Talking Through Weibel
Presented by The Weibel Institute for
Digital Cultures as part of the exhibition ‘Thinking Through Weibel’
Talking Through Weibel asks
a simple, far-reaching question: how do exhibitions and archives teach us – artists, researchers, and the wider public – how
to see, remember, and think?
Taking the current exhibition Thinking
Through Weibel and the Weibel Archive as an opening path, this evening explores art as a learning system: how exhibitions
and collections structure cultural memory, how digitization can widen (and bias) access, and how exhibition-making can produce
embodied, situated knowledge that differs from conventional academic formats.
Looking at Peter Weibel himself –
artist, theorist, institution-builder – and drawing on his extensive, partly digital archive, the evening considers how large-scale
collections can be made meaningfully accessible: through digitization and metadata practices, open interfaces and display
strategies, as well as curatorial and pedagogical frameworks that invite plural forms of learning. The program begins with
a guided tour of the exhibition, continues with a keynote on ‘What is Contemporary Art History?’ and culminates in a roundtable
that considers exhibitions and archives as shared infrastructures of learning. Rather than closing a legacy, we open questions
and methods – testing how playful, critical, and inclusive practices can shape what and how we learn together.
Programme- 17:30 Exhibition tour with Brooklyn J. Pakathi
- 18:30 Keynote lecture by Boris Čučković Berger
- 19:30 Round
table / Discussion: Panelists: Robert Müller, Brooklyn J. Pakathi, Margit Rosen, Charlotte Reuß
Moderation: Denise H.
Sumi
Exhibition
Thinking Through Weibel 
