Ecological Entanglements across Collections - Plant Lives and Beyond - Day 5

The interdisciplinary 4A Lab Academy, "Ecological Entanglements across Collections – Plant Lives and Beyond," takes place from 4–8 November 2024, in collaboration with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The Academy builds on the ecocritical turn in the humanities and explores the role of plant life in artistic and aesthetic practices, human knowledge production, and theoretical critical thinking across histories, communities, and geographies. Through a series of panels, lectures, workshops, collection visits, and performances, the Academy invites participants to collectively (re)think human entanglements with vegetal and non-human life, in dialogue with the collections of the SPK.

Day five will be looking into Plant Photography, Coloniality and Art in and after the 1920s and will include a presentation of selected materials from the Collection of Photography, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin. A round table critically discussing Disciplines, Systems of Knowledge, and Curatorial Practice will conclude the event week. 

Friday, 8 November 2024

Museum für Fotografie, Fürstensaal

Panel IV

Plants’ Photography. Contradictions of Form and Coloniality

CHAIR

Carlotta Castellani (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo)

10. 15

Ulrike Meyer Stump (Zurich University of the Arts)

Plants as Monuments: From Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928) to Las Pozas Gardens in Mexico (1962-1984)

11. 00

Liliana Gómez (Universität Kassel)

“The World was my Garden.” Photography and Botany’s Modern Materialities

RESPONDENT

Kärin Nickelsen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)

12. 15 Lunch Break

13. 15

COLLECTION WORKSHOP in English - participants only

Introduction to the Museum‘s Photographic Collection and its Plant Photographies

Christine Kühn (Curator, Collection of Photography, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin) and Friederike Eden (Research Assistant, Collection of Photography, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin)

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15. 00

SAMMLUNGSBESUCH auf Deutsch *

SAMMLUNGSBESUCH

Lichtsensibel – Pflanzliches in der Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek

Geleitet von CHRISTINE KÜHN (Kuratorin der Fotografischen Sammlung, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin)

Ort: Museum für Fotografie

Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin

Vorbereitungsraum

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14. 30

Round Table & Conclusions

On Ecological Entanglements across Collections. Disciplines, Systems of Knowledge, and Curatorial Practice 

With Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University), Kärin Nickelsen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Franziska Nori (Director, Frankfurter Kunstverein), and Alexis von Poser (Deputy Director, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, and Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin)

Moderation: Hannah Baader (4A_Lab/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, MPI)

The international Research and Fellowship Program "4A Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics" is a cooperation between the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.