Kunst im Kontext #67: Vortrag von Gürsoy Doğtaş "Kunst der ‘Gastarbeiter:innen’-Ära – Familiengeschichte als Kunstgeschichte"

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Manifesta 16 Ruhr will take place from June 21 to October 4, 2026 in Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Bochum. In a region whose identity is largely shaped by industrial work and transnational migration, this edition is also dedicated to the question of how artistic practices make experiences of labour migration, belonging and intergenerational memory visible.

The creative mediator for migration history in this Manifesta edition is Gürsoy Doğtaş, who will focus on the role of visual art as a critical companion in his lecture. The starting point of his observations is the so-called "Gastarbeiter:innen" era, whose social, cultural and affective traces as well as memory politics continue to have an impact today. Manifesta 16 thus ties in with the transformation history of the Ruhr area - a region in post-industrial change that is renegotiating which voices, memories and narratives inscribe its present and future.

Dr. Gürsoy Doğtaş is a curator, art historian and creative mediator of Manifesta 16, working at the intersections of migration history and intersectional queer history. In September 2026, the exhibition Kreuzberg will open at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, which he is curating together with Patrizia Dander.

"Art in Context" is a lecture series organized by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at Museum Ludwig and is generously made possible by Flossbach von Storch SE. With the kind support of the Dorint Hotel am Heumarkt Cologne and the Reverchon wine and sparkling wine estate.

Further information and lectures online: Museum Ludwig - Society for Modern Art

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