KunstBewusst: Ursula Burghardt. Verfremdung als Strategie

In the organizer's words:

What is it about?

Things were often transferred into art in the 20th century, for example in Pop Art or Surrealism. Ursula Burghardt's selection, however, was based neither on their commodity form nor on the objet trouvé. Instead, her transfer of everyday objects into art was aimed at their social and usage history. The lecture analyzes Burghart's strategies of alienation, which make two fundamental working conditions of female artists in West Germany visible: working in the second shift in the household alongside artistic work and the continuities of National Socialism.

Who is our guest?

Kathrin Rottmann was honored with a work on "Aesthetics from below. Pflaster und Asphalt in der bildenden Kunst der Moderne" (Silke Schreiber Verlag, Munich 2016) and was awarded the Aby Warburg Prize of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2020. She heads the DFG-funded research project Industrial Production Methods in the Art of the Global North in the 20th and 21st Centuries at the Institute of Art History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Studies in Art and Factories and examines how production processes were transferred from the factory to art and which gender codes of production and biological reproduction were effective in the process.

Admission: Free of charge for members of freunde. Guests 4 €, students 2 €.

Price information:

Members free, guests 4 €, reduced 2 €