On the equally specific and general, productive and reproductive, material and immaterial nature of artistic labour.
Today
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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
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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
L’ESPRIT – Absolventenausstellung 2020

With Nadja Adelmann, Maïly Beyrens Xu, Živa Drvarič, Pia Ferm, Hannah Fitz, Louise Giovanelli, Timon & Melchior Grau, Lukas Heerich, Simon Lässig, Jiwon Lee, Yong Xiang Li, Fiona McDonald, Shaun Motsi, Johanna Odersky, Nadia Perlov, Ada Rączka, James Sturkey, Andrew Wagner, Nicholas Warburg, Matt Welch and Eugen Wist
From the classes of Monika Baer, Gerard Byrne, Judith Hopf, Hassan Khan, Tobias Rehberger, Willem de Rooij, Haegue Yang and former professor Amy Sillman as well as former guest professor Nikolas Gambaroff
Curated by Sophie Buscher and Alke Heykes
Over the past months it has been confirmed that making art is deeply connected with the physical presence of others and that it is dependent on a close engagement with life. Art is created in the exchange of experiences—it is based on intimacy and closeness. The lack of emphatic presence, the absence of body language and physical interaction made us all unlearn and learn on different levels of our lives.
22 graduates from 12 different countries will present their final works over the period of one month in the entire building of Portikus–from the central hall and the mezzanine to the basement–and provide an insight into the multifaceted work of the graduating class. There will be paintings, sculptures, video works, prints, drawings, installations and performances on view. The works are the result of five years of study in discipline-specific classes with free artistic work in the studios and an intensive exchange with the professors. The Absolventenausstellung is the formal and artistic highlight of the studies and is often the first institutional exhibition of these young artists.
The graduation works in L'Esprit show once again the importance of artistic discourses in a time marked by distance. The various themes and media offer approaches and suggestions for an uncertain present and unpredictable future. However, all together they take on the attitude of a collective optimism and have an impact beyond the physical boundaries of Portikus and the Städelschule.
VISIT THE EXHIBITION
The number of visitors for the exhibition and the performance is limited therefore waiting times may occur. We kindly ask you to keep the distance of 1,5 metres to other visitors and wear a mask.
Portikus Opening hours
Tuesday–Sunday: 11 am – 6 pm
Wednesday: 11 am – 8 pm
Monday: closed
Free entry
An accompanying website created by the graduates as well as a publication will function as an extension of the exhibition. The latter contains artistic editions made by the graduating students and several of their professors. It will be available online and at Portikus. The website created by the graduates will be online in parallel to the opening of the exhibition: www.lesprit.online
As part of Maïly Beyrens Xu‘s graduation project every Wednesday different artists are invited for a sonic improvisation into the garden of Portikus:
Wednesday, September 23, 6 pm
Wednesday, September 30, 6 pm
Wednesday, October 7, 6 pm
Wednesday, October 14, 6 pm
Guided tours through the exhibition will be organized upon request via kunstkoordination@staedelschule.de
The exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Graf von Westphalen, Städelschule Portikus e.V., Allen & Overy and Sammlung Pohl.