„Nietzsche forever?“ Aperitivo im Camaro Haus

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A book launch with a moderated reading and panel discussion. With author Barbara Straka, moderated by art historian Eckhart Gillen.

Friedrich Nietzsche - not a subject of contemporary art? On the contrary: in this two-volume work, Barbara Straka documents his reception in the visual arts after 1945 with thematically structured examples of works by more than 220 artists. In doing so, she refutes the mainstream of professional public statements that reduce depictions of Nietzsche to the genre of portraits or attest Nietzsche no significant impact in art today, at best as a joke figure and pop icon. How has the image of Nietzsche changed in art? What motifs and themes can be identified? What fascinates today's artists about Nietzsche's person and thought? What approaches do they choose? Can works of contemporary art really do justice to Nietzsche or are they merely an expression of a superficial engagement with a fashionable philosopher? Can they convey his philosophy to a broader, non-academic audience and contribute to a new, interdisciplinary discourse between philosophy and art?
In art after 1945, the Nietzsche image has undergone a transfiguration from myth to man - analogous to the reevaluations it has undergone in the history of philosophical reception - which does not yet seem to have come to an end with the latest AI image inventions: Nietzsche forever?

Barbara Straka is an art historian, curator and art educator. She was President of the Braunschweig University of Art from 2004 to 2010. From 2011 to 2019, she worked for the Berlin Senate, focusing on culture and the creative industries. She has worked in arts and culture management, university and science management and project management in public administration. She is the author of numerous publications on contemporary art.

Dr. Eckhart Gillen is an art historian and curator. His work focuses on the visual arts of Eastern Europe and especially East Germany after the Second World War. Eckhart Gillen is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Association of German Art Historians. He works as a research assistant at Kunstprojekte Berlin. Since 2003 he has been a member of the advisory board of Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin.

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