Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Opening hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–6pm; Thu, 10am–9pm
Opening: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 7pm–10pm
Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
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
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Lecture & Screening 22 – 23 January 2024, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Monday, Jan 22, 2024, 7pm: Screening
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024, 7pm: Lecture
The lecture will start from the genesis of three films: “Resonating Surfaces” (2005), “Dissonant” (2010) and “Ghost Party (2)” (2022). The three films each grew out of an encounter with a specific person. Although different in form and content, each film was shaped by a long process of conversation and exchange between the protagonists and the film maker. Manon de Boer will discuss these works from the perspective of “anthropophagy” as formulated by Suely Rolnik, the main character of “Resonating Surfaces”, and how this concept is central to every creative process. For Rolnik, anthropophagy is the practice of allowing oneself to be cannibalized or pollinated by other living beings, in such a way that the perspective of the other, their relationship to the world, can be absorbed, transforming the self and creating a new form: different from one’s own, and also different from the form of the one who has been absorbed.
The experience of time pervades the work of Manon de Boer. This is an extended experience of time, firmly anchored in the conditions of creation that incessantly produces a present and presence and resists a normative, functional and productive concept of time. Manon de Boer mainly works within the audiovisual realm. In connection with her films, she works increasingly with sculpture, installation and performance.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennial (2007), Berlin Biennial (2008), São Paulo Biennial (2010), Documenta (2012), Taipei Biennial (2016) and has also been included in numerous film festivals in Hong Kong, Marseille, Rotterdam and Vienna. Her work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008), South London Gallery (2010), Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis (2011), Museum of Art Philadelphia (2012), Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven (2013), Secession Vienna (2016), Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon (2020), and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen (2022) among others.
The lecture will be held in English.