Lecture series Summer 2025
Forschungsstation on Lutherplatz
In the summer semester 2025, the Transdisciplinary Center for Exhibition Studies - TRACES - once again invites you to a series of public lectures. In a total of seven events, 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 sees itself as an open forum for exchange between the university, art academy and the public. With this in mind, the invited speakers were selected in close consultation with lecturers from the university and the art academy, who will link the topics of the lectures to their courses in the summer semester. The contributions thus not only provide insights into contemporary artistic and design positions, but also into current transdisciplinary dialogues in the courses on exhibiting, remembering, researching, curating and designing.
All lectures take place on Tuesdays at 18:00 in the TRACES research station on Lutherplatz. Admission is free, all interested parties are welcome.
Program overview:
29 April, 18:00 Hubertus Butin
From Albrecht Dürer to Richard Prince: artists and their forgeries - a special relationship An art-historical journey through the changing relationship between artists and their forgeries - from the Renaissance to the present day.
As part of the seminar ‘Some Considerations on Fakes in Art: an Art historical and economic view’ by Martina Sitt
13 May, 18:00 Jasmin Klotz
Collecting and exhibiting memory in a participatory way
About participatory strategies in memory work and their implementation in exhibition projects.
As part of the seminar on the former Kassel police headquarters by Susanne Hesse and Conny Weckmann
27 May, 18:00 Anna Viebrock
Inventing the found
The stage designer and director talks about the relationship between space, reality and imagination in her artistic practice.
As part of the Design Build exhibition project by Samuel Korn, Jakob Gebert and Jens-Uwe Fischer
10 June, 18:00 Harsh Patel
Off-Center: Finding a sustainable graphic design practice in the rightward drift
A critical look at contemporary graphic design at the intersection of politics, culture and sustainable practice.
As part of the semester programme of the graphic design class of Rebecca Stephany
24 June, 18:00 Sarah Alberti & Birgit Grimm
Kunst aus der DDR: Über Kunstszene/Ost A conversation about making visible and locating East German art history(ies) in today's exhibition discourse.
As part of the seminar ‘Art of the GDR. A German-German* Art History’ by Defne Kızılöz
8 July, 18:00 Matthias Claudius Hofmann
A making-of of the exhibition "Country Bin Pull'em"
A look behind the scenes of an exhibition that deals with rural imaginations and their performative realization.
As part of the Humboltbox semester project in the class for painting by Dierk Schmidt
15 July, 18:00 Maren Lübbke-Tidow
“Verstehen vom anderen her” - Kuratieren als Gegenentwurf
On curatorial practice as a critical space for reflection and the possibility of a change of perspective.
As part of the semester programme of the class for photography of Peggy Buth
The lecture series is an initiative of TRACES in collaboration with lecturers from the University and Kunsthochschule Kassel.
We look forward to diverse impulses, open discussions - and to seeing you there!