Part of the Long Night of the Museums
How can we investigate something that eludes direct observation? Dark matter and the Dark Universe have so far remained hidden from the human eye and from direct observation. They become accessible only through detector measurements, models and images. In her short talk with the title Images of the Invisible. The Dark Universe between Measurement and Imagination, Elisaveta Ernst asks how scientific and artistic image-making practices mediate between evidence, speculation and non-knowledge. She also explores how images of the Dark Universe shape ideas of the future and of exoplanetary heritage.
Image gallery
Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2018). Kompositbild des fernen Universums, erstellt auf Grundlage von Beobachtungen des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops
PARTICPANTS
Elisaveta Ernst
Elisaveta Ernst is an art and image historian specialising in the history and theory of photography. She works as Research Coordinator at the Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Previously, she was a research associate at the Chair of Eastern European Art History at the Institute of Art and Visual History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her doctoral dissertation received the 2024 Rudolf Arnheim Award for Early-Career Scholars. Elisaveta Ernst’s research – currently conducted within her project “Imaging the Invisible: Epistemological Critique and Exoplanetary Heritage in the Context of the Dark Universe” – focuses on model theory and the critical analysis of image-based knowledge production in art and science.
- Language: German
- Location: Humboldt Lab, 1st Floor
- Part of: On Water
- Ticket required for Lange Nacht der Museen
Additional information
Accessibility
The Humboldt Forum and all exhibition rooms can be reached barrier-free with a wheelchair. A tactile floor guidance system facilitates orientation for blind and visually impaired visitors. Educational formats are tailored to the different needs of visitors with disabilities. These include tactile tours, guided tours and workshops.
Barrier-free parking is available south of the Humboldt Forum on Schlossplatz. Barrier-free parking is available south of the Humboldt Forum on Schlossplatz. For more information, click here.
Bus bays are available in Rathausstraße: Stopping time from 9 - 22.30
By underground and suburban railway
U Museumsinsel (U5): 1 min walk
S/U Alexanderplatz: 15 min walk
S Hackescher Markt: 10 min walk
Dates
August 2026
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