Modernity is based on industrialisation and urbanisation, on faith in social and technological progress and the will to dominate nature. Yet, the most sensitive landscape paintings en plein air were produced in the early phase of Modernism.

Archaeological ways of seeing

Archaeologists have a distinctive way of seeing landscapes and cityscapes. The ground is more than just surface appearance. It has both actual and ontological depth to it.

Körpererfahrung

In contrast to the church, the theater and the cinema, the art exhibition provides a format for individualized viewers who decide themselves how they move around, what they spend time on and when they leave.

Ideas of Landscape and Film

Landscape is a notoriously vague term but architect Carl Sauer’s description of the material landscape as „an iconographic index of the mind“ seems a good starting point in many respects: It defines landscape as an expression of ideas, ideologies, cultural values and actions inscribed in a place.

Der Weltraum als reale und spekulative Landschaft

The course will explore space (as in “outer”) in relation to the exploration of its physcial reality, its impact on the public’s imagination in popular culture and visual art, as well as rather earthly political, social and economic implications.