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
Tanya Lukin Linklater: _structural_flex_
Lecture, 8 July 2025, 19:00
Overture – Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition, 15 July – 10 August 2025, 19:00
Water Cooler Talks
Event 14 – 16 February 2020
DISCUSSIONS ON ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE
On the occasion of Rundgang at Städelschule, the students of the master’s programme Curatorial Studies present the Water Cooler Talks. For three days, this series of events provides an open platform to exchange and discuss ideas together with artists, curators, theoreticians and activists on shifting boundaries in the contemporary art world(s).
This year's discussions, a lecture performance and a film screening will focus on Queer Ecologies and the tension between artistic and curatorial practice. By queering we mean a critical approach towards the constructs of identity practices and norms. The series of events focuses on possibilities and challenges of obvious and subtle queer practices in relation to the environment. How are certain categories produced and defined? How can dichotomous relationships – nature/culture, humans/environment, self/other, production/reception – be shifted, irritated and thought differently? The approach of the Water Cooler Talks is contextual and offers the opportunity to reflect on our own curatorial practices.
Friday, February 14
11 Uhr Grey, Green, Gold (and Red)
Lecture Performance mit Uriel Orlow and following conversation with Lina Louisa Krämer
moderated by Theresa Dettinger and Leonie Schmiese (Curatorial Studies)
Aula
14:00 Teaching Art and Curating
Conversation with Yasmil Raymond and Haegue Yang
moderated by Asta Mandelsloh and Johanna Weiß (Curatorial Studies)
Aula
16:30 La Conférence des Femmes - Nairobi ‘85 by Françoise Dasque (1985)
Film Screening (64min.)
Aula
17:30 WebChat
with Mine Kapalangı and Collective Çukurcuma
Aula
Saturday, February 15
14:00 Water Cooler Talks
Conversation between Miriam Cahn and Philippe Pirotte
Aula
16:00 Water Cooler Talks: On Thinking, Staging and Performing Plants
Lenka Kukurová (Artwall Gallery, Prag) with Bojana Kunst (Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaften, Gießen),
moderated by Anneliese Ostertag and Teodora Talhoş (Curatorial Studies)
Aula
Sunday, February 16
18:00 La Conférence des Femmes - Nairobi ’85 by Françoise Dasque (1985)
Film Screening (64min.)
Aula
19:00 WebChat
with Mine Kapalangı and Collective Çukurcuma
Aula
Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik is a joint master’s programme between the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule and the Goethe-Universität. As a cooperation with MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, Städel Museum and Liebieghaus, Historisches Museum, Weltkulturen Museum and Portikus, the programme’s distinctiveness lies in its internationally unique combination of university, art school and museums. Through innovative teaching and learning methods, students are able to combine academic study and research with curatorial approaches and experiences in the occupational field.