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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)

- "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)

- 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)
- "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


Museum

activities in research

and teaching

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuB90eXfgOQ

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

In On the Postmodern Age,
ed. by Martina Sauer, 101—120
Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine,
New York, São Paulo.
Special issue  6,
September 2020



Article on "Karin Kneffel and the deconstruction of the familiar as liberation from determiniation".


https://artstyle.international/issue-6/

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:

Vitality Semiotics und Katharina Sievering

Educational Film about Art and Sciences

"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)

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