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Centre for Aesthetics

Logo des Zentrum für Ästhetiks: Z, F und das Ä auf dem Kopf geschrieben
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What is the Centre for Aesthetics?

Since 2003, the Centre for Aesthetics (ZfÄ) has provided an institutional framework for a wide range of artistic and cultural activities at Bielefeld University. We regularly organise concerts, exhibitions and readings. more...

Current Cultural Programme

  • Hände einer Pianistin spielen auf dem Konzertflügel
    © Jochen Michael

    4th chamber concert: The Great American Songbook

    Monday, 27.01.25 at 8 pm, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, Small Hall (Kleiner Saal)

    The collection with this title can be seen as a basic component of US-American culture. Cornelie Isenbürger, Frank Dolphin Wong and Anahit Ter-Tatshatyan devote themselves in particular to the early (musical) hits of the songbook by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and others.

    Get your tickets and more information here.
  • Maris Zumholte beim Beatboxen
    © Stadt Bielefeld

    3-week beatboxing courses for beginners or advanced students at the Bielefeld Music and Art School

    Do you fancy beatboxing? Whether beginner or advanced, we have the right offer for you:

    Register now and secure your place!

    Whether music, drama, dance or art. Find your course or workshop: www.kurse-bielefeld.de (In German)

  • © ZiF

    Data Ghost

    Exhibition, until 31.01.25, ZiF

    "Data Ghosts" is a single-channel video developed during Erica Shires' fellowship at ZiF. It incorporates images taken with a microscope, alternative photography techniques, 3D LiDAR scans and generative AI. This interplay of art, technology and science is used to explore parallels between the history of photography and the visual language shaped by our rapidly evolving new technologies.

    The exhibition can be visited free of charge during the opening hours of the ZiF:
    Mon - Thu: 9:00-15:30
    Fri: 9:00-14:00

    Further information
  • © Elmgreen und Dragset, Lost Identity, 2009, mixed media Photo Credits: Ludger Paffrath for the haubrok foundation, Berlin 2023

    Exhibition: Elmgreen & Dragset | Who we are. miteinander gegenüber #12

    Exhibition from 30.11.24 to 23.02.25 at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

    The twelfth edition of the series "facing each other" focuses on the central question of the different characteristics, faces and attitudes that characterise a person or an institution such as the Kunsthalle. In this juxtaposition, a work by the Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, *1961 and Ingar Dragset, *1969) from the Haubrok Collection meets several works from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld's current collection exhibition. Who are we? What characterises us or something? How do we recognise the specific characteristics of a person or an institution like the Kunsthalle?

    Further information here (in German)
  • © Bielefeld University

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    We're always looking for short-term employees, who can help us with logistics during our events.

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Cultural Activities at the University:

  • a singer and a guitarist
    © Bielefeld University

    Music

    (in German)

  • White plastic rabbits on a colourful table
    © Bielefeld University

    art/science

    (in German)

  • Exhibition of pictures, a sculpture and projection
    © Bielefeld University

    Arts

    (in German)

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