On the equally specific and general, productive and reproductive, material and immaterial nature of artistic labour.
Today
Ongoing
Winter Semester 2023/24
Information, 16 October 2023 – 9 February 2024
Lectures Winter Semester 2023/24
Information, 7 November 2023 – 6 February 2024
Upcoming
Rundgang 2024
Exhibition, 9 – 11 February 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nika Dubrovsky: Another art world: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity
Lecture, 28 November 2023, 19:00
Iris Touliatou: In this Economy
Lecture, 21 November 2023, 19:00
Gareth Evans: An Act of Care: Curation–A Modest Proposal
Lecture, 13 – 14 November 2023, 19:00
Helena Uambembe: Creating Myth for a historical understanding
Lecture, 7 November 2023, 19:00
Summer Term Break 2023
Information, 17 July – 13 October 2023
GROTTO – Graduate Show 2023
Exhibition, 14 – 30 July 2023
Hoor Al Qasimi: Sharjah Biennial 15. Thinking Historically in the Present
Lecture, 4 July 2023, 19:00
Manthia Diawara & Monika Szewczyk: AI: African Intelligence
Screening, 28 June 2023, 20:15
Lynn Rother: Uncanny provenance. Art history and its double
Lecture, 27 June 2023, 19:00
Slavs and Tatars: The Transliterative Tease
Lecture, 20 June 2023
Amt 45 i: Talks
Symposium, 17 June 2023, 14:00–20:30
another night in daimler
Konzert, 16 June 2023, 20:00
Jacqui Davies: Playing with Fire or the perils of working at the intersection of art and film
Lecture, 13 June 2023, 19:00
Willem de Rooij: King Vulture
Lecture, 6 June 2023, 19:00
Vittoria Martini & Thomas Hirschhorn: The Ambassador’s Diary
Talk, 1 June 2023
Tarek Lakhrissi: Beastangel
Lecture, 16 May 2023
Éric Baudelaire: When There is No More Music to Write (Lecture)
Lecture, 9 May 2023
Éric Baudelaire: When There is No More Music to Write (Screening)
Screening, 8 May 2023
Lectures Summer Semester 2023
Lecture, 2 May – 7 July 2023
Grada Kilomba: A conversation about the 35th Bienal de São Paulo
Lecture, 2 May 2023, 19:00
Summer Semester 2023
Information, 11 April – 14 July 2023
Admission Period for Full-time Studies in Fine Arts 2023/24
Information, 1 – 30 April 2023
Lap-See Lam "Tales of the Altersea" at Portikus
Exhibition, 11 March – 28 May 2023
Peter Weibel (1944–2023)
Information, 1 – 15 March 2023
Winter Term Break 2022/23
Information, 13 February – 10 April 2023
The Mensa is taking a break!
Information, 13 – 20 February 2023
Rundgang 2023
Exhibition, 10 – 12 February 2023, 10:00–20:00
Water Cooler Talks 2023
Lecture, 10 – 12 February 2023
Rundgang Film Program at DFF
Exhibition, 10 – 12 February 2023
Rundgang Party 2023
Party, 10 February 2023, 23:00
Rundgang Awards 2023
Information, 10 – 24 February 2023
On the Benefits of Friendship—A symposium in honor of Prof. Dr. Isabelle Graw
Symposium, 27 January 2023, 14:00–18:00
Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw: city limits
Lecture, 24 January 2023, 19:00
Christina Li: Time, dispossessed
Lecture, 17 January 2023, 19:00
Ellie Ga: Artist talk

Ellie Ga’s talk explores the role of the artist as a “conceptual archaeologist”. She uses her most recent video work Gyres 1-3 (2019) as a springboard to talk about her methods of shifting through conversations, images, histories and archives, uncovering fragments of the overlooked and the mistranslated. Through a selection of works from the past decade the Ga wants to explore unexpected connections and enable metaphors to emerge as she tries to find her way. The main focus lies on clips from the works Strophe, A turning (2017) and the series The Fortunetellers (2011) and Square Octagon Circle (2012-2015).
Ellie Ga is a New York-born, Stockholm-based, artist and writer whose immersive, wide-ranging investigations include the submerged ruins of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria (Square Octagon Circle, 2012-2015) and the charting of the quotidian in the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean (The Fortunetellers, 2007-2011). The use of messages in bottles, both as a tool for studying the oceans and a metaphor for exile, is the subject of the video installation Strophe, A Turning (2017). Her video installation Gyres 1-3 (2019) explores the form of a gyre: a spiraling current on the ocean’s surface that circulates debris and casts it ashore.
Throughout Ga’s video installations, performances and books, Ga’s intertwines extensive research with first-hand experiences. An important metaphor is the concept of drift and its manifestation across disciplines of thought and as well as ways of approaching narrative forms.
Ga is the author of Square Octagon Circle (Siglio Press, New York) and Three Arctic Booklets (Ugly Duckling Presse). From 2014-2017 she received a Swedish Research Council artistic research grant. Gyres 1-3 was produced by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She is a co-founder of the publishing press Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn, New York.
The lecture will be held in English language.