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TRACES Talk Series Summer 2026 – Research Station Lutherplatz
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09.06.26 – Clara Bausch: Diapositiv or the Collective Cleanup
The focus is on the slide—an image that is not reproduced but projected: light that reappears as it passes through material, thereby linking place, time, and memory.
Drawing on the speaker’s own film and installation works, the lecture explores experiences that bridge the studio, the lab, the exhibition space, and social spaces. The lecture ranges from collective image practices such as slide shows and Super 8 screenings to current works in which film is understood as a process of organizing, sharing, and re-enacting. It addresses fragmentary memory, shared viewing, and the question of how cinematic works can be exhibited when they elude fixed forms.
Insights into projects such as I love Roadmovie (2008), and the smile is red on red (2014), and movements to resist (2025) are complemented by reflections on the founding of LaborBerlin, on self-organized forms of film production and presentation, and on the exhibition project Doku.Argu.Experi.Pig (2021). Slide or the Collective Cleanup understands artistic practice as something that circulates between people, spaces, and times—and is constantly being reassembled.
13.–14.06.26 – RESERVIERT
An exhibition by students from the foundation class.
Featuring Juno Abraham, Sumayya Afoun, Jiyeong Hwang, Moritz Kulka, Margo Leinberger, Alexa Angelina Scheuermann, Greta Thole, Shurui Yang
16.06.26 – Martin Fokken, Andrea Linnenkohl, Robert Peper: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and documenta
What do diversity, equity, and inclusion mean for an institution like documenta—and how can these concepts be translated into concrete terms in exhibition practice, organizational structure, and public accessibility? The panel discussion brings together three documenta staff members who approach these questions from different areas of work: from production and technology to exhibition management, organizational learning, sustainability, and accessibility. Together, they will discuss which experiences have shaped previous editions of documenta, which measures have already been implemented—from structural adaptations to plain language—and what challenges lie ahead with regard to the upcoming documenta 16.
23.06.26 – Adriana Del Pilar García Galán: Witnessing the Biennial
This talk offers a reflection on the Bogotá Arts Biennial from the perspective of embodied spectatorship and independent mediation. Rather than focusing solely on institutional discourse, this session explores how the body of the spectator can act as a living archive that witnesses and reinterprets artistic actions.
Using my experience as both a participant in independent programs and a critical observer, I will discuss how large-scale exhibitions are inhabited and embodied by their publics. We will analyze the tensions between the official curatorial gaze and the sensory, often invisible, knowledge produced through the act of witnessing. This is an invitation to think about how can art exhibitions become shared spaces of resonance where the labor of mediation and the situated presence of the spectator shape the event’s meaning and memory.
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