On the last warm days of the 2025/26 winter semester, the Transdisciplinary Center for Exhibition Studies – TRACES – is once again inviting the public to a series of lectures. Over the course of five evenings, national and international guests from the fields of fine arts, design, exhibition practice, theater, art history, and curatorial theory will provide insights into their working methods, research questions, and creative perspectives.

The lecture series is intended as an open forum for exchange between the university, art college, and the public. With this in mind, the invited speakers were selected in close consultation with faculty members from the university and art college who will link the topics of the lectures to their courses in the winter semester. The contributions thus not only provide insights into contemporary artistic and design positions, but also into current transdisciplinary dialogues in the curriculum on exhibiting, remembering, researching, curating, and designing.

All lectures take place on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. at the TRACES research station on Lutherplatz. Admission is free, and all interested parties are welcome.

October 21, 6:00 p.m.
Anthea Caddy
Invisible Territories: Sound Beams and Spatial Intervention

October 28, 6:00 p.m.
Veronica Locatelli
PER – Radical Exhibited Thought. Exhibitions of Architecture in Italy in the Contemporary Age

November 4, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Pamela C. Scorzin
Who’s Afraid of Ai-Da?
Zum Phänomen ‚kreativer‘ KI-Roboter in der zeitgenössischen Kunstwelt [On the phenomenon of ‘creative’ AI robots in the contemporary art world]

November 11, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Robin Kötzle
„Chaos stiften“ – Immersive Räume als Medium einer kritischen Ausstellungspraxis [“Creating Chaos” – Immersive Spaces as a Medium for Critical Exhibition Practice]

November 18, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Sarah Alberti & Birgit Grimm
Kunst aus der DDR: Über Kunstszene/Ost [Art from the GDR: On the Art Scene/East]
A conversation about making East German art history(ies) visible and locating them in today's exhibition discourse.