Symposium
On the occasion of the exhibition Utopia. The Right to Hope at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, a symposium – organised in cooperation with the Akademie’s Visual Arts Section – explores the project’s central themes: urban development in the face of the climate catastrophe, ecology and micro-utopias, democracy, global justice and transnational utopias. The aim is to illuminate artistic avenues out of the dystopian present.
Image gallery
Anetta Mona Chişa und Lucia Tkáčová, Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. (Videostill), 2011, 1-Kanal-Video, Farbe, Ton 7:57 min
Programme
Cluster I (11:30 am – 12:30 pm)
Utopias of urban development/urban planning in the face of the climate catastrophe
Keynote speech Anh-Linh Ngo (ARCH+/Akademie der Künste)
Expert/artist discussion with Karin Sander (Artist/Akademie der Künste), Friedrich von Borries (HFBK Hamburg), Ina-Marie Orawiec (Urban Planner/Architect), Folke Köbberling (TU Braunschweig)
Lunch break (12:30–1:30 pm)
Cluster II (1:30–2:30 pm)
Ecology and sustainability in dystopian times (in English)
Keynote speech Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University, GB)
Expert/artist discussion with Tilo Wesche (Uni Oldenburg) and Andreas Greiner (Artist)
Coffee break (2:30–3 pm)
Cluster III (3–4 pm)
Global justice and transnational utopias
Keynote speech Nikita Dhawan (TU Dresden)
Expert/artist discussion with Ludger Schwarte (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) and Marina Naprushkina (Artist)
Closing discussion (4–4:45 pm)
Film screening (from about 5 pm)
Maximiliano Laina & Tomás Saraceno, Fly with Pacha, Into the Aerocene (2023, 76:25 min)
With Andreas Beitin, Friedrich von Borries, Nikita Dhawan, Lisa Garforth, Andreas Greiner, Folke Köbberling, Sebastian Mühl, Veronika Mehlhart, Marina Naprushkina, Anh-Linh Ngo, Ina-Marie Orawiec, Karin Sander, Ludger Schwarte, Dino Steinhof, Tilo Wesche et al.
Dates
December 2025
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