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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
Éric Baudelaire: When There is No More Music to Write (Lecture)

Underneath the lengthy title of Éric Baudelaire's new film are three short films that evoke the figure of avant-garde composer Alvin Curran and his relationship with Rome, where he settled in the mid-1960s and created music mainly within the Musica Elettronica Viva collective. The short films tell the story of Rome during turbulent times marked by the kidnapping of Aldo Moro and the revolutionary struggles of the late 1970s. The last film's subtitle, "of about Alvin Curran," suggests that it is both a portrait and a collaboration. Alvin Curran justified a musical art free from scores and focused on collaborative and performative processes in reaction to the political climate of the time. In a deliberately political manner and in collaboration with the oeuvre he documents, Éric Baudelaire plays down the figure of the author and the idea of art as the expression of a singular voice. The film ends and restarts three times, with the certainty that by replaying the end, everything can begin again.
Éric Baudelaire is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris. After training as a political scientist, Baudelaire established himself as a visual artist with a research-based practice in several media ranging from photography and the moving image to installation, performance, and letter writing. His work probes a reality shaped by the systems of representation that structure contemporary societies: political, judicial, economic, and informational constructs. His feature films are shown in festivals as well as exhibitions, where they are presented within broader installations that include other works, archival documents, and extensive public programs. He has had exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle St Gallen; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Bergen Kunsthall; (formerly known as) Witte de With, Rotterdam; Bétonsalon, Paris; Fridericianum, Kassel; Beirut Art Center; Gasworks, London; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and showed work in the Whitney Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Yokohama Triennale, Mediacity Seoul, and Taipei Biennial. He was the recipient of the 2019 Marcel Duchamp prize, and recently published a monography titled Make, Do, With at Paraguay Press.
On Monday, 08 May 2023, a screening of the film When There is No More Music to Write (And other Roman Stories) will take place at 7 pm in the Aula of the Städelschule.
On Tuesday, 09 May 2023, Éric Baudelaire will give a lecture, also at 7 pm in the Aula of the Städelschule.
Both the film and the lecture will be in English.