Program

In collaboration with the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture, students at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart from the Digital and Time-based art class (with Professor Heba Y. Amin) invite members of the academy and the general public for a one-day symposium with participating artists at the academy. A live stream is here

Part of the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture takes place for the first time in a digital exhibition space. Quantum State, therefore, aims to focus on digital materiality and the ways in which the boundaries between virtual and real, material and immaterial have dissolved. Digital tools have not only had a material impact on art objects and reconfigured sculptural plasticity, but have fundamentally changed our knowledge structures. When digital representation reveals itself to already be a symptom of a problematic representational logic that was conceived and embedded within colonial discourse, we have to ask ourselves what it means to engage the digital as creative practitioners. Participating artists explore a range of topics including speculative forms of world-building, AI-driven restorative and healing practices, algorithmic predictive technologies, migration, techno-heritage and digital repatriation.

Artist positions will be presented by Rheim Alkadhi, Lamin Fofana, Mohsen Hazrati, Nkhensani Mkhari, Jan Nikolai Nelles, Mitra Wakil & Fabian Hesse, with opening remarks from curator of the 15th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Elke aus dem Moore.

Following the program, guests of the symposium are invited to food, drinks and a DJ-Set with Micheal Pham.

Two chairs, two people, twenty minutes: The Cultural Office invites you to an intimate encounter with literature and the question of what resonances are able to resonate in spoken poetry with the spoken word artist and actress Barbara Mergenthaler. The focus of the encounter is a particular poem, a particular text, which the poetically interested guest is also welcome to bring with him or her and which will be pronounced and shaped with language. Every emphasis, every pause, speaks a language for itself. And depending on how it is emphasised, paused and spoken, the text or poem opens up differently.

Pre-registration at the Cultural Office for a 20-minute encounter is necessary at kulturamt@fellbach.de or 0711/5851-364.

"Spirits inhabit the darkness that lightens, the darkness that darkens".

Unfortunately, the conversation between Elke aus dem Moore, Nadine Seidu and Linda Addae has to be cancelled for unforeseeable but unfortunately unavoidable reasons and will be made up for at a later date.
The screening will still take place and there will be the possibility for the audience to have a conversation with Elke aus dem Moore and Nikola Hartl afterwards and to participate in a thematic guided tour through the exhibition.

The accompanying event series "#Resonances: Listen to Things more often", curated by Nikola Hartl, is dedicated to one focus of the Triennale Kleinplastik. The themes of "Reparation and Restitution" are the focus of #1 Resonances. Admission is free.

In addition to the screening of the half-hour film "Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder" from 2020 (in English and French, with German subtitles), Triennale curator Elke aus dem Moore will address the theses raised by the film as well as questions of social responsibility and memory in conversation with Linda Addae and Nadine Seidu from the Coordination Office for Remembrance Culture of the City of Stuttgart.

Filmmaker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay argues that those who looted millions of statues and objects and isolated them far away from their communities in museum display cases should be charged with attempted murder of these objects. In their eyes, not only were the objects stolen, but the rights of their original owners inscribed with them. But the objects, though locked up, are alive and alert - waiting to be reunited with their communities.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in America, as well as a filmmaker and curator of exhibitions and archives.


Nadine Seidu studied cultural studies, ethnology and communication studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as well as cultural management (contact studies). She completed a traineeship as museum curator at the Historical Museum in Speyer and worked at the international exhibition office Atelier Brückner. She was part of the Namibia Initiative of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture as an advisor in the management staff of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives and was awarded the European Heritage in Motion Award of the European Museums Academy/Europa Nostra and was a mentee in the Steinbeis Institute's support programme "Top Women in Baden-Württemberg". Now Nadine Seidu is in charge of the newly established coordination office for the culture of remembrance of the state capital of Stuttgart, which has the task, among other things, of reappraising Stuttgart's colonial history and developing new approaches to contextualising and dealing with colonial monuments and street names.


Linda Addae is a research assistant at the Stuttgart Coordination Office for Remembrance Culture, a cultural scientist and an activist with Black Lives Matter Konstanz. At the end of 2020, the Stuttgart City Archive commissioned her for the preliminary study "Colonialist Thought and Colonial Culture in Stuttgart" in tandem with historian Michael Rösser (FernUniversität in Hagen/Universität Erfurt).

Admission is free.

Passend zum Titel „Die Vibration der Dinge“ spricht der Astrophysiker Dr. Josef M. Gaßner im Rahmen der Reihe „SKO Sternstunden“ über die String-Theorie. Diese ist zwar nur eine Theorie, gilt aber solange, bis sie widerlegt wird. Wenn unsere Welt tatsächlich aus den Schwingungen der kleinsten Bausteine besteht, wenn es also immer auf die Art und das Verhältnis dieser Schwingungen ankommt so wie bei den klingenden Saiten eines Instruments (strings), dann könnte man sagen: die Grundlage von allem ist Musik. Mit Arvo Pärts medita-tivem „Trisagion“ und den „Shaker Loops“ von John Adams setzt das Stuttgarter Kammerorchester unterschiedlichste Schwingungen frei. Es materialisiert den Klang, bis er schon fast mit Händen zu greifen ist. Bekannt u. a. durch die Youtube-Wissenschaftsreihe „Urknall – Weltall – Leben“, beleuchtet Dr. Josef M. Gaßner auf genial einfache Art, was das Faszinierende an der String-Theorie ist und ob diese Sternstunde am Ende nicht sogar den letzten Beweis für den Satz liefert: Am Anfang war der Klang!

Vortrag von Dr. Josef M. Gaßner
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Leitung: Thomas Zehetmair

"To the will of the spirits stronger than we"

The accompanying series of talks "#Resonances", curated by Nikola Hartl, is dedicated to one focus of the Triennale Kleinplastik in the midst of each exhibition at the Alte Kelter Fellbach. At #2 Resonances on Thursday and Friday, 14 and 15 July 2022, the focus will be on the themes of ownership and legality. Admission is free.

On Thursday 14 July 2022, there will be a conversation with Brenna Bhandar and Hannah Vögele in English. To what extent were land attribution and the resulting claims to ownership implemented in their legal form with racist methods of dispossession, thus creating a subjectivity of power and entitlement thinking that continues to shape Western superior thinking about property and ownership to this day? What are "cultures of property", what are their legal foundations and what impact do they have on contemporary societies and in relation to (German) colonialism and also settler policy?

Brenna Bhandar is Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS University of London, where her research addresses property law, indigenous land rights, and post-colonial and feminist legal theory. In her publication Colonial Lives of Property (Duke University Press, 2018) Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism bringing together legal and social theories. Brenna has published widely in the areas of critical legal theory, sovereignty and indigenous rights, contemporary disputes over ownership and property rights, amongst other themes. Brenna takes a fundamentally transdisciplinary approach to her research, and draws upon critical race and feminist theory, critical indigenous studies scholarship, post-colonial theory, political philosophy and legal history. She is co-editor with Jon Goldberg-Hiller of Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Duke University Press, 2015) and, with Rafeef Ziadah, the forthcoming Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (Verso, 2020).

Hannah Vögele is a political theorist and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Brighton with a theoretical-historical thesis on modern property relations. She lives in Berlin and works and organizes on (queer) feminism, colonial continuities, and state critique, among other topics. Her dissertation explores how modern property materializes in and through our (gendered, sexualized, and racialized) relations to others, to ourselves, and to our bodies. To do so, she examines the continuities of historical property regimes, particularly in the German context. As a political project and not just an intellectual exercise, this has implications for an understanding of combating violent relations today, such as for feminist struggles against sexualized violence or for bodily self-determination.

The accompanying series of talks "#Resonances", curated by Nikola Hartl, is dedicated to one focus of the Triennale Kleinplastik in the midst of each exhibition at the Alte Kelter Fellbach. At #2 Resonances on Thursday and Friday, 14 and 15 July 2022, the focus will be on the themes of ownership and legality. Admission is free.

KEIN SCHÖNER ARCHIV Special - Michael and Nuray build their dream house

The second part of #2 Resonances begins with an input in the form of a lecture-performance by Michael Annoff and Nuray Demir (Kein Schöner Archiv). The history of Germany is inextricably linked to migration. "Kein schöner Archiv" documents the immaterial heritage of the post-migrant society. Immaterial heritage lives from the repetition and transmission of living culture. It cannot simply be locked away in a showcase. Together, Michael Annoff and Nuray Demir collect stories and traditions that would otherwise be forgotten and celebrate them with guests and audience. As guests in Fellbach, Michael and Nuray take up the tradition of "Häuslebauen": Where to put all their treasures?

Michael Annoff is a political anthropologist, curator and performer. Michael Annoff's research focuses on performative culture, identity politics, and social justice in the cultural field. Since 2018, Michael Annoff has been documenting the intangible heritage of post-migrant society with artist Nuray Demir in the project "No Beautiful Archive." Michael Annoff's stations were for example at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg and HAU Hebbel am Ufer. 2016-2022 Michael Annoff worked at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in the teaching area "Culture & Mediation".

Nuray Demir is an artist/curator in the field of visual and performing/performative arts. Her practice is characterized by a research-based, radically transdisciplinary approach. In her projects, she forms temporary ensembles with people from different fields. She is particularly interested in the debates and concepts of feminist and postcolonial theory. Nuray Demir's work is characterized by a critical view of social exclusion and complex hierarchical situations; she outlines artistic irritations and counter-positions and formulates a space in which social equality can be imagined and strengthened.

The accompanying series of talks "#Resonances", curated by Nikola Hartl, is dedicated to one focus of the Triennale Kleinplastik in the midst of each exhibition at the Alte Kelter Fellbach. At #2 Resonances on Thursday and Friday, 14 and 15 July 2022, the focus will be on the themes of ownership and legality. Admission is free.

Under the title "Nature Belonging to Itself", on Friday, 15th, 6 pm, co-curator and artist Antje Majewski and ecological economist Dr. Irene H. Schöne will talk about the Sculpture Forest Sanctuary, which was inaugurated on the opening day of the Triennale Kleinplastik in a piece of forest in Oeffingen. What does possession mean? Can people own a forest? In the public discussion, in which, among other things, the contractually regulated disuse of a piece of forest along the lines of the "sacred forests" will be examined, Antje Majewski, Dr. Irene Schöne and a lawyer specialising in property law want to investigate what new forms of ecological economy are possible and what new legal concepts might have to be developed for this.

Antje Majewski is an artist and co-curator of the 15th Fellbach Triennial. Her collective work "Sculpture Forest Sanctuary" poses questions around the self-determination of nature and its right to escape human use. Her recent work generally revolves around the interrogation of objects, territories, and plants, focusing on the exploration of alternative knowledge systems, storytelling, and the potential of transformational processes with a particular interest in cultural and geobotanical migration. An integral part of Majewski's work process is recurrent collaboration with other artists, ecological groups, and collectives engaged in urbanism
Dr. Irene H. Schöne is an ecological economist. She co-founded the IOEW Institute for Ecological Economy Research in Berlin and was Member of the Supervisory Board of the UmweltBank AG in Nürnberg from 1998 to 2015. Her latest book: "FAIR ECONOMICS = Nature, Money And People Beyond Neoclassical Thinking" has been published by Green Books, Cambridge/UK.

Since 2014, Christian Neuhäuser has been Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director at the Institute of Philosophy and Political Science at TU Dortmund University with a research focus on theories of dignity, responsibility and property. In his two most recent book publications, he devotes himself to "Wealth as a Moral Problem" (2018) and asks: "How Rich Can You Be?": On Greed, Envy and Justice" (2019). In his lecture, he transfers the moral dubiousness of extreme wealth to the art market, where extreme wealth is also and precisely expressed. How is this value of art measured and why?

Two chairs, two people, twenty minutes: The Cultural Office invites you to an intimate encounter with literature and the question of what resonances are able to resonate in spoken poetry with the spoken word artist and actress Barbara Mergenthaler. The focus of the encounter is a particular poem, a particular text, which the poetically interested guest is also welcome to bring with him or her and which will be pronounced and shaped with language. Every emphasis, every pause, speaks a language for itself. And depending on how it is emphasised, paused and spoken, the text or poem opens up differently.

Pre-registration at the Cultural Office for a 20-minute encounter is necessary at kulturamt@fellbach.de or 0711/5851-364.