7:30 PM | Spike Art Quarterly

Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 45

10178 Berlin

Open to the public

HUBERTUS VON AMELUNXEN

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is pleased to present the public lecture "What is behind us? - Poiesis of the abyss" by Hubertus von Amelunxen.

Prof. Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen was born in Hindelang, Germany in 1958. He lives in Berlin. After studies in French and German Literature and in Art History at the Philipps-Universität, Marburg and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, he wrote his Ph.D. on Allegory and Photography. Inquiries into 19th Century French Literature. In May 2005 he was appointed the General Director of the European School of Visual Arts in Angoulême and Poitiers, France. From October 2010 till October 2013 he was the President of the University of Art in Braunschweig Germany. From October 2013 till June 2018 he served as Provost and as the President of The European Graduate School EGS in Switzerland and Malta. He has written and edited books on media theory and post-structuralism, and curated several international exhibitions and catalogues, among them the first large European exhibition on William Henry Fox Talbot, which toured from the New National Gallery in Berlin to Vienna, Lausanne, Antwerp and Paris in 1989/1990. Among his books are: Die aufgehobene Zeit – Die Erfindung der Photographie durch William Henry Fox Talbot (Berlin, 1988), Jacques Derrida, Die Tode von Roland Barthes (Berlin: Nishen, 1987), (with Andrei Ujica) Television/Revolution. The Ultimatum of the Image. Rumania in December 1989, (Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 1991), Allegorie und Photographie (Mannheim: Universität Mannheim, 1992), Photography after Photography, an exhibition which travelled in Europe and North America (G+B Arts, Munich, 1995), Les Lieux du Non-Lieu (Berlin: Verlag der Kunst, 1997), Territoire en deuil (Arles: Actes Sud, 1998) and Tomorrow For Ever – Photography as a Ruin (Cologne: Dumont, 1999), Theorie der Fotografie, 1980-1995 (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2000) , Zaha Hadid with Hélène Binet (Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2000) , Photo and Concept Art For a Building (Heidelberg/Berlin 2000), Jean Philippe Reverdot, Bilan provisoire (Marval, Paris 2002), Tangent|e – Alain Paiement, (Lars Müller Publishers, Canadian Centre for Architecture 2003), Tangent|e – Dieter Appelt, (Lars Müller Publishers, Canadian Centre for Architecture 2004), Tangent|e – Victor Burgin, Voyage to Italy, (Hatje Cantz, 2006), Tangent|e – Naoya Hatakeyama, Scale (Nazraeli Press, 2007) and together with Dieter Appelt and Peter Weibel, Notation – Calculus and Form in the Arts, (Berlin, Akademie der Künste 2008, ZKM, 2009), and he edited together with Angela Lammert and Philip Ursprung, Gordon Matta-Clark Moment to Moment: Space, (Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012). His last books are a monograph on the Palestinian artist Steve Sabella, Photography 1997-2014 (Hatje Cantz, 2014) and a large essay “Framing négritude” for Winfried Bullinger, At the Edges of Power (Hatje Cantz, 2017). He curated the exhibitions Iannis Xenakis at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (together with Angela Lammert) in 2011 and Cy Twombly Photographs 1951-2010 at BOZAR in Brussels in 2012.