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
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
Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 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
Tiona Nekkia McClodden: UNMASK – VEIL – OBSCURE

This lecture will center and deconstruct the meaning of the mask in theory and form in relation to Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s works and their respective influences. She will approach this lecture in the form of a triptych which will explore the following: Unmasking, THE FULL SEVERITY OF COMPASSION, 2019; Veil, Se Te Subio El Santo, 2016 which will explore the mask as disclosure; Obscure, The Brad Johnson Tape, III, 2017 will explore the mask as a device of illegibility
Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Most recently, her work has explored the themes of re-memory and narrative biomythography. McClodden has exhibited and screened work at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; MOCA LA; MCA Chicago and MoMA PS1, New York. Most recently she is the recipient of a Bucksbaum Award for her work in the Whitney Biennial (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2019), a Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from Bard College (2018) and a Pew Fellowship (2016), among others. In 2017/18 she curated A Recollection. + Predicated. as a part of the multi-artist retrospective Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental at both the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia and The Kitchen in New York. She lives and works in North Philadelphia and is the Founder and Owner of Philadelphia based, Conceptual Fade, a micro-gallery and library space centering Black thought and artistic production. Her writing has been featured on the Triple Canopy platform, in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, ART 21 Magazine and many other publications.
The lecture will be held in English.