Stadt Bühl, Bildungsportal
Stadt Baden-Baden, Studium Generale
Guided thematic tours through museums
Seminars in philosophy, culture, art, design, and architecture
Image – Culture – Philosophy
Series on (Cultural) Anthropology
- Nicholas Cusanus "De Beryllo" 1458: On a founder of cultural studies in the 15th century (2017)
- Free will or unfree will? On a dispute between Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martin Luther from 1524/25 until today (2017)
- Enthusiasm. On a feeling inspired by the muses (2017)
- Primitivism? On the re-evaluation of indigenous in comparison to supposedly civilized forms of society (2018)
- Myths, Fake News and Alternative Truths? (2021). Answers from Philosophy
Series on Modern Era
- Hilla von Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim: Two protagonists who shaped the art world with their commitment to the Guggenheim Museum (2024)
- What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant and the educational reform by Wilhelm von Humboldt (2018)
-
What is Enlightenment - for women? (2019)
Series on Postmodern Age
- 300 years Kant: Are we enlightened? Questions for Immanuel Kant today
- What is Postmodernism? Towards a new self-image of mankind since the 80s ( 2019)
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"The dispute over difference.
Feminism and postmodernism in the present time"
Series on the Understanding of Time
- Future: Time. What is it for us? Answers by Ernst Cassirer (2020)
- Past: Vintage - Retro - "Shabby-Chic". Why? Answers from Frame Theory (2021)
- Present: Enthusiasm - Answers by Plato (2021)
- Breaks: What's the point? When the familiar and the traditional are called into question by art and design
- Answers by Walter Benjamin (SS 2021)
- Metaverse (WS 2023-24)
Historical series (Identities)
- Humanism and Pragmatism: Anglo-American vs. European Thought (2019)
- Alsace or „ali-sāzzo“ . Residents of the other bank of the Rhine. Postmodern philosophy in a new light (2021)
- Jewish Scholars Excluded in Germany. Consequences from the history of science: "The Hamburg Circle" 1919-1933 (2021)
- Russia: Post-Communism and Media (2023)
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Who am I? Colonialism and Africa (2023)
Series on Architecture, Art and Design and their philosophical background:
- On the "revolutionary potential" of the central building idea from the beginning of the Renaissance to modern times (2017)
- Architecture and Philosophy in Absolutism and Enlightenment (2018)
- The simple life. Indigenous forms of housing and construction in North and South America and its after-effects in art (2018)
- "Form Follows Function" – In architecture and design in the USA and Europe (SS 2019)
- 100 Years of Bauhaus (1919-2019). On the origin and development of a significant movement in Europe and the USA (2019)
- "Anything Goes". Postmodern architecture and its backgrounds in the real world (WS 2019)
- Vintage - Retro - Shabby Chick. Why? (2021)
- Women at the Bauhaus (1919-1933) (2021)
- Why? When the familiar and traditional is challenged by art and design (2021)
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"Zaha Hadid flies away from the ordinary and far into the future". Postmodern architecture as an expression of the spirit of life today (2021)
- Political myths: Anselm Kiefer (2022)
- Russia and Communism form the first hour in images (2022)
- Turner and Sensualism (2023)
Guided tours:
- Paul Cézanne, Metamorphoses, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2017)
- America, America, How real is real? Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- James Turrell, The Substance of Light, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- Die Brücke and Expressionism, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- War and media as part of the past, present and future: to the exhibition „Ensemble“ – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden und Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in Baden-Baden (2019)
- Postmodern Worlds – Deconstruction of the Familiar: "Karin Kneffel" in the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2019)
- Why do we Collect? The Burda Brothers. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden ( 2020)
- Impressionism in Russia. Dawn of the Avant-Garde, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2021)
- Katharina Sieverding. In Between Art and Politics, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2021)
- Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Value and Transformation of Corals (2022)
- Transformers. ´AI-Beings´ and classical art from the museum´s collection (2023)
- Nicolas Party: When Tomorrow Comes: New Perspectives on Space and Time (2004)
Ryan Gander, Mouse, animatroin figure, 2019, part of the exibition Transformers, Museum Frieder Burda, 2023
Video: Martina Sauer
Thematic tour with Martina Sauer through Daniel Knorr's installation room in the exhibition
ImPossible at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. Photo: Marie-Christine Heck, March 22, 2024
Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden
Guided thematic tours (Ger., Fr., Engl.)
- Heinz Mack, Licht - Schatten (2015)
- Andreas Gursky (2015/2016)
- Gerhard Richter, Birkenau (2016)
- Katharina Grosse (2016)
- Die Kerze (2016/2017)
- Sigmar Polke, Alchemie und Arabeske (2017)
- Rodney Graham, Lightening Box (2017)
- America! America! – How Real ist real? (2018)
- James Turrell, The Substance of Light (2018)
- Die Brücke (2018/2019)
- "Ensemble", Centre Georges Pompidou and Museum Frieder Burda (2019)
- Karin Kneffel (2019)
- The Burda Brothers (2020)
- Impressionism in Russia. Setting out for the avant-garde (2021)
- Katharina Sievering. In Between Art and Politics (2021)
- Value and Transformation of Corals: Christine and Margaret Wertheim (2022)
- Transformers. Meeting of ´AI-Beings´ and classical art from the museum´s collection (2023)
- Nicolas Party: When Tomorrow Comes: New Perspectives on Space and Time (2024)
- ImPossible. Art can give shape to the impossible. For what reason? (2024)
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Guided thematic tours (Ger., Fr., Engl.)
- Metamorphosen – Cézanne (2017-2018)
Postmodern Worlds. Deconstruction of the Familiar: Karin Kneffel at Museum Frieder Burda, 10.10.2019, Photo: Martina Sauer
Udo Kittelmann, the curator of Museum Frieder Burda, and the Swiss artist Nicolas Party in front of "Red Forest", 2023, pastel, 1063 x 623 cm, Foto: Martina Sauer, November 2,2023
Between Art and Science:
Christine and Margaret Wertheim at the Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden,
Jan. 27, 2022
Below: Crochet Coral Reef, Satellite Baden-Baden, Photos: Martina Sauer
Video-Lecture on Transformations Using the Example of Photo Series by
Katharina Sievering
Katharina Sieverding, Transformer Cyan Solarisation 5 A/B, 1973/74. Color photograph, acrylic, and steel frames, 2 parts, each 190 x 125 cm, © Klaus Mettig,
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021
Technical University of Chemnitz
Online Conference of the German Society of Semiotics about Transformations, Section Image:
Video lecture, September 28, 2021 on
Vitality Semiotics. Impulses from the Hamburg Circle around Warburg, Cassirer and Werner about a new Method in Image and Cultural Philosophy
Article on postmodern worlds using as an example the pictures of Karin Kneffel
Karin Kneffel, Trauben, 240 x 199,8 cm, Museum Frieder Burda Foto: Karin Kneffel
Lecture on transformations using the example of photo series by
Katharina Sievering
Grande Dame of Art: Katharina Sieverding at Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, 26.08.2021, Photo Martina Sauer
Technical University of Chemnitz, Conference of the German Society of Semiotics about Transformations, Section Image:
Lecture, September 28, 2021:
"The Midden", Baden-Baden, collection of plastic
waste, Explanations from the mathematicianMargaret Wertheim, Photo: Martina Sauer, 27.01.2022
Fresenius Hochschule
University of Applied Sciences
SS 2022 educational film (intranet)
Cultural history of formation II, exibition and participative project:
"Margaret und Christine Wertheim. Value and Change of Coral Reefs", Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, together with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner, Akademie Mode & Design, Hamburg
Teacher Training
Protestant and catholic teacher:
Handelslehranstalt Bruchsal,
21.09.2018: What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant and the consequences
for the educational reform by Wilhelm von Humboldt
01.10.2019: A-Levels: god proofs
Philosophical Salon:
private :
Erbprinz Ettlingen (near by Karlsruhe)
Institute for Image and Cultural Philosophy
Dr. phil. Martina Sauer
Wörthstraße 1
Germany - 77815 Bühl (Baden-Baden)