Centre for Aesthetics

SWR Big Band & Paul Carrack feat. Ida Sand

Thu, 05.12.24 at 8 pm, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle (Great Hall)

With powerful soul, Swedish singer Ida Sand and British singer-songwriter Paul Carrack invite you on a musical stroll through "Winter Wonderland".
For the third time, the Grammy-award-winning SWR Big Band promises a Christmassy, virtuoso jazz show to get you in the mood for the festive season.

Tickets and more information are available here (in German)

Sebastian Studnitzky

Fri, 06.12.24 at 10 pm, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle (Foyer)

"All these songs were composed, produced and finalised at night": On his current news album Nocturnal (2022), Sebastian Studnitzky takes night music literally. The album's eight tracks are set in the broad field between techno, ambient and jazz - a melancholic mixture of blues and serenity.

Tickets and more information are available here (in German)

Fri, 13.12.2024 from 18:00 to 21:00, Kunsthalle Bielefeld

The twelfth edition of the exhibition series "miteinander gegenüber" focuses on the various characteristics, faces and attitudes that make up a person or an institution such as the Kunsthalle. With their work "Found Identity" (2009) from the Haubrok Collection, a wallet with identity documents, the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset question whether data such as eye colour or place of birth can characterise a person.

Admission: €15 / €10 reduced (incl. guided tour in German, drinks, snacks)

Please register by 06.12.2024 via email: anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de

Further Information (in German)

until 31 December, in the Forum of the Historical Museum, at the ZiF, in the University Main Buildung (UHG) and other locations in the city

The centrepiece of the exhibition "How Freedom Creates Knowledge" is the Forum of the Historical Museum. What is academic freedom anyway? How were and are researchers restricted in their work? What are the consequences? These questions are addressed using specific historical and contemporary stories. On the other hand, are there also good reasons to restrict the freedom of science? What happens when research contributes to robbing freedom? The exhibition also looks at this perspective. In addition, six external locations shed light on the relationship between science, freedom and society on site and in people's everyday lives.

Sound installation by Marcus Beuter to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and an exhibition by Martina Barz to explore questions of remembrance culture.

Opening: 22.01.2025 at 17:00, TOR 6 theatre building (approval via the back entrance)

Opening hours:
22 - 26.01.2025, 17:00 - 21:00
27.01.2025, 14:00 - 17:00

An event as part of the art/science festival 2025 "Irritation"

Further information (in German)...

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

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)

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