Utopian Thinking and Arts? | International Symposium on the Course Week

The international symposium Utopian Thinking and Arts? will be held 4 February 2021, as part of the course week. The event is organised, supervised and moderated by Kinga German, PhD, art historian, associate professor, and programme director of the Design and Art Management Department at the Institute for Theoretical Studies. / Organiser, moderator: Kinga German, art historian, associate professor, Institute for Theoretical Studies

Thursday, 4 February 2021 

Dates, speakers, lecture topics

- 10:00-11:20 Dr. phil. Paul Ardenne (UFR des Arts, University of Amiens) art historian, curator: “What art for the Anthropocene?”

- 11:30-12:50 Dr. phil. Sebastian Baden (Kunsthalle Mannheim), art historian, curator for contemporary art & sculpture departament Kunsthalle Mannheim: „Art & Politics. Revolutions and Post-Colonial Perspectives in the Art World”

- 13:40-14:45 Dr. phil. Noemi Smolik (Prague, Frankfurt am Main), art historian, art critique: “The Russian Avant-Garde: A Projection Screen for Modern Utopian Thinking?”

The presentation will be held online, via Zoom. 
Lectures will be held via Zoom. They are open to the public and subject to registration.

Cover image: @Jean-Daniel Berclaz: Vernissage d'un point de vue. 2012.