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Which art goes into the museum – and which does NOT?

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Museums collect knowledge

What is collected, exhibited and preserved here has an impact - for generations to come. This art influences the way we perceive our society. But who decides what is collected and on what basis? To what extent do museums and their collections reflect our lives today - especially with regard to diversity, interculturality and global challenges?

Talk round: Which art goes into the museum – and which does NOT?

Discuss together with our four art experts at eye level. Your opinions and experiences are important to us! How do you think collections should be put together and curated in the future?
The event will be held bilingually in German and English spoken language.

When and where?

October 29, 2024. Admission: from 6 p.m. - Start: 6.30 p.m.
Filmforum NRW Köln
Bischofsgartenstr. 1 | 50667 Cologne

Registration + free admission

Please register by e-mail: h.burkard@uni-koeln.de

Our experts

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Mischa Kuball
Professor for Public Art / Public Space

Mischa Kuball has been Professor for Art in Public Space at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, since 2007 and was Professor for Media Art at the Academy of Art and Design/ZKM, Karlsruhe, from 2002-2008. He has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Düsseldorf, since 2015. In 2016 he was awarded the German Lighting Prize. Since spring 2024 he has been an Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 'Matters of Activity. Image Space Material'.

Click here for the website of Mischa Kuball

 

donna Kukama
Professor of Contemporary Art / Global South

donna Kukama is also an interdisciplinary artist who uses performance art as a tool for creative research. Her work presents institutions, monuments, gestures of protest, rumors and fleeting moments that are as real as they are fictional. She questions the way history is told and subverts the construction of value systems, often focusing on methodological perspectives that originate from the global South.

Click here for donna Kukama's Instagram

 

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Horst Bredekamp
Professor of Medieval and Modern Art History

The art historian Horst Bredekamp is one of the most distinguished representatives of his field. His academic career combines classical art historical topics with more recent theoretical approaches to visual studies and spans epochs from the Romanesque period, the Renaissance and the 19th century to contemporary new media.

Horst Bredekamp's website can be found here

 

 

Lilian Haberer
Professor of Art History

After studying art history, Italian studies and philosophy at the University of Cologne and La Sapienza in Rome as well as various research stays, Lilian Haberer completed a research assistantship for Rosemarie Trockel. At the same time, she has realized a number of curatorial projects for museums and institutions, for example as part of the Dutch-German platform _gap.

Click here to visit Lilian Haberer's website

 

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Prasanna Oommen

Prasanna Oommen has been working as a moderator for 20 years. She is primarily concerned with transformations in the art/culture and media landscape. A particular focus here is on the interfaces with socio-political issues relating to diversity, fair participation, digitalization, AI and sustainability. In addition to her work as a facilitator, she advises and supports institutions, municipalities and ministries in their change processes. Her portfolio also includes training courses in the field of political communication.

Click here to visit Prasann Oommen's website

 

Wissenschaftsforum zu Köln und Essen

Committed public science is based on openness, competence and the joy of lively discourse. This is precisely how the Cologne and Essen Science Forum sees its task - in open dialog between the disciplines both internally and in a polyphonic exchange with people and media outside the universities. By networking the research communities beyond NRW, knowledge offerings are created that advance social discourse.

Forumsprofessur

The Science Forum organizes "Forum Professorships" with the dedication "Public Science". These are each occupied for one month by a prominent figure from the fields of science, literature or journalism. The forum professors give public lectures within the thematic framework of the Science Forum's current focal points and are available for exchange with the academic and non-academic public in colloquia and other formats during their time at the forum.

Wallraf 200 - Anniversary Year

This event is part of the Wallraf200 anniversary year. In 2024, the City of Cologne and the University of Cologne, the Stifterrat des Wallraf-Richartz-Museums & Fondation Corboud e.V. and the Kuratorium für die Rettung der Historischen Stadt- und Wallraf-Bibliothek will jointly celebrate their citizen Ferdinand Franz Wallraf. Exhibitions, lectures, concerts, street art and much more will honor the collector, visionary and scholar whose work has had a lasting influence on Cologne to this day. Wallraf left his legacy of artworks, books and objects to the city 200 years ago.

The venue: Filmforum NRW at the Museum Ludwig

Just a stone's throw from Cologne Central Station, the Filmforum is centrally located directly between the Rhine and the cathedral. Private individuals, clubs or companies can rent the beautiful movie theater with over 250 seats. The auditorium's stage can be used for panel discussions, lectures, presentations or music events. The cinema's foyer offers space for receptions and drinks at events.

 

Address

Filmforum NRW at the Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstr. 1, 50667 Cologne

Website

Filmforum NRW

 

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