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Winter Semester 2023/24
Information, 16 October 2023 – 9 February 2024
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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
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Lecture, 2 May – 7 July 2023
Grada Kilomba: A conversation about the 35th Bienal de São Paulo
Lecture, 2 May 2023, 19:00
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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
Xin Wang: Uncharting Asian Futurisms

Xing Wang’s interest in engaging with Asian Futurism, a still emerging and undefined discourse, has primarily been guided by an impulse to expand and problematize—rather than define—its epistemology, politics and aesthetics. While this talk explores a discursive range of examples in speculative thinking, technocratic ideologies, Techno-Orientalism, as well as vernacular, subcultural and artistic practices by Asian and Asian diasporic creatives that both reflect and defy identitarian thinking, it also hopes to fundamentally and rigorously re-examine familiar historical and theoretical frameworks that can both inform and limit how we think about speculative futures. Unique dimensions such as post-Soviet sensibilities and hauntology and resurgence of Buddhist and other quasi-religious practice will also be discussed.
Xin Wang is an art historian and curator based in New York. Notable curatorial projects include Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); Lu Yang: Arcade, the artist’s solo debut at Wallplay, New York (2014); The Bank Show: Vive le Capital and The Bank Show: Hito Steyerl, Bank, Shanghai (2015); chin(A)frica: an interface, The Duke House, New York (2017) and an upcoming exhibition exploring Asian Futurisms at the Museum of Chinese in America, New York. Her writing has appeared in E-flux journal, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Hyperallergic and Leap. She has lectured widely at art institutions worldwide, most recently at the Para/Site International Conference, Hong Kong (2017); Conversations at Art Basel, Hong Kong (2018); Columbia University, New York (2018); Tranen Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2019); School of Visual Arts, New York (2019); Queens Museum, New York (2019); Taikang Art Space, Beijing (2019) and as the keynote speaker for the Asia/Technics conference at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019). She also served on the jury for the Xitek New Talent Award, Beijing (2018) and the inaugural open call at The Shed, New York (2018). Currently pursuing a PhD in modern and contemporary art at Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Wang also works as the Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and manages the discursive archive on Asian Futurisms.
The lecture will be held in English language.