Projekte
Heal the World? Naturalizing the Historical in Pastoral Exhibition Making, or: Curatorial Governmentalities and their Discontents – the Case of documenta
This project will discuss chosen examples of artistic, art historical and curatorial discourse and display from the prewar to the present to analyze the ways in which visual and verbal appeals to nature and naturalization contributed to whitewash and greenwash documenta’s difficult heritage, repressing controversial memories and fostering ideals of wholeness and purity.
Working Group: Exhibition Ecologies
Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in research both in exhibition studies and in environmental humanities, particularly at the intersection of art and ecology. However, a cohesive interdisciplinary field combining these two areas has yet to be fully established.
Klimagipfelkunst. Kunst und politisches Event, 1972 – 2022
Das Projekt untersucht erstmals die „Klimagipfelkunst“ als einen Korpus, um daran exemplarisch Spezifika und Entwicklungen in den Verhältnisweisen von Kunst zu Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft seit den 1970er Jahren zu eruieren. Es macht sich vor diesem Hintergrund zur Aufgabe, Positionierungen und Institutionalisierungen der Kunst im Rahmen politischer Gipfel zu erforschen.