Ringvorlesung: Kunst als widerständige Praxis

In the organizer's words:

How can art become an act of resistance - a means of understanding the world, shaping identity and initiating social change?
Under the title "Art as a resistant practice - world appropriation, identity and transformation", the Alanus University Master's degree course in Art Therapy invites you to a public lecture series that explores these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Art is understood here as a living form of thinking, feeling and acting - as a space for self-reflection, social criticism and utopia. In the lectures, topics such as self-discovery and self-destruction, art therapy work in the prison system or queerness in the art therapy setting are examined. The series thus links current social discourses with fundamental questions about the relationship between art, identity and social change.

Program:

• 08.10.25: Between appropriation and surrender: transformation in aesthetic processes (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmaus)
• 15.10.25: "I made the world, it was a lot of work!" (Lisa Inckmann)
• 22.10.25: Rethinking spaces and head dreams (Katja Gärtner)
• 29.10.25: Art therapy in the field of tension between self-destruction and self-discovery (Dr. Mirjam Mathar)
• 05.11.25: Identity in prison, a contradiction? (Johanna Gunkel)
• 12.11.25: Queerness in the art therapy setting (Hannah Geldbach)
• 19.11.25: Traveling: Art projects around the globe (Prof. Dr. Ulrika Eller-Rüter)
• 26.11.25: Monster hand & caressing hand (Tanja Geiß)
• 03.12.25: I see something you don't see (Prof. Dr. Rabea Müller)
• 10.12.25: Looking at what you want to look away - Doris Salcedo (Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Event period:
October 08 to December 10, 2025
Wednesdays, 18:00 - 19:30

Venue:
Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
Campus II - Villestraße 3, 53347 Alfter Artistic collage of a person decorated with animals, eyes and
Seminar room 14

Free admission.
Registration is not required.

Responsible:
Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber & Prof. Dr. Rabea Müller

More information at: https://www.alanus.edu/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungskalender/detail/ringvorlesung-kunst-als-widerstaendige-praxis