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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Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 2025, 19:00
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Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
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Tanya Lukin Linklater: _structural_flex_
Lecture, 8 July 2025, 19:00
Overture – Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition, 15 July – 10 August 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
Jason Mohaghegh: Dreams of the Last King

This lecture explores the idea of literature, philosophy and art taken to the outer edge of its desolation. In essence, what does it mean to create at the last threshold, and what is the purpose of imagination on the final night of existence? Are doomed worlds the basis for an entirely new logic of dreaming? Through a combination of image, storytelling and enigmatic thought-fragments, Jason Mohaghegh will unravel this riddle of leaving inscriptions that are destined to disappear and finding visionary experience in the will to oblivion.
Jason Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His work explores rising philosophical, poetic and artistic movements across both East and West, with particular focus on concepts of chaos, illusion, violence, disappearance, silence, madness, apocalypse, night, and futurity. He has published nine books to date—including The Chaotic Imagination (Palgrave, 2010); Inflictions: The Writing of Violence (Bloomsbury, 2012); The Radical Unspoken (Routledge, 2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism (SUNY, 2014) and his latest volumes titled Omnicide: Mania, Fatalism, and the Future-In-Delirium (MIT Press/Urbanomic /Sequence, 2019) and Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark (Zero Books, 2020). He is the Founding Director of the Future Studies Program, he is also the Director of Transdisciplinary Studies for the New Centre for Research & Practice, co-editor of the Suspensions Book Series (Bloomsbury) and founder of the 5th Disappearance Lab.
The lecture will be held in English language.