Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
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Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
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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

Daniel Blanga-Gubbay: Fictional Institutions, Inclusiveness and Representation
What does it mean for an institution to not simply host fiction but rather to be hosted by it? This talk will begin with a discussion of recent uses of fictional institutions as a way to put the perceived 'naturality' of the existing ones into question. Placing this analysis between the ideas of nature and fiction, the lecture will travel with the xeno-feminist use of the two terms as well as with the possibility of applying them to institutions, in order to eventually consider fiction as a tool to work on inclusiveness and discrimination in today's institutions.
Daniel Blanga-Gubbay lives and works in Brussels. Of Lebanese-Syrian origin, he grew up in Italy where he graduated from the IUAV University of Venice in philosophy and performance. After receiving a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Palermo in collaboration with the University of Valencia and the Freie Universität Berlin, he worked at the University of Düsseldorf. In 2014 he initiated Aleppo (A Laboratory for Experiments in Performance and Politics), a Brussels-based curatorial platform for public programmes in performance and discursive practices, and has since then worked as a co-curator for LiveWorks (Centrale Fies). From 2015 onwards he has held the position the Head of the Department of Arts and Choreography (ISAC) at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels. He worked as dramaturge and programmer for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts and was appointed at its joint direction together with Sophie Alexandre and Dries Douibi in September 2018.
The lecture is part of the lecture program We Who Feel Differently, organised by Gardenia, a reading group among Städelschule students. It is the second iteration and will continue on December 11 with the art historian Bojana Kunst.