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FUSION Of real and imagined spaces. Mapping the Archive // Karina Nimmerfall
The radically expanded concept of space since the so-called "spatial turn" opens up possibilities for an artistic practice that responds to the complexity of our lived environment: built architecture in its material form, systems of representation in the context of media images and the archive as well as the imaginary space of cultural, socio-political and ideological concepts. Referring to theories that assume that these spaces are not only mutually dependent, but also overlap and together create the space we experience, the lecture presents a selection of projects for discussion that deal with concepts of the construction of reality, temporality and history at the interface of artistic field research, archive database, display and exhibition space.
Karina Nimmerfall is a visual artist and professor for cross-disciplinary artistic-media practice and theory at the Department of Art and Music at the University of Cologne. Numerous international exhibitions, including at Camera Austria, Graz; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Bucharest Biennale 3; Francisco Carolinum, Linz; and 8th Havana Biennale. Her work has received numerous awards, most recently the Scholarship for Contemporary German Photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation (2018).
Summer semester 2022 I Fusion: Exhibiting
Parallel to documenta fifteen, Fusion in summer semester 2022 will deal with questions of exhibition and exhibiting. These range from the exhibition value of architecture itself to architecture museums; from architectural models as exhibition objects to questions of urban development through "signature buildings", which often take the form of museums; from exhibition architectures and spatial-curatorial settings to artistic appropriations of architectural processes.
Public lecture series I Positions on architecture, city and landscape
Scientists, planners and designers are invited to the weekly public lecture series Fusion to report on their work with a special focus on their position on architecture, city and landscape and to discuss it with the guests. As part of Fusion, the newly appointed professors and guest lecturers give their inaugural lectures.