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.