Veranstaltungen

30.01.2025 | Ausstellungseröffnung mit Vortrag und Diskussion: "Kunst hinter Gittern – Gedanken zu Freiheit und Diktatur"

Wann: Donnerstag, 30.1.2025, 18.00-22.00 Uhr

Wo: FTSK, 2. OG Neubau / DOL V

Gäste: Sascha Skotschilenko (Künstlerin, Musikerin und Aktivistin) und Daria Apakhonchich (Künstlerin, Lehrerin und Staatsfeindin)

Eröffnungsvortrag von Olga Gleiser: "Kunst hinter Gittern - Aktivisten, ausländische Agenten und Realität"

 

 

12.-15.2.2025 | Tagung "Embedded: The Military as a Patron of the Arts. Part II"

Organized by Mischa Gabowitsch and Jan Kusber, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, with generous support from the Georg Forster Forum

Download the full program here.

All over the world, militaries have long acted as patrons of the arts. Individual generals have struck up friendships with painters, sculptors, and architects. Sketch artists and photographers have accompanied soldiers as embedded visual artists. Armies have created artistic programs and institutions such as the Grekov Studio in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia, the Wehrmacht’s Squadron of Visual Artists, or the U.S. Army Combat Artists Program. Military patronage of the arts has resulted in a wide array of artistic products, ranging from drawings and paintings via small war memorials and soldiers‘ cemeteries to battlefield panoramas, equestrian statues, and military cathedrals. Militaries have also funded and produced music and dance performances as well as films and TV programs. Weiterlesen "12.-15.2.2025 | Tagung "Embedded: The Military as a Patron of the Arts. Part II""

24.-25.2.2025 | Workshop "Translating East European Memories"

Those of us raised with Central and East European historical memories regularly find ourselves in situations when it is difficult to convey our understanding of past and present to—indifferent or even sympathetic—audiences that do not share these memories or the resulting imaginaries. This has become especially acute in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but it is a much wider problem. In this workshop, we would like to explore such situations and develop a conceptual language to articulate it without indulging in essentialist understandings of East Europeanness or of particular national or local identities. Weiterlesen "24.-25.2.2025 | Workshop "Translating East European Memories""