Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

From the ancient world to the Renaissance until contemporary culture: Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne traces visual themes across entire eras. His approach pushed the boundaries of disciplines and is still an inspiration for today’s visually and digitally dominated world. An exhibition almost completely reproduces the last documented version of his unfinished magnum opus of 1929 with the original images.

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne: Conference

How did the ideas for the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne come about? How do they continue to have an impact in art and visual studies? At the conference on the exhibition, scholars and curators will discuss Ernst Cassirer’s and Gertrud Bing’s significance for Warburg’s work, his interest in Central American cultures and his view of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Albrecht Dürer. With Philippe Despoix, Burcu Doğramacı, Elizabeth Sears and many others

Errata

How is history written, remembered and positioned? Video works by New Red Order present a public secret society recruitment campaign and manipulated monuments that create space for indigenous futures. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay questions the knowledge inventoried in colonial archives and shows how they are entangled in predatory exploitation and brutality.

The Shape of a Practice

The Anthropocene as a global condition confronts planetary change with highly fractured and even contradictory local situations, demands and experiences. It is therefore vital to share methods, contexts and ways of life to grapple with this transforming Earth. The Shape of a Practice brings together over 100 researchers, scientists, artists and activists to share their practices and researches from across the world.

Politics of the Dance Floor

The podcast series explores the varied responses of club culture to current events. In three podcasts, representatives from the diverse spectrum of club culture will focus their eyes and ears on the Politics of the Dance Floor.

The Disappearance of Music

“Traditional” instruments are losing their importance; tracks can be made digitally and easily on laptops and smartphones. How does this change music, how does it change the live experience? And how are musicians dealing with the disappearance of concerts during the pandemic? In the run-up to the discursive music festival in November, Lucrecia Dalt, Barbara Morgenstern and many others will document how a new piece of music is produced with a new “making of” every week.

We (all) are the people

Initiated by the Berlin Art Week, Hans Haacke’s work Wir (alle) sind das Volk / We (all) are the people is shown at HKW and other Berlin art institutions. The banners, flags and posters take up the slogan of East German demonstrators from 1989/1990 with a slight alteration to emphasize solidarity with migrants and refugees.

Letters to Joan

A correspondence on the care discourse during the pandemic: Artists and scholars write to Joan Tronto, a chief representative of care ethics. Contributions by Patricia Reed, Edna Bonhomme, and Johanna Bruckner span genealogical, political, and planetary approaches – from the co-dependency of knowledge and care to a litany for surviving the Black Death to caring constellations in the earth’s atmosphere.

Sustainable Culture

How can cultural production be made more sustainable? HKW considers ecological aspects in all its processes, both in planning and implementing events and in use of the building. The Haus has been EMAS certified since 2013 and successfully fulfills the criteria of the system of sustainable environmental management.

Dictionary of Now

Democracy Lectures

The New Alphabet

The Anthropocene at HKW

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original

In the 1920s, Aby Warburg created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne which in the modern art and visual studies has taken on mythical status. The volume gathers the 63 plates – newly photographed from the original images, along with essays by Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman and Claudia Wedepohl. The HKW exhibition on Warburg’s Bilderatlas has been postponed to fall 2020.

New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. The global network of initiatives is engaged with developing experimental and experiential approaches to co-learning and co-producing knowledge in a rapidly changing planetary situation.

Wörterbuch der Gegenwart

Ed. by Bernd Scherer, Olga von Schubert and Stefan Aue, 2019
What comes after universalism? The final volume of the 100 Years of Now Library uses key words such as Thing, Justice and Body to ask about ways to redesign the world linguistically and visually. With new and historical contributions by, among others, Philippe Descola, Nikita Dhawan, Liz Johnson Artur, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Sharma and Wole Soyinka.