

Following the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima Daiichi, the Federal Parliament and Federal Council of Germany decided to phase out atomic energy—at the end of 2022 the last German nuclear power plants were shut down. The power stations stand as landmarks in the German river landscapes. The plan is to dismantle the plants on the greenfield land, although only around 3% of the gigantic mass of structures is radioactively contaminated. A timely rethinking of the plan would offer the chance to repurpose some of these inconvenient monuments. Alongside the history and technology of nuclear energy, the exhibition focuses on concrete conversion projects for Biblis, Gundremmingen, and the Elbe locations of Brunsbüttel, Brokdorf, and Krümmel. 

Exhibition at ASL Neubau, University of Kassel, July 13–August 15, 2021. Curated by Stefan Rettich.

Photo: Cara Frey, 2019

Human-environment relationships get radically changed due to the intrusions of extractive industries and knowledge technologies. Against this backdrop the exhibition tests out a critical dialogue between contemporary art and museum objects. 

Exhibition at the Museum der Kulturen Basel, July 2–October 17, 2021. Co-curation and project direction: Liliana Gómez, in collaboration with the University of Zurich, the University of Kassel, and the documenta Institut.

Flyer Extractive Zones, Museum der Kulturen Basel

Research Stations TRACES, A Design/Build Project

Located at Lutherplatz in the center of Kassel, 200 meters north of Königsplatz is the approximately 100 sq m Research Station of TRACES. It has served to facilitate exchange between the university and urban society since 2019, and will continue to do so for a period of five years. Local residents can take part in the teaching and research here. At the same time the site serves as a working space for students and teachers. It also houses pop-up exhibitions, talks, lectures, workshops, seminars, and much more.

2021 – 2026, Kassel. Von Philipp Oswalt, Andreas Buss, Jakob Gebert u.v.a.

Over the course of 2021 Nanne Buurman, Friderike Schäfer, Anna Schäffler, Cornelia Sollfrank, and Antje Wetzel curated Networks of Care at the nGbK (Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst) in Berlin, a platform for exchange about preserving temporary, ephemeral, project-based, or collective artistic and curatorial practices. The platform reflected the political, ethical, and economic implications of different forms of preservation beyond standardization through existing conventions. With the additional goal of developing models for institutional and cultural-political engagement with im/material cultural assets, the platform looked into the framing conditions that would be necessary and meaningful for transmitting knowledge about acting. 

nbk, Berlin, January 1–December 31, 2021

Design: Julia Böhme

It’s a hot potato, that restitution business. The formerly colonized demand the return of the cultural assets that were stolen from them during the colonial era or that entered German collections in questionable ways. The Federal Republic, for its part, argues that it isn’t all quite so simple—and actually rebuilds the old palace of the Prussian rulers who helped write a chapter of the history of colonialism. Renamed in honor of Humboldt, the building is destined to become a repository for those same cultural assets.

Exhibition at KOW, Berlin, November 20, 2020–January 30, 2021

Ecological and social catastrophes caused by humans threaten to make the planet uninhabitable. The situation is critical, and dominated by the interests of capital, architecture and urbanism are ensnared in the crisis. The exhibition shows 21 examples of a new attitude: for the architecture and urbanism of taking care. 

The exhibition design translates this fragile situation into a coherent, interactive exhibition display. In addition the spatial situation at the AZW will be used, by means of a temporary installation of plants, to test out whether the temperature of the exhibition space can be maintained better in summer.  

Exhibitions at the Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), Febraury 8–March 12, 2020, DAZ Deutsches Architekturzentrum Berlin, DE  February 8, 2020–March 22, 2020, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, DE  June 6, 2020-September 13, 2020, VAI Vorarlberger Architektur Institut Dornbirn, AT  28.01.2021 – 30.04.2021, ZAZ Zentrum Architektur Zürich, CH  March 25, 2021–August 8, 2021 Curated by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny. Exhibition design: the next ENTERprise Architects.

Image: Konzeptskizze tnE Architects „Critical Care“ AZW Wien ® tnE Architects

The land feeds us and cools the atmosphere. We need it for housing, for leisure, and for work—our economic system is not even conceivable without free access to the land. Since the global financial market crisis, however, the situation has notably changed, and rising rents are out of clearest symptoms of this. But at core, it’s about much more than that. Our social market economy and our community are at stake, and the climate is directly dependent on how we use the land. The exhibition shows 36 central aspects of the land issue, creating cross references to one of the most pressing questions of our time. 

Exhibition at the Deutschen Architekturzentrum Berlin (DAZ), September 17-Octorber 25, 2020, since then on tour, including in Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. Curated by Stefan Rettich.

Photo: Leon Lenk, 2020 

The Martin Niemöller Foundation and the University of Kassel, along with several Potsdam initiatives, have set up a learning site at the Garnisonkirche in Potsdam, which continually provides information about the history of the site and the often ignored and suppressed dimensions of this church, as well the reconstruction project. 

Potsdam. Since September 5, 2020, initiated by Philipp Oswalt and Steffen Schuhmann.

Image: Philipp Oswalt und Steffen Schuhmann, Konzept für einen Lernort

In a project seminar on curatorial research, students from the Kunsthochschule Kassel, under the direction of Nanne Buurman, dealt with the parallels between historical practices of lifestyle reforms and today’s slow-and-conscious living trends. In a critical engagement with the political ambivalences of former and present back-to-nature movements, as well and their ideas of immediacy, transparency, and purity, the exhibition in freiheit dressiert // being natural is simply a pose took place from November 18-22, 2019 in the study room in Kassel, employing artistic and curatorial methods to examine the usage of nature and naturalness by (new) right-wing movements and neoliberal sustainability marketing. The exhibition was shown again on November 27, 2019 as part of the Show and Try Again program on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of the master’s program Cultures of the Curatorial at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. 

November 18-22, 2019, study room Kassel.

Image: Anna Fischer de Saa, Breaking Landscape, 2019 und Nanne Buurman, Untitled, 2019
Installation View, study room Kassel. Photo: Nanne Buurman.

The exhibition is the first to present women designers who worked in the context of the Deutsche Werkstätten and who, despite their active design and teaching practice and numerous exhibitions, have been forgotten. Women who broke through traditional social paradigms and decisively advanced the reform movement in Germany.  

The spatial concept combines all these factors into a chronologically organized, floor-to-ceiling time-space body that allows for different narratives between what is exhibited, the history of the undertaking, and the historical context of society. The time-space body, which is accessible from all sides, is placed in the middle of the exhibition space, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in history. 

Exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, May 17, 2019-August 18, 2019. Curated by Klára Němečková and Tulga Beyerle, exhibition design: the next ENTERprise Architects.

Image: Konzeptskizze tnE Architects “Gegen die Unsichtbarkeit” ® tnE Architects

Lectures

Nanne Buurman: Un/canny Neighborhoods. Zum völkischen Unbewussten in Kunstausstellungen und Kunsthochschulen [documenta as a Haunted House. On the Folkish Unconscious in Art Exhibitions and Art Schools]
Lecture at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, July 13, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: documenta as a Haunted House. Zum völkischen Unbewussten in Kunstausstellungen und Kunstpädagogik [documenta as a Haunted House. On the Folkish Unconscious in Art Exhibitions and Art Education]
Lecture as part of the excursion of the Association of German Art Educators to Kassel, July 2, 2022.



Claire Zimmermann: The Problem with Values. Zu ökonomischen Logiken in künstlerischer Produktion [The Problem with Values: On Economic Logics in Artistic Production]
Lecture at the 5th Swiss Congress for Art History, Section “Der Wert der Gegenwart,” University of Zurich, June 22- 24, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: Un/canny Neighborhoods. Zum völkischen Unbewussten in Kunstausstellungen und Kunsthochschulen [documenta as a Haunted House. On the Folkish Unconscious in Art Exhibitions and Art Schools]Lecture at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, June 10, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: documenta as a Haunted Exhibition
Lecture at the lecture series Bildende Kunst, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Bremen, June 7, 2022.



Felix Vogel: Infrastructure, Logistics, Commerce: The Backstage of Exhibitions. Art Exhibitions as Intersections in Post War Europe
Moderna Museet u. Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, May 11–12, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: Ambivalences of Access, or: Diversity and its Discontents at the Venice Biennale 2022
Lecture at the 1st European Assembly of Contemporary Art Centres: This time we speak about Gender, Paris, May 10, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: documenta as a Haunted Exhibition: A Ghost (Hi)Story
Lecture at the seminar documenta. Kunst, Geschichte, und Politik (Beatrice von Bismarck), Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, May 9, 2022. 



Nanne Buurman: Dialectics of Dematerialization: Curating in Post-War, Post-Digital and Post-Pandemic Times
Lecture at the symposium The Biennials Post-Presential Era: Challenges and Opportunities, Università Ca Foscari di Venezia, April 19, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: documenta as a Haunted Exhibition: Curating as Composting
Lecture at the Phd in Practice Curating, Zurich University of the Arts/University of Reading, March 11, 2022.



Nanne Buurman: Die documenta und die Nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit [The documenta and the National Socialist Past]
Conversation with József Mélyi as part of the discussion series “From Vasarely to Off-Biennale: Hungarian artists at the documenta” at the Goethe Institut Budapest on the occasion of the documenta’s participation in the OFF-Biennale, moderated by Andrea Pócsik, February 23, 2022.


Nanne Buurman: Das Globale neu verhandeln – das Künstler:innenkollektiv ruangrupa kuratiert die documenta fifteen [Renegotiating the Global—The Artist Collective ruangrupa Curates documenta fifteen]
Contribution to a panel as part of the series Aufgestellt - Ausgestellt - Aufgelöst. Museum und Kuratieren im Wandel, moderated by Monica Juneja, Heidelberg, January 26, 2022.


Nanne Buurman: Curatorial Subjectivities & Gendered Economies
Contribution to a panel at the international online launch event of the volume Instituting Feminism, OnCurating 52, December 2021, moderated by Dorothee Richter, January 12,2022.


Tamara Bodden, Andreas Gardt, Christine Riess und Paul Reszke: Podcast: Vom Reden über Kunst [Talking about Art]. Since 2022. 


Nanne Buurman: Nazi-Kontinuitäten in Kunst und Kassel [Nazi Continuities in Art and Kassel]
Conversation with Herr von Rehtanz as part of the discussion program accompanying the exhibition Wild Things/Tender Narrations, examination exhibition at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, moderated by Jandra Böttner, December 11, 2021.


Paul Reszke: Wie viele Ereignisse ist die „Ecosex Walking Tour? –
Multimodale Performances als mehrdimensionale Herausforderung für die dis- kurslinguistische Korpusbildung und Analyse
[How Many Events is the “Ecosex Walking Tour"? –
Multimodal Performances as Multidimensional Challenge for the discourse-linguistic formation and analysis of the corpus
]
Together with Felix Böhm. Conference by the network “Diskurs – multimodal,” Bremen November 19, 2021.



Nanne Buurman, Birgitta Coers: Co-moderation of Vennes Cheng's Lecture Dislocated Visuality and Memorial Migrancy: documenta X in 1997 and Hong Kong Now, Museum Fridericianum, November 11, 2021.



Nanne Buurman: Staying at Home: Curating, Care and the Governmentality of Un/Work from a Post-Covid Perspective
Lecture at the symposium Désoeuvrer, organized by the École du Louvre, École normale supérieure, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris, October 13-15, 2021.


Tamara Bodden und Paul Reszke: Vertrauen in Kunstinstitutionen – Sprachliche Praktiken in der öffentlichen Kommunikation über die documenta zwischen Kunstfreiheit, politischen Zwängen und ökonomischen Ängsten [Trusting in Art Institutions – Language Practices in the Public Communication on the documenta between Artistic Freedom, Political Constraints, and Economic Fears]
Annual Conference 2020 by the network “Sprache und Wisse,” Heidelberg September 30, 2021.


Felix Vogel: “So what would a socialist art be like (in practice) which was not simply a means to illustrate aspects of social history?”: Art & Language, 1974–1978
Forum Lecture HS 2021, Art History Seminar, University of Basel, September 30, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Hegemonies of Healing, or Curatorial Governmentalities and Their Discontents
Lecture at the symposium Hegemonialität aus feministischer und institutioneller Perspektive, Kunsthochschule Kassel, July 16, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Haftmann as an Educator, or the Völkisch Un/conscious of German Art History, Curation, and Education
Lecture in the Paraeducational Research Seminar, University of Fine Arts, July 9, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking: Hegemonies of Healing and Their Discontents
Lecture in the workshop, Instituting, Care, and Feminist Politics in the 21st Century, University of Edinburgh, June 30, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Panelist at the conference Täter oder Opfer? Thesen zur nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit von documenta Kuratoren [Perpetrators or Victims? Theses on the National Socialist Past of documentary Curators]
Organized by Kai-Uwe Hemken (Kunsthochschule Kassel) and Birgitta Coers (documenta Archiv), June 11, 2021.


Dr. Birgitta Coers, Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hemken (moderation): Opfer oder Täter? Thesen zur nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit der Kuratoren der ersten documenta [Victims or Perpetrators? Theses on the National Socialist Past of the Curators of the First documenta] (1955) Event on the history of the first documenta and the connections of some of its curators to National Socialism.
Conference in collaboration between the Kassel/University of Kassel and the documenta Archive, Kassel June 11, 2021


Nanne Buurman: Un/heimliche Nachbarschaften. Zum völkischen Un/bewussten in der edukativen, künstlerischen und kuratorischen Praxis von documenta Akteuren [Un/canny Proximities: On the völkisch Un/Conscious in the Educational, Artistic, and Curatorial Practice of documenta Figures]
Lecture in the panel Rechte Kontinuitäten in der Kunstausbildung und an Kunsthochschulen, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, June 4, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Spectres of Turin, or: A Ghost (Hi)Story about the Fascist Unconscious of documenta as a Haunted House
Lecture in the Curatorial Masters Program CAMPO, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, April 21, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Curatorial Puritanism, or Confessions of the Curator as an Itinerant Friar
Lecture at the workshop Curatorial Ethics, organized by Mirjami Schuppert, Void Gallery, (London) Derry, North Ireland, March 19, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: In Freiheit Dressiert. Being Natural is Simply a Pose
Panel What is Para-Educational Research? University of Fine Arts Hamburg, February 12, 2021.


Nanne Buurman: Curatorial Governmentalities and Their Discontents
Lecture at the Phd in Practice Curating, Zurich University of the Arts/University of Reading, February 11, 2021.


Samuel Korn: OM Ungers – Morphologie: City Metaphors
Guest lecture at the University of Stuttgart, Faculty for Architecture and Urban Planning, Institute of Building Construction, Stuttgart, December 8, 2020


Nanne Buurman: documenta as a Haunted Exhibition?
Lecture at the symposium What System, Actually? Kunsthochschule Kassel, July 2020.



Nanne Buurman: White Washing/Freeze Framing: Some Notes on Historiography, Contemporaneity and (Self-)Purification in the early documenta editions
Lecture at the conference Stasis #2 Contemporary Art in Historical Terms, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, December 14, 2019.


Nanne Buurman: Ambivalences of Care, or: Curatorial Ethics of Collaboration and their Governmentalities
Lecture at the conference Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada November 8-10, 2019.


Nanne Buurman: Displaying the Display. Zum Verhältnis von Digitalisierung und Dinglichkeit bei der documenta 12 & documenta 13 [Displaying the Display: On the Relationship of Digitization and Materiality at the documenta 12 & documenta 13]
Lecture in the section Display Studies of the annual conference by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften Media Materialities, University of Cologne, September 25, 2019.


Nanne Buurman: Groupy Methodology: On Frames, Metaphors, Chance Encounters
Lecture at How? Wow! Wow...Research Seminar Exhibition Studies, Kunsthochschule Kassel, July 16, 2019.


Ute Famulla: Flexible Design: The Presentation Furniture of the New Exhibit
Lecture at the symposium “Vom Gegenstand zum Exponat” at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the University of Kassel, 2019.


Ute Famulla: Moholy-Nagys Beitrag auf der FiFo [Moholy-Nagy’s Contribution to the FiFo]
Lecture at the Symposium “Bauhaus und die Fotografie – Zum Neuen Sehen in der Gegenwartskunst,” together with Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hemken, Hochschule für Gestaltung Darmstadt, 2019.


Ute Famulla: Der Raum 1 der FiFo: Moholy-Nagys Manifest [Room 1 of the FiFo: Moholy-Nagy’s Manifesto]
Lecture at the Museum of Photography of Berlin State Museums, 2019

Research and teaching 

Prof. Liliana Gómez: AHRC, Peace and Conflict Culture Network (with Prof. Paul Lowe, University of the Arts London). 2022-2024



Dr. Charlotte Bank: Einführung in globale Ausstellungspraktiken [Introduction to Global Exhibition Practices]. Seminar in the Department of Art and Society at the University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.



Ute Famulla: Ausstellungsfotografien analysieren, eine medienkritische Herangehensweise [Analyzing Exhibition Photographs, an Approach from Media Criticism], Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna as part of the workshop Ausstellungsanalyse, May 17–22, 2022.



Prof. Dr. Andreas Gardt: Linguistische Ausstellungsstudien II [Luiguistic Exhibition Studies II], seminar in the Department of Linguistics/History of Language, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.



Prof. Liliana Gómez: “Ästhetische Dimensionen des Politischen: Kunst, Aktivismus, Partizipation / Aesthetic Dimensions of the Political: Art, Activism, Participation,” lecture series in the Department of Art and Society, Kunsthochschule and University of Kassel with Dr. Charlotte Bank and Hannah Katalin Grimmer) summer semester 2022.



Samuel Korn: Die größte Reisscheune der Welt. Eine Analyse der Bauelemente der documenta fifteen [The Biggest Rice Barn in the World: An Analysis of the Construction Elements of documenta fifteen]Seminar in the Department of Architectural Theory and Design: Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Carolin Oetterer: Museumsarchitektur der Gegenwart: Pariser Museen und ihre europäischen Nachbarn [Museum Architecture of the Present: Paris Museums and their European Neighbors]Seminar with excursion in the Department of Art History of the Modern Period, Art and History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Dr. Paul Reszke: Linguistische Ausstellungsstudien II [Linguistic Exhibition Studies II]seminar in the Department of Linguistics/History of Language, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: Architektur – Ausstellen – Kunst [Architecture – Exhibition– Art], seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: Der Wert der Kunst [The Value of Art], seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: documenta fifteen, excursion in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: 12. Berlin Biennale, excursion in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Johanna Wurz: Die Kunstausstellung als kritische Zukunftswerkstatt? Die Ausstellungspraxis des Kunstmuseums im Kontext der internationalen Debatten und progressiven Konzepte des Museumsdiskurses der 1960er und 70er Jahre [The Art Exhibition as a Critical Workshop for the Future? The Exhibition Practice of the Art Museum in the Context of International Debates and Progressive Concepts of Museum Discourse in the 1960s and ‘70s]Doctoral project in the Department of Art History of the Modern Period, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel.


Johanna Wurz: Der Museumsdiskurs der 1970er Jahre [The Museum Discourse of the 1970s]. Seminar in the Department of Art History of the Modern Period, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Claire Zimmermann: form. Seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2022.


Dr. Charlotte Bank: Der “Global Turn” der internationalen Kunstszene [The “Global Turn” in the International Art Scene]. Seminar in the Department of Art and Society at the University of Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.



Nanne Buurmann: to be dis/continued: künstlerische, wissenschaftliche und kuratorische Forschung zu NS-Kontinuitäten, Entnazifizierung und Dekolonialisierung im deutschen Kunst- und Ausstellungsbetrieb [to be dis/continued: Artistic, Scholarly, and Curatorial Research on National Socialist Continuities, Denazification, and Decolonization in the German Art and Exhibition Business]. Excursion in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.



Nanne Buurmann: wir alles sind gespenster: haunting infrastructures. Project seminar as part of the dis_continuities research project in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.



Ute Famulla: Forschungsaufenthalt im der Sammlung der Stiftung Arp e.V. [Research Trip to the Collection of the Arp Foundation], 2022.



Prof. Dr. Andreas Gardt: documenta 15 – Theorie (in Ergänzung zum Seminar documenta 15 – Praxis” bei Dr. Paul Reszke)[documenta 15 – Theory (supplemental to the seminar documenta 15 – Practice” with Dr. Paul Reszke)]. Seminar in the Department of Linguistics/History of Language, University of Kassel, winter semester 2021/22:


Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, M.Sc Harun Faizi: zwischen digital und analog. Seminar R:einraum 4.0 [between digital and analog: Seminar R:einraum 4.0] in the Department of  Design and Building Theory, Architecture, University of Kassel, winter semester 21/22. 


Dr. Paul Reszke: documenta 15 – Praxis (in Ergänzung zum Seminar documenta 15 – Theorie” bei Prof. Dr. Andreas Gardt) [documenta 15 – Practice (supplemental to the seminar documenta 15 – Theory” with Dr. Andreas Gardt)]. Seminar in the Department of Linguistics/History of Language, University of Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: Aktuelle Ausstellungen der Region [Current Exhibitions in the Region]Excursion in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: Art Handling, seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.


Claire Zimmermann: Nullpunkt der Orientierung. Zwischen digitalen und analogen Wirklichkeiten im (Ausstellungs)Raum [Zero Point of Orientation: Between Digital and Analog Realities in (Exhibition) Space]Seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 2021/22.


Nanne Buurman and Alexis Joachimides: dis_continuities Forschungsgruppe [dis_continuities Research Group]. Since 2021.



Tamara Bodden und Paul Reszke: Wissensdomäne Kunst: Vertrauen in Kunstinstitutionen [Knowledge Domain Art: Trusting in Art Institutions]Workshop as part of the conference by the research network Sprache und Wissen, University of Heidelberg 2021.


Dr. Charlotte Bank: Repräsentation und Ausstellungspraxis von Kunst aus der MENA-Region [Representation and Exhibition Practice of Art from the MENA Region], workshop at the University of Bamberg, summer semester 2021.


Nanne Buurmann: d is for dis/continuity? Künstlerische, kuratorische und wissenschaftliche Forschung zu NS-Kontinuitäten bei der documenta [d is for dis/continuity? Artistic, Curatorial, and Scholarly Research on National Socialist Continuities at the documenta]. Project seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2021.


Nanne Buurmann: erinnern ist ein verb: Künstlerische, kuratorische und wissenschaftliche Forschung zu NS-Kontinuitäten in Kassels Kunst und Kultur [remember is a verb: Artistic, Curatorial, and Scholarly Research on National Socialist Continuities in Kassel’s Art and Culture]. Block seminar in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2021.



Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, M.Sc Harun Faizi: Weiterentwickeln und gemeinsam erleben. Seminar R:einraum 3.0 [Continuing Development and Collective Experience: Seminar R:einraum 3.0] in the Department of Design and Building Theory, Architecture, University of Kassel, summer semester 21.


Dr. Paul Reszke: “Jede documenta erfindet sich neu” – Sprachmuster der Innovation in vergangenen documenta-Ausstellungen und auf dem Weg zur documenta fifteen [“Every documenta reinvents itself”– Language Patterns of Innovation in Past documenta Exhibitions on the Lead Up to documenta fifteen] (2022). Seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2021.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: Theorien der Ausstellung [Theories of Exhibition], seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, summer semester 2021.


Prof. Dr. Felix Vogel: Das Textile in Kunst und Architektur [Textile in Art and Architecture], seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, University of Kassel, summer semester 2021.


Johanna Wurz: Das Museum der Zukunft der 1970er Jahre [The Museum of the Future in the 1970s]Seminar in the Department of Art History of the Modern Period, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2021.


Prof. Dr. Philipp Oswalt und Pro. Dr. Alexander Stumm: Forschung zur interventionistischen Lehrpraxis von Lucius Burckhardt an der Gesamthochschule Kassel 1973 – 1993 [Research on the Interventionist Teaching Practice of Lucius Burckhardt at the Gesamthochschule Kassel 1973 – 1993], 2021-2023.


Christine Riess: “KunstSprech” – Linguistische Untersuchungen zum Vorwurf der Unverständlichkeit von Kunsttexten [“KunstSprech” – Linguistic Examinations of the Accusation of Incomprehensibility in Art Texts]. Doctoral project in the Department of Linguistics/History of Language, University of Kassel, since 2021.



Nanne Buurmann: documenta & the Politics of Abstraction. Research seminar in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 2020/21.


Dr. Paul Reszke: Kunstausstellungen (nicht nur) in Zeiten von Corona – Sprachwissenschaftliche Analysen digitaler Kunstkommunikation [Art Exhibitions (not only) in the Time of Corona – Linguistic Analyses of Digital Art Communication]Seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 20/21.


Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, M.Sc Harun Faizi: Weiterentwickeln und Präsentieren [Continuing Development and Presenting]Seminar R:einraum 2.0 in the Department of Design and Building theory, Architecture, University of Kassel, winter semester 20/21.


Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, M.Sc Harun Faizi: building the unbuilt & experience: Design Research Immersion Seminar in the Department of Design and Building Theory, Architecture, University of Kassel, winter semester 20/21.


Prof. Liliana Gómez: Director of the SNF Research Project “Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South: Post-conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives” (University of Zurich, 2017-2021, starting in August 2021 University of Kassel, Swiss National Science Foundation)


Dr. Ute Famulla and Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hemken: Die Neue Optik. Die Thesen von Siegfried Giedion und László Moholy-Nagy zu einer neuen Visuellen Kultur in den 1920er Jahren [The New Optics: The Theses of Siegfried Giedion and László Moholy-Nagy on a New Visual Culture in the 1920s]. Research project in collaboration with the ETH/gta Zurich, Prof. Dr. Oliver Lugon (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Academy of Art and Design Gothenburg (Sweden), Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland), Hochschule Nuremberg (Prof. Christop Schaden), since 2021.



Nanne Buurmann: Back to the Roots? Kuratorische Forschung zu historischen & gegenwärtigen Reformbewegungen [Back to the Roots? Curatorial Research on Historical and Current Reform Movements]. Research seminar in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2020.


Dr. Paul Reszke:  Von Beuys’ Bäumen und Bakargievs Erdbeeren – Umweltaktivismus im documenta-Diskurs von 1982-2017 (im Rahmen des Lehrschwerpunkts Climate Thinking) [On Beuys’ Trees and Bakargiev’s Strawberries – Environmental Activism in documenta Discourse from 1982-2017 (as part of the teaching focus Climate Thinking)]seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, summer semester 2020


Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, M.Sc Harun Faizi: ASL Rundgang goes virtual. Introductory project Räume er/finden [Inventing Spaces] in the Department of Design and Building Theory, Architecture, University of Kassel, summer semester 20.



Goethe Institut documenta Fellowship. International Fellowship Program for International Researchers, Artists, and Curators. Initiated by documenta studies in cooperation with the Goethe Institut, the documenta Archive, and Kunsthochschule Kassel. Since 2020.



Nanne Buurmann: RE_(form, search, enact). Kuratorische Forschung zu historischen & gegenwärtigen Reformbewegungen [RE_(form, search, enact): Curatorial Research on Historical and Current Reform Movements]. Project seminar in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 2019/20.



Nanne Buurmann: in freiheit dressiert. being natural is simply a pose. Curatorial project seminar in the Department of Theory, Cultures of the Curatorial, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, winter semester 2019/2020.



Nanne Buurmann: Nature on Display. Mediatisierungen des Natürlichen in Kunst, Design und Gesellschaft [Nature on Display: Mediatizing the Natural in Art, Design, and Society]. Block seminar in the area of Theory and History of Art at the Institute for Art and Design, University of the Arts Bremen, winter semester 2019/2020.



Nanne Buurmann: I’ll be Your Mirror. Kuratorische (Selbst-)Inszenierungen als Spiegel des gesellschaftlichen Wandels [I’ll be Your Mirror: Curatorial (Self) Presentations as a Reflection of Social Change]. Lecture as part of the documenta professorship lecture series World - Art – Exhibition, University of Kassel, June 26, 2019.



Dr. Paul Reszke: Linguistische Forschungspraxis: Videographische Analysen von Kunstkommunikation [Linguistic Research Practice: Videographic Analyses of Art Communication], seminar in the Department of Art and Knowledge, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel, winter semester 2019/20.


Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, M.Sc Ludwig Gessner, Prof. Nora Sternfeld , Prof. Gabriele Franziska Götz: Verwachsen - ein Wissensraum der Zukunft. documenta Institut Kassel [Growing Together – A Space of Knowledge for the Future: documenta Institut Kassel], V/Project Baum und Raum in the Department of Design and Building Theory, Architecture, University of Kassel, winter semester 19/20.


Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hemken: Vom Gegenstand zum Exponat. Das Verhältnis von Objekt und Inszenierung in Ausstellungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts anhand der Fallbeispiele “Internationale Kunstausstellung 1926 in Dresden” und “Raum für konstruktive Kunst (El Lissitzky, 1926)” [From Object to Exhibit: The Relationship of the Object and Presentation in Exhibitions of the 20th and 21st Centuries Based on the Case Studies “International Art Exhibition 1926 in Dresden” and “Space for Constructive Art” (El Lissitzky, 1926], research project in Art History and Aesthetics, (Kassel), Exhibition Design (Düsseldorf), and Museum (Dresden), 2018 - 2021.



Nanne Buurmann: documenta as a Haunted Exhibition. Research project. Since 2018.



Samuel Korn: as found Raumpraktiken der documenta 1955– [as found Spatial Practices at the documenta 1955–]since 2018, University of Kassel.


Michael Flörchinger: Kassel, documenta und die “andere Stadt”[Kassel, documenta, and the “Other City”], doctoral project in the Department of Macrosociology,  University of Kassel. 


Carolin Oetterer: Museumsarchitektur. Symbiose von Kunst und Architektur. Die Bauaufgabe des Kunstmuseums in der Gegenwart (am Beispiel von Volker Staab, Renzo Piano und Frank O. Gehry) [Museum Architecture: Symbiosis of Art and Architecture: The Task of Building the Art Museum in the Present (using the examples of Volker Staab, Renzo Piano, and Frank O. Gehry)]. Doctoral project in the Department of Art History of the Modern Period, Art History and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Kassel.



Nora Sternfeld, Nanne Buurman, Carina Herring and Ina Wudtke: documenta studies. Web platform. Since 2018.



Ute Famulla and Kai-Uwe Hemken: Film und Foto (1929). VR Installation and Reconstruction of the Exhibition Bauhaus und die Fotografie, 2017-2019.

Publications

Anna Schäffler, Friderike Schäfer, Nanne Burrmann (eds.): Networks of Care. Politiken des (Er)haltens und (Ent)sorgens [Networks of Care: Politics of Preserving and Discarding], nGbK, Berlin 2022.



Liliana Gómez: Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern. diaphanes, Zurich 2022.


Liliana Gómez: (ed.): Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South. diaphanes, Zurich 2021.


Philipp Oswalt: Berlin City without Form, DOM publisher, Berlin 2021.


Ute Famulla: Konstruierte Räume. Das Neue Ausstellen und seine Fotografien [Constructed Spaces: New Ways of Exhibiting and Their Photographs]. University Press, Kassel 2020.


Philipp Oswalt: Marke Bauhaus 1919 – 2019. Der Sieg der ikonischen Form über den Gebrauch [The Victory of Iconic Form over Usage]Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2020.


Birgit Jooss, Philipp Oswalt, Daniel Tyradellis (eds.): bauhaus/documenta. Vision und Marke. Spector Books Leipzig 2019, English edition 2020.


Christian Hiller, Angelika Hinterbrandner, Anh-Linh Ngo, Philipp Oswalt, (eds.): Can Design Change Society? Project bauhaus/ arch+, published by Birkhäuser Basel 2019.



Sarah Dornhof, Nanne Buurman, Birgit Hopfener, Barbara Lutz (eds.): Situating Global Art:  Topologies – Temporalities – Trajectories. Transcript, Bielefeld 2018.



Nora Sternfeld, Nanne Buurman, Carina Herring, Ina Wudtke (eds.): documenta studien/documenta studies. Online-Journal, since October 2018.



Nanne Buurman, Dorothee Richter (eds.): documenta: Curating the History of the Present. On Curating #33, 2017.

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