Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
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Opening: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 7pm–10pm
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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

Zasha Colah
The innocuous act of placing a matka (clay jar of drinking water) on doorsteps of homes, is a collective recognition of thirst. This extraneous domestic gesture for the stray passer-by creates a small space, the tiniest space of reprieve, a narrow opening for the not-quite encounter. The extraneous element disrupts–puts a foot in–the doorstep, the piazza, the courtyard, making a fissure in public space.
The curator Zasha Colah will present two exhibitions, ‘Extraneous’ (Curated By festival, Exile, Vienna, Austria, September 2022), and the working-group exhibition by the artist Margherita Moscardini, ‘And remember that holes can move’ (Ar/Ge Kunst, Bozen-Bolzano, September 2023). Colah will reflect on the artistic practices, brought together for these exhibitions, that worked at the edges of legality, and entered directly within international law and its processes to dissect and expose the absurdities of the state, fixed identities, and borders, as well as the urgency to form a new historical conscience around which to sew an idea of citizenship, at last free from territorial origins and blood ties.
Zasha Colah is co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst (with Francesca Verga, Bozen-Bolzano, 2023–) and a lecturer in Curatorial Studies at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Milano, 2018–). She is curator of the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (June to September 2025). In the past, she has been a research fellow at 221A (Vancouver, 2021–22) for a project segueing indigenous geographies, titled ‘The Scorched Earthly’. Her doctorate (La Sapienza, 2020) revolved around illegality and meta-exhibition practices from 1982 to 2016 in Indo-Myanmar. She co-founded the curatorial collaborative and artist union Clark House Initiative (Mumbai, 2010–22), co-curating actions and exhibitions both in that venue and public space, as well as at the invitation of ISCP New York, Ink Yangon, Kadist Paris, SMBA Amsterdam, among others (with Yogesh Barve, Sachin Bonde, Poonam Jain, Prabhakar Pachpute, Amol K Patil, Rupali Patil, Nikhil Raunak, and Sumesh Sharma, 2010–15). Prior to this, she was curator of Indian Modern Art at JNAF/CSMVS Museum and curator of public programs at the National Gallery of Modern Art, both in Mumbai. Curatorial projects include ‘I love you Sugar Kane’ (ICAIO, Port Louis, 2016), a monographic exhibition of Prabhakar Pachpute (with Luca Cerizza, NGMA Mumbai 2016), ‘body luggage’ (steirischer herbst, Kunsthaus Graz, 2016), 3rd Pune Biennale (with Luca Cerizza, 2017), 2nd Yinchuan Biennale (curatorial team led by Marco Scotini, 2018), and solo exhibitions by Muna Mussie, Anawana Haloba (with Chiara Figone, Archive Milano, 2021). She lives in Torino, Italy (2017–). Currently, she lives in Berlin (2024–25) to prepare the 13th Berlin Biennale.
The lecture will be held in English.