Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Opening hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–6pm; Thu, 10am–9pm
Opening: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 7pm–10pm
Today
Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 2025, 19:00
Ongoing
Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
Upcoming
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
Sohrab Mohebbi: I don't want to be critical like that

This talk looks at the hegemony of critique in contemporary art as a centralizing force that is increasingly implemented as a mechanism for control and exclusion. Why does art need to be critical, or rather critical in a certain way? The presentation asks if critique is the sole formula for resistance in contemporary art practice. Risking hyperbole, has critique become the language of the oppressor? The talk will juggle a few concurrent thoughts and ideas that attempt to respond to these questions from personal experience.
Sohrab Mohebbi is a writer and curator of the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, and curator-at-large at SculptureCenter, New York. Some exhibitions include: Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit (2020); Searching the Sky for Rain (2019); Christian Nyampeta, École du soir (2019) and Banu Cennetoglu (2019). At REDCAT CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, he curated, among others: It is obvious from the map (co-curated with Thomas Keenan, 2017) and Hotel Theory (2015). He is a contributing editor to Bidoun, has a BA from Tehran Art University, and an MA from CCS Bard.
Registration
The lecture will be held in English language.