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Summer semester 2025

Open lecture and discussion 
by Irena Popiashvili,
Dean of VA[A]DS, Free University of Tbilisi

Winter semester 2024/25


Warshaw,
study trip 5 days

Reading and workshop 
by Ann Cotton 

"Learning from Las Vegas"

Open lecture and discussion 
by Alexander Müller 

Summer semester 2024

"The Museum of Stones. Anti-imperial Notes on Extraction and Computation"
Open lecture and discussion by Aleksei Borisionok


"Between Histroy and Present"
Open lecture and discussion by Juliane Bischoff


Skopje, Sofia & Thessaloniki
study trip, 10 days


Winter semester 2023/24

Martha Heford & Kassel
study trip, 3 days


“Museum for Preventive Imagination” 
Open lecture and discussion
by Luca Lo Pinto (Curator, Rome)


“Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery”
Open Lecture and discussion 
by Hristina Tasheva (Artists, Netherlands)


Summer semester 2023

“Unheard” 
Open Lecture and Workshop
by Theo Nabicht (Musician, Berlin)


“Unseen”
Open Lecture and Workshop
by Jan Erbelding (Artists, Munich)


“Unknown”
Open Lecture and Workshop
by Cord Riechelmann (Author and Biologist, Berlin)


Winter semester 2022/23

Albania
study trip, 10 days


Summer semester 2022

documenta 13, Kassel
study trip, 3 days


“The Origins of Money and the Prehistory of Capitalism”
Open Lecture
by Emanuel Mayer (Archeologe, Singapur)


Winter semester 2021/22

“Police Abolition and Radical Democracy”
Online Lecture
by Daniel Loick (Philosopher, Amsterdam)


Summer semester 2021

„Immersion und Klangkunst“ / „Immersion and Sound Art“
Open workshop and lecture
by Nazanin Noori (Director and Musician, Berlin)


„Subverting the frames - Critique of the Documentary Image“
Open online workshop and lecture
by Stefanie Baumann (Philosopher and Film critique, Portugal)


Winter semester 2020/21

Berlin
study trip, 3 days


„This Makes Me Want to Predict the Past“
Online lecture and discussion
by Cana Bilir-Meier (Artist and Art educator, Munich)


„Memory As Critical Practise“
Online lecture and discussion
by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Fischer (Sociologist, Munich)


„Wie wir über rechten Terror sprechen“ / „How we talk about right-winged terror“
Online lecture and discussion
by Florian Hiermeier (Office for democracy, Munich)


„Akustische Kunst im Radio“ / „Acoustic Art in Radio“
Online lecture and discussion
by Iris Drögekamp (German radio play director)


Winter semester 2019/20

Vienna, Venice Biennale, Triest & Ljubljana
study trip, 10 days


Winter semester 2018/19

Czech Republic
study trip, 10 days


„Learning from Las Vegas - über einen Wendepunkt für die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts“ / „Learning from Vegas - of a Turning Point For the Architecture of the 20th Century“
Open lecture
by Alexander Müller (Architect)


Summer semester 2018

Berlin Biennale
study trip, 3 days


„Sichtbar - Unsichtbar - über das Verhältnis von Imagination, Notation und Performance für meine Musik“ / „Visible - Invisible - On the Relation of Imagination, Notation and Performance for My Music“
Open lecture
by Isabel Mundry (Composer)


„Algorithmen im Zentrum der Neuromacht“ / „Algorithms in the Center of Neuropower“
Open talk
between Cord Riechelmann (Biologist and Philosopher) and Olaf Nicolai


Winter semester 2017/18

Georgia
study trip, 10 days


Summer semester 2017

Essen & Kassel
study trip, 3 days


Winter semester 2016/17

documenta 12, Athen & Hydra
study trip, 10 days


Open lecture course with Lyrik Kabinett
by Ulf Stolterfoht (German lyricist)


„Engaged Art (2)“
Open lecture course
by Julia Maier and Angela Stiegler


Summer semester 2016

„Engaged Art (1)“
Open lecture course
with Julia Maier and Angela Stiegler


Winter semester 2015/16

Romania
study trip, 9 days


Open lecture
by Stuart Baeiley and Dexter Sinister (collaborative design project)


Summer semester 2015

Venice Biennale
study trip, 3 days


Open lecture
by Benjamin Förster-Baldenius (Raumlabor, Berlin)


Winter semester 2014/15

„Filtersysteme. „Fluchtwege“ aus der Enge eines „Jetzt““
Open lecture and workshop
by Nora Schultz (Artist, New York/Berlin)


„Walking and Talking: An Introduction to Movement and Real-Time Composition“
Open lecture and workshop
by Jeremiah Day (Choreographer and Dancer, USA)


Open workshop on artist books
by Christian Lange (Book Designer, Leipzig/Munich)


Teaching assignment and lecture at Kunstverein München
by Jan Wenzel (Publisher at Spectorbooks, Leipzig)


Summer semester 2014

Florence
study trip, 5 days


„Performativität im zeitgenössischen Theater (2)“ / „Performativity in Contemporary Theatre (2)“
Teaching course and theatre visit
with Julia Maier and Jonas Münch


Filmscreening of Matthew Barneys „Cremaster Cycle“ in addition to the exhibition „Matthew Barney“ at Haus der Kunst and the premiere of „River of Fundament“ at the Bayrische Staatsoper
In cooperation with Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München


Winter semester 2013/14

„Performativität im zeitgenössischen Theater (1)“ / „Perfomativity in Contemporary Theatre (1)“
Teaching course  and theatre visits
with Julia Maier and Jonas Münch


„Das Offene Kunstwerk“
Open lecture
by Raimar  Stange (Art critic and curator, Berlin)