The Transcultural Academy "Futurities" 2023 focuses on museum objects of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) as material research repositories that enable collaborative explorations of futurities and new narratives. Futures describe imaginations of perspectives, for example in dealing with sensitive objects in upcoming exhibitions. These are discussed with significant relevance to the past and present. This is because possible futures are fed by rhythms of the past: material and archive studies are just as much a part of this as losses, violence, absence, potentials and the uncategorisable. Mobilised by the positioning of researchers, curators, visitors or artists, a spectrum of futures can be activated that exist alongside and with each other in a processual way. The Transcultural Academy is a project of cross-collection research at the SKD in dialogue with all SKD collections, artists, academic partners, art academies and friends.
June - Decembre 2023
The Transcultural Academy of the Dresden State Art Collection presents a series of films at the Zentralkino Dresden. These films reflect on the transformation of museums as places of colonial pasts and reveal unheard stories and interwoven, multi-layered decision-making processes about the whereabouts of objects in the present for the future.
08.-11.11.2023 Japanisches Palais, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
In cooperation with the Technische Universität Dresden, the Technische Universität Berlin, the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, the Dutch Art Institute, the CCC RP Head Genéve, the University of Heidelberg, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and others.
Based on the collections as a transdisciplinary research environment, students from different contexts come together in the Assembly School. Supervised by the Research Department and external mentors, the students familiarise themselves with the collections in order to develop object-specific projects. While the thematic focus is on exploring futurities without obscuring the historical, the Assembly School develops methodological approaches for transcultural exhibiting as curatorial knowledge in workshops, tours and panel discussions. International fellows of the Transcultural Academy will also present their research at the art collections. The Assembly School will conclude with a collective publication in collaboration with the students of the System Design class at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.
12.10.2023—23.11.2023 Japanisches Palais, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
In dialogue and cooperation with the HGB Leipzig, class Expanded Cinema, led by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien. Made possible by the support of all collections of the Dresden State Art Collections.
To the Exhibition
Students of the Expanded Cinema class at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) point cameras, microphones and notebooks at the SKD and capture what is invisible on exhibition spaces. The resulting films, photographs and installations show the works, most of which are hidden behind museum glass, as part of the SKD research department's Transcultural Academy "Futures". In doing so, the students reveal a series of concealed entanglements between human and non-human actors. Constellations between X-ray machines and restorers, illuminators and objects, origin stories, paintings, sounds and hands become tangible. With a focus on visualisations of invisible science, the works expand the understanding of museums as places of the most diverse actors. The fundamentals of conservation, the expansion of knowledge and presentation in the museum become visible.
On display are works by Anna Sopova, Carlo Wrangel, Ingmar Stange, Johann Bärenklau, Katharina Bayer, Ksenia Bashmakova, Leila Brinkmann, Lucia-Charlotte Ott, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Marta Sundmann, Marthe Naessens, Natalia Zaitseva, Sijo Soo Joung Kim, Simón Jaramillo Vallejo, Valerio de Araújo Silva, Yu-Hsin Su.
Doreen Mende und Anna-Lisa Reith
In cooperation with Mareike Bernien, Beatrice von Bismarck, Malin Gewinner, Sohyeon Lee, Sören Sandbothe, Maureen Mooren, Clemens von Wedemeyer (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig), Bénédicte Savoy (Technische Universität Berlin), Marwa Arsanios, Gabriëlle Schleijpen (Dutch Art Institute), Nikita Dhawan, Kerstin Schankweiler (Technische Universität Dresden), Oliver Kossack (Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden), Monica Juneja (Universität Heidelberg), Federica Martini (CCC RP HEAD Genève), Marion Ackermann, Friederike Fast, Max Mäder, Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Thomas Rudert, Antonella Bianca Meloni, Ella Platschka, Thomas Geisler (SKD), et. al.
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