Architecture Symposium

18:30

Greeting
Karin Schrader, Mayor of the City of Bielefeld

Introduction
pivots Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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19:30

Lecture
Years of Construction. Impulse Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Architecture, Concept, Digital Strategy

Dr. Ulrike Lorenz, President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
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10:00

Introduction
pivots Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

10:30 a.m.

keynote address
Philip Johnson’s 1968 Bielefeld Art Gallery:
a challenge for German architectural criticism.

Prof. Dr. Fritz Neumeyer, Technical University of Berlin, Architectural Theory, em.
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11:00

keynote address
Repeated finally “discussed out”!? – Biographical and Memory Cultural Observations on Richard Kaselowsky

Dr. Jochen Rath, City Archive and Regional History Library Bielefeld
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11:30 a.m.

keynote address
Art has WUMM – The Kunsthalle and its naming as a place of civil society debates and artistic interventions

Dr. Irene Below, art historian, Werther
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– Coffee break –

12:30

Discussion

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Eduard Führ, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair for Theory of Architecture (retired), Honorary Professor for Architectural Education and Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

– Lunch break –

14:30

keynote address
The public museum as a monument
(Das öffentliche Museum als Monument)

Dr. Andrea Lissoni, Haus der Kunst Munich (in English)
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15:00

keynote address
The Passions of Philip Johnson
(Die Leidenschaften Philip Johnsons)

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Lieber, Texas State University (in English)
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15:30

keynote address
Moral communication in architecture. About Philip Johnson and Others

Prof. Dr. Stephan Trüby, University of Stuttgart, Fundamentals of Modern Architecture and Design
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– Coffee break –

16:30

Discussion

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Eduard Führ, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair for Theory of Architecture (retired), Honorary Professor for Architectural Education and Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

18:30

Greeting (video message)

Ina Brandes
Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Introduction
Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

19:30

Lecture
Make Museums Great Again?
The future of museum architecture

Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich, History of Art and Architecture
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10:00

Introduction
Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

10:30

keynote address
“Invisible” Museums. or: The invention of the new as the discovery of the existing.

Prof. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos, University of Zurich, em.
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11:00

keynote address
Form versus function. The solution rarely lies in the middle.
Examples from the renovation of the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Dr. Joachim Jäger, New National Gallery Berlin
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11:30

keynote address
The overtaxed monument

Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, ETH Zurich, Institute of Architecture, Structural Heritage and Preservation of Historical Monuments
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– Pause –

12:30

Discussion

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich, history of art and architecture and Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

– Lunch break –

14:30

keynote address
Hanging up instead of hanging down? – Museum Spaces and the New Ethics of Communitization

Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Chair of Art Theory & Staging Practice
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15:00

keynote address
Vulnerable Processes. Vulnerable Processes. A Curatorial Reflection on the Museum in Transition.

Prof. Dr. Doreen Mende, Dresden State Art Collections, HEAD Genève
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15:30

keynote address
The spatial culture of museums
(titel original in english)

Prof. Dr. Kali Tzorzti, University of Patras, Institute of Architecture, Museology
(conversation in english)
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– Pause –

16:30

Discussion

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich, history of art and architecture and Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

18:30

Greeting
Britta Haßelmann MdB
Chairwoman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Bundestag

Introduction
Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

19:30

Lecture
Rewilding the white cube:
the role of art museums in addressing climate emergency
(Rewilding the white cube: die Rolle der Kunstmuseen bei der Bewältigung des Klimanotstandes)

Frances Morris, Director Emerita Tate Modern, London
(conversation in english)
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10:00

Introduction
Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

10:30 a.m.

keynote address
Exhibiting and preserving as toxic paradigms.
Can cultural institutions negotiate the environmental crisis?

Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann, University of Bern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History
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11:00

keynote address
The city, the box, the art and the climate.
Attempt at a relational reassembly

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess, HafenCity University Hamburg, Urban Design
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11:30 a.m.

keynote address
Curating as Care Work: Of the Museum Climate in Planetary Interdependencies and Cultural Imaginaries.

Prof. Dr. Elke Krasny, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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– Pause –

12:30

Discussion

Moderation: Jacob Sylvester Bilabel, Network Sustainability in Culture and Media and Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld

– Lunch break –

14:30

keynote address
Peace with Gaia – Perspectives, possibilities and limits of cultural institutions in the sustainability transformation process

Ministerialrat Ralph Zinnikus, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia,
Unit 416, New Cultural Facilities, Sustainability
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15:00

keynote address
Look up – the way to a green museum

Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon, Rathgen Research Laboratory Berlin
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15:30

keynote address
The path to a climate-friendly museum

Prof. Peter Gorschlüter, Folkwang Museum Essen
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– Pause –

16:30

Discussion

Moderation: Jacob Sylvester Bilabel, Network Sustainability in Culture and Media and Christina Végh, Director Kunsthalle Bielefeld