Thursday 15.8.2024 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.
Panel discussion on the topic of ‘Animal Turn in the art world – changing relationships to non-human animals in art production and reception’. Art historian Dr Jessica Ullrich, art educator Alicja Czupryk and artist Hartmut Kiewert will discuss how the relationship between humans and non-human animals has changed in recent years, both on a symbolic and practical production level in the visual arts, and what effect art has on discourses about other animals. The event will be held in German.
„With my paintings, I try to create counter-images to the animal industry that show a possible future in which humans and non-human animals meet as equals. Relationships of exploitation are overcome and human and animal individuals can develop freely in a radically diverse society.” Hartmut Kiewert
Dr. Jessica Ullrich is a deputy professor of aesthetics and art studies at the Kunstakademie Münster and editor of Tierstudien, the first academic journal for animal studies in Germany.
„Art scrutinises existing conditions, rethinks visionary ideas of the present and makes alternative perspectives conceivable through imagination, speculation and care – also with regard to the often unbearable human-animal relationships of our time.“ Dr. Jessica Ullrich
Art educator Alicja Czupryk is a doctoral candidate at the HBK Braunschweig, Institute for Art Education, and a teacher of visual arts and history. Her focus in school and university teaching is on the human-animal relationship in art education.
„Working with adolescents offers the great potential to change fundamental, mostly traditional attitudes, to develop a critical position on the anthropocentric view of the world and an animal-sensitive perspective. The subject of fine arts offers special approaches for this – access to the world via the senses, the appropriation of the world with all its essential forces. These special approaches thus offer an emotional-empathic component that can complement or even replace the cognitive component.“ Alicja Czupryk
