Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Opening hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–6pm; Thu, 10am–9pm
Opening: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 7pm–10pm
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Ongoing
Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
Upcoming
Overture – Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition, 15 July – 10 August 2025, 19:00
Ana Janevski: Looping, Relaying and Echoing. Three Curatorial Strategies
Lecture, 16 July 2025, 19:00
Tanya Lukin Linklater: _structural_flex_
Lecture, 8 July 2025, 19:00
Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 2025, 19:00
Rabih Mroué: Shot/Counter Shot. Rethinking the Reverse
Lecture, 17 June 2025, 19:00
Adir Jan & Emrah Gökmen: On the Shores of the Munzur, on the Shores of the Murat
Concert, 12 June 2025, 20:00
Miloš Trakilović: Love Songs & War Machines
Lecture, 10 June 2025, 19:00
Anna Roberta Goetz: 36. Bienal de São Paulo. Not All Travellers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice
Lecture, 3 June 2025, 19:00
Jimmy Robert
Lecture, 27 May 2025, 19:00
Klein: No Degree, No Budget, No Problem
Lecture (20.5.) Concert (21.5.), 20 – 21 May 2025
Julian Irlinger: Reanimation and Reconstruction
Lecture, 13 May 2025, 19:00
İmran Ayata & Bülent Kullukçu: Songs of Gastarbeiter
Music Lecture, 8 May 2025, 19:00
Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa (Heaven Earth)
Screening (5.5.) Lecture (6.5.), 5 – 6 May 2025, 19:00
Helen Marten: Animal Hours
Lecture, 29 April 2025, 19:00
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Application, 10 April – 31 May 2025
Semester Break Spring 2025
Information, 14 February – 21 April 2025
Water Cooler Talks 2025
Event, 8 – 9 February 2025
Rundgang 2025
Exhibition, 7 – 9 February 2025, 10:00–20:00
Trisha Donnelly
Lecture, 30 January 2025, 19:00
Kerstin Brätsch: Parasite Painting
Lecture, 28 January 2025, 19:00
Emma Enderby: Curating in and out of Place
Lecture, 14 January 2025, 19:00

Morad Montazami: Black Gold or Curse. Investigating Petro-Modernity and the Hypothesis of a Post-Oil Visual Culture
The recent paradigm of petro-modernity takes oil as a political catalyst that plays out through expropriations, coups d'état or movements to nationalize the resource throughout the 20th century. As an intermedial tool, oil also links architecture, cinema, literature and art history to one another; and it presents a specific critical stream in museum history. How can we hence account for the emergence of petro-cultures and infrastructures within and outside the mainstream cultural industries and representations of the 20th century? How did humanity move from the golden age of oil economy and growth to our era of environmental crisis and collapsing ecosystems’ resilience?
Morad Montazami is an art historian, a publisher and a curator. After serving at Tate Modern, London, between 2014 and 2019 as curator “Middle East and North Africa”, he developed the publishing and curatorial platform Zamân Books & Curating to explore Arab, African and Asian modernism. He published numerous essays and curated among other projects Bagdad Mon Amour, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, 2018; Casablanca Art School, Tate St Ives/Sharjah Art Foundation/Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2023–2024; Arab Presences. Modern Art and Decolonization. Paris 1908–1988, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2024.