Artistic participation in transformation processes: Colloquium discusses socio-ecological challenges in urban areas

The focus will be on civil society experiments with the arts:
How can universal participation in the cultural field be insisted upon – in a theoretically sound, historically contextualised and artistically productive way? What social, ecological and sustainable potentials can be identified and activated in art?

Based on the artistic practice of Pia Lanzinger, the possibilities and limits of cultural work in urban and civil society contexts will be explored. The debate will also address areas of tension between artistic ambition, political activism and curatorial strategies: When and how does art become an infrastructural battleground for social engagement?


The colloquium is aimed at artists, cultural practitioners, academics, activists and anyone interested in thinking about and shaping the role of art in social change.

With:
Jochen Becker, author, curator, lecturer and co-founder of metroZones | Center for Urban Affairs and station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf / Sabeth Buchmann, professor of modern and postmodern art history at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Elke Krasny, cultural theorist, professor of art and education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Antje Weitzel, curator and cultural manager, artistic director and managing director of Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin since the end of 2024.


Concept by Katharina Schlieben as part of Turning the Point 2 Little Big Cha(lle)nges.

• Supported by the Lotto Foundation Berlin.
  

(in German)