TRACES – Transdisciplinary Center for Exhibition Studies

Lecture Series, Summer Semester 2026

Research Station on Lutherplatz

The Transdisciplinary Center for Exhibition Studies (TRACES) invites you to a public lecture series on topics related to exhibiting, remembering, researching, curating, and designing.

The series is intended as an open forum for exchange between the university, the art academy, and the public. With this in mind, the invited speakers were selected in close consultation with faculty members from the University and the Kassel Academy of Fine Arts in connection with specific courses.

National and international guests from the fields of visual arts, design, exhibition practice, theater, art history, and curatorial theory will provide insights into their working methods, research questions, and creative perspectives. This creates a transdisciplinary program that explores the practice of exhibiting from diverse perspectives.

All lectures take place on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. at the TRACES Research Station on Lutherplatz. Admission is free; all interested parties are warmly welcome.

Dates:

April 23, 2026, 6:00 p.m. (Thursday)
Hêlîn Alas
Von Auserwählten und alten Weisen [Of the Chosen and the Ancient Sages]
Visiting Lecturer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel

May 12, 2026, 6:00 PM
Wolfgang Ullrich
Memokratie. Soziale Medien und autoritäre Bildpolitik [Memocracy. Social Media and Authoritarian Visual Politics]
Invited as part of Daniel Hornuff’s seminar

May 19, 2026, 6:00 PM
Jesko Fezer
Parteiisches Ausstellen und aktives Erinnern gegen Rechts [Partisan Exhibitioning and Active Remembrance Against the Right]
Invited as part of Philipp Oswalt’s seminar

May 26, 2026, 6:00 PM
Beth von Undall
Screens and Controllers
Invited by Jeremy Couillard as part of the Games class

June 2, 2026, 6:00 PM
Michael Zinganel
Tracing Spaces
Invited as part of the Department of Architecture – Urban Planning – Landscape Architecture

June 9, 2026, 6:00 PM
Clara Bausch
Diapositiv oder das gemeinsame Aufräumen [Diapositivor the Collective Cleanup]
Invited as part of the Film and Moving Image class

June 16, 2026, 6:00 PM
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion und die documenta
A conversation with Felix Vogel as part of the seminar Crip Time: Art, Architecture, and Disability
Guests to be announced

June 23, 2026, 6:00 PM
Adriana García Galán
Witnessing the Biennial
Embodied Spectatorship and Independent Narratives in Bogotá
Visiting lecturer at the University of Kassel

June 30, 2026, 6:00 PM
Lisa Klosterkötter
Fragmentarische Geschichten – Erzählen als kuratorisch-künstlerische Praxis im öffentlichen Raum [Fragmentary Stories – Storytelling as a Curatorial-Artistic Practice in Public Space]
Invited by Romina Abate as part of the class “Art in a Contemporary Context”